junior school reading lists
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READINGLISTS JUNIOR SCHOOL
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WelcomeThese reading lists are a selection of the titles available in the Junior Library at Dulwich
College and are intended for students’ and parents’ guidance. They aim to include a range
of genres and writing styles to engage, interest and perhaps challenge students to broaden
their reading choices. With over 6000 children’s books published in the UK alone every year it is often difficult to identify quality writing so these lists are an attempt to guide you
towards some of the best available.
The lists should be used with discretion. If you feel the list for your particular age group does
not include titles at an appropriate level for your reading age and ability level you may wish
to select from the list intended for a younger or older year group. However the main aim
of these lists are to encourage an enjoyment of reading and to introduce you to books you
may not have considered reading.
Reading broadens horizons, helps develop written and spoken vocabulary and spelling,aids in the development of empathy, expands one’s thinking and imagination, and may
introduce you to new ideas and worlds. It is one of life’s fundamental skills and pleasures.
We participate in the International School Librarians Network Red Dot Book Award each
year http://www.reddotawards.com/ where students are challenged to read eight books in
their age category and vote for the favourite. They may then compete in the Readers Cup
event and represent Dulwich in an annual quiz, against other Singapore schools, testing
their knowledge of the books.
Our library catalogue http://dcsg.follettdestiny.com/ has an extensive range of
Recommended Reading Lists under Resource Lists>Public Lists where books are categorized
according to genre as well as reading age and level.
You may also wish to make use of our Pinterest page
http://www.pinterest.com/DCSGLibrary/ which presents this information in a visual format
with links to Good Reads reviews.
The library website contains masses of useful links, and can be accessed through the parent
portal, or viahttp://dcsg.fireflycloud.asia/welcome-page
The Library Staff
2016
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Year 3 Recommended Reading
Laurence Anholt. Seriously Silly series.
Philip Ardagh. Grubtown Tales.
Annie Barrows. Ivy and Bean series.
Terence Blacker. Ms Wizz series.
Adam Blade. Beast Quest series.
Enid Blyton. Secret Seven series.
Michael Bond. Paddington series.
Michael Broad. Jake Cake series.
Jeff Brown. Flat Stanley.
Lauren Child. Clarice Bean series.
Steve Cole. Astrosaurs series.
Eoin Colfer.The Legend of Spud Murphy.
Andrew Cope. Spy Dog series.
Roald Dahl. The Twits / Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Joshua Doder. Grk series.
Dorothy Edwards. My Naughty Little Sister series.
Anne Fine. Bill’s New Frock; Diary of a Killer Cat; How
to Write Really Badly; Angel of Nitshill Road.
Sally Gardner. Magical Children series.
Astrid Lindgren. Pippi Longstocking.
Dick King-Smith. George Speaks; The Hodgeheg.
Megan McDonald. Judy Moody series; Stink series.
Michael Morpurgo. Cool; The Butterfly Lion; Marble
Crusher.
Jill Murphy. Worst Witch series.
Joanna Nadin. Penny Dreadful series.
Kate Pankhurst. Mariella Mystery series.
Florence Parry Heide. Treehorn series.
Dav Pilkey. Captain Underpants.
Kjartan Poskitt. Agatha Parrot series.
Alf Prøysen. Mrs Pepperpot series.
Chris Riddell. Goth Girl series.
David Roberts. Dirty Bertie series.
Angie Sage. Araminta Spook series.
Francesca Simon. Horrid Henry series.
Alex T Smith. Claude series.
Andy Stanton. Mr Gum series.
Catherine Storr. Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf.
Jeremy Strong. 100 Mile an Hour Dog series
Jill Tomlinson. The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark.
Ian Whybrow. Little Wolf.
Jacqueline Wilson. Monster Story-Teller.
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Year 4 Recommended Reading
Allan Ahlberg. Clothes Horse; It was a Dark and
Stormy Night.
David Almond. My Dad’s a Birdman; The Boy WhoSwam with Piranhas; The Boy Who Climbed to the
Moon.
Philip Ardagh. The Eddie Dickens Trilogy.
Malorie Blackman. Cloudbusting.
