KingsLangleyPrimary School Headteacher: Paula Harris

2006

Common Lane Kings Langley Hertfordshire WD4 8DQ

2006

Telephone: 01923 263321 Fax: 01923 270809 e-mail: [email protected] web site: www.kingslangley-pri.herts.sch.uk

May 2007

Kings Langley Primary School Recommended Reading List

Years Nursery – 6 1

Foundation Stage (Nursery, Reception) Author

Title Thomas the Tank Engine The Mousehole Cat Clown

Awdry, Rev. W. Barber, Antonia Blake, Quentin

Zagazoo Blake, Quentin

Mister Magnolia

Branford, Henrietta

Little Pig Figwort

Briggs, Raymond

The Snowman

Brown, Anthony Brunhoff, Jean de Butterworth, Nick Cannon, Janell Carle, Eric Cave, Kathryn Cole, Babette Cole, Babette

Gorilla The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant Q Pootle 5 Stellaluna The Very Hungry Caterpillar Something Else Bad Habits Dr Dog

Dahl, Roald

The Enormous Crocodile

Daly, Niki Dewan, Ted Dodd, Lynley Donaldson, Julia

Jamela’s Dress Crispin: The Pig Who Had it All Slinky Malinki The Gruffalo

Handford, Martin

Where’s Wally?

Heap, Sue Hedderwick, Mairi

Cowboy Baby Katie Morag Delivers the Mail

Hoffman, Mary Hughes, Shirley Jansson, Tove

Amazing Grace Dogger The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My 2

Johnson, Crockett Kerr, Judith MacDonald, Amy McKee, David McNaughton, Colin

Harold and The Purple Crayon The Tiger Who Came to Tea Little Beaver and the Echo Not Now Bernard Don’t Step on The Crack!

Morpurgo, Michael

Wombat Goes Walkabout

Patten, Brian

Little Hotchpotch

Potter, Beatrix

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Robertson, M.P.

The Sandcastle

Rosen, Michael

Rover

Tomlinson, Jill

The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark

Velthujis, Max

Frog And The Stranger

Waddell, Martin Willis, Jeanne

Can’t You Sleep Little Bear? The Rascally Cake

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Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) Author

Title Ms Cliff the Climber Heard it in the Playground Funnybones Where’s My Teddy Rumble In The Jungle Ms Wiz - Millionaire A Bear Called Paddington The Adventures of Milly-MollyMandy Flat Stanley A Dark, Dark Tale The Shopping Basket The Ugly Duckling: From the Story by Hans Christian Anderson The Magic Finger Grandad Pot My Naught Little Sister Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats Owl in the House Cats Sleep Anywhere Beware the Killer Coat Chalk and Cheese Slobcat Mr Bear Babysits Grimms’ Fairy Tales Aesop’s Fables: The Hare and the Tortoise and Other Animal Stories Beaver Towers Chips and Jessie Don’t Forget the Bacon

Ahlberg, Allan Ahlberg, Allan & J Alborough, Jez Andrac, Giles &Wojtowycz,D Blacker, Terence Bond, Michael Brisley, Joyce Lankester Brown, Jeff Brown, Ruth Burningham, John Crossley-Holland, Kevin Dahl, Roald Dobson, Siobhan Edwards, Dorothy Eliot, T.S. Evans, Gregory Farjeon, Eleanor & Mortimer Gates, Susan Geras, Adele Geraghty, Paul Gilori, Debi Grimm, Brothers Grindley, Sally Hinton, Nigel Hughes, Shirley Hutchins, Pat 4

Titch Too Many Babies Kipper’s Birthday Nothing The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear The Snow Day Happy Mouseday Sophie’s Lucky James and the Rain The Story of Doctor Dolittle Elmer Suddenly! Jolly Roger and the Pirates of Abdul the Skinhead Missing Bear A Worm’s Eye View The Honey Hunters Silly Verse for Kids The World of Pooh Ben’s Bean It’s Not My Fault! The Worst Witch Giraffes Can’t Dance The Snow Whale Jungle Shorts The Ginger Ninja Down at Dinosaur Fair Ruby the Red Fairy – Rainbow Magic Book 1 The Witch’s Dog We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Lazy Jack Can You Spot the Spotty Dag? The Littlest Dragon The Stinky Cheeseman and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

Impey, Rose Inkpen, Mick Jackson, Holbrook Keats, Ezra Jack King-Smith, Dick Kushkin, Karla Lofting, Hugh McKee, David McNaughton, Colin

