Walsall Schools Library Support Service,
Manor Farm Centre, King George Crescent, Rushall, Walsall WS4 IEG
Phone 01922 724995, Fax 01922 659559, Email slss@walsall.gov.uk
Book Boxes 2013
Book boxes contain about 30 books by an author or on a topic. Audio visual material is included where possible.
Loans are for whole term Autumn, Spring & Summer. All boxes can be booked up to 1 year in advance.
If a topic box is already booked we will send a selection of books on that topic. If you want any author other than those
listed as a box please ask as we should be able to provide a selection of books by most significant authors.
Author Book Boxes
Box Name
Age Range
Brief Description
Ahlberg, J & A
Top KS1/ Lower KS2
Alborough, Jez
Foundation/KS1
Anholt, C & L
Foundation/KS1
Browne, Anthony
Butterworth, Nick
Top KS1/ KS2/
Lower KS3
Foundation/KS1
Dahl, Roald
KS2
Funny, Fantasy.
Terry Deary including
Horrible Histories
Donaldson, Julia
Top KS2/Lower KS3
History, Funny, Fantasy
Foundation/KS1
Picture books, Rhyme, Funny.
Elmer
By David McKee
Fine, Anne
Top KS1/Lower KS2
Top KS2
Picture books, Elmer, Elephants, Animals, Fantasy,
Funny
Funny, Fantasy, Family life.
Gravett, Emily
Foundation/KS1/KS2
Picture books, Funny
Hairy Maclary
by Lynley Dodd
Hughes, Shirley
Foundation/KS1
Picture books, Animals, Pets, Rhyme, Funny
Foundation/KS1
Hutchins, Pat
Foundation/KS1
Impey, Rose
Top KS1/ Lower KS2
Inkpen, Mick
Foundation/KS1
Picture books.
Alfie & ‘Trotter Street’ stories, Family life
Picture books
Titch &’ Monster Family’, Animals, Funny.
Wide ranging age appeal. Picture books and KS2
fiction, Family life, School, Fears, Animals.
Picture books, Animals, Funny
King-Smith, Dick
KS2/Lower KS3
Wide ranging age appeal, Funny, Animals.
Meg & Mog
by Helen Nicoll
Morpurgo, Michael
Foundation/KS1
Picture books, Meg and Mog.
KS2
Farms, Animals.
Murphy, Jill
Foundation/KS1
Picture books, ‘The Large Family’, ‘Peace at Last’.
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Predominantly the Happy Families series but with
some poetry and older fiction, Funny.
Picture books, Animals, Funny, Predictable
Picture books, Familiar setting, Home, School,
Families
Picture books, Fantasy, Surrealism, Families, Issues
Picture books, Animals, Families
Shakespeare
KS2/Lower KS3
Stories, Information books, History, Re-tellings
Sharratt, Nick
KS1
Picture books, Funny
Strong, Jeremy
KS2
Funny
Up & Coming Authors
KS1
Significant & new KS1 Authors, Picture Books
Up & Coming Authors
KS2
Waddell, Martin
KS1
Funny, Animals, Everyday life
Wilson, Jacqueline
Top KS2 /Lower KS3
Everyday life, Funny, Fantasy.
Significant & new KS2 Authors
Literacy Book Boxes – Genres
Box Name
Age Range
Brief Description
Diversity
KS2
Carnegie medal winners
Top KS2/Lower KS3
Black, Asian child characters in variety of settings,
School, Home, etc.
Prize winners, Outstanding novels, Awards.
Cultural Range
KS1
Picture books, Settings in other countries
Cultural Range
Top KS1/Lower KS2
Picture books, Settings in other countries
Funny Stories
Lower KS2
Funny Stories, Joke books
Funny Stories 2
Top KS2 , Lower KS3
Funny Stories , Jokes , Poems
Graphic novels
Top KS2, Lower KS3
Greenaway Medal
winners
Horror
Top KS2, Lower KS3
Graphic versions of Classics,
superheroes, & adventure
Prize winners, Outstanding illustration, Awards.
Top KS2,Lower KS3
Stories and Information books
Issues Box
KS2 , Lower KS3
Mystery and Adventure
Top KS2,Lower KS3
Sounds Like Books
KS1,KS2
Stories and Information books. Bullying, Old age,
Death, Gender issues, Cruelty to animals, Family
problems
Mystery, Adventure, Robert Swindells,
Anthony Masters.
Audio books, C.D s
Superheroes
Top KS2,Lower KS3
Adventure, Fantasy, Real life
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Literacy Book Boxes – Fairy Tales, Traditional Tales, Legends
Box Name
Age Range
Brief Description
British folk tales
Top KS2/Lower KS3
English, Irish, Scottish Myths & Legends. Robin
Hood, King Arthur
Myths, Legends, Adventure, Fantasy
Dragons
KS2
Fairy Tales
KS1
Fairy Tales –Alternative
versions
Myths and Legends
KS1,2
Picture book versions of individual tales and read
aloud compilations. Includes 3 versions of one tale
for comparison.