Judy Blume. Fudge series.
Enid Blyton. Famous Five series.
Frank Cottrell Boyce. Unforgotten Coat.
Humphrey Carpenter. Mr Majeika series.
Cressida Cowell. How to Train Your Dragon series.
Sharon Creech. The Wanderer.
Roald Dahl. Danny the Champion of the World.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery. The Little Prince.
Sam Gayton. Snow Merchant.
Ted Hughes. The Iron Man; How the Whale Became.
Eva Ibbotson. One Boy and His Dog.
Pete Johnson. Trust Me, I’m a Troublemaker.
Eric Kastner. Emil and the Detectives.
Clive King. Stig of the Dump.Elizabeth Laird. Secret Friends.
C.S. Lewis. Narnia series.
Philippa Pearce. Battle of Bubble and Squeak; A dog
so small.
Philip Pullman. Clockwork; Firework Maker’s
Daughter; I was a Rat.
Philip Reeve. There’s no such thing as dragons; Oliver
and the Seawigs.
Louis Sachar. Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes; There’s a girl in
the boy’s bathroom.
SF Said. Varjak Paw.
Marcus Sedgewick. Raven mysteries.
Barbara Sleigh. Carbonel series.
Dodie Smith. One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
Lemony Snicket. A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. Fergus Crane; Ottoline
series; Goth girl series.
Jeremy Strong. The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog
series; My Brother’s Famous Bottom series.
Robert Swindells. Room 13.
David Walliams. Gangsta Granny; Mr Stink;
Billionaire Boy.
E.B. White. Charlotte’s Web.
Marcia Williams. Archie’s War; The Adventures of
Robin Hood.
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Year 5 Recommended Reading
Joan Aiken. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
Malorie Blackman. Pigheart Boy.
Frank Cottrell Boyce. Framed; Millions.
Betsy Byars. The 18th Emergency.
Eoin Colfer. Artemis Fowl series.
Sarah Crossan. The Weight of Water.
Chris D’Lacey. The Last Dragon Chronicles series.
Bertie Doherty. Street Child.
Deborah Ellis. Breadwinner series.
Cornelia Funke. Dragonrider.
Jack Gantos. Joey Pigza series.
Adele Geras, Linda Newbery and Ann Turnbull. Historical
House series.
Debi Gliori. Pure Dead Magic.
Julia Golding. Cat Royal series; Companions series.
Michelle Harrison. 13 Treasures.
Charlie Higson. Young Bond series.
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden; A Little
Princess.
Anthony Horowitz. Alex Rider series; Diamond
Brothers series.Eva Ibbotson. Journey to the River Sea.
Brian Jacques. Redwall series.
Pete Johnson. The Bad Spy’s Guide.
Judith Kerr. When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit.
Derek Landy. Skulduggery Pleasant series.
Michael Lawrence. Jiggy McCue series.
Sophie McKenzie. The Medusa Project series.
Sally Nicholls. Ways to Live Forever.
Jenny Nimmo. Charlie Bone series.
Garth Nix. Keys to the Kingdom series.
Mary Norton. The Borrowers.
Robert C. O’Brien. Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
James Patterson. I Funny series.
Michelle Paver. Wolf Brother.
Philippa Pearce. Tom’s Midnight Garden.
Philip Pullman. Spring-Heeled Jack; The Firework-
Maker’s Daughter.
Philip Reeve. Predator Cities series.
Philip Ridley. Krindlekrax; Scribbleboy.
Rick Riordan. Percy Jackson series.
Louis Sachar. Wayside School series.
Angie Sage. Magyk series.
Ali Sparkes. Shapeshifter series.
Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. Edge Chronicles series.
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Year 6 Recommended Reading
David Almond. Skellig; My Name is Mina.
Nina Bawden. Carrie’s War.
Malorie Blackman. Pig Heart Boy.
Pseudonymous Bosch. The Name of this Book is
Secret [and others in the series].
Tim Bowler. River Boy.
Frank Cottrell Boyce. Millions; Cosmic.
Georgia Byng. Molly Moon series.
Eoin Colfer. Artemis Fowl series.
