Edward Worlledge Community Primary School
Recommended reading list
This list is intended to be a guide to books suitable for children in Year 3.The list, covering a
range of genres, is drawn from a number of sources including teachers own
recommendations; the National Literacy Strategy’s recommended texts; reading lists
suggested by other schools and the National Literacy Trust’s website. Some of the texts are
more difficult to read than others and care should be taken when choosing those which your
child might enjoy. Please discuss the books your child reads with him/her and remember that
it is also important to continue to read stories to your child as he/she moves through the
Primary School.
Author
Allan Ahlberg
Allan & Janet Ahlberg
Joan Aiken
Laurence Anholt
Phyllis Arkle
Jeannie Baker
Margaret & Mary Baker
Brian Ball
Antonia Barber
Nina Bawden
Floella Benjamin
Elizabeth Beresford
Leila Berg
Terence Blacker
Malorie Blackman
Quentin Blake
Judy Blume
Enid Blyton
Title
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The vanishment of Thomas Till
Jeremiah in the Dark Woods
Blow me down!
The giant baby
Woof!
The Clothes Horse and Other Stories
A Necklace of Raindrops
Fog Hounds, Wind Cat, Sea Mice
The Kingdom Under the Sea
Mortimer’s Cross
Moonquake
Daft Jack and the Beanstalk
Shampoozel
The Emperor’s Underwear
The Railway Cat
The Village Dinosaur
Where the forest meets the sea
Black Cats and the Silver Crown
Magic on the Tide
Stone Age Magic
Dancing Shoes series
Keeping Henry
Skip Across the Ocean
The Island Railway
Jamie and the Rola Polar Bear
The Island Bus
The Little Car
Ms Wiz Series
Whizziwig
Mrs Armitage and the Big Wave
Freckle Juice
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Island of Adventure
Malory Towers
St Clare’s Series
The Famous Five
The Magic Faraway Tree
Author
Michael Bond
Tony Bradman
Henrietta Branford
Jeff Brown
Mark Brown
Anthony Browne
Melvin Burgess
A & N Butterworth
Besty Byars
Ann Cameron
Humphry Carpenter
Linda Chapman
Lauren Child
Hans Christian Anderson
Beverley Cleary
Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Peter Clover
Steve Cole
P.Cookson
W J Corbett
June Counsel
J.Crebbin
Sharon Creech
Helen Cresswell
1.
Gillian Cross
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Jennifer Curry
Roald Dahl
1.
1.
Niki Daly
Lucy Daniels
Colin Dann
Paula Danzinger
Jan Dean
Meindert De Jong
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Berlie Doherty
Title
- A Bear called Paddington
- Same the Girl Detective
- Dimarche Diller Series
- Spacebaby
- Flat Stanley
- Arthur Baby-Sits
- Changes
- Zoo
- Gorilla
- The Earth Giant
- The Jake books
- The Midnight Fox
- The Julian Stories
- Mr Majeika
- Secret Unicorn series
- Clarice Bean That’s Me
- Utterly Me, Clarice Bean
- The Steadfast Tin Soldier
- Ramona Series
- Community Magic
- Sheltie books
- Astrosaurs Series
- Let’s Twist Again
- Teacher’s Pet’s
- Tongue Twisters and Tonsil Twizzlers
(All poems)
- The Bear Who Stood on his Head
- Hamish
- A Dragon in Summer and other titles
- Cows Moo, Cars Toot (poem)
- Ride to the Rescue
- Finders Keepers
- Love that Dog
- A Gift from Winklesea
- The Sea Piper
- The Tree House
- Storm
- Hands Off Our Hands
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Fantastic Mr Fox
- George’s Marvellous Medicine
- The BFG
- The Magic Finger
- Jamela’s Dress
- Animal Ark series
- Animals of Farthing Wood Series
- The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
- The Fight for Barrowby Hill
- Hurry Home Candy
- The Alost White Rabbity Cat
- The Little Prince
- Willa and Old Miss Annie
Author
Helen Dunmore
Dorothy Edwards
Eleanor Farjeon
Penelope Farmer
Jan Fearnley
Anne Fine
Louise Fitzhugh
Michael Foreman
Anne Forsyth
J.Foster
1.
