Years 1 and 2
- Maurice Sendak "Where the Wild Things Are"
- The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
- We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
- Percy the Park Keeper Series by Nick Butterworth
- The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch by Ronda & David Armitage
- The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson
- Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
- Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
- Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper
- Each peach Pear Plum by Ahlberg
- Funnybones by Ahlberg
- Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Let’s Get a Pup by Bob Graham
- Dogger by Shirley Hughes
- Elmer by David McKee
- The Enormous Crocodile Roald Dahl
- Silly Billy by Anthony Browne
- The Cow that Laid an Egg by Andy Cutbill
- Wendel’s Workshop by Chris Riddell
- Robot Dog by Mark Oliver
- The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis
- The Pencil by Alan Ahlberg
- Beware the Frog by William Bee
- But Martin! by June Counsel
- The Way Back Home by Martin Jeffers
- We’re Off to Look for Aliens by Colin McNaughton
- Dinosaurs Love Underpants by Claire Freedman
- Colin and the Wrong Shadow by Leigh Hodgkinson
- Fleabag by Helen Stephens
- Beast Quest Series by Adam Blade
- Oh the Places You’ll Go by Dr Seuss
- More about Paddington by Michael Bond
- Dinosaur Cove Series by Rex Stone
- Winnie’s Big Catch by Laura Owen
More confident readers
- The Kiss that Missed by David Melling
- The Sheep-pig by Dick King Smith
- The Hodgeheg by Dick King Smith
- Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp by Philip Pullman
- Hundred Mile an hour Dog by Jeremy Strong
- Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell
- Max by Bob Graham
- The Cat that Got Carried Away by Ahlberg
- Minpins by Roald Dahl
- Dear Greenpeace by Simon James
- The Tunnel by Anthony Brown
- Emperor Of Absurdia by Chris Riddell
- Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
Non-Fiction
- DK First Reference series of seven books
- Usborne See Inside series
- A Life Like Mine and Children Just Like Me,published by Dorling Kindersley in association with UNICEF
- I Wonder Why series published by Kingfisher
- Horrible Histories by Terry Deary
- Horrible Geography by Anita Ganeri
- Horrible Science by Nick Arnold