RECOMMENDED READING LIST:
Read one, read them all - it all adds up! Some of these books could be very challenging for children so we recommend picking up abridged versions where you can.
Aesop - Aesop’s Fables
Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers
Anne Holm - I Am David
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince
Apollonius of Rhodes – Jason and The Argonauts
C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia series
Carol Collodi - Pinocchio
Charles and Mary Lamb - Tales from Shakespeare (Retold)
Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities
Charlotte Bronte -Jane Eyre
Clive King - Stig of the Dump
Cornelia Funke -The Thief Lord, Inkheart Trilogy, Dragon Rider
Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
E Nesbit - The Railway Children, Five Children and IT, The Phoenix and the Carpet
E.B. White - Charlotte’s Web
Edgar Allan Poe – Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Enid Blyton - Just So Stories, The Faraway Tree series, Secret Seven series, Famous Five series, Mallory Towers series, Twins at Saint Clare’s series, The Wishing Chair series
Eva Ibbotson - Journey to the River Sea, The Star of Kazan, The Dragonfly Pool
Frances Hodgson -The Secret Garden, A Little Princess
Jamila Gavin - Grandpa Chatterji
J.K. Rowling - The Harry Potter series
J.M. Barrie - Peter Pan
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings series
Jack London – The Call of the Wild
Jeremy Strong – The HundredMileanHour Dog
Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
L.F. Baum - The Wizard of Oz
L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland
Louis Sachar - Holes
Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
Mary Norton - The Borrowers series
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
Michael Morpurgo - The Butterfly Lion, War Horse, Kensuke’s Kingdom, Adolphus Tips, Why the Whales Came, The Wreck of Zanzibar + other titles
Michelle Magorian - Goodnight Mister Tom
Nina Bawden - The Peppermint Pig, Carrie’s War
Noel Streatfield - Ballet Shoes, Theatre Shoes, Dancing Shoes
P.L. Travers- Mary Poppins
Philippa Pearce - Tom’s Midnight Garden
Phillip Pullman - Northern Lights, Clockwork
Roald Dahl – Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, George’s Marvellous Medicine, Danny the Champion of the World.
Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island, Kidnapped
Roger Lancelyn Green – King Arthur and His Knights of the round Tables
Rudyard Kipling – Just So Stories, The Jungle Book
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of The Baskervilles
Susan Coolidge, What Katy Did series
Ted Hughes - The Iron Man
William Golding – Lord of The Flies
Usborne Series & Usborne Classics Retold:
Illustrated Classics for Girls
Illustrated Classics for Boys
Illustrated Classics for Children
Illustrated Stories from Dickens
Illustrated Stories from Shakespeare