Fiona French
Vivian French
Sarah Garland
Paul Geraghty
Adele Geras
Mike Gibbie
Morris Gleitzman
Rumer Godden
Kenneth Grahame
John Grant
Nigel Gray
Margaret Greaves
Willis Hall
G.Hallworth
Florence Heide Parry
Diana Hendry
1.
Stuart Henson
Nigel Hinton
Russell Hoban
Title
- Amina’s Blanket
- My Naughty Little Sister Stories
- The Little Dresssmaker and other titles
- Twin Trouble
- Mr Wolf’s Pancakes
- How to Write Rally Badly
- The Diary Of a Killer Cat
- Harriet the Spy
- Grandfather’s Pencil and the Room of Stories
- Jack’s Fantastic Voyage
- War Boy
- Baxter the Travelling Cat books
- Mostly Magic
- The Ginger Tree
- Teasing Tongue Twisters
- Loopy Limericks
- Crack Another Yolk
- Word Spinning
- Firewords
(all poems that play on words)
- Little Inchkin
- Aesop’s Funky Fables
- Tex the Cowboy
- Solo
- My Grandmother’s Stories
- Picasso Perkins
- Apricots at Midnight
- The Ginger Tree
- Small Brown Dog’s Bad Remembering Day
- Two Weeks With The Queen
- The Story of Holly and Ivy
- Mouse House
- The Reluctant Dragon
- The Adventures of Littlenose
- Littlenose Goes South
- Running Away From Home
- Charlie, Emma and Alberic
- Charlie, Emma and the Dragon Family
- Charlie, Emma and the School Dragon
- Magic from the Ground and other titles
- Dragon Days
- Down by the River (poetry)
- The Shrinking of Treehorn
- Treehorn’s Treasure
- The Not-Anywhere House
- The Rainbow Watchers
- Sam Sticks and Delilah
- Who Can Tell? (with Wayne Anderson)
- Beaver Towers
- The Marzipan Pig
- The Twenty Elephant Restaurant
and other stories
Author
Mary Hooper
Title
Margaret Mahy
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Jan Mark
Andre Maurois
Kara May
Sam McBratney
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Anthony Horowitz
Harry Horse
Shirley Hughes
Ted Hughes
Norman Hunter
Mick Inkpen
Shirley Isherwood
Tove Jansson
Paul Jennings
Terry Jones
Ann Jungman
Geraldine Kaye
Gene Kemp
Dick KingSmith
1.
Rudyard Kipling
Jenny Koralek
Elizabeth Laird
Roger Lancelyn Green
Sheila Lavelle
Michael Lawrence
Munro Leaf
Robert Leeson
Rob Lewis
Astrid Lindgren
Joan Lingard
Penelope Lively
Jonathan Long
Spook Summer
The Great Twin Trick
The Falcon’s Malteser
The Last Cowboys
Here Comes Charlie Moon
How the Whale Became
The Iron Man
Incrediblania stories
Professor Branestawm
Nothing
Something New for a Bear to Do
The Moomins
The Cabbage Patch Fib
Fantastic Stories
Vlad the Drac
The Stone Boy
Dog’s Journey
All Because of Jackson
Dragon Boy
The Golden Goose
The Hedgehog
The Sheep-Pig
George Speaks
Noah’s Brother
Tumbleweed
Friends and Brothers
Just So Stories
The Boy and the Cloth of Dreams
Secret Friends
Myths of the Norsemen
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
The ‘Ursula’ series
The Strawberry Jam Pony and other titles
Jiggy McCue Series
The Story of Ferdinand
The Dog who changed the World
Lazy Daisy
Pippi Longstocking
Tom and the Tree House
The Egg Thieves
Dragon Trouble
The Stained Glass Window
The Cat that Scratched (with Korky Paul)
The Wonky Donkey
The Great Piratical Rumbustification and the
Librarian and the Robbers
Tingleberries, Tuckertubs and Telephones
Long Lost
Fattypuffs and Thinifers
Cat’s Witch
Jimmy Zest
Author
Alexander McCall Smith
Geraldine McCaughrean
Megan McDonald
Roger McGough
Title
A Mitchell
Mary Medilcott
Ursula Moray Williams
Michael Morpurgo
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The Perfect Hamburger
Daedalus and Icarus
Judy Moody series
The Great Smile Robbery
Nailing the Shadow (poetry)
The Treasure in the Garden!
