Books for Young People

from toddlers to teens…

Compiled by Sarah Webb

1/ The Ladybird Baby Range
Especially the large, Baby Touch range
Baby Touch Rhyme Book
Baby Touch Playbook
Baby Touch Peekaboo Book
Baby Touch Animal Book
Baby Touch Picture Book
Baby Touch Colours
Baby Touch Shapes
Also the Toddler Play Books range:
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
Old MacDonald's Farm
Old Mother Hubbard
Miss Polly Had a Dolly
The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round
What's the Time, Mr Wolf?

2/ The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book by Eric Carle

3/ Yummy Yucky by Leslie Patricelli
Quiet Loud
Big Little
4/ Dinosaur Roar by Paul and Henrietta Strickland

5/ Nursery Rhymes - various different editions with different illustrations eg Michael Foreman's Nursery Rhymes and nursery rhyme tapes.

6/ The My First Range from DK (14 in the series)
My First ABC Board Book
My First Farm Board Book
My First Animal Board Book
My First Pets Board Book

7/ The Usborne That's Not My range (23 in this range)

Recommended Titles for Toddlers

1/ Where's Spot by Eric Hill
2/ Alfie's Feet by Shirley Hughes
3/ We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
4/ The Elephant and the Bad Baby by Elfrida Vipont
5/ Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell

Newer Titles for Toddlers

1/ Penguin by Polly Dunbar
2/ Shoe Baby by Joyce and Polly Dunbar
3/ Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett
4/ Faster, Faster! Nice and Slow by Nick Sharratt and Sue Heap
5/ Charlie and Lola series by Lauren Child
6/ The Walker Picture Book and CD sets

Other books to look out for - Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell and other books by Rod Campbell - also work well in board book format, Meg and Mog by Helen Nicholl, Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney, Owl Babies by Martin Waddell, Hairy Maclary by Lynley Dodd

5 Minute Tales for Tired Parents

1/ That's Not My Range by Usborne
2/ Hug by Jez Alborough
3/ Yummy Yucky Range (see above)
4/ Silly Mummy, Silly Daddy by Marie Louise Fitzpatrick
Silly School (same author)

Recommended Titles for Young Children Age 3 to 5

1/ Wolves by Emily Gravett
Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett
Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears by Emily Gravett
2/ Olivia by Ian Falconer
3/ Clarice Bean, That's Me by Lauren Child
4/ Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
5/ Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor
6/ How to Catch a Star
Lost and Found
The Way Back Home
The Incredible Book Eating Boy
All by Oliver Jeffers
7/ Jan Pienkowski's Fairy Tales

Other books and authors to look out for - The Jolly Postman by J and A Ahlberg, The Baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed by Helen Cooper, The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Jill Kerr, The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson, The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson, Lauren Child, Jill Murphy, Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul,

Read Alouds - Alice in Wonderland, Winne the Pooh, Wind in the Willows, My Naughty Little Sister Stories by Dorothy Edwards, Charlotte's Web, Anne Fine early readers eg Bill's New Frock
Fairy Tales - A good collection - Jane Ray's Illustrated Fairy Tales, Oxford Treasury of Fairy Tales

Picture Books for Age 5+

1/ The Princess and the Pea by Lauren Child
2/ The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers

Poetry

1/ The Usborne Book of Poetry collected by Sam Taplin
2/ A Poem a Day chosen by Adrian Mitchell

Recommended Titles for Starting Reading Age 5 to 7
Series for Very First Readers

1/ Panda Series by O'Brien Press
2/ Joe O'Brien Series and Mad Grandad series
3/ Ladybird Readers
4/ Dr Seuss Beginner Books
Also: Happy Families, Bananas

Books for Younger Readers to Read Themselves
Funny books!

1/ Horrid Henry
2/ The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy
3/ Eoin Colfer - The Legend of Spud Murphy
The Worst Boy in the World
The Legend of Captain Crow's Teeth
4/ Roddy Doyle titles
5/ Lauren Child
6/ Judy Moody and Stink by Megan McDonald
7/ Mr Gum books
Also - Rainbow Fairies and series books, Rob Childs (football), Anne Fine, Jacqueline Wilson esp Cat Mummy, Dick King-Smith, Chris Riddell, Jeremy Strong,

Read aloud books - Charlotte's Web, Sheep Pig, Roald Dahl, classics and modern classics - Secret Garden, Tom's Midnight Garden, Ballet Shoes, Michael Morpurgo esp The Butterfly Lion

Read Aloud collections:
The illustrations make all the difference!

1/ The Secret Garden illustrated by Inga Moore
2/ Pipp Longstocking illustrated by Lauren Child
3/ Alice in Wonderland illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
4/ A Children's Treasury of Spike Milligan

Books for Parents

Babies Need Books by Dorothy Butler
The Reading Bug by Paul Jennings
The Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease (US)
Inis Magazine (From Children's Books Ireland)
Cross Currents by Liz Morris published by Ibby Ireland (dist by Gill and Macmillan)
The Ultimate Teen Guide and
The Ultimate Book Guide Both published by A and C Black

Great Books to Read Aloud by Jacqueline Wilson

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