If you read just 1 book a day to your child, they will have read 1825 books by their 5th birthday!
Hearing books and stories is just as important as pupils reading themselves.
Pie Corbett's Reading Spine
These essential reads are books that children will enjoy in each year group.
F1 (Nursery) Where's Spot - Eric Hill Dear Zoo - Rod Campbell You Choose - Pippa Goodhart & Nick Sharratt We're Going on a Bear Hunt - Michael Rosen Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? - Bill Martin Jnr & Eric Carle Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy - Lynley Dodd Each Peach Pear Plum - Allan & Janet Ahlberg Hug - Jez Alborough The Train Ride - June Crebbin Come on, Daisy - Jane Simmons
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F2 (Reception) Owl Babies - Martin Waddell The Gruffalo - Julia Donaldson Handa's Surprise - Eileen Browne Mr Grumpy's Outing - John Burningham Rosie's Walk - Pat Hutchins Six Dinner Sid - Inga Moore Mrs Armitage - Quentin Blake Whatever Next - Jill Murphy On the Way Home - Jill Murphy Farmer Duck - Martin Waddell Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise-Brown Shhh! - Sally Grindley |
Year 1 Peace at Last - Jill Murphy Can't You Sleep Little Bear? - Martin Waddell Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak The Elephant and the Bad Baby - Elfrida Vipont & Raymond Briggs Avocado Baby - Jon Burningham The Tiger Who Came to Tea - Judith Kerr Lost and Found - Oliver Jeffers Knuffle Bunny - Mo Willems Beegu - Alexis Deacon Dogger - Shirley Hughes Cops and Robbers - Allan & Janet Ahlberg Elmer - David McKee |
Year 2 Traction Man is Here - Mini Grey Meerkat Mail - Emily Gravett Amazing Grace - Mary Hoffman Pumpkin Soup - Helen Cooper Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book - Lauren Child Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets - Tony Ross Not Now Bernard - David McKee Tuesday - David Wiesner The Flower - John Light Gorilla - Anthony Browne Emily Brown and the Thing - Cressida Cowell Frog and Toad Together - Arnold Lobel The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark - Jill Tomlinson Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl The Hodgeheg - Dick King-Smith Flat Stanley - Jeff Brown Willa and Old Miss Annie - Berlie Doherty |
Year 3 The Iron Man - Ted Hughes Cat Tales: Ice Cat - Linda Newberry The Sheep-pig - Dick King-Smith The Abominables - Dick King-Smith The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis The Battle of Bubble and Squeak - Philippa Pearce |
Year 4 Bill's New Frock - Anne Fine Charlotte's Webb - EB White Why the Whales Came - Michael Morpurgo The Firework Maker's Daughter - Phillip Pullman The Snow Walker's Son - Catherine Fisher Perry Angel's Suitcase - Glenda Millard Voices in the Park - Anthony Browne |
Year 5 The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken Varjak Paw - SF Said Wolf Brother - Michelle Paver Street Child - Berlie Doherty The Midnight Fox - Betsy Byars Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce FArTHER - Grahame Baker-Smith |
Year 6 Holes - Louis Sacher Clockwork - Phillip Pullman The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Skellig - David Almond Fireweed - Jill Patton Walsh River Boy - Tim Bowler The Arrival - Shaun Tan |