Zizou Corder. Lionboy.
Sharon Creech. Walk Two Moons; Chasing Redbird;
Ruby Holler.
Siobhan Dowd. London Eye Mystery.
Helen Dunmore. Ingo series.
Charlie Fletcher. Stoneheart series.
Neil Gaiman. The Graveyard Book; Coraline.
Morris Gleitzman. Two Weeks with the Queen; Once
series.
Sally Grindley. Spilled Water.
Carl Hiaasen. Hoot.
Charlie Higson. Young Bond series. Anthony Horowitz. Stormbreaker series.
Eva Ibbotson. Journey to the River Sea; The Star of
Kazan; The Abominables.
Brian Jacques. Redwall series.
Elizabeth Laird. Garbage King.
Derek Landy. Skulduggery Pleasant series.
Hilary McKay. Saffy’s Angel series.
Michael Morpurgo. Private Peaceful; Kensuke’s
Kingdom; War Horse.
Patrick Ness. A Monster Calls.
Sally Nicholls. Ways to Live Forever.
Garth Nix. Sabriel series.
RJ Palacio. Wonder.
Michelle Paver. Wolf Brother; The Outsiders.
Terry Pratchett. The Amazing Maurice and His
Educated Rodents.
Philip Reeve. Larklight; Mortal Engines series.
Katherine Rundell. Rooftoppers.
Chris Ryan. Alpha Force series.
Louis Sachar. Holes.
Angie Sage. Septimus Flyte series.
Brian Selznick. The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Ian Seraillier. The Silver Sword.
Justin Somper. Vampirates series.
Rebecca Stead. Liar and Spy.
Robert Swindells. Room 13; Abomination; NightmareStairs.
Sandi Toksvig. Hitler’s Canary.
JRR Tolkein. The Hobbit.
Eleanor Updale. Montmorency series.
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Red Dot Book Award Winners
Past award-winners can be seen at:
www.reddotawards.com
YOUNGER (Years 3–5)
Nicola Davies. Rubbish Town Hero.
Adeline Foo. The Diary of Amos Lee.
Neil Gaiman. Fortunately, the Milk.
Andy Griffiths. The Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow.
Matt Haig. To Be a Cat.
Kevin Henkes. The Year of Billy Miller.
Eva Ibbotson. One Dog and his Boy.
William Joyce. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr
Morris Lessmore.
AJ Low, Aden Jimenez, and Felicia Low-Jimenez. Sherlock
Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong.
Chris Riddell. Ottoline and the Yellow Cat; Goth Girl
and the Ghost of a Mouse.
David Walliams. Mr Stink.
OLDER (Years 5–7)
Cece Bell. El Deafo.
Holly Black. Doll Bones.
Sarah Crossan. The Weight of Water.
Kate DiCamillo. Flora and Ulysses.
Siobhan Dowd. London Eye Mystery.
Candy Gourlay. Tall Story.
Trenton Lee Stewart. The Mysterious Benedict Society.
Simon Mayo. Itch.
Chris Morphew. The Phoenix Files.
Andy Mulligan. Trash.
RJ Palacio. Wonder.
Katherine Rundell. Rooftoppers.
Jonathan Stroud. The Screaming Staircase.
Raina Telgemeier. Smile.
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Scary Books
Elen Caldecott. The Mystery of Wicksworth Manor.
Cornelia Funke. Ghost Knight.
Neil Gaiman. The Graveyard Book.
Matt Haig. Shadow Forest.
Anthony Horowitz. Groosham Grange.
Martin Howard. The Wickedest Witch.
Eva Ibbotson. Which Witch? The Secret of Platform
13; The Haunting of Hiram.
Paul Jennings. Unbelievable! Uncovered!Unmentionable! Unpredictable! and others.
Helen Moss. The mystery of the vanishing skeleton
Chris Priestley. Tales of terror from the Black Ship;
Uncle Montague’s tales of terror.
Philip Reeve. Goblins.
Justin Richards. The School of Night series.
Angie Sage. Araminta Spook series.
Marcus Sedgwick. The Raven Mysteries series.
