Ladygrove Park Primary School
RECOMMENDED LISTS OF CORE BOOKS FOR STORYTIME
FOUNDATION STAGE
Stories from the Bible & Other Religions Book/Author
Noah’s Ark
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
The Christmas Story
The Easter Story
I Once Was a Monkey: Stories Buddha
Told
Nursery Rhymes
Old Mother Hubbard
Baby Bunting
Bo Peep
Jack and Jill
Crooked Man
Hickory Dickory Dock
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Mary had a Little Lamb
One Two Buckle my Shoe
Three Little Kittens
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
Oranges and Lemons
Little Miss Muffet
London Bridge is Falling Down
Pop Goes the Weasel
Ring a Ring O’ Roses
Row Row Row your Boat
Star Light Star Bright
The Grand Old Duke of York
Wind the Bobbin Up
As I was going to St Ives
I’m a Little Teapot
The Farmer’s in his Dell
Additional Versions
Go Noah Go!
Noah’s Ark
Author
John Agard & Judy Brown
Lucy Cousins
Additional Versions
Playtime Rhymes
The Collins Books of Nursery Rhymes
100 Best Loved Nursery Rhymes
Author
Sally Gardner
Jonathan Langley
Chosen by Isla MacCuish
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
Jeanne M Lee
Book/Author
Big Book of Nursery Rhymes by Lucy Cousins
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein
FOUNDATION STAGE
Fairy & Traditional Tales
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Cinderella
Book/Author
Lauren Child & Emily Jenkins
Max Eilenberg & Niamh Sharkey
Additional versions
Goldilocks
Cinderella (pop up)
Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story
Author
Nick Sharratt & Stephen Tucker
Phillida Gili
Tomie DePaola
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Stephen Carpenter
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Nick Sharratt & Stephen Tucker
Tom Thumb
Jack and the Beanstalk
Chicken Licken/ Henny Penny
The Three Little Pigs
The Elves and the Shoemaker
Tom Thumb: Grimms’ Tale by Eric Carle
Ian Beck
Vivian French & Sophie Windham
Ladybird First Favourite Tales by Nicola Baxter
Ladybird Favourite Tales illustrated by Peter
Stevenson
An Eggs-Traordinary Egg from Hans Christian
Andersen’s Fairy Tales (Martin Waddell; illustrated
by Emma Chichester-Clark)
Storyteller: The Gingerbread Man and other stories The Musubi Man: Hawaii's
for 4 to 7 year olds by Pie Corbett
Gingerbread Man
Ugly Duckling
The Gingerbread Man
The Tiger Child: A Folk Tale from India
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Joanna Troughton
Sophie Windham
Anansi the Spider
Clever Anansi and Boastful Bullfrog
Classical Tales
Very Simple Aesop’s Tales:
The Hare and the Tortoise
The Mouse and the Lion
The Thirsty Crow
Picture Books
Silly Billy
The Huge Bag of Worries
Worried Arthur
Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs
Herb and the Storybook Wolves
Princess and the Pea
Each Peach Pear Plum
Mr. Grumpy’s Outing
Gerald McDermott
H Patten & John Clementson
Book/Author
Magic Beans: A Handful of Fairytales from the
Storybag by Jacqueline Wilson, Philip Pullman,
Michael Morpurgo and many more.
Author
Anthony Browne
Virginia Ironside & Frank Rodgers
Joan Simpson & Jan Lewis
Giles Andreae & Russell Ayto
Lauren Child
Lauren Child
Janet & Allan Ahlberg
John Burningham
Sandi Takayama & Pat Hall
Additional Versions
Author
Additional Versions
Author
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein
FOUNDATION STAGE
Picture Books
Little Beauty
Hansel and Gretel
Can’t You Sleep Little Bear
Owl Babies
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Troll
Not Now, Bernard
Farmer Duck
Dave and the Tooth Fairy
Alfie and the Big Boys
The Gruffalo
Dear Zoo
Lost and Found
Rosie’s Walk
Author
Anthony Browne
Anthony Browne
Martin Waddell & Barbara Firth
Martin Waddell
Eric Carle
Julia Donaldson
David McKee
Martin Waddell
Verna Allette Wilkins & Paul Hunt
Shirley Hughes
Julia Donaldson
Rod Campbell
Oliver Jeffers
Pat Hutchins
Additional Versions
Author
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein
YEAR ONE
Stories from the Bible & Other Religions
David and Goliath
Lost Sheep
The Good Samaritan
Noah’s Ark
Book/Author
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
Jamila Gavin (the story of Diwali, the Festival of
Light and the New Year)
A Hindu Story: The Birth of Krishna
Fairy & Traditional Tales
Hansel and Gretel
Anita Ganeri & Barbara Vagnozzi
Book/Author
‘Magic Beans: A Handful of Fairytales from the
Storybag’ by Jacqueline Wilson, Philip Pullman,
Michael Morpurgo and many more
Brothers Grimm
The Pied Piper
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Robin Hood
The Three Sillies
The Princess and the Toad
Anansi and the Magic Stick
The Gigantic Turnip
The Drum: A Folk Tale from India
Author
Manu’s Ark: India's Tale of the Great Emma Moore
Flood
Prophet Noah and the Great Flood in Ruth Woodhall & Shahada
‘Stories of the Prophets in the Holy Sharelle Abdul Haqq
Qur'an’
Monkey in the Stars
King of the Birds
Additional Versions
Additional versions
Author
King of the Birds
Helen Ward
King of the Birds
Shirley Climo
(* this story has Mayan, Nigerian and
Zulu versions)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Michael Morpurgo &
Emma Chichester Clark
abridged version: The Golden Pantaloons from
Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales (Martin
Waddell; illustrated by Emma Chichester-Clark)
Emma Chichester Clark
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
(Storytime Classics)
Robin Hood and the Silver Arrow (The Greatest
Adventures of Robin Hood
Adventures in the World) by Tony Bradman & Tony
Ross
Tony Ross
The Frog Prince by Margaret Mayo
The Frog Prince (Usborne Picture
Books)
Eric A. Kimmel
Aleksei Tolstoy & Niamh Sharkey
Tom Wrenn & Rob Cleveland
Amanda Askew
John Burrows, Howard Pyle &
Lucy Corvino
Susanna Davidson, Mike Gordon
& Carl Gordon
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein
YEAR ONE
Fairy & Traditional Tales
Thumbelina
Pinocchio
Little Red Riding Hood
Rapunzel
Anansi and the Talking Melon
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Classical Tales
Very Simple Aesop’s Tales:
The Goose who Laid the Golden Egg
The Lion, the Fox and the Donkey
At Dinner with Stork and Fox
The Dog and the Bone
The Lark and her Family
Picture Books
Oi! Get Off Our Train
Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish
The Runaway Dinner
Dinosaur Chase!
Traction Man Is Here
Willy the Wimp
Would You Rather?
The Grumpalump
Where the Forest Meets the Sea
The Quangle Wangle’s Hat
Mister Magnolia
Where’s My Teddy?
The Hunter
Nadia’s Hands
Underwater Farmyard
Book/Author
Ladybird version
Ladybird version
Sam McBratney & Emma Chichester Clark
in ‘Magic Beans: A Handful of Fairytales from the
Storybag’ by Jacqueline Wilson, Philip Pullman,
Michael Morpurgo and many more.
Eric A. Kimmel
Michael Rosen & Helen Oxenbury
Book/Author
in ‘Magic Beans: A Handful of Fairytales from the
Storybag‘ by Jacqueline Wilson, Philip Pullman,
Michael Morpurgo and many more.
Author
John Burningham
Michael Foreman
Allan Ahlberg & Bruce Ingman
Benedict Blathwayt
Mini Grey
Anthony Browne
John Burningham
Sarah Hayes & Barbara Firth
Jeannie Baker
Edward Lear
Quentin Blake
Jez Alborough
Paul Geraghty
Karen English
Carol Ann Duffy & Joel Stewart
Additional versions
Author
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood
Best-loved Classics - Rapunzel
Rapunzel (Picture Puffin Books)
Daniel Egneus & Brothers Grimm
Josephine Evetts-Secker &
Nicoletta Ceccoli
Lari Don & Célia Chauffrey
Sarah Gibb
Paul O. Zelinsky
We’re Going on a Lion Hunt
Additional Versions
David Axtell
Author
Additional Versions
Author
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein
YEAR ONE
Picture Books
Tom Thumb
Into the Forest
The Jolly Postman or Other People’s
Letters
Author
Eric Carle
Anthony Browne
Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Additional Versions
Author
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein
YEAR TWO
Stories from the Bible & Other Religions
The Sower
The Prodigal Son
The Wise and Foolish Builders
Rama and Sita: A Tale from Ancient Java
Book/Author
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
David Weitzman
Additional Versions
Author
Ramadan Moon
An Islamic Story: The Great Night Journey
Fairy & Traditional Tales
Cinderella
Na'ima B. Robert & Shirin Adl
Anita Ganeri
Book/Author
Cinderella by Lynn Roberts & David Roberts
The Night of the Moon
Hena Khan & Julie Paschkis
Additional versions
Cinderella
Cinderella: The Fairytale Files
The Persian Cinderella
The Egyptian Cinderella
Author
Kinuko Y. Craft
Alan Durant & Ross Collins
Shirley Climo & Robert Florczak
Shirley Climo & Ruth Heller
The Ugly Duckling
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Princess and the Pea
Full version – Hans Christian Andersen
Josephine Poole & Paul Hess
Jack and the Beanstalk
A Very Princessy Princess from Hans Christian
Andersen’s Fairy Tales (Martin Waddell; illustrated
by Emma Chichester Clark)
Marianna Mayer
The Twelve Dancing Princesses in
‘Magic Beans: A Handful of Fairytales
from the Storybag’ by Jacqueline
Wilson, Philip Pullman, Michael
Morpurgo and many more.
Twelve Dancing Princess (African
retelling)
Mahlon F. Craft & Kinuko Y. Craft
in ‘Magic Beans: A Handful of Fairytales from the
Storybag‘ by Gillian Cross
Charles Perrault or the Brothers Grimm
Jane Ray
Snow White
A little Love Story from Hans Christian Andersen’s
Fairy Tales (Martin Waddell; illustrated by Emma
Chichester Clark)
Gennady Spirin & Odds Bodkin
Fiona French
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Sleeping Beauty
The Goose Girl
The Three Wishes
Snow White
The Tin Soldier
The Crane Wife
Anancy and Mr. Dry-Bone
Richard Walker
Anne Fine
Rachel Isadora
Josephine Poole & Angela Barrett
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein
YEAR TWO
Classical Tales
Aesop’s Fables:
The Wolf and the Shepherd’s Son
The Peacock and the Crane
The Fox and the Crow
The Miller, his Son and the Donkey
The Travellers and the Bear
The Dog in the Manger
Greek Myths:
The Boy who Fell out of the Sky
How Fire came to the Earth
The Queen of the Underworld
The Monster and the Maze
The Web Spinner
The Flying Horse
Picture Books
Voices In The Park
The Night Shimmy
Tuesday
Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears
Cherry Tree
On the Way Home
Mia’s Story
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters
The Lost Happy Endings
The Whales’ Song
Flat Stanley
A Dark, Dark Tale
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark
George and the Dragon
Jim and the Beanstalk
The Wonderful Journey
Amazing Grace
Book/Author
Michael Morpurgo & Emma Chichester Clark
Atticus the Storyteller’s 100 Greek Myths by Lucy
Coats & Anthony Lewis
Author
Anthony Browne
Anthony Browne
David Weisner
Emily Gravett
Ruskin Bond
Jill Murphy
Michael Foreman
John Steptoe
Carol Ann Duffy & Jane Ray
Dyan Sheldon & Gary Blythe
Jeff Brown
Ruth Brown
Jill Tomlinson & Paul Howard
Christopher Wormell
Raymond Briggs
Paul Geraghty
Mary Hoffman
Additional Versions
Author
Wings
Christopher A. Myers
Theseus and the Minotaur
Geraldine McCaughrean &
Tony Ross
Marianna Meyer & Kinuko Y. Craft
Author
Pegasus
Additional Versions
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein
YEAR THREE
Stories from the Bible & Other Religions
Daniel in the Lion’s Den
Moses in the Basket
Joseph
Buddhist Tales
The Story of Divaali
An Islamic Story: The Flight from Makkah
Fairy & Traditional Tales
Puss in Boots
Musicians of Bremen
Book/Author
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
Alexandra Kohn & Sherab Chodzin
The Little Match Girl
Jatinder Verma
Anita Ganeri & Serena Curmi
Book/Author
Hans Christian Andersen
The Bremen Town Musicians by Jacob Grimm,
Wilhelm Grimm, Bernadette Watts & Anthea Bell
in ‘Magic Beans: A Handful of Fairytales from the
Storybag‘ by Jacqueline Wilson, Philip Pullman,
Michael Morpurgo and many more.
Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Mermaid
Hans Christian Andersen
Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave
Tiger Soup: An Anansi Story from Jamaica
Classical Tales
King Midas and the Golden Touch
Romulus and Remus
Tortoise vs Hare: The Rematch
Pandora
Classic Literature
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round
Table
The Canterbury Tales
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Marianna Mayer & Kinuko Y. Craft
Francis Temple
Book/Author
Charlotte Craft and Kinuko Y. Craft
Geraldine McCaughrean
Preston Rutt and Ben Redlich
Robert Burleigh and Raul Colon
Book/Author
Marcia Williams
Rumplestiltskin
Additional Versions
Author
Additional versions
Author
Rumpelstiltskin
Berlie Doherty & Jan Ray
The Little Girl in the Snow in Hans
Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Daughter of the Sea in Hans Christian
Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Martin Waddell; illustrated by
Emma Chichester Clark
Martin Waddell; illustrated by
Emma Chichester Clark
How Anansi Captured Tiger’s Stories Jenny Bent
Additional Versions
Author
Additional Versions
Author
retold by Marcia Williams
retold by Inga Moore
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein
YEAR FOUR
Stories from the Bible & Other Religions
Jesus Cleansing a Leper
Walking on Water
Stories of the Prophets in the Holy Qur'an
D Is for Dragon Dance
Fairy & Traditional Tales
Little Red Riding Hood
Pied Piper of Hamelin
Hansel and Gretel
Beauty and the Beast
Jorinda and Jorindel
Aladdin
Coyote in the Sky: How the Sun, Moon,
and Stars Began
Classical Tales
Hercules
The Adventures of Odysseus
Classic Literature
Alice In Wonderland or Alice Through the
Looking Glass
Shakespeare's Stories
The Elephant’s Child
The Little Prince
Book/Author
Additional Versions
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
Ruth Woodhall and Shahada Sharelle Abdul Haqq
Ying Chang Compestine
Book/Author
Additional versions
Charles Perrault or The Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm
Hansel and Gretel
Max Eilenberg & Angela Barrett
The Brothers Grimm
The Thousand Nights and One Night retold by David
Walser
Emmett Garcia
Author
Book/Author
Geraldine McCaughran
Daniel Morden and Hugh Lupton
Book/Author
Lewis Carroll
Additional Versions
Author
The Voyages of Odysseus
Additional Versions
Sue Reid & Mark Bergin
Author
Marcia Williams
Rudyard Kipling
Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry
Shakespeare Stories
Leon Garfield & Michael Foreman
Author
Anthony Browne
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein
YEAR FIVE
Stories from the Bible & Other Religions
Samson and Delilah
Healing the Paralytic at Capernaum
The Ten Lives of Vishnu
The Good Prince and the Wicked Witch
Fairy & Traditional Tales
Blue Beard
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Robin Hood
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Classical Tales
Persephone: A Journey from Winter to
Spring
Once Upon a Starry Night: A Book of
Constellations
The Adventures of Perseus
Classic Literature
The Happy Prince
Oliver Twist
Arthur, High King of Britain
The Highwayman
The Butterfly that Stamped
Book/Author
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
Stories from World Religions by Anita Ganeri &
Jackie Morris
Stories from World Religions by Anita Ganeri &
Jackie Morris
Book/Author
The Brothers Grimm
Hans Christian Andersen
Roger Lancelyn Green
Additional Versions
Author
Additional versions
Author
Outlaw! The Story of Robin Hood
Robin of Sherwood
Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpugo & Michael
Foreman
The Thousand Nights and One Night retold by David
Walser
Book/Author
Additional Versions
Sally Pomme Clayton & Virginia Lee
Author
Jacqueline Mitton & Christina Balit
Mark Bergin & David Hepplewhite
Book/Author
Oscar Wilde Stories for Children
retold by Marcia Williams
Michael Morpurgo
Additional Versions
Author
Arthur: the Seeing Stone
Here Lies Arthur
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Phillip Reeve
Alfred Noyes
Rudyard Kipling
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein
YEAR SIX
Stories from the Bible & Other Religions
King Solomon's Wisdom
The Feeding of the 5000
The Monkey King and the Heavenly
Peaches
The Blessed Last Prophet
Book/Author
Additional Versions
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
The Lion Storyteller Bible by Bob Hartman
Stories from World Religions by Anita Ganeri &
Jackie Morris
Stories from World Religions by Anita Ganeri &
Jackie Morris
Fairy & Traditional Tales
Book/Author
Additional versions
The Fisherman and the Genie
The Thousand Nights and One Night retold by David
Walser
The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen &
Christian Birmingham
Sinbad
The Thousand Nights and One Night retold by David
Walser
Sleeping Beauty
Charles Perrault
Mirror Mirror
Classical Tales
Book/Author
Additional Versions
Beowulf
Michael Foreman & Michael Morpurgo
Jason and the Argonauts
John Malam & David Antram
Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Rosemary Sutcliffe
Iliad
Classic Literature
Book/Author
Additional Versions
The Selfish Giant
Oscar Wilde Stories for Children
Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver"
Martin Jenkins & Chris Riddell
Robinson Crusoe: Retold from the Daniel Deanna McFadden, Jamel Akib & Arthur Pober
Defoe Original
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
Author
Author
Gregory Maguire
Author
Author
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein
KEY STAGE TWO
Picture Books
The Wolves in the Walls
Lost Thing
The Arrival
The Red Tree
Author
Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan
The Rabbits
The Tunnel
Weslandia
Michael Rosen’s Sad Book
Jabberwocky
Night of the Gargoyles
King Kong
War Game
Way Home
The Highwayman
Shaun Tan
Anthony Browne
Paul Fleischman & Kevin Hawkes
Michael Rosen
Lewis Carroll & Joel Stewart
Eve Bunting & David Weisner
Merian C Cooper & Anthony Browne
Michael Foreman
Libby Hathorn & Gregory Rogers
Alfred Noyes & Charles Keeping
Additional Versions
Author
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein
Poetry
Poetry Books
Each Peach Pear Plum
Friendly Matches
Collected Poems
The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems
The Booktime Book of Fantastic First
Poems
Revolting Rhymes
Hairy Maclary’s Bone
The Further Adventures of the Owl and
the Pussycat
Bad, Bad Cats
Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry
Michael Rosen’s Big Book of Bad Things
Quick, Let’s Get Out Of Here
Yo Ho Ho! A-pirating We’ll Go
There’s an Ouch in my Pouch
Goldilocks on CCTV
Heartbeat
New and Collected Poems for Children
Collected Poems for Children
Red, Cherry Red
Sensational!
Michael Rosen’s A to Z
Green Glass Beads
J is for Jamaica
Pumpkin Grumpkin
Cloud Busting
Plum
This Poem Doesn’t Rhyme
To Catch An Elephant
Classic Poems To Read Aloud
The Oxford Book of Poetry For Children
Author
Ahlberg
Ahlberg
Ahlberg
June Crebbin
Additional Versions
Author
June Crebbin
Roald Dahl
Lynley Dodd
Julia Donaldson
Roger Mcgough
Brian Patten
Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen
Kaye Umansky
Jeanne Willis
John Agard
Sharon Creech
Carol Ann Duffy
Ted Hughes
Jackie Kay
Roger McGough
Michael Rosen
Jacqueline Wilson
Benjamin Zephaniah
John Agard and Grace Nichols
Malorie Blackman
Tony Mitton
Gerard Benson
Gerard Benson
James Berry
Edward Blishen
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein
Poetry
One River, Many Creeks- Poems From All
Around The World
Once Upon a Poem
A Shame To Miss Poetry Collections
Read Me and Laugh
Read Me Out Loud
Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum
The Hat
Collected Poems for Children
101 Favourite Poems
The Oxford Book of Story Poems
One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children
The Dragon Book of Verse
In Time of War
The Rattle Bag
The School Bag
Over the Hills and Far Away: A Book of
Nursery Rhymes
The Ring of Words
The Kingfisher Book of Comic Verse
Poems about Love
100 Best Poems for Children
Can I Buy a Slice of Sky?
The Book of Whispers
The Oxford Book of Children’s Verse
I Saw Esau
My Very First Mother Goose
The Puffin Book of Twentieth Century
Children’s Verse
A New Treasury of Poetry
Shakespeare’s Verse
The Walker Book of Classic Poems and
Poets
Science Verse
The New Faber Book of Childrens Verse
Valerie Bloom
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Anne Fine
Gaby Morgan
Nick Toczek and Paul Cookson
Julia Donaldson
Carol Ann Duffy
Ted Hughes
John Foster
Michael Harrison &Christopher Stuart-Clark
Michael Harrison &Christopher Stuart-Clark
Michael Harrison &Christopher Stuart-Clark
Anne Harvey
Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes
Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes
Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes
Roger McGough
Roger McGough
Roger McGough
Roger McGough
Grave Nicols
Julie O’Callaghan
Iona &Peter Opie
Iona &Peter Opie
Iona &Peter Opie
Brian Patten
Neil Philip
Gina Pollinger
Michael Rosen
Jon Scieszka
Matthew Sweeney
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein
Poetry
Irish Poems
Matthew Sweeney
Dark as Midnight Dream
Fiona Waters
Footprints on the Page
Fiona Waters
Golden Apples
Fiona Waters
I Like This Poem
Kaye Web
We Animals Would Like a Word with You John Aghard
The Ha Ha Bonk Book
Allan Ahlberg
Please Mrs Bulter
Allan Ahlberg
Cautionary Verses
Hilaire Belloc
A Nest Full of Stars
James Berry
Songs of Innocence and Experience
William Blake
Hot Like Fire
Valerie bloom
Fruits
Valerie Bloom
Collected Poems for Children
Charles Causley
Figgie Hobbin and Other Poems
Charles Causley
Peacock Pie
Walter de la Mare
Underwater Farmyard
Carol Ann Duffy
The Oldest Girl in the World
Carol Ann Duffy
Old Possums Book of Practical Cats
T.S Elliot
The All-Night Cafe
Philip Gross
Collected Animal Poems
Ted Hughes
Seasons Songs
Ted Hughes
Collected Poems for Children
Te4d Hughes and Raymond Briggs
A Spell of Words
Elizabeth Jennings
All the Things I See
Jenny Joseph
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear Edward Lear
The Frog who Dreamed She Was an Opera Jackie Kay
Singer
Sky in the Pie
Roger McGough
All the Best
Roger McGough
The Wonder Dish
John Mole
Boo to a Goose
John Mole
Give Yourself A Hug
Grace Nichols
The Fox on the Roundabout
Gareth Owen
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein
Poetry
Can We Have Our Ball Back Please
Gargling with Jelly
Complete Poems for Children
All Sorts
Alphabicycle Order
The Giving Tree
Where the Sidewalk Ends
A Light in the Attic
A Child’s Garden of Verses
Fatso in the Red Suit
The Flying Spring Onion
Cat among the Pigeons
Gareth Owen
Brian Patten
James Reeves
Christopher Reid
Christopher Reid
Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein
Robert Louis Stevenson
Matthew Sweeney
Matthew Sweeney
Kit Wright
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein