St Patrick’s reading list
At St Patrick’s we want your children to be confident readers
and more importantly enjoy reading! We have put together a
list of books that we feel your child will enjoy and suitable for
their reading level!
Red, Yellow, Blue, Green and Orange bands
(Working within NC Level1)
Title
Each Peach Pear Plum
Mr Gumpy’s Outing
Rosie’s Walk’
The Very Hungry Caterpillar’
Mister Magnolia’
Owl Babies’
Alfie Gets in First’
Elmer
Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see?
We’re going on a bear hunt
My cat likes to hide in boxes’
‘Peepo’
Meg and Mog’
Dear Zoo’
Kipper
The Pig in the Pond’
Oh Dear!’
Where’s Spot’
This is the Bear’ and ‘This is the Bear and
the Picnic Lunch’
Not Now Bernard’
Where the Wild Things Are’
Gorilla
A Dark, Dark Tale’
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Author
Janet and Allen Ahlberg
John Burningham
Pat Hutchins
Eric Carle
Quentin Blake
Martin Waddel
Shirley Hughes
David McKee
Bill Martin and Eric Carle
Michael Rosen and Helen
Oxenbury
Lynley Dodd
Janet and Allen Ahlberg
Helen Nicoll and Jan
Pienkowski
Rod Campbell
Mick Inkpen
Martin Waddell and Jill Barton
Rod Campbell
Eric Hill
Sarah Hayes and Helen Craig
David McKee
Maurice Sendak
Anthony Browne
Ruth Brown
Turquoise, Purple, Gold and silver bands
(Working within NC Level 2)
Frog and Toad are Friends’
and other Frog and Toad
stories
Mrs Plug the Plumber’ and
other stories in this series
Solomon’s Secret’
Peace at last
The Tiger who came to tea’
Hairy Maclary from
Donoldson’s Dairy’
The Elephant and the Bad
Baby’
Handa’s Surprise’
Can’t you sleep Little Bear?
Arnold Lobel
Allan Ahlberg
Saviour Pirotta
Jill Murphy
Judith Kerr
Lynley Dodd
Elfrida Vipont and Raymond
Briggs
Eileen Brown
Martin Waddell and Barbara
Firth
Pat Hutchins
Julia Donaldson and Axel
Scheffler
Anthony Brown
Janet and Allen Ahlberg
Mary Hoffman and Caroline
Binch
Shirley Hughes
Antonia Barber and Nicola
Bayley
Dr Seuss
Titch’
The Gruffalo’
The Tunnel
The Jolly Postman
‘Amazing Grace’
Dogger’
The Mousehole Cat’
The Cat in the Hat’, ‘Fox in
Socks’ and ‘The Lorax’
‘Funnybones’, ‘Burglar Bill’ and
‘Cops and Robbers’
The Whale’s Song’
Prince Cinders’
Tales from Beatrix Potter
Janet and Allen Ahlberg
The Trouble with Mum’
Anancy and Mr Dry Bone’
Babette Cole
Fiona French
Dyan Sheldon and Gary Blythe
Babette Cole
Beatrix Potter
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Lime bands, Topaz, Ruby and Emerald
(Working within NC Level 3)
Fair’s Fair’
The Kingdom Under the Sea’ and ‘A
Necklace of Raindrops’
The Twits’
The Stone Book’
The Cat Mummy’
Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf’
The Iron Man’
Vlad the Drac’
The Julian Stories’
It was a dark and stormy night’ and
‘The Vanishment of Thomas Tull
‘Dilly the Dinosaur’
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain’
Leon Garfield
Joan Aiken
‘The Village Dinosaur’
What’s the Matter, Royston Knapper?
