Nur
sery
Owl babies-Martin
Waddell Kippers Birthday Party-
Mick Inkpen Going on bear hunt- Michael
Rosen People who help us series Jack and the Beanstalk Here we are-Oiliver
Jeffers
Whatever Next-Jill
Murphy Rama and Sita-Jay Anika Winter (non - fiction)
Bear snores on Mr Gumpy’s outing- John
Birmingham The hungry caterpillar-
Eric Carle Handa’s Surprise
Peace at last- Jill Murphy The Gingerbread man Brown bear brown bear what
can you see?- Bill Martin Jr My truck is stuck- Kevin
Lewis Titch-Pat Hutchins
Walking through the
jungle
The Tiger who came to
Tea-Judith Kerr The Runaway Wok- Ying
Chang Compenstine What Will I Be? by Dawne
Allette The three billy goats gruff
The Enormous Turnip What the Ladybird Heard
-Julia Donaldson
Oliver’s vegetables-
Vivian French
Eastbury Primary School Recommended Reading Texts per Year Group
Rec
eptio
n The Three Little Pigs- Mara
Alperin Aliens Love Underpants-
Claire Freedman The Gruffalo-Julia Donaldson
Jack and the beanstalk
The Pirates Next Door-
Jonny Duddle Supertato- Sue Hendra
Goldilocks and the Three Bears- Susanna Davidson
The Nativity- may Eliot Walking through the Jungle- Julia Lacome
Chicken Licken – Mandy Ross
The Very Lazy Ladybird-Isobel Finn
Superworm- Julia Donaldson
Not now Bernard-David
McKee The Gunpowder Plot-
Gillian Clements The Little Red Hen
The enormous turnip –
Katie Daynes The Rainbow Fish-
Marcus Pfister Handa’s Surprise- Eileen
Brown
Chinese New Year Ackee, Breadfruit,
Callaloo by Valerie Bloom Penguins can’t Fly-Jason
Kotchki Easter-Heather Amery
Shark in the Dark- Nick
Sharratt Madeline- Ludwig
Bemelmans
Minibeasts- Giles
Andreae-Sue
Yea
r 1
The Pea and the Princess Lost in the Toy Museum: An Adventure- David
Lucas
Billy Goats Gruff
Six Dinner Sid-Inga Moore Little Polar Bear- Hans de Beer
Bob and the Moon Tree Mystery- Simon Bartram
Jack and the Beanstalk
Toys in space- Mini Grey The Three Little Pigs
Mr Gumpy’s Motor Car-
John Birmingham Lazy Lion- Mwenye
Hadithi Space Dog- Mini Grey
The Elves and the
Shoemaker Kippers Toy Box- Mick
Inkpen Goldilocks and the Three
Bears Katie Morag Island
Stories- Mairi Hedderwick Hot Hippo- Mwenye
Hadithi Man on the Moon-Simon
Bartram
Oh Say, can you say, what’s the weather
today?
Ramadan Moon by Na’ima B. Robert
Little Red Riding Hood
Numenia and the Hurricane- Fiona Ha lliday
Cinnamon- Neil Gaiman
Yea
r 2
Charlie and Lola: We must completely go to London
The Baker’s Boy and the Great Fire of London
The diary of a killer cat
All because of Jackson- Dick King Smith
Mr Pepperpot stories- Alf Preyson
Me, the Queen and Christopher- Giles
Andreae
Don’t Look in this Book- Samuel Langley-Swain
I Was a Rat- Phillip Pullman
The Penderwicks- Jeanne Birdsall
The Dragonsitter-Josh Lacey
Dave and the Tooth Fairy by Verna Wilkins
J is for Jamaica by Benjamin Zephaniah
Yea
r 3
Yea
r 3/
4
The Twits- Roald Dahl
The Sewer Demon- Caroline Lawrence
Fantastic Mr Fox- Roald Dahl Gangsta Granny- David Walliams
Charlotte’s Web- E.B White
Flat Stanley-
L_e_t_’s_ _P_l_a_y_!_ _by
Debjani Chatterjee (ed) Coming to England by
Floella Benjamin A Hen in the Wardrobe by
Wendy Meddour Phoenix Song by Tutu
Dutta Hoorah for Mary Seacole
by Trish Cooke Splash, Anna Hibiscus! by
Atinuke
Yea
r 4
Yea
r 4/
5
Billionaire Boy
Max and the Millions
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Desirable Danny Champion of the World
My brother is a super hero
The History of African and Caribbean Communities in
Britain by Hakim Adi
Liberté: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by
Jackie Ould
A Thief in the Village by James Berry
Blackberry Blue and Other Fairy Tales by
Jamila Gavin
Pig-Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman
A Hen in the Wardrobe by Wendy Meddour
Yea
r 5
Yea
r 5/
6
Bill’s New Frock Scribbleboy Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Dragon Rider
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Artemis Fowl
Dancing in the Rain by John
Lyons She Wore Red Trainers
by Na’ima B. Robert The Boy in the Tower by
Polly Ho-Yen Laughter is an Egg- Jhon
Agard The Factory Made Boy-
ChristineNostlinger Aquila-Andrew Norriss
Yea
r 6
Pax Carrie’s War
The Lion, the witch and the Wardrobe
Why the Whales Came
The Boy of Hope
Pig Heart Boy
Alpha: Abijan to Gare Du
Nord by Bessora and Barroux
Tall Story by Candy Gourlay
Car Wash Wish by Sita Brahmachari
The Boy at the Back of the Class- Onjali Rauf
Granny- Anthony Horrowitz
Oranges in No-Man’s Land- Elizabeth Laird