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100 books children should read before leaving primary school
The National Association for the teaching of English worked alongside a panel of teachers to find their top 100 fiction books they feel all children should read before they leave primary school.
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Some of these are woven into our English curriculum here at Grange, but we wonder how many of these children will have read before the leave Grange to go on to their secondary schools? All of these books can be found in our beautiful school library!
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EYFS and KS1
The Gruffalo
The very hungry caterpillar
We're going on a bear hunt
Dogger
Where the wild things are
Funnybones
Owl babies
Green eggs and ham
The tiger who came to tea
Peace at last
Hairy Maclary
Not now, Bernard
Paddington
Amazing Grace
Farmer duck
Alfie and Annie Rose
Six-Dinner Sid
Michael Rosen's sad book
The jolly postman
Zoo
Voices in the park
Beegu
Little Miss and Mr Men
Gentle giant
The velveteen rabbit
On the way home
Pumpkin soup
Angelo
The day the crayons quit
The snowman
My mum
The tunnel
The giving tree
Click, clack, moo
Peter rabbit
I will not never ever eat a tomato
The Kipper series
Lower KS2 (Years 3 and 4)
Charlie and the chocolate factory
Black Beauty
Diary of a wimpy kid
The magic faraway tree
The sheep pig
The happy prince and other tales
Alice in Wonderland
The iron man
The Twits
The worst witch
The wind in the willows
The little prince
Matilda
Flat Stanley
Esio Trot
Journey to the river sea
The just so stories
Mrs Pepperpot
The Chronicles of Narnia
Winnie-The-Pooh
Five children and It
The borrowers
Pinocchio
The adventures of Milly-Molly-Mandy
Stig of the dump
Grimms' fairy tales
The secret garden
A dark, dark tale
Theseus and the Minotaur
The suitcase kid
Upper KS2 (Years 5 and 6)
Goodnight Mr Tom
The highwayman
Percy Jackson and the lightning thief
The railway children
The just William series
The Skulduggery Pleasant series
The Hobbit
Clockwork
Coraline
Cloud busting
Street child
The early years at Malory Towers
Asterix series
War horse
Swallows and Amazons
Treasure Island
Kidnapped
Face
Wolf brother
The fib
Artemis Fowl series
The silver sword
Cinderella
Eragon
The turbulent term of Tyke Tiler
Birds, beasts and relatives
I am David
Shakespeare stories
Pig-heart boy
The eagle of the ninth
The phantom tollbooth
The weirdstone of Brisingamen
The giant's necklace