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Kidsgrove Primary School

Empowering Learners...Growing Minds

101 High Quality Books we will know

101 fiction books all children should read before leaving Kidsgrove Primary School

 

The National Association for the Teaching of English ran a survey to find teachers’ top 100 fiction books all children should read before leaving primary school plus our school book.

Here are the books:

 

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl

 

Goodnight Mister Tom
by Michelle Magorian

 

Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll

 

Matilda
by Roald Dahl

 

The Gruffalo
by Julia Donaldson

 

The Chronicles of Narnia
by C S Lewis

 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle

 

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
by Michael Rosen

 

Dogger
by Shirley Hughes

 

Stig of the Dump
by Clive King

 

Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell

 

The Iron Man
by Ted Hughes

 

Flat Stanley
by Jeff Brown

 

Winnie the Pooh
by A A Milne

 

Funnybones
by Allan and Janet Ahlberg

 

Owl Babies
by Martin Waddell & Patrick Benson

 

The Hobbit
by J R R Tolkien

 

Green Eggs and Ham
by Dr Seuss

 

War Horse
by Michael Morpurgo

 

Grimm’s Fairy Tales
by The Brothers Grimm

 

The Tiger Who Came to Tea
by Judith Kerr

 

Peace at Last
by Jill Murphy

 

Artemis Fowl series
by Eoin Colfer

 

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy
by Lynley Dodd

 

Not Now Bernard
by David Mckee

 

Diary of a Wimpy Kid
by Jeff Kinney

 

The Twits
by Roald Dahl

 

I am David
by Anne Holm

 

The Highwayman
by Alfred Noyes

 

The Paddington series
by Michael Bond

 

Amazing Grace
by Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch

 

Esio Trot
by Roald Dahl

 

Five