Kingsbury Green Primary School Recommended Reading Books

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Kingsbury Green Primary School Recommended Reading Books | 2021 - 2022 | Year 1

Updated September 2021

WHEN YOU HAVE READ A BOOK, TICK THE BOX – HOW MANY HAVE YOU READ?

Books about all the different and fabulous people in our world

□ ‘Julian Is A Mermaid’ – Jessica Love

□ ‘Dogs Don’t Do Ballet’ – Anna Kemp

□ ‘And Tango Makes Three’ – Justin Richardson

□ My Shadow is Pink’ – Scott Stuart

□ ‘Me, Mummy and Mum’ – Gemma Denham

□ ‘We are all Wonders’ – R. J. Palacio

□ ‘It’s OK to be Different’ – Todd Parr

□ ‘Mr Big’ – Ed Vere

□ ‘Superheroes Are Everywhere’ – Kamala Harris

□ ‘Last Stop on Market Street’ - Matt de la Pena

□ ‘Look up’ - Nathan Bryon

Books about you and your body

□ ‘Looking after Louis’ – Lesley Ely

□ ‘Dachys Deaf’ – Jack Hughes

□ ‘Rex’s Specs’ – Jack Hughes

□ ‘Freddy and the Fairy’ – Julia Donaldson

□ ‘My Friend Suhana’ – Shaila Abdullah

□ ‘Dr Dog’ – Babette Cole

□ ‘Amazing’ – Steve Antony

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Books about families and feelings

□ ‘Living with Mum and Living with Dad’ – Melanie Walsh

□ ‘My Two Grannies’ – Floella Benjamin

□ ‘Not Now Bernard’ – David McKee

□ ‘Grandad’s Island’ – Benji Davies

□ ‘My Pet Star’ – Corrinne Averiss

□ ‘My Big Shouting Day’ – Rebecca Patterson

□ ‘Ravi’s Roar’ – Tom Percival

□ ‘Ruby’s Worry’ – Tom Percival

□ ‘Hugo and the Bully Frogs’ – Francesca Simon

□ ‘Full, Full, Full of Love’ – Trish Cooke

□ ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ - Giles Andreae

□ ‘Poems Aloud’ – Joseph Coelho

□ ‘Listening With My Heart’ – Gabi Garcia

□ ‘The Great Big Book of Families’ – Mary Hoffman

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Important books to make us think

□ ‘Zoo’ – Anthony Browne

□ ‘Clean Up’ – Nathan Bryon

□ ‘Maisy’ series – Lucy Cousins

□ ‘Troll Stinks’ – Jeanne Willis

□ ‘Chicken Clicking’ – Jeanne Willis

□ ‘My Name was Hussein’ – Hristo Kyuchukov

□ ‘Colour of Home’ – Mary Hoffman

□ ‘Sofia Valdez, Future Prez’ – Andrea Beaty

□ ‘Newspaper Boy and Origami Girl’ – Michael Foreman

Fantastic authors with lots of books to read

□ Julia Donaldson

□ Mwenye Hadithi

□ Lynley Dodd

□ Rob Biddulph

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Books about other countries

□ ‘Not So Fast Songalolo’ – Niki Daly

□ ‘Flower in the Snow’ – Tracey Corderoy

□ ‘Chapatti Moon’ – Pippa Goodhart

□ ‘Anna Hibiscus Song’ - Atinuke

□ ‘The Ghanaian Goldilocks’ - Dr Tamara Pizzoli

□ ‘Can You Hear the Sea’ – Judy Cumberbatch

□ ‘Farmer Falgu Goes to the Market’ – Chitra Soundar

□ ‘The Empty Pot’ – Demi

□ ‘My Granny Went To Market’ – Stella Blackstone

□ ‘We’re Roaming in the Rainforest’ - Laurie Krebs

□ ‘We’re Sailing down the Nile’ – Laurie Krebs

Books about our class topics: London, plants, healthy eating, maps and castles

□ ‘A Walk in London’ – Salvatore Rubbino

□ ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’ – Vivian French

□ ‘Eat Your Greens, Goldilocks’ – Steve Smallman

□ ‘Cece Loves Science’ – Kimberley Derting

□ ‘Eddie’s Garden’ – Sarah Garland

□ ‘The Tiny Seed’ – Eric Carle

□ ‘The Treasure of Pirate Frank’ – Mal Peet

□ ‘The Kiss That Missed’ – David Melling

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Chapter books to try

□ ‘Captain Cat and the Treasure Map’ – Sue Mongredien

□ ‘Nipper McFee’ series – Rose Impey

□ ‘Titchy Witch’ series – Rose Impey

□ ‘The Tindims of Rubbish Island’ – Sally Gardner

□ ‘The Legend of Kevin’ - Philip Reeve

□ ‘Magic Betsey’ and ‘Girl Wonder’ series – Malorie Blackman

□ ‘The Cat and the King’ - Nick Sharratt

□ ‘Molly Rogers to the Rescue’ – Cornelia Funke

□ ‘Yasmin the Explorer’ – Saadia Faruqi

□ ‘Grandpa was an Astronaut’ – Jonathan Meres

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