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SUGGESTED BOOK LIST FOR STUDENTS
Key Stage 1 and 2
Key Stage 3 and 4
Poetry
Poetry
Creative Writing -- Fictions and Non-fictions
Creative Writing -- Fictions and Non-fictions
1
Key Stage 1 and 2
Poetry
Book Title
Author
Publisher
ISBN
1.
Laughter is An Egg
John Agard
Penguin Books
0140340726
2.
Ha!Ha! 100 Poems To Make You Laugh
Paul Cookson
Macmillan Children’s Books
033396425X
3.
The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems
June Crebbin
Puffin Books
0670886599
4.
Twins Poems
John Foster
Oxford
0199164126
5.
Juggling A Jug of Jelly
John Foster
Oxford
0192762850
6.
A Tiny Teddy
John Foster
Oxford
0192762885
7.
101 Favourite Poems
John Foster
Collins
0007139756
8.
Rhyme Time Around the Year
John Foster
Oxford
0192762265
9.
I Say, I Say, I Say & Other Joke Poems.
John Foster
Oxford
0192763121
10.
Ridiculous Rhymes
John Foster
Collins
0007112122
11.
Poems for 7 Year Olds
Susie Gibbs
Macmillan
0330371827
12.
Poems for Young Children
Philip Hawthorn
Usborne Publishing Ltd
0746064225
13.
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly
Mark Carthew, Michael Rosen,
Ann James
Pearson
0123602629
14.
Rolling in the Aisles A Collection of
Laugh-out-loud Poems
Bruce Lansky
Meadowbrook Press
15.
Mary Had A Little Jam and Other Silly Rhymes
Bruce Lansky
Meadowbrook Press
2
Book Title
Author
Publisher
ISBN
16.
If Pigs Could Fly… and Other Deep Thoughts
Bruce Lansky
Meadowbrook Press
17.
The Rings of Words
Roger McGough
Faber & Faber
0571177719
18.
There’s An Awful Lot of Weirdos In Our
Neighbourhood
Colin McNaughton
Walker Books
0744507502
19.
Wish You Were Here. (And I Wasn’t)
Colin McNaughton
Walker Books
0744549701
20.
Who’s Been Sleeping In My Porridge?
Colin McNaughton
Walker Books
0744577799
21.
Making Friends With Frankenstein
Colin McNaughton
Walker Books
0744577802
22.
A Pot of Gold
Jill Bennett,
Paddy Mounter
Doubleday
0385269692
23.
Mini Beasties
Michael Rosen
Penguin Books
0140544909
24.
You Can’t Catch Me
Michael Rosen
Penguin Books
0140503803
25.
Tea in the Sugar Bowl, Potato In My Shoe
Michael Rosen
Walker Books
0744549264
26.
Michael Rosen’s Book of Nonsense
Michael Rosen
MacDonald Young Books
0750021926
27.
Wake Up, Sleepy Head!
Mandy Ross
Child’s Play Ltd
1904550339
28.
Lunch Money and Other Poems About School
Carol Diggory Shields
Dutton Children’s Books
0525453458
29.
Monster Goose
Judy Sierra
Gulliver Books
0152020349
30.
101 Thematic Poems for Emergent Readers
Mary Sullivan
Scholastic
31.
Tickle My Nose and Other Action Rrhymes
Kaye Umansky
Puffin Books
014056263X
32.
A Child’s Calendar
John Updike
Holiday House
0823414450
33.
All Things Bright & Beautiful
Bruce Whatley
Harper Collins
0060266171
3
Creative Writing – Fictions and Non-fictions
Book Title
Author
Publisher
ISBN
1.
Yours Truly, Goldilocks
Alma Flor Ada
Atheneum Books for Young 0-689-81608-1
Readers 1998
2.
First Young Puffin the Incredible Shrinking Hippo
Stephanie Baudet
Penguin Books
0140370722
3.
Beware of Boy
Tony Blundell
Penguin Books
014054156X
4.
Stone Soup
Tony Bonning
Koala Books 2001
0-86461-358-X
5.
Jim and the Beanstalk
Raymond Briggs
Penguin Books
0140500774
6.
Gorilla
Anthony Browne
Candlewick Press
0-7636-1813-6
7.
Willy’s Pictures
Anthony Browne
Walker Books
0-7445-8240-7
8.
Willy the Dreamer
Anthony Browne
Walker Books
0-7445-6964-8
9.
The Spellgrinder’s Apprentice
N. M. Browne
Bloomsbury
9780747579250
10.
Frank In Time
Rod Clement
Harper Collins
0207173222
11.
Just Another Ordinary Day
Rod Clement
Harper Collins
0207188394
12.
Granda’s Teeth
Rod Clement
Harper Collins
0207196133
13.
Princess Smarty Pants
Babette Cole
Puffin Books 1986
0-14-056688-0
14.
Bears, Bears, Everywhere
Luella Connelly
Creative Teaching Press, Inc.
0916119602
15.
The Hungry Giant
Joy Cowley
Shortland Publications Inc.
16.
Duck for President
Doreen Cronin
Simon & Schuster Books
17.
The Great, Enormous Hamburger
Jillian Cutting
Sunshine Books
18.
The Enormous Crocodile
Roald Dahl
Penguin Books
4
0-689-86377-2
0140503420
Book Title
Author
Publisher
ISBN
19.
The Twits
Roald Dahl
Puffin Books
014131138X
20.
Esio trot
Roald Dahl
Jonathan Cape
0224064924
21.
The Minpins
Roald Dahl
Jonathan Cape
0224028995
22.
The Magic Finger
Roald Dahl
Puffin Books
0141311290
23.
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Diary. Hairy
Maclary’s Bone
Lynley Dodd
Hinkler Books
1865154946
24.
Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack
Lynley Dodd
Penguin Books
0140567739
25.
Diary of A Wombat
Jackie French
Harper Collins
0207199957
26.
Lucy Willow
Sally Gardner
Orion
1842555324
27.
A Fair Swap
Retold by Jenny Giles
PM Library 1999
1-86961-351-1
28.
The Monster Under My Bed
Suzanne Gruber
Troll Associates 1985
0-8167-0457-0
29.
Now that I’m Six
Arthur Howard
Hazar 1996
1-874371-10-5
30.
Fox’s New Coat
Jonathan Emmett & Penny
Ives
Penguin Books
0140564764
31.
In the Late Dark Deep of the Night
Gwenda Harslett-Jeffrey
Hazar 1994
1-874371-45-8
32.
A Beasty Story
Bill Martin Jr & Steven
Kellogg
Koala Books
0864612494
33.
Nice Work, Little Wolf
Hilda Offen
Penguin Books
0140544127
34.
Junie B.Jones Is A Graduation Girl
Barbara Park
Random House 2001
0-375-80292-4
35.
Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus
Barbara Park
Random House 1992
0-679-82642-4
36.
Uncle Billy Being Silly
Michael Rosen
Penguin Books
0141300213
5
Book Title
Author
Publisher
ISBN
37.
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Jon Scieszka
Penguin Books
0140540563
38.
The Magic Carpet Slippers
Dick King Smith
Penguin Books
014304774
39.
The White Giraffe
Lauren St John
Orion
1842555200
40.
You’re A Bad Man, Mr Gum!
Andy Stanton
Egmont
1405223103
41.
The Karate Princess in MoNsta Trouble
Jerremy Strong
Penguin Books
0141304928
42.
A Giant Called Norman Mary
Colin Thompson
Hodder and Stoughton 1991
0-340-53245-9
43.
Rainbow Fish Seaweed Soup
Jodi Huelin & Namrata
Tripathi
Harper Festival 2003
0-694-52591-X
44.
The Ugliest Dog in the World
Bruce Whatley
Harper Collins
02071427X
45.
That Magnetic Dog
Bruce Whatley
Harper Collins
0207184208
46.
Little White Dogs Can’t Jump
Bruce Whatley
Harper Collins
0207198756
47.
Wait, No Paint!
Bruce Whatley
Harper Collins
0060282703
48.
Cinderella Dressed in Yellow
Rozanne Lanczak Williams
Creative Teaching Press, Inc.
