Illustrated storybooks
Everyday life
A Walk in the Park, Puffin
Andrew’s Bath, Puffin
Draw Me a Star, Puffin
Eat your peas, Red Fox
Grandma Goes Shopping, Puffin
I will not ever never eat a tomato, Orchard Books
It’s a book, Macmillan Children’s Books
Ketchup on Your Cornflakes?, Hippo
Knuffle Bunny, Walker Books
Max and the School Dinners, Puffin
Moonlight, Puffin
Mr Wolf’s Week, Mammoth
Noisy Nora, Picture Lions
Not Now, Bernard ! Red Fox
Pete the Cat, Harper Collins Children’s
Sunlight, Puffin
The Drive, Walker
The Jolly Postman, Heinemann
The Shopping Basket, Picture Lions
The Tiger who came to tea, Collins
What’s the time, Mr Wolf ? Mammoth
Whatever, Walker Books
You’ll Soon Grow into them, Titch, Puffin
Animals/Insects
Bear Hunt, Puffin
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You see, Puffin*
Dear Zoo, Puffin
Elmer, Red Fox
Fourteen Rats and a Rat Catcher, Puffin
Lazy Lion/Greedy Zebra, Hodder
Rosie’s Walk, Puffin
Tadpole’s Promise, Andersen Press
The Bad-Tempered Ladybird, Puffin
The Emperor’s Egg, Walker Books
The Mixed-up Chameleon, Puffin
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Puffin*
Songs and rhymes
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Scholastic
Dem Bones, Puffin
Goodnight Owl! Puffin
I know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Old MacDonald Had a Farm, Child’s Play
Over in the Meadow, Puffin
The Owl and the Pussy Cat, Doubleday
The Twelve Days of Christmas, Puffin
The Wheels on the Bus, Puffin
Today is Monday, Puffin
Values/Citizenship/Diversity
Daley B, Walker Books (identity)
Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish, Puffin
Five Little Fiends, Bloomsbury (environment)
Is it because?**, Andersen Press (bullying)
Little Beauty** (friendship/special needs)
Prince Cinders, Pufin (gender)
Princess Smartypants*, Puffin (gender)
Something Else*, Puffin (friendship/tolerance)
Susan Laughs**, Red Rox (disability)
The Clever Tortoise/Tug of War* (race/tolerance)
The Doorbell Rang, Puffin (sharing)
The Elephant and the Bad Baby*, Puffin
The Paper Bag Princess, Little Hippo (gender)
The Rainbow Fish, North-South Books
The Very Busy Spider** (perseverance/special needs)
Tusk, Tusk**, Red Fox (race/tolerance)
Two Can Toucan, Andersen Press
What If? (environment)**
Special occasions
Father Christmas, Puffin
Happy Birthday, Sam ! Puffin
Meg and Mog, Puffin
Meg’s Castle, Puffin
Meg’s Eggs, Puffin*
Spot’s First Easter, Puffin
The Chinese New Year, CUP
The Secret Birthday Message, Hamish Hamilton
Dragons, monsters and fantasy
A Lion in the Meadow, Puffin
Cloudland, Red Fox
Funnybones*, Puffin
I’m Coming to Get You ! Puffin
Long Neck and Thunder Foot, Puffin
Monster Can’t Sleep, Puffin
The Snowman, Puffin/OUP
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Walker
We’re Going on a Dragon Hunt, Puffin
Where the Wild Things Are, Puffin
Winnie the Witch, Oxford
Would you rather, Picture Lions
Fairy tales, fables and modern retellings
Beware of Boys, Puffin
Big Bad Pig, Walker
Foxy Fables, Puffin
Jim and the Beanstalk*, Puffin (age)
Lazy Jack, Puffin
Nice Work Little Wolf, Puffin
Revolting Rhymes, Puffin
Tarzanna, Puffin (gender)
The Little Red Hen, Puffin
The Stinky Cheese Man, Puffin
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, Walker
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, Puffin
Rhyming stories
Madeline, Puffin
Mr McGee, Puffin*
My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes, Puffin*
The Cat in the Hat/Fox in Socks, Collins
The Kangaroo from Woolloomooloo*
Stories from around the world
Handa’s Surprise, Walker
How the Kangaroos got their tails, Scholastic
Meerkat in Trouble, Happy Cat Books
Rain**, David Bennett Books
The Chinese New Year, CUP
The Clever Tortoise*
The Great Kapok Tree, Voyager Harcourt
The Kangaroo from Woolloomooloo*
Whistling Thorn, Scholastic
*story notes are available in Tell it Again ! The New Storytelling Handbook, Penguin Longman
** story notes are downloadable from http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/teaching-kids/promoting-diversity-throughchildren%E2%80%99s-literature
Books selected by Gail Ellis