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'A child who reads will be an adult who thinks.'

We really value independent readers, well read children make great writers! We appreciate it is not always easy choosing the appropriate book for your child therefore we have supplied below an age appropriate reading list as suggested guidance.

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Year 1	Owl Babies Billy’s Beetle Rainbow Fish Not Now Bernard The Gruffalo Dogger	Peace at Last Where the Wild Things Are The Elephant and the bad baby The tiger who came to tea Lost and Found Knuffle Bunny Beegu Cops and Robbers Elmer
Year 2	Can’t you sleep little bear? The cat that scratched The mouse hole Cat The owl who was afraid of the dark Fantastic Mr Fox The Iron Man	Traction Man is here Meerkat mail Amazing grace Pumpkin Soup Who’s afraid of the big bad book? Dr Xargles Book of Earthlets Tuesday The Flower The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me Willa and old Miss Annie Gorilla Emily Brown and the Thing Frog and Toad Together
Year 3	The Minpins Flat Stanley The Ice Palace The Hodgeheg Diary of a Killer cat The Firework-Makers Daughter	Cat Tales – Ice cat The battle of Bubble and Squeak The Sheep Pig The Abominables The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Hansel and Gretel
Year 4	I was a Rat Varjak’s Paw Grandpa Charrerji Bill’s New Frock Butterfly Lion The BFG	Charlotte’s Web Perry Angel’s Suitcase Voices in the Park
Year 5	Greek Heroes The Highwayman Wolf Brother Friend or Foe Beowolf and the Monster The Highwayman	The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Tom’s Midnight Garden Street Child FArTHER
Year 6	Why the Whales Came Skellig Goodnight Mr Tom Anthony Browne Journey to the River Sea	Holes Clockwork The Hobbit Fireweed River Boy The Arrival