0916119688
6
Key Stage 3 and 4
Poetry
Book Title
Author
Publisher
ISBN
1.
The Roald Dahl Treasury
Jonathan Cape
0224046918
2.
Songs & Verse
Jonathan Cape
022407038X
3.
Tracking Through Poetry
Riby Heinemann
0731239598
4.
Guess What Happened At School Today
Jez Alborough
Collins
0007136307
5.
Rich Lizard & Other Poems
Deborah Chandra
Farrar Straus Giroux
03743 62742
6.
The Oxford Book of Animal Poems
Michael Harrison &
Christopher Stuart-Clark
Oxford
0192761056
7.
Picture A Poem
Gina Douthwaite
Hutchinson
0091765404
8.
The Wonderful Thursday Club
Gordan Snell,
Anthony Flintoft
Dolphin
1842550306
9.
My First Oxford Book of Animal Poems
John Foster
Oxford
0192762699
10.
An Illustrated Treasury of Read-aloud Poems for
Young People
Glorya Hale
Black Dog
Publishers
11.
Haven’t You Grown!
Belinda Hollyer
Kingfisher
0753407191
12.
The Rattle Bag
Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes
Faber & Faber
057111976X
13.
The Ring of Words
Roger McGough
Faber & Faber Limted
0571177719
14.
Collected Poems for Children
Gareth Owen
Macmillan Children’s Books
0333780787
7
&
Leventhal 1579122892
Book Title
Author
Publisher
ISBN
15.
The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry
Brian Petten
Puffin Books
0670873195
16.
Been To Yesterdays Poem of A Life
Lee Bennett Hopkins
Charlene Rendeiro
Wordsong/
Boyds Mills Press
1563978083
17.
A World of Poetry
Michael Rosen
Kingfisher Books
086272550X
18.
Sea Dreams, Poems From Under the Waves
Nikki Siegen-Smith
Barefoot Books
1841490042
19.
The Orchard Book of Funny Poems
Wendy Cope,
Amanda Vesey
Orchard Books
186039101X
8
Creative Writing
Book Title
Author
Publisher
ISBN
1.
Walking With The Dead
Tim Bowler
Hodder Children’s Books
0340881755
2.
Green Boy
Susan Cooper
Bodley Head
037032675X
3.
The Boggart
Susan Cooper
Maxwell Macmillan
0689505760
4.
Greenwitch
Susan Cooper
Bodley Head
0370308263
5.
The Grey King
Susan Cooper
Chatto & Windus
0701150718
6.
The Dark Is Rising
Susan Cooper
Puffin
0140307990
7.
George’s Marvellous Medicine
Roald Dahl
Puffin Books
014031492X
8.
The BFG
Roald Dahl
Jonathan Cape
0140315977
9.
Matilda
Roald Dahl
Puffin Books
0140385967
10.
The Witches
Roald Dahl
Heinemann
0-435-12293-32
11.
Skin and Other Stories
Roald Dahl
Penguin Books
0141305061
12.
Going Solo
Roald Dahl
Oxford
0435123238
13.
Whispering to Witches
Anna Dale
Bloomsbury
0747569096
14.
The Little Prince
Antoine De
Saint-Exupery
Harcourt, Inc.
0156012073
15.
I, Coriander
Sally Gardner
Orion
1842555049
16.
The Fat Man
Maurice Gee
Simon & Schuster Books 0689811829
for Young Readers
17.
Once
Morris Gleitzman
Puffin
9
014132063X
Book Title
Author
Publisher
ISBN
18.
Fly By Night
Frances Hardinge
Macmillan
19.
A Mango-shaped Space
Wendy Mass
Little
Brown
Company 2003
20.
Un Lun Dun
China Mieville
Macmillan
978-0-230-01627-9
21.
The Borrowers
Mary Norton
Puffin Books 1952
0-14-036451-X
22.
Skybreaker
Kenneth Oppel
Hodder
0340878584
23.
Wintersmith
Terry Prachett
Doubleday
0385609841
24.
Stuart Little
E.B.White
Penguin Books
0141305061
10
0-330-41826-2
and 0-316-52388-7