Magee, Wes Mark, Jan Martin, Francesca Milligan, Spike Milne, A.A. Moon, Pat Mooney, Bel Murphy, Jill Parker-Rees, Guy Pitcher, Caroline Rawnsley, Irene Rayner, Shoo Rice, John Ripper, Georgie Rodgers, Frank Rosen, Michael Ross, Tony Rowe, John Ryan, Margaret Scieszka, Jon 5

Seuss, Dr Simon, Francesca Smee, Nichola Smith, Brenda Smith, Brian Snell, Gordon Sutton, Eve Thompson, Colin Velthuijs, Max Vipont, Elfrida Waddell, Martin

Green Eggs & Ham What’s That Noise? Charlie’s Choice Wake Up Charlie Dragon! Do You Know What Grandad Did? Lottie’s Letter My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes How to Live Forever Frog and the Stranger The Elephant & the Bad Baby Owl Babies The Pig in the Pond Stuart Little Hector the Rat Gobbolino the Witch’s Cat

White, E.B.

Wilkinson, Tony Williams, Ursula Moray

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Lower Key Stage 2 (Years 3 and 4) Author Ahlberg, Allan Aiken, Joan Adams, Georgie Anderson, Hans Christian Aston, Charles Banks, Lynne Reid Barrie, J.M. Binch, Caroline Bloom, Valerie Blyton, Enid Branford, Henrietta Cameron, Ann Carpenter, Humphrey Carroll, Lewis Cresswell, Helen Crompton, Richmal Cross, Gillian Crossley-Holland, Kevin Dahl, Roald

DiTerlizzi, Tony Doherty, Berlie Fine, Anne Foreman, Michael

Title Woof! Fox Hounds Wind Cat Sea Mice The Cuckoo Tree The Amazing Bible Storybook Steadfast Tin Soldier The Boy Who Was a Bear The Indian in the Cupboard Peter Pan and Wendy Hue Boy Gregory Cool Let Me Touch the Sky Five on a Treasure Island Spacebaby The Julian Stories Mr Majeika Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland A Gift From Winklesea The Sea Piper The William Stories The Crazy Show Shuffle Storm The BFG Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Matilda The Field Guide: The Spiderwick Chronicles Willa and Old Miss Annie Diary of a Killer Cat The Angel of Nitshill Road War Boy 7

French, Fiona French, Vivian & Paul, K Gavin, Jamila Geras, Adele Goodhart, Pipa Goscinny, René Grahame, Kenneth Heide, Florence Parry Hergé Holm, Anne Hughes, Ted Jacobs, Joseph Jaffrey, Madhur James, Simon Jansson, Tove Jeffers, Susan Jennings, Paul Jones, Terry Jungman, Ann Kerr, Judith King, Clive King-Smith, Dick Kinney, Jeff Leeson, Robert Lindgren, Astrid Loser, Barry McCaughrean, Geraldine McNaughton, Colin MacLauchlan, Patricia Masters, Anthony Medicott, Mary

Little Inchkin Aesop’s Funky Fables Our Favourite Stories The Six Swan Brothers Flow Asterix The Reluctant Dragon The Wind in the Willows The Shrinking of Treehorn Tintin I Am David The Iron Man English Fairy Tales Seasons of Splendour: Tales, Myths and Legends of India Dear Greenpeace Finn Family Moomintroll Brother Eagle, Sister Sky Unbelievable! The Gizmo Fairy Tales and Fantastic Stories Vlad the Drac When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Stig of the Dump George Speaks The Sheep-Pig Diary of a Wimpy Kid Smart Girls Pippi Longstocking I am Not a Loser The Orchard Book of Greek Myths There’s an Awful Lot of Weirdos in our Neighbourhood Sarah, Plain & Tall Ghost Blades The King With Dirty Feet & Other Stories 8

Morpurgo, Michael Nichols, Grace Nimmo, Jenny Norton, Mary Onyefulu, Obi Padt, Meertje & Freeman Pearce, Phillippa Pratchett, Terry Rosen, Michael Rushdie, Salman Rosselson, Leon Scieszka, Jon Simon, Francesca Singh, Rina Smith, Dodie Souhami, Jessica Steptoe, John Strong, Jeremy Thomas, Frances Toksvig, Sandi Tolkien, J.R.R. Tomlinson, Jill Travers, P.L. Trivizas, Eugene Walliams, David Waters, Fiona Whelan, Dennis Whybrow, Ian Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilson, Jacqueline