Jonathan Stroud. The Screaming Staircase.
Robert Swindells. Room 13; Nightmare Stairs.
Kaye Umansci. The Wickedest Witch in the World.
Django Wexler. The Forbidden Library.
Historical
Bernard Ashley. Johnnie’s Blitz.
Nina Bawden. Carrie’s War.
Terry Deary. Roman Tales series; Put Out the Light.
Berlie Doherty. Street Child.
Sonya Hartnett. The Children of the King.
Anne Holm. I am David.
Rob Lloyd Jones. Wild Boy. Judith Kerr. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.
Kathryn Lasky. Mary Queen of Scots.
Caroline Lawrence. The Roman Mysteries series.
Leon Leyson. The Boy on the Wooden Box.
Michelle Magorian. Goodnight Mister Tom.
Michael Morpurgo. Arthur, High King of Britain;
Private Peaceful. War Horse
Linda Newbury. Blitz Boys.
Pamela Oldfield. Workhouse.
Richard Platt. Roman Diary; Egyptian Diary.
Sue Reid. Mill Girl.
Megan Rix. A Soldier’s Friend; The Victory Dogs; The
Bomber Dog.
Ian Serraillier. The Silver Sword.
Robert Swindells. Blitzed.
Marcia Williams. Archie’s War; My Secret War Diary.
Jacqueline Wilson. Hetty Feather series.
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Fantasy
Rosie Banks. Secret Kingdom series.
Adam Blake. Beast Quest series.
Enid Blyton. Wishing Chair series.
Cressida Cowell. How to Train Your Dragon series.
Tony DiTerlizzi. The Spiderwick Chronicles; Beyond
the Spiderwick Chronicles.
Chris d’Lacey. The Last Dragon Chronicles.
Emma Fischel. Witchworld; Witchmyth.
Charlie Fletcher. Stoneheart Trilogy.
Cornelia Funke. Inkheart trilogy.
Sam Gayton. Lilliput; The Snow Merchant.
Debi Gliori. Pure Dead Magic.
Elizabeth Goudge. The Little White Horse.
Matt Haig. The Runaway Troll.
Michelle Harrison. The Thirteen Treasures.
Eva Ibbotson. Which Witch? The Secret of Platform
13.
C. S. Lewis. The Chronicles of Narnia series.
Jill Murphy. The Worst Witch series.
Jenny Nimmo. Charlie Bone series; The Snow Spider
Trilogy; Chronicles of the Red King (The Secret
Kingdom, The Stones of Ravenglass, Leopards’
Gold).
Garth Nix. The Keys to the Kingdom series.
Philippa Pearce. Tom’s Midnight Garden.
Gwyneth Rees. Cosmo and the Great Witch Escape.
Philip Reeve. Mortal Engines; No Such Thing as
Dragons.
Angie Sage. Septimus Heap series.
Paul Stewart. The Edge Chronicles.
J. R. R. Tolkein. The Hobbit.
Holly Webb. Animal Magic series; Lily stories; Rose
stories.
Titania Woods. Fairy School series.
Different Cultures
Narinder Dhami. Bend It Like Beckham.Kate DiCamillo. The Tale of Despereaux; The
Magician’s Elephant.
Deborah Ellis. The Breadwinner; Parvana’s Journey;
Mud City.
Zlata Filipović. Zlata’s Diary.
Candy Gourlay. Tall Story.
Sally Grindley. Bitter Chocolate; Torn Pages; Spilled
Water.
Elizabeth Laird. The Fastest Boy in the World; TheGarbage King; Pea Boy and Other Stories from
Iran; Oranges in No Man’s Land.
Michael Morpurgo. Toro! Toro! Kensuke’s Kingdom;
Meeting Cézanne.
Philip Pullman. The Firework-Maker’s Daughter.
Lauren St. John. The White Giraffe.
Adeline Yen Mah. Chinese Cinderella.
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Friends and Family
Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Annie Barrows. Ivy and Bean series.
Jeanna Birdsall. The Penderwicks.
Judy Blume. Superfudge; Tales of a Fourth Grade
Nothing.