Happy and Glorious
Charlotte’s Piggy Bank
Have You Seen Who’s Just Moved in Next Door to
Us?
There’s an Awful Lot of Weirdoes in Our
Neighbourhood
Balloon Lagoon (poetry)
The King with Dirty Feet and other stories
The Adventure of the Little Wooden Horse
Black Queen
Farm Boy
Muck and Magic Stories from the Countryside
The Butterfly Lion
The Dancing Bear
The Marble Crusher
Toro! Toro!
Brian Moses
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Hysterical Historical Poems
Romans
Welcome to Snake Hotel (All poetry)
The Worst Witch
A bad Spell for the Worst Witch
The Enchanted Horse
Whistling Jack
Ice Cat
The Owl Tree
The Dragon’s Child
Little Brother and the Cough
The Shrinking of Treehorn
Juggling with Gerbils (poems)
Gargling with Jelly (poems)
A Dog So Small
The Battle of Bubble and Squeak
Mrs Cockle’s Cat
The Pony that Went to Sea
Plain Jack
Hue Boy
Henry’s Leg
The Little Witch
The House on the Common
Mrs Pepperpot
Mary Plain series
Harry the Poisonous Centipede
I Houdini
How to Eat Fried Worms
Freaky Friday
Hilary McKay
David McKee
Colin McNaughton
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Jill Murphy
Magdalen Nabb
Linda Newberry
Jenny Nimmo
Hiawyn Oram
Florence Parry Heide
B Patten
Philippa Pearce
K M Peyton
Rita Phillips Mitchell
Ann Pilling
Otfried Preussler
Alison Prince
Alf Proysen
Gwynedd Rae
Lynne Reid Banks
Thomas Rockwell
Mary Rodgers
Author
1. Michael Rosen
J Rosenbloom
Leon Rosselson
J K Rowling
Jon Scieszka
Catherine Sefton
Martina Selway
Francesca Simon
Jessica Souhami
Catherine Storr
Jeremy Strong
Title
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Margaret Stuart-Barry
Rosemary Sutcliffe
Robert Swindells
Dora Thatcher
Branwen Thomas
Ruth Thomas
Colin Thompson
N Toczek
Sandy Toksvig
Jill Tomlinson
K Umansky
Jean Ure
Alison Uttley
Nina Warner Hooke
Robert Westall
Dennis Whelehan
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Moving
You Can’t’ Catch Me
Walking on the Bridge of your Nose
Michael Rosen’s Book f Nonsense
Michael Rosen’s Book of Very Silly Poems
Don’t Put Mustard in the Custard
Little Giant Book of Riddles
World’s Toughest Tongue Twisters (poetry)
Rosal’s Singing Grandfather
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
The Stinky Cheeseman and other Fairly Stupid
Tales
The ghosts of Cobweb
Wish you Were Here
Horrid Henry Series
Rama and the Demon King
Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf
Polly and the Wolf
Krazy Kow Saves the World –
Well Almost
My Mum’s Going to Explode!
The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog
Simon and the Witch
The Witch V.I.P and other titles
The High Deeds of Finn McCool
Dracula’s Castle
Ice Palace
Tommy and the Island
Henry’s Busy Winter
Roxyl’s Italian Diary
The Class That Went Wild
Attila the Bluebottle
Toothpaste Trouble
Unusual Day
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark & other
stories
Bogey Men and the Trolls Next Door
Empty Suit of Armour
Becky Bananaa
Daisy May
Sam Pig
Little Grey Rabbit books
Magic Water
The Snow Kitten
Blitz
The Christmas Cat
The Dad Library
Author
Title
1. E B White
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Charlotte’s Web
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Little Wolf series
The Happy Prince
The Pocket Mouse
The Dragon Box
Gobboline the Witch’s Cat
The Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse
No Worries!
Nana’s Garden
Bing, Bang, Boogie, It’s a Boy Scent
Cliffhanger
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Square Bear
SuperDog
The Fastest Gun Alive
1.
Ian Whybrow
Oscar Wilde and Jane Ray
Barbara Willard
Ursula Moray Williams
Marcia Williams
Sophy Williams
Bob Wilson
Jacqueline Wilson
Robina Beckles Wilson
David Henry Wilson