It’s too frightening for me’
Flat Stanley’
The Secret Seven’
Haffertee Hamster’
Kung Fu Pigs: Hostages of the Jade
Wolf’
Katie Morag delivers the Mail’
The True Story of the Three Little
Pigs’
The Owl who was afraid of the Dark’
‘Horrid Henry’
The Shrinking of Treehorn’
The Magic Finger’
Fantastic Mr Fox’
The Little Prince’
The Stinky Cheeseman and Other Fairly
Stupid Tales
The Highwayman’
Spacebaby’
Phyllis Arkle
Gervase Phinn
Shirley Hughes
Jeff Brown
Enid Blyton
John and Janet Perkins
Keith Brumpton
Roald Dahl
Alan Garner
Jacqueline Wilson
Catherine Storr
Ted Hughes
Ann Jungman
Ann Cameron
Janet and Allen Ahlberg
Tony Bradman
Alice Dalgliesh
Mairi Hedderwick
Jon Scieszka
Jill Tomlinson
Francesca Simon
Florence Parry Heide
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Jon Scieszka
Alfred Noyes and Charles Keeping
Henriette Branford
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Sapphire and Diamond
(Working within NC Level 4)
The Wolves of Willoughby
Chase’
Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland’
The Lion, The Witch and the
Wardrobe’
Stig of the Dump’
Charlotte’s Web’
The BFG’ and ‘Matilda’
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of
NIMH’
Tales of a Fourth Grade
Nothing’ and ‘Superfudge’
Tuck Everlasting’
Thunder and Lightnings’
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
The Eighteenth Emergency’
The Turbulent Term of Tyke
Tyler’
The Battle of Bubble and
Squeak’
The Dream Time’
Odysseus, the greatest hero of
them all’
Winnie the Pooh’ and ‘The House
at Pooh Corner’
The Worst Witch’
The Incredible Adventures of
Professor Branestawm’
The Hundred and One
Dalmatians’
Quirky Tales’
War Horse’ and ‘Private
Peaceful’
The Demon Headmaster
Kensuke’s Kingdom’
The Silver Sword’
Joan Aiken
Lewis Carroll
C.S. Lewis
Clive King
E.B. White
Roald Dahl
Robert C. O’Brien
Judy Blume
Natalie Babbitt
Jan Mark
Penelope Lively
Betsy Byers
Gene Kempe
Philippa Pearce
Henry Treece
Tony Robinson and Richard Curtis
A.A.Mile
Jill Murphy
Norman Hunter
Dodie Smith
Paul Jennings
Michael Morpurgo
Gillian Cross
Michael Morpurgo
Ian Serrailier
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Pearl Band
(Working within NC Level 5+)
The Hobbit’
The Secret Garden’
The Phantom Tollbooth’
Carrie’s War’
The Weirdstone of
Brisingaman’, ‘Elidor’ and ‘The
Owl Service
Dragon-Slayer’
The Wizard of Earthsea’
The Sword in the Stone’ and
‘The Once and Future King’
Harry Potter and the Prisoner
of Askhaban’ and others
The ‘His Dark Materials’
trilogy ‘Northern Lights’
The Eagle of the Ninth’
Swallows and Amazons’
‘The Tripods’
Watership Down’
The Wind in the Willows’
The Railway Children’
Holes’
Mortal Engines’
Stormbreaker’ and the other
Alex Rider books
Goggle Eyes’
Pig-Heart Boy’
Goodnight Mr Tom’
The Dark is Rising’
The Amazing Maurice and his
Educated Rodents’
The Wizard of Oz’
J.R.R. Tolkien
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Norton Juster
Nina Bawden
Alan Garner
Rosemary Sutcliff
Ursula Le Guin
T.H. White
J.K. Rowling
Philip Pullman
Rosemary Sutcliff
Arthur Ransome
John Christopher
Richard Adams
Kenneth Grahame
E Nesbit
Louis Sachar
Philip Reeve
Anthony Horrowitz
Anne Fine
Malorie Blackman
Michelle Magorian
Susan Cooper
Terry Pratchett
Frank L Baum
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NC Level 6 (Very challenging reads)
Treasure Island’
Jane Eyre’
A Christmas Carol’
‘The Red Pony’, ‘The Pearl’
and ‘Of Mice and Men’
Animal Farm’ and ‘1984’
Lord of the Flies’
The Lord of the Rings’
Silas Marner’
Wuthering Heights’
To Kill a Mockingbird’
The Day of the Triffids’
and ‘The Chrysalids’
‘Twelfth Night’,
‘MacBeth’, ‘Julius
Caesar’, ‘A Midsummer
Night’s Dream’
Robert Louis Stevenson
Charlotte Bronte
Charles Dickens
John Steinbeck
George Orwell
William Golding
J.R.R. Tolkien
George Elliot
Emily Bronte
Harper Lee
John Wyndham
William Shakespeare
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