Core Books for Years 1 and 2
Learning To Read
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Funnybones. AHLBERG
One, Two, Flea! AHLBERG & McNAUGHTON
Duck in the Truck. ALBOROUGH
Watch Out, Big Bro’s Coming! ALBOROUGH
Where’s My Teddy? ALBOROUGH
Chicken Licken. A Wickedly Funny Flap Book. ALLEN
Rumble in the Jungle. ANDREAE & WOJTOWYCZ
Whatever. BEE
Tasty Poems. BENNETT (or other collections in this
Poetry Series)
Inside, Outside, Upside Down. BERENSTAIN
Bears in the Night. BERENSTAIN
Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree.
BERENSTAIN
Snip Snap! BERGMAN & MALAND
The Snowman. BRIGGS
A Dark Dark Tale. BROWN
Come Away from the Water, Shirley. BURNINGHAM
Oi! Get Off Our Train. BURNINGHAM
The Shopping Basket. BURNINGHAM
Would You Rather… BURNINGHAM
Mrs McTats and Her Houseful of Cats. CAPUCILLI &
RANKIN
Pumpkin Soup. COOPER
Ask Me. DAMM
Beegu. DEACON
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy (or other
Maclary adventures). DODD
The Gruffulo. DONALDSON & SCHEFFLER
The Bold Boy. DOYLE
Are You My Mother? EASTMAN
Once Upon a Time. FRENCH & PRATER
The Tiger and the Jackal. FRENCH & BARTLETT
Eat Your Peas. GRAY & SHARRATT
Biscuit Bear. GREY
This is the Bear. HAYES & CRAIG
Hush! A Thai Lullaby. HO & MEADE
The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew It Was None.
HOLZWARTH & ERLBRUCH
Don’t Forget the Bacon! HUTCHINS
Rosie’s Walk. HUTCHINS
What’s Inside? The Alphabet Book. KITAMURA
The Big Wide-Mouthed Frog. LARRANAGA
Halibut Jackson. LUCAS
Trust Me, Mum! McALLISTER & COLLINS
Not Now, Bernard. McKEE
Suddenly! McNAUGHTON
Boy. MAYHEW
Small. MESERVE
Lima’s Red Hot Chilli. MILLS & BRAZELL
Down by the Cool of the Pool. MITTON & PARKERREES
Peace at Last. MURPHY
The Hairy Toe. POSTGATE
“No!” Said Joe. PRATER
Little Rabbit Foo Foo. ROSEN & ROBINS
Night-night, Knight and other poems. ROSEN
I want my Potty (or other Little Princess stories).
ROSS
Where the Wild Things Are. SENDAK
The Foot Book. SEUSS
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Hop on Pop. SEUSS
Ketchup on Your Cornflakes. SHARRATT
In the Dark, Dark Wood. SOUHAMI
The Little, Little House. SOUHAMI
No Dinner! SOUHAMI
The House that Jack Built. STOW
My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes. SUTTON & DODD
Pass the Jam Jim. UMANSKY & CHAMBERLAIN
Nonsense Rhymes Collection. UMANSKY &
EDWARDS
The Pig in the Pond. WADDELL & BARTON
Wanted! Have you Seen This Alligator? WARING &
SWAIN
The Elf’s Hat. WENINGER & ROWE
Susan Laughs. WILLIS & ROSS
Tadpole’s Promise. WILLIS & ROSS
MONSTER Bed. WILLIS & VARLEY
Literature
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The Jolly Postman. AHLBERG
Burglar Bill. AHLBERG
The Man Who Wore All His Clothes. AHLBERG &
McEWEN
Kate, the Cat and the Moon. ALMOND & LAMBERT
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. ARMITAGE
Anna Hibiscus. ATINUKE
Don’t Hit Your Sister and Other Family Poems.
BARRS & ELLIS
I’ll Tell You a Story and Other Story Poems. BARRS &
ELLIS
Man on the Moon (a day in the life of Bob). BARTRAM
The Princess and the White Bear King. BATT &
CECCOLI
Fruits. BLOOM & AXTELL
Flat Stanley. BROWN
Gorilla. BROWNE
The Magic Bed. BURNINGHAM
The Whisperer. BUTTERWORTH
The Julian Stories. CAMERON
Something Else. CAVE & RIDDELL
I Want a Pet (and any other Charlie and Lola). CHILD
Lila and the Secret of Rain. CONWAY & DALY
The Crocodile is Coming! CREBBIN
The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems. CREBBIN
My Very Own Lighthouse. CUNHA
Jamela’s Dress. DALY
ONCE Upon a Time. DALY
Tilly Mint Tales. DOHERTY & ROSS
Burger Boy. DURANT & MATSUOKA
Little Red Riding Hood. EVETTS-SECKER & CECCOLI
Mr Wolf’s Pancakes. FEARNLEY
Care of Henry (Sprinters). FINE
The Jamie and Angus Stories. FINE
Grandma’s Saturday Soup. FRASER & BRAZELL
Little Inchkin. FRENCH
Dimity Dumpty. GRAHAM
Max. GRAHAM
Wolves. GRAVETT
The Dragon’s Tears. GREGORY & LE
The Pea and the Princess. GREY
Traction Man is Here! GREY
The Core Book List (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education)
Core Books for Years 1 and 2
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The Village of Round and Square Houses.
GRIFALCONI
Greedy Zebra. HADITHI & KENNAWAY
Katie Morag, Of Course! HEDDERWICK
The Little Boat. HENDERSON
Amazing Grace. HOFFMAN & BINCH
Grace and Family. HOFFMAN & BINCH
Starring Grace. HOFFMAN
The Colour of Home. HOFFMAN & LITTLEWOOD
A Twist in the Tail. HOFFMAN & OMEROD
The mermaid’s Purse. HUGHES
The Jessame Stories. JARMAN
The Incredible Book Eating Boy. JEFFERS
George Speaks. KING-SMITH
Jaha and Jamil Went Down the Hill. An Afican Mother
Goose. KROLL & ROUNDTREE
The Robot and the Bluebird. LUCAS
The Story Tree. LUPTON
Baba Yaga and the Stolen Baby. LURIE & SOUHAMI
The Dead Letter Box. MARK
The Fiery Phoenix and The Lemon Princess. MAYO
Winnie-the-Pooh. MILNE
Hue Boy. MITCHELL & BINCH
My Hat and All That. MITTON
Tom’s Sausage Lion. MORPURGO
The Witch’s Tears. NIMMO
Lion at School and Other Stories. PEARCE
A Spider Bought a Bicycle. ROSEN
The Ravenous Beast. SHARKEY
What Mona Wants Mona Gets. SHELDON
The Shrimp. SMITH
Sausages. SOUHAMI
What’s in the Pan, Man? STEWART & AYLIFFE
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The Emporor’s Egg. JENKINS & CHAPMAN
We All Went on Safari. A Counting Journey through
Tanzania. FREBS & CAIRNS
Little Genius: Brains. LENNARD
My Body Book. MANNING & GRANSTROM
Splish Splash Splosh. MANNING & GRANSTROM
What’s Under the Bed? MANNING & GRANSTROM
Yuck! MANNING & GRANSTROM
I Wonder Why Planes Have Wings and Other
Questions about Transport. MAYNARD
I Know Where My Food Goes (Sam’s Science).
MAYNARD & McEWEN
Dig Dig Digging. MAYO & AYLIFFE
Colours. A First Art Book. MICKLETHWAIT
This is the Tree. A Story of the Baobab. MOSS &
KENNAWAY
Snail (Stopwatch). OLESEN
A is for Africa. ONYEFULU. I is for India. DAS
J is for Jamaica. ZEPHANIAH. P is for Pakistan… etc
Farm Animals. PEROLS
Ladybird. PEROLS
The World Came to My Place Yesterday. READMAN
& ROBERTS
Cool as a Cucumber! SMALLWOOD
What Happens to Your Food? SMITH
On the Road. STEGGALL
I WONDER Why Stars Twinke and Other Questions
about Space. STOTT
I Eat Vegetables! TOFTS
Why don’t worms have legs? VAUGHAN
Think of an Eel (Read and Wonder). WALLACE &
BOSTOCK
Oscar and the Moth. A Book about Light and Dark.
WARING
Oscar and the Cricket. A Book about Moving and
Rolling. WARING
Information Books
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Caribbean Animals. ALLETTE & BAKER
Camille and the Sunflowers. A Story about Vincent
Van Gogh. ANHOLT
Guess What I Am. AXWORTHY
Tiger’s Story. BLACKFORS & STOJIK
Ten Seeds. BROWN
Seahorse the Shyest Fish in the Sea. BUTTERWORTH
& LAWRENCE
The Very Busy Spider. CARLE
One Child, One Seed. A South African Counting
Book. CAVE
A Whole World. COUPRIE & LOUCHARD
I Have Wheels, What am I? CROZEN & LANCHAIS
I Can Fly, What am I? CROZEN & LANCHAIS
Ice Bear (Read and Wonder). DAVIES & BLYTHE
Oxford First Illustrated Dictionary. DELAHUNTY
Tracks of a Panda. DOWSON & RONG
Cow. DOYLE & RINALDI
Jody’s Beans (Reading Time). DOYLE & ALLIBONE
My Map Book. FANELLI
Mia’s Story. FOREMAN
Caterpillar Butterfly. FRENCH & VOAKE
Growing Frogs. FRENCH & BARTLETT
T.Rex. FRENCH & BARTLETT
Oliver’s Vegetables. FRENCH & BARTLETT
Honey Biscuits. HOOPER & BARTLETT
The Core Book List (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education)