Betsy Byars. The Eighteenth Emergency.
Elen Caldecott. How Ali Ferguson saved Houdini.
Cathy Cassidy. Marshmallow Skye; Strike a Pose,
Daizy Star.Lauren Child. Clarice Bean series; Ruby Redfort
series.
Beverly Cleary. Ramona series.
Anne-Marie Conway. Butterfly Summer.
Sharon Creech. The Boy on the Porch.
Susie Day. Pea’s Book of Best Friends.
Laura Dockrill. Darcy Burdock series.
Anne Fine. The Only Child Club; Madame Doubtfire.
Candy Gourlay. Tall Story.
Kes Gray. Daisy series.
Charise Mericle Harper. Just Grace series.
Jacqueline Harvey. Alice Miranda series; Clementine
Rose series.
Chris Higgins. My Funny Family series; The SecretsClub series.
Laura Ingalls Wilder. Little House on the Prairie.
Pete Johnson. How to Train Your Parents; My Parents
Are Out of Control.
Karen McCombie. You, Me and Thing; Indie Kidd’s
(Most Excellent) Best Friends Guide; Angels series.
Megan McDonald. Judy Moody series.
Tamsyn Murray. Completely Cassidy series.
Joanna Nadin. Penny Dreadful series.
Hilary McKay. Practically Perfect; Saffy’s Angel.
Gwyneth Rees. Super Sisters.
Rachel Renee Russell. Dork Diaries series.
Mildred D. Taylor. The Well: David’s Story; Roll of
Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Jean Ure. Real True Friends; Secrets and Dreams;
Frankie Foster series.
Catherine Wilkins. My Best Friend and Other
Enemies; My Brilliant Life and Other Disasters.
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Animals
Sam Angus. Soldier Dog; A Horse Called Hero;
Captain.
Elen Caldecott. How Kirsty Jenkins stole the elephant.
Lucy Daniels. The Playful Puppy;
Katie Davies. The Great Hamster Massacre; The Great
Cat Conspiracy, and others.
Nicola Davies. Whale Boy.
Kate DiCamillo. Because of Winn-Dixie; The Tale of
Despereaux.
Anne Fine. The Diary of a Killer Cat.
Randall Jarrell. The Animal Family.
Dick King-Smith. The Hodgeheg; The Sheep-Pig; ESP
and others.
Sarah Lean. A Dog Called Homeless; The ForeverWhale; Hero; Harry and Hope; A Horse for Angel.
Gill Lewis. Moon Bear; Scarlet Ibis.
Michael Morpurgo. Cool; Fox Friend; War Horse; The
Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips.
Megan Rix. The Runaways; Victory Dogs.
S. F. Said. Varjak Paw.
E. B. White. Charlotte’s Web.
Jacqueline Wilson and others. Paws and Whiskers.
Adventure/Mystery
Steve Backshall. The Falcon Chronicles series.
Lynne Reid Banks. The Indian in the Cupboard.
Chris Blake. Time Hunters series.
Enid Blyton. The Secret Seven series; The Famous
Five series.
Elen Caldecott. The Mystery of Wickworth Manor.
Max Chase. Star Fighters series.
Lauren Child. The Ruby Redfort series.
Justin D’Ath. Extreme Adventures series.
Franklin W Dixon. The Hardy Boys series.
Joshua Doder. The Grk series.
Siobhan Dowd. The London Eye Mystery.
Christopher Edge. The Black Crow Conspiracy; Twelve
Minutes to Midnight.
Bear Grylls. Mission Survival series.
Anthony Horowitz. The Diamond Brothers series.
Emma Kennedy. Wilma Tenderfoot series.
Josh Lacey. The Sultan’s Tigers.
Helen Moss. Adventure Island series.
Shoo Rayner. Axel Storm books.
Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre. Oliver and the
Seawigs; Cakes in Space.
Stewart Ross. Pirates, Plants and Plunder.
Ali Sparkes. The SWITCH series.
Trenton Lee Stewart. The Mysterious Benedict Society
series.
Zed Storm. Will Solvit series.
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Junior Classics
Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Joan Aiken. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
Lewis Carroll. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery. The Little Prince.
Penelope Farmer. Charlotte Sometimes.
Frances Hodgson Burnett. A Little Princess; The Secret
Garden.
Ted Hughes. The Iron Man.
Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book.
L. M. Montgomery. Anne of Green Gables.
Edith Nesbit. The Railway Children.
Mary Norton. The Borrowers.
Robert C. O’Brien. Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
Philippa Pearce. Tom’s Midnight Garden.
Dodie Smith. One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
Johanna Spyri. Heidi.
P. L. Travers. Mary Poppins.
E. B. White. Charlotte’s Web.
School
Enid Blyton. Malory Towers series; The Naughtiest
Girl series.
Humphrey Carpenter. Mr Majeika.
Anne Fine. The Angel of Nitshill Road.
Jack Gantos. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key.
Kevin Henkes. The Year of Billy Miller.
Chris Riddell. Ottoline Goes to School.
Louis Sachar. There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom;
Wayside School series.
Francesca Simon. Moody Margaret’s School; Horrid
Henry and the Demon Dinner Lady.
Comedy
Simon Mayle. Shouty Kid series.
Anthony McGowan. The Bare Bum Gang series.
Jonathan Meres. World of Norm series.
Jo Nesbo. Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder series.
Stephan Pastis. Timmy Failure.
James Patterson. I Funny series.
Lincoln Peirce. Big Nate series.
Liz Pichon. Tom Gates series.
David Roberts. Dirty Bertie series.
Jim Smith. Barry Loser series.
Andy Stanton. Mr Gum series.
Jeremy Strong. The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog
series.
David Walliams. The Boy in the Dress; Billionaire Boy.
Tom Watson. Stick Dog series.
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Useful Websites
BookTrust Bookfinder
http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books/bookfinder/
Who Nexthttp://www.whonextguide.com/access/
dulwichcollegesingapore
Love Reading
http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/
World Book Day Bookfinder
http://www.worldbookday.com/ideas/parents/
Book Boxhttp://www.bookbox.com/
Loyal Books
http://www.loyalbooks.com/genre/Children
Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/texts
NLB E-Books
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/browse.aspx
Open Library
https://openlibrary.org/
Oxford Owl
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-
owl/find-a-book/library-page
Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/
Category:Children%27s_Bookshelf
Story Nory
http://www.storynory.com/
Tumblebook Libraryhttp://www.tumblebooklibrary.com/
username: DulwichSingapore
password: books
Stories from the Web
http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org/
Book Adventure
http://www.bookadventure.com/
Books For Keeps
http://booksforkeeps.co.uk/
The Guardian Children’s Books
http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site
Carnegie Greenaway Children’s Book Awards
http://carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/
Summer Reading Challenge
http://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/
Reading Zone
http://readingzone.com/
DCSG Library Pinterest Board
https://www.pinterest.com/DCSGLibrary/
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TES Top 100 Primary Fiction
TES and the National Association for the Teaching
of English ran a survey to find teachers’ top 100
fiction books all children should read beforeleaving primary school. Copies are available in the
DCSG libraries.
Here are the results.
1. Roald Dahl. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
2. Michelle Magorian. Goodnight Mister Tom.
3. Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland.
4. Roald Dahl. Matilda.
5. Julia Donaldson. The Gruffalo.
6. C S Lewis. The Chronicles of Narnia.
7. Eric Carle. The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
8. Michael Rosen. We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.
9. Shirley Hughes. Dogger. 10. Maurice Sendak. Where the Wild Things Are.
11. Clive King. Stig of the Dump.
12. Anna Sewell. Black Beauty.
13. Ted Hughes. The Iron Man.
14. Jeff Brown. Flat Stanley.
15. A A Milne. Winnie the Pooh.
16. Allan and Janet Ahlberg. Funnybones.
17. Martin Waddell and Patrick Benson. Owl Babies.
18. J R R Tolkien. The Hobbit.
19. Dr Seuss. Green Eggs and Ham.
20. Michael Morpurgo. War Horse.
21. The Brothers Grimm. Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
22. Judith Kerr. The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
23. Jill Murphy. Peace at Last.
24. Eoin Colfer. Artemis Fowl series.
25. Lynley Dodd. Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’sDairy.
26. David Mckee. Not Now Bernard.
27. Jeff Kinney. Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
28. Roald Dahl. The Twits.
29. Anne Holm. I am David.
30. Alfred Noyes. The Highwayman.
31. Michael Bond. The Paddington series.
32. Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch. Amazing
Grace.
33. Roald Dahl. Esio Trot.
34. E Nesbit. Five Children and It.
35. Phillip Pullman. Clockwork.
36. Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden.
37. Enid Blyton. The Magic Far Away Tree.
38. Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury. Farmer
Duck.
39. Arthur Ransome. Swallows and Amazons.
40. Ian Serraillier. The Silver Sword.
41. Jill Murphy. The Worst Witch series.
42. Shirley Hughes. The Alfie and Annie Rose
series.
43. Leon Garfield. Shakespeare Stories.
44. Eva Ibbotson. Journey to the River Sea.
45. Inga Moore. Six Dinner Sid.
46. Michael Rosen. Sad Book.
47. Mary Norton. The Borrowers.
48. Ruth Brown. A Dark, Dark Tale.
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49. Allan Ahlberg. The Jolly Postman.
50. Rick Riordan. Percy Jackson and the Lightning
Thief.
51. Neil Gaiman. Coraline.
52. Anthony Browne. Zoo.
53. R L Stevenson. Treasure Island.
54. Anthony Browne. Voices in the Park.
55. Charles Perrault (illust. Roberto Innocent).
Cinderella.
56. Malorie Blackman. Pig Heart Boy.
57. E Nesbit. The Railway Children.
58. Malorie Blackman. Cloud Busting.
59. R L Stevenson. Kidnapped.
60. Dick King-Smith. The Sheep Pig.
61. Alexis Deacon. Beegu.
62. Kenneth Graham. The Wind in the Willows.
63. Christopher Paolini. Eragon.
64. Roger Hargreaves. The Mr Men and Little Miss
series.
65. Michael Morpurgo. Gentle Giant.
66. Rudyard Kipling. Just So Stories.
67. Margery Williams. The Velveteen Rabbit.
68. Carlo Collodi (illust. Roberto Innocenti). Pinocchio.
69. Rosemary Sutcliff. Eagle of the Ninth.
70. David Orme and Wendy Body. Theseus and the
Minotaur.
71. Richmal Crompton. The Just William series.
72. Jill Murphy. On the Way Home.
73. Helen Cooper. Pumpkin Soup.
74. Berlie Doherty. Street Child.
75. Oscar Wilde. The Happy Prince and Other
Stories.
76. Quentin Blake. Angelo.
77. Drew Draywalt and Oliver Jeffers. The Day the
Crayons Quit. 78. Raymond Briggs. The Snowman.
79. Anthony Browne. My Mum.
80. Antoine de Saint-Exupery. The Little Prince.
81. Anthony Browne. The Tunnel.
82. Benjamin Zephaniah. Face.
83. Gene Kemp. The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler.
84. Shel Silverstein. The Giving Tree.
85. D Cronin & Betsy Lewin. Click Clack Moo: cows
that type.
86. Norton Juster. The Phantom Tollbooth.
87. Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
88. Lauren Child. I Will Not Ever Never Eat aTomato.
89. Derek Landy. The Skulduggery Pleasant series.
90. Enid Blyton. The Early Years at Malory Towers.
91. Michelle Paver. Wolf Brother.
92. Gerald Durrell. Birds Beasts and Relatives.
93. Alan Garner.
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. 94. Alf Proysen. The Mrs Pepperpot series.
95. Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. The Asterix
series.
96. George Layton. The Fib and Other Stories.
97. Michael Morpurgo. The Giant’s Necklace.
98. Mick Inkpen. The Kipper series.
99. Joyce Lankester Brisley. The Milly-Molly-Mandy
series.
100. Jacqueline Wilson. The Suitcase Kid.
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8/16/2019 Junior School Reading Lists
16/16
Compiled by Dulwich College (Singapore) Junior Library.