Alternative versions of Fairy Tales
KS2
Vikings, Egyptians, Romans
Traditional Tales
Top KS2,Lower KS3
Vampires
Top KS2,Lower KS3
World map worksheets, drawing together similar
stories from different from across world.
Stories taken from collections of folk tales.
Vampires, Supernatural
Witches
KS2
Funny, Adventure, Fantasy
Literacy Book Boxes – Poetry
Box Name
Age Range
Brief Description
Nursery Rhymes
Foundation,KS1
Poetry from Different
Cultures
First Poems
Top KS2,Lower KS3
Collections and individual nursery rhymes with a wide
range of illustrative styles.
A range of collections from many countries.
Funny poems
KS1, Lower KS2
Poetry Styles
KS2
Significant KS2 Poets
Top KS2, Lower KS3
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Top KS1,Lower KS2
A wide range of poems including classics such as
“The Owl and the Pussy - Cat” and a selection of
modern poets.
A selection of the work of contemporary poets
Shape, Concrete, Story, Nonsense, Haiku
A selection from our significant poets list including
Michael Rosen, Roger McGoug, Andrew Fusek Peters
Topic Book Boxes
Box Name
Age Range
Brief Description
Fantastic Facts
Top KS2/Lower KS3
Funny, Compendiums, Range of subjects
Sport
Top KS2/Lower KS3
Stories and Information books
Starting School
Foundation
Stories and Information books
Design and technology
Box Name
Age Range
Brief Description
Circuses and fairs
KS1
Stories and Information books
Clothes
Foundation,KS1
Food
Foundation,KS1
Stories and Information books, Jobs, Clothes,
Dressing Up
Stories and Information books
Novelty Box
KS1, KS2
Flaps, Pop-ups, Sounds, Tactile books
Teddy Bears
Foundation,KS1
Stories; All manner of Teddy Bears
Toys
Foundation ,KS1
Toys, Teddy bears
Geography
Box Name
African Setting
Age Range
KS1,KS2
Picture books,
Folk Tales and African lifestyle.
Stories and Information books
China
KS1,KS2
Stories and Information books
Geography Through
Stories KS1
Holidays
KS1,Lower KS2
Houses
KS1,LowerKS2
Stories to support geographical themes
e.g. Journeys.
Stories and Information books
Seaside and Countryside
Stories and Information books
Journeys
KS1
To shops; to seaside; to the moon
Journeys
Top KS2 , Lower KS3
Refugees, pilgrimages
London
KS2
Places To Visit
Foundation, KS1
Stories, information books,
History, Places of interest
Familiar places that small children visit e.g.
Grandparents, Seaside, Doctors etc.
Rainforests
KS2
Stories and Information books
Survival
KS2
Adventure around the world.
Waterways
KS2
Stories and Information books, rivers, canals
Australia
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KS2
Brief Description
KS1
History
Box Name
Age Range
Brief Description
Egyptians
KS2
Stories and Information books
Famous people
Top KS2/Lower KS3
Diaries, Biographies, Autobiographies
History Through Stories
KS1/Lower KS2
Pirates
Foundation/KS1
Stories to support historical themes e.g. Family
histories, Passage of time.
Stories, Pirates, Funny, Novelty
Pirates
KS2
Pirates, Adventure, Sea, Ships
Romans
KS2
Stories and Information books
Shipwrecks
KS2
Stories and information books, Titanic ,Sea
Spies
Top KS2/Lower KS3
Stories and Information books
Tudors
KS2
Stories and Information books
Victorians
KS2
Stories and Information books
Vikings
KS2
Stories and Information books
World War 2
KS2
Stories and Information books
WW2-Home Front
KS2
Second World War, Evacuation, Blitz.
Science
Box Name
Age Range
Brief Description
Animals, Scary
KS2
Animals, Sharks, Dinosaurs, Adventure
Animal Stories
KS1
Animals, Short Stories, Classics
Animal Stories
KS2
Animals, Short Stories, Classics
Animals, Hot & Cold
Lands
Bears
KS2
Dinosaurs
Foundation,KS1
Animals in the Polar regions, Africa, North America,
deserts.
Stories and Information books,
Animals
Stories and Information books.
Families
KS1
Stories, Family life.
Growth
KS1
Nocturnal animals
KS1
Stories and Information books,
Plants, Animals, Babies.
Stories, Information books
People Who Help Us
Foundation, KS1
Jobs
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Foundation,KS1
Robots
Top KS1, KS2
Robots, Novelty, Funny, Adventure
Seasons & Weather
Foundation ,KS1
Stories and Information books
Space Stories
KS2
Aliens, Earth, Space travel, Future worlds.
Space
KS2
Stories and Information books
Time
Foundation,KS1
Stories about Day & Night, Seasons, Calendar.
Under The Sea
Foundation,KS1
Stories,
Animals, plants, fish, environment,
sea
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