The Butterfly Lion Robin of Sherwood The Poet Cat The Owl Tree The Worst Witch The Borrowers Aloft Chinye Shanti the Zebra Mrs Cockle’s Cat Only You Can Save Mankind Moving Mind Your Own Business Haroun and the Sea of Stories Rosa’s Singing Grandfather The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Horrid Henry Moon Tales The Hundred and One Dalmatians Rama & the Demon King Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog Mr Bear & the Bear Unusual Day The Hobbit The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark Mary Poppins The Three Little Wolves & the Big Bad Pig Mr Stink Ratburger The Selfish Giant: from the Story by Oscar Wilde The Dad Library Little Wolf’s Book of Badness Little House in the Big Woods Cliffhanger The Suitcase Kid 9

Upper Key Stage 2 (Years 5 and 6) Author Adams, Richard Ahlberg, Allan Aiken, Joan Alcott, Louisa M. Ashley, Bernard Bagnold, Enid Bawden, Nina Berry, James Blackman, Malorie Blume, Judy Burnett, Frances Hodgson Byars, Betsy Colfer, Eoin Collington, Peter Cooper, Susan Cormier, Robert Cresswell, Helen Cross, Gillian Crossley-Holland, Kevin d’Lacey, Chris Desai, Anita Doherty, Berlie Feeney, Josephine Fine, Anne

Title Watership Down The Giant Baby The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Little Women Johnnie’s Blitz The Trouble with Donovan Croft National Velvet Carrie’s War The Peppermint Pig The Thief in the Village & Other Stories Pig-Heart Boy Blubber The Secret Garden The Eighteenth Emergency The Midnight Fox Artemis Fowl The Coming of the Surfman The Dark is Rising The Chocolate Wars Moondial The Demon Headmaster The Great Elephant Chase The Green Children Fly, Cherokee, Fly The Village by the Sea Children of Winter The Snake-Stone Truth, Lies & Homework Madame Doubtfire 10

Fisher, Catherine Frank, Anne Garfield, Leon Garner, Alan Gibbons, Alan Gleitzman, Morris Godden, Rumer Hill, David Hoban, Russell Horowitz, Anthony Howarth, Lesley Hughes, Ted Ibbotson, Eva Innocenti, Roberto Jacques, Brian Jones, Diana Wynne Kemp, Gene Kipling, Rudyard Leeson, Robert Lewis, C S McCaughrean, Geraldine McEwan, Ian McKay, Hilary Magorian, Michelle Mahy, Margaret Mark, Jan Mayne, William Montgomery, L.M. Moon, Pat

The Book of the Crow The Diary of a Young Girl Smith Elidor The Owl Service Shadow of the Minotaur Toad Rage The Diddakoi See Ya, Simon The Mouse and his Child Granny Stormbreaker Maphead Paulina The Iron Woman What is the Truth? Journey to the River Sea The Secret of Platform 13 Rose Blanch Redwall Witch Week The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler Just So Stories The Jungle Book The Third-Class Genie The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe Forever X Gold Dust Daydreamer The Exiles Goodnight Mister Tom The Other Side of Silence Handles Thunder & Lightnings Earthfasts Anne of Green Gables Double Image 11

Moore, Christopher Morpurgo, Michael Naidoo, Beverley Nesbit, E. Norriss, Andrew O’Brien, Robert C Pearce, Philippa Pratchett, Terry Price, Susan Pullman, Phillip Ransome, Arthur Rees, Celia Ridley, Phillip Rowling, J. K. Sachar, Louis Sewell, Anna Shipton, Paul Spyri, Johanna Stevenson, Robert Louis Streatfield, Noel Tolkien, J.R.R. Townsend, Sue Turnbull, Ann Walsh, Jill Paton Westall, Robert White, E. B. White, T.H. Williamson, Henry Wilson, Jacqueline Wolff, Virginia Euwer Ure, Jean Uttley,Alison Voigt, Cynthia

Istar & Tammuz The Ghost of Grania O’Malley The War of Jenkins’ Ear The Other Side of Truth The Railway Children Matt’s Million Mrs Frisby & the Rats of Nimh Tom’s Midnight Garden Johnny and the Dead The Sterkarm Handshake His Dark Materials The Firework Maker’s Daughter Swallows and Amazons Witch Child Krindlekrax Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Holes Black Beauty Bug Muldoon & the Garden of Fear Heidi Treasure Island Ballet Shoes The Lord of the Rings The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ Pigeon Summer A Parcel of Patterns The Machine Gunners Charlotte’s Web The Sword in the Stone Tarka the Otter The Illustrated Mum The Lottie Project Make Lemonade Becky Bananas This is Your Life A Traveller in Time Homecoming 12