This is a fantastic range of books from shorter chapter books to more thought provoking picture books to inspire and engage even the most reluctant reader.
Remember to chat to your child about their reading (and the pictures) and ask them questions to boost comprehension.
Title | Author |
All because of Jackson | Dick King-Smith |
Any book | Oliver Jeffers |
Beast Quest | Adam Blade |
Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf | Catherine Storr |
Dilly the Dinosaur | Tony Bradman |
Dog in the Dungeon | Lucy Daniels |
Dog Man | Dav Pilkey |
Fantastic Mr Fox | Roald Dahl |
Flat Stanley | Jeff Brown |
Harry the poisonous centipede | Lynne Reid Banks |
Ice Palace | Robert Swindells |
It was a Dark and Stormy Night | Janet Ahlberg |
Kid Normal | Greg James |
King Kong | Anthony Browne |
Leon and Place Between | Angel McAllister and Grahame Baker-Smith |
Mrs Cockle’s Cat | Philippa Pearce |
Mrs Pepperpot Stories | Alf Proysen |
My naughty little Sister | Dorothy Edwards |
Picasso Perkins | Adele Geras |
Pippi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren |
The Abominables | Eva Ibbotson |
The Charlie Moon Collection | Shirley Hughes |
The Diary of a Killer Cat | Anne Fine |
The Giving Tree | Shel Silverstein |
The Invisible Boy | Trudy Ludwig |
The Magic Finger | Roald Dahl |
The Orchard Book of First Greek Myths | Saviour Pirotta |
The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark | Jill Tomlinson |
The Railway Cat | Phyllis Arkle |
The Reluctant Dragon | Kenneth Grahame |
The Secret World of Polly Flint | Helen Cresswell |
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs | Jon Scieszka |
The World According to Humphrey | Betty G Birney |
Unusual Day | Sandi Toksvig |
Voices in the Park | Anthony Browne |
Where the Wild Things are | Maurice Sendak |
Who’s in the Loo? | Jeanne Willis |
Wilf the Mighty Worrier Saves the World | Georgia Pritchett |
Willa and Old Miss Annie | Berlie Doherty |