St Patrick s Recommended Reading list

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1 St Patrick s Recommended Reading list At St Patrick s we want your children to be confident readers and more importantly enjoy reading! We have put together a list of books that we feel your child will enjoy and suitable for their reading level! Red, Yellow, Blue, Green and Orange bands (Working within Foundation stage or stage 1) Title Each Peach Pear Plum Mr Gumpy s Outing Rosie s Walk The Very Hungry Caterpillar Mister Magnolia Owl Babies Alfie Gets in First Elmer Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see? We re going on a bear hunt My cat likes to hide in boxes Peepo Meg and Mog Dear Zoo Kipper The Pig in the Pond Oh Dear! Where s Spot This is the Bear and This is the Bear and the Picnic Lunch Not Now Bernard Where the Wild Things Are Gorilla A Dark, Dark Tale Author John Burningham Pat Hutchins Eric Carle Quentin Blake Martin Waddel Shirley Hughes David McKee Bill Martin and Eric Carle Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury Lynley Dodd Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski Rod Campbell Mick Inkpen Martin Waddell and Jill Barton Rod Campbell Eric Hill Sarah Hayes and Helen Craig David McKee Maurice Sendak Anthony Browne Ruth Brown 1

2 Turquoise, Purple, Gold and silver bands (Working within stages 2 or 3) Frog and Toad are Friends and other Frog and Toad stories Mrs Plug the Plumber and other stories in this series Solomon s Secret Peace at last The Tiger who came to tea Hairy Maclary from Donoldson s Dairy The Elephant and the Bad Baby Handa s Surprise Can t you sleep Little Bear? Titch The Gruffalo The Tunnel The Jolly Postman Amazing Grace Dogger The Mousehole Cat The Cat in the Hat, Fox in Socks and The Lorax Arnold Lobel Allan Ahlberg Saviour Pirotta Jill Murphy Judith Kerr Lynley Dodd Elfrida Vipont and Raymond Briggs Eileen Brown Martin Waddell and Barbara Firth Pat Hutchins Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler Anthony Brown Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch Shirley Hughes Antonia Barber and Nicola Bayley Dr Seuss Funnybones, Burglar Bill and Cops and Robbers The Whale s Song Prince Cinders Tales from Beatrix Potter Dyan Sheldon and Gary Blythe Babette Cole Beatrix Potter The Trouble with Mum Anancy and Mr Dry Bone Babette Cole Fiona French 2

3 Lime bands, Topaz, Ruby and Emerald (Working within stages 3 or 4) Fair s Fair The Kingdom Under the Sea and A Necklace of Raindrops The Twits The Stone Book The Cat Mummy Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf The Iron Man Vlad the Drac The Julian Stories It was a dark and stormy night and The Vanishment of Thomas Tull Dilly the Dinosaur The Bears on Hemlock Mountain Leon Garfield Joan Aiken Alan Garner Jacqueline Wilson Catherine Storr Ted Hughes Ann Jungman Ann Cameron Tony Bradman Alice Dalgliesh The Village Dinosaur What s the Matter, Royston Knapper? It s too frightening for me Flat Stanley The Secret Seven Haffertee Hamster Kung Fu Pigs: Hostages of the Jade Wolf Katie Morag delivers the Mail The True Story of the Three Little Pigs The Owl who was afraid of the Dark Horrid Henry The Shrinking of Treehorn The Magic Finger Fantastic Mr Fox The Little Prince The Stinky Cheeseman and Other Fairly Stupid Tales The Highwayman Spacebaby Phyllis Arkle Gervase Phinn Shirley Hughes Jeff Brown Enid Blyton John and Janet Perkins Keith Brumpton Mairi Hedderwick Jon Scieszka Jill Tomlinson Francesca Simon Florence Parry Heide Antoine de Saint-Exupery Jon Scieszka Alfred Noyes and Charles Keeping Henriette Branford 3

4 Sapphire and Diamond (Working within stages 5 or 6) The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Alice s Adventures in Wonderland The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Stig of the Dump Charlotte s Web The BFG and Matilda Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and Superfudge Tuck Everlasting Thunder and Lightnings The Ghost of Thomas Kempe The Eighteenth Emergency The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler The Battle of Bubble and Squeak The Dream Time Odysseus, the greatest hero of them all Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner The Worst Witch The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm The Hundred and One Dalmatians Quirky Tales War Horse and Private Peaceful The Demon Headmaster Kensuke s Kingdom The Silver Sword Joan Aiken Lewis Carroll C.S. Lewis Clive King E.B. White Robert C. O Brien Judy Blume Natalie Babbitt Jan Mark Penelope Lively Betsy Byers Gene Kempe Philippa Pearce Henry Treece Tony Robinson and Richard Curtis A.A.Mile Jill Murphy Norman Hunter Dodie Smith Paul Jennings Michael Morpurgo Gillian Cross Michael Morpurgo Ian Serrailier 4

5 Pearl Band (Working within stage 6+) The Hobbit The Secret Garden The Phantom Tollbooth Carrie s War The Weirdstone of Brisingaman, Elidor and The Owl Service Dragon-Slayer The Wizard of Earthsea The Sword in the Stone and The Once and Future King Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askhaban and others The His Dark Materials trilogy Northern Lights The Eagle of the Ninth Swallows and Amazons The Tripods Watership Down The Wind in the Willows The Railway Children Holes Mortal Engines Stormbreaker and the other Alex Rider books Goggle Eyes Pig-Heart Boy Goodnight Mr Tom The Dark is Rising The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents The Wizard of Oz J.R.R. Tolkien Frances Hodgson Burnett Norton Juster Nina Bawden Alan Garner Rosemary Sutcliff Ursula Le Guin T.H. White J.K. Rowling Philip Pullman Rosemary Sutcliff Arthur Ransome John Christopher Richard Adams Kenneth Grahame E Nesbit Louis Sachar Philip Reeve Anthony Horrowitz Anne Fine Malorie Blackman Michelle Magorian Susan Cooper Terry Pratchett Frank L Baum 5

6 Above stage 6 + (Very challenging reads) Treasure Island Jane Eyre A Christmas Carol The Red Pony, The Pearl and Of Mice and Men Animal Farm and 1984 Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Rings Silas Marner Wuthering Heights To Kill a Mockingbird The Day of the Triffids and The Chrysalids Twelfth Night, MacBeth, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night s Dream Robert Louis Stevenson Charlotte Bronte Charles Dickens John Steinbeck George Orwell William Golding J.R.R. Tolkien George Elliot Emily Bronte Harper Lee John Wyndham William Shakespeare 6