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Additional Reading Suggestions

Ideas for books to be experienced.

Aesop’s Fables

Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling

Alice Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll

Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie                                               

Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White

The Worst Witch – Jill Murphy

Oliver and the Seawigs - Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre

My Dad’s a Birdman – David Almond

Bill’s New Frock – Anne Fine

Alice Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll

How the Whale Became – Ted Hughes

Christophe’s Story – Nikki Cornwell

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters – Jon Steptoe

The Princess and the White Bear King – Tanya Robyn Batt

Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren

The Wolf’s Footprint – Susan Price

Mouse, Bird, Snake, Wolf – David Almond

The Dancing Bear – Michael Murpurgo

The Ice Palace – Robert Swindells

The Tin Forest – Helen Ward

The Journey – Francesca Sanna

Emil and the Detectives – Erich Kastner

Fly, Eagle, Fly Chistopher Gregowski

The Snow Leopard – Jackie Morris                                           

Falling Angels – Colin Thompson

Mary Poppins - P L Travers

Bluebird – Bob Staake

The Matchbox Diary – Paul Fleischmann

Cloud Tea Monkeys – Mal Peet

Once Upon an Ordinary School Day – Colin McNaughton

The Borrowers – Mary Norton

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C S Lewis

The Iron Man - Ted Hughes

The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore – W E Joyce

Varmits – Helen Ward

Noah Barleywater Runs Away – John Boyne

The Dancing Bear – Michael Morpurgo

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – Kate Di Camillo

Fox – Margaret Wild

Goth Girl – Chris Ridell

Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi

The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Princess and the White Bear King – Tanya Robyn Batt

Firebird – Saviour Pirotta

Krindlekrax – Philip Ridley