Representation is important and we believe it's vital that children see their realities reflected in literature and that they have the opportunity to learn about the history of significant LGBTQ+ people. Many of the LGBTQ+ children's books here have existed…
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Children need a rich diet of varied literature as they grow up and collections of short stories can be an exciting part of the menu. They are ideal for the time-strapped who may struggle to get to the end of…
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We’ve enjoyed putting together this list: so many glorious books about all-things celebratory! Each title reflects experiences and perspectives of different festivals, special occasions and life-events with the ultimate goals of sparking joy from within and allowing children to explore…
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A year on from the first national lockdown and it would be safe to say we have all learnt a thing or two about ourselves in the last twelve months. Some of those lessons will have been obvious (the benefits…
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As the country moves into its third lockdown, we have been again reading the beautiful, moving poem The Great Realisation by Tomos Roberts and beautifully illustrated by Nomoco. If you haven’t heard it already (or even if you have) and you’re in…
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We have been writing our Christmas Bibliotherapies for many years now; books that we feel would make perfect literary presents for Christmas. In this by-no-means-exhaustive booklist, we have gone back over our many recommendations and compiled some of the most…
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Traditionally, non-fiction has often played second fiddle to fiction in reading provision at school, in terms of quantity and quality. Nevertheless, it encompasses such a mountainous range of genres which the internet has only helped to enhance. Under this umbrella-term…
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Here are just some of our favourite books that could be used as whole-school texts. They are either books we have used or seen used across either an entire school. These books make good texts for use across a whole school either…
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Here is a list of just some of our favourite wordless picture books. From collage and layering, to intricate pencil-drawn images, from watercolour to block colour, these books show the range and possibility of wordless texts and demonstrate why we…
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We have chosen some of our favourite non-fiction books that are beautifully illustrated too! Many of these are hardback and feel like the kind of reference book you’d want to keep out on your coffee table too!
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We have chosen some of our favourite scientific books – there’s something here for everyone to get geeky about! There is a mixture of narratives that contain scientific characters and contexts, narrative non-fiction texts that give us information about scientists…
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This was a fun list to write. Actually, this age is all about being a little humorous. So, how we did we choose them? Well, they needed to be books of the smaller variety, not too dense and ideally with some…
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How do we define ‘important’? Well, it’s a picture book so the pictures need to be good. And where there are words, they need to be good too. But more importantly the message needs to be STRONG and that will…
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Fairy tales are vital to refer to for plot and character when it comes to teaching any narrative form... Hans Christian Anderson’s tales feature heavily here and The Brothers Grimm are widely attributed as being the collectors of many of…
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This list is particularly important to us, and despite many of the books appearing on other lists of ours, it was felt that we needed to give these titles their own list and within the list, some sections to showcase…
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We have chosen some of our favourite books that have clear and distinct geographical links! There is a mixture of longer and shorter narratives with specific geographical settings, narrative non-fiction texts that give us information about geography or have strong…
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Some of these books are based on actual events but have a ‘fiction feel’ about them. Others are based in that time period and do well to create an authentic story within the time frame.
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