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Kingsbury Green Primary School Recommended Reading Books | Year 2

Updated August 2020

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Fiction: Picture Books

‘This Is Not My Hat’ – Jon Klasson 1.6

Julia Donaldson 2.2-4.0

‘Again!’ – Emily Gravett 2.6

Gorilla’ – Anthony Browne 2.6

‘Frog’ series– Max Velthuijs 2.6-3.0

‘Lost and Found’ – Oliver Jeffers 2.9

‘Where the Wild Things Are’ – Maurice Sendak 3.4

‘Meercat Mail’ – Emily Gravett (no level)

‘Stanley’s Stick’ – John Hegley (no level)

First Fiction

Ladybird ‘Read-it-yourself series:

Levels 3 and 4’ (no level)

‘Monster Eyeballs’

- Jacqueline Wilson 2.3

‘Happy Families’ series

– Allan Ahlberg 2.5-3.0

‘The Wrong Kind of Bark’ -

Julia Donaldson 2.7

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Fiction: Chapter Books

‘Horrid Henry’ series – Francesca Simon 2.9-3.8

‘Stink’ series – Megan McDonald 3.0-3.7

‘Puppy Tales’ series – Jenny Dale (no level)

‘The Starburster’ – Berlie Doherty (no level)

‘Secret Agent Mummy’ – Steve Cole (no level)

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Kingsbury Green Primary School Recommended Reading Books | Year 2

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Fiction: Picture Books

‘Willy’s Pictures’ – Anthony Browne 3.0

‘The Dark’ – Lemony Snicket 3.1

‘Traction Man’ series – Mini Grey 3.2-3.8

‘Captain Flinn’ series – Giles Andreae 3.3-3.6

‘Jim and the Beanstalk’ – Raymond Briggs 3.5

‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ – Giles Andreae 3.8

First Fiction

‘My Brother Bernadette’

– Jacqueline Wilson 3.5

‘Katie Morag’ series

– Mairi Hedderwick 3.6-4.5

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FICTION: CHAPTER BOOKS

‘Dirty Bertie’ series – Alan MacDonald 3.1-3.4

‘Winnie the Witch’ series – Laura Owen 3.1-4.1

‘The Diary of a Killer cat’ – Anne Fine 3.3

‘Pirate School’ series - Jeremy Strong 3.3-3.5

‘Betsey Biggalow and Girl Wonder’ series – Malorie

Blackman 3.3-3.6

‘The Woman Who Won Things’ – Allan Ahlberg 3.4

‘The Giggler Treatment’ - Roddy Doyle 3.7

‘Cool as a Cucumber’ – Michael Morpurgo 3.8

‘My Funny Family’ series – Chris Higgins 4.1-4.3

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Kingsbury Green Primary School Recommended Reading Books | Year 2

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Fiction: Picture Books

‘The Wolf’s Story’ – Toby Forward 2.7

‘Emily Brown’ series – Cressida Cowell 3.2-4.1

‘Beware of the Storybook Wolves’ – Lauren Child 4.5

‘Paddington’ series – Michael Bond (no level)

‘Mr Wolf’s Pancakes’ – Jan Fearnley (no level)

First Fiction

‘The Guard Dog’

– Dick King-Smith 4.8

‘The Finger-Eater’

– Dick King-Smith 4.9

‘The Lighthouse Keeper’ series

- Ronda and David Armitage (no level)

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Kingsbury Green Primary School Recommended Reading Books | Year 2

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FICTION: CHAPTER BOOKS

‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ - Roald Dahl 4.1

‘Flat Stanley’ – Jeff Brown 4.2

‘Bill’s New Frock’ – Anne Fine 4.3

‘Claude’ series – Alex T. Smith 4.3-4.5

‘Foxy Tales: The Cunning Plan’ – Caryl Hart 4.5

‘The Legend of the Worst Boy in the World’ – Eoin Colfer 4.5

‘Winnie the Pooh’ – A. A. Milne 4.6

‘The Trouble with Daisy’ series – Kes Gray 5.0-5.4

‘The Magic Finger’ - Roald Dahl 5.1

‘Off By Heart’ – Poems by Roger Stevens (no level)