100 books to read before you are eleven

100 BOOKS TO READ
BEFORE YOU ARE ELEVEN
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0 - 5 year olds
The Baby’s Catalogue by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss
Brown Bear Brown Bear What Can You See? by Bill Martin Jr
Kipper by Mick Inkpen
Tickle Tickle by Helen Oxenbury
Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins
Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
The Elephant and the Bad Baby by Elfrida Vipont
Hairy Maclary From Donaldson’s Diary by Lynley Dodd
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
Where’s My Teddy by Jez Alborough
Can’t You Sleep Little Bear? by Barbara Firth
My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes by Lynley Dodd
I Want my Potty by Tony Ross
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
I Will Not Ever Never Eat Tomatoes by Lauren Child
Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers
Meg and Mog by Helen Nicholl & Jan Pierkowski
Not Now, Bernard by David Mckee
Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Would you Rather? by John Burningham
Princess Smarty Pants by Babette Cole
The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
Gorilla by Anthony Browne
The Owl and the Pussy Cat
The Three Robbers by Tomi Ungerer
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
The Ugly Ducking by Hans Christian Anderson
Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
Aesop’s Fables by Micheal Rosen
Beegu by Alexis Deacon
The Haunted House by Jan Pienkowski
The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Anderson
6 - 8 year olds
Winnie the Witch by Valerie Thomas
Burglar Bill by Allan Ahlberg
Mog and the Forgetful Cat by Judith Kerr
Clarice Bean, That’s Me by Lauren Child
Mister Magnolia by Quentin Blake
The Adventures of the Dish and Spoon by Mini Grey
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Wolves by Emily Gravett
Asterix the Gaul by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
I Hate School by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
Rumpelstiltskin and other Grimm Tales by Carol Ann Duffy
Horrid Henry by Francesca Simon
The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales
by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr Seuss
Anancy Spiderman by James Berry and Joseph Oiobu
Mr Majeika by Frank Roders
The Paperbag Princess by Michael Martchenko
The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl
Fungus the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs
Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
Winnie the Pooh by A A Milne
The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy
The Queen’s Nose by Dick King Smith
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish by Michael Foreman
The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton
The Diary of a Killer Cat by Ann Fine
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis
9 - 11 year olds
Charlotte’s Web by E B White
Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton
The Diary of Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Krindlekrax by Philip Pullman
The Adventures of Tin Tin by Hergé
Wolves in the Walls by Dave McKean
The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
Flour Babies by Anne Fine
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J K Rowling
The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony Di’Terlizzi
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
The Invention Of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The Graveyard Book by Chris Riddell
Stig of the Dump by Clive King
Skellig by David Almond
Truckers: The First Book of Gnomes by Terry Pratchett
Wonder by R J Palacio
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
The Hobbit by J R Tolkien
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Alex Rider Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
Holes by Louis Sachar
Private Peaceful by Michael Murgporgo
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