The Marvellous Fluffy Squishy Itty Bitty
FS/KS1 Y3Eddie is on a quest to find an appropriate present for her mum's birthday. She has an idea of exactly what she wants to get her but has no idea what it looks like. This is a beautiful...
View ArticleThe Promise by Nicola Davies & Illustrated by Laura Carlin
KS2From the delicious endplates to the touching final page, this is a story about fighting for conservation and the planet when all those choose to ignore it. It is a revolutionary story about one...
View ArticleThe Something by Rebecca Cobb
FS/KS1The Something tells the story of an inquisitive young boy, his dog and a hole. In early Spring, the boy is playing with his dog, he throws a shiny red ball which promptly bounces down a...
View ArticleWhere the Poppies Now Grow by Hilary Robinson and Illustrated by Martin Impey
Y3 or Y6Although touted as a book on WW1 for younger children, I think that the pattern of the rhythm and rhyme alongside the intertextual references made within Impey's illustrations mean that this is...
View ArticleInto the Forest by Anthony Browne
KS2Browne goes back to his fairy tale roots in this book in what he does best. Plenty of intertextual links and nice to see a picturebook about a bond between father and son. Plenty of fairy tale...
View ArticleThe Glassmaker's Daughter by Dianne Hofmeyr & illustrated by Jane Ray
KS1/KS2Set in 16th century Venice, when glassmaking, as an art, was revered across the city and beyond, there lived a young woman whose father was a renowned glassblower. Although he tried his best to...
View ArticleFarther by Grahame Baker-Smith
KS2 with a focus on UK2.On a lonely island, a young boy lives with his father and mother. The boy watches his father become obsessed with wanting to fly and, when his father goes to war and fails to...
View ArticleThe Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield and the Fan Brothers
KS1/LKS2Chris has a passion for space but as a boy, there are things in the dark that scare him. It takes an event that inspired a world of people to change that fear into a desire and dream that would...
View ArticleThe Arrival by Shaun Tan
Year 6A deeply thought-provoking wordless picturebook that looks at one person's journey into a new country to make a living. It asks questions about immigration . Another story relating to Belonging.
View ArticleThe Wild Girl by Chris Wormell
KS1/LKS2A young, Stone Age girl and her small dog, who live on their own in the wilderness. When the little girl finds some paw-prints in a cave, she must make a choice which could cost her her...
View ArticleThe Night Box by Louise Greig and Ashling Lindsay
FS-Y4Beautiful, evocative language in which a young boy's relationship with the darkness and the light coincides with the natural world a deep sense of being at peace with the landscape that he...
View ArticleA Stone for Sascha by Aaron Becker
KS2 A seamless connection between past, present and future. A little girl’s dog has passed away and whilst on the girl’s journey through grief, she takes the reader on a journey through time through...
View ArticleArthur and the Golden Rope by Joe Todd-Stanton
KS2 GRAPHIC NOVELThis is a lovely traditional tales (Joe classes it as a Myth) which follows the adventure of Arthur, a dreamer with a sack of wit at his aid sets off on a quest to rid the town of a...
View ArticleSonya's Chickens by Phoebe Wahl
FS/KS1/LKS2Sonya raises her three chickens and loves them. When she discovers something has happened to them one night, she begins to learn about the interconnectedness of life. Beautifully illustrated...
View ArticleUp the Mountain by Marianne Dubuc
KS1/LKS2Mrs. Badger enjoys her weekly excursion to the top of a mountain. Then one day she discovers a sprightly cat companion who joins her on her journey and in her reflections. An inter-generational...
View ArticleFairytales for Mr Barker by Jessica Ahlberg
FS/Y1For me, this is an homage to Jessica's parents. Part Peepo, part Each Peach Pear Plum, we follow Lucy and her dog, Mr Barker, through a world of fairytales as she helps various victims escape...
View ArticleSpace Tortoise by Ross Montgomery and David Litchfield
FS/KS1/LKS2Tells the story of an isolated tortoise that inhabits a local park bin. One night, when tortoise was gazing up at the night sky, he concluded that the ‘blinking candles’ in the sky must be...
View ArticleMe and My Fear by Francesca Sanna
FS/KS1/KS2Following on from The Journey and in answer to many questions from children she met, Sanna tells the story of one of the siblings after they had moved to a new country. Tying in her own...
View ArticleGrandma Bird by Benji Davies
FS/KS1/LKS2The young boy, Noi, leaves his house by the sea, dad and six cats to spend the summer with his Grandma on her small island. Upon arrival, Noi discovers that he finds his Grandma quite odd...
View ArticleThe Secret Sky Garden by Linda Sarah and Fiona Lumbers
FS/KS1/LKS2The story follows the journey of a young, determined girl named Funni who works hard to build a place of refuge and beauty in a desolate and abandoned airport car park. Although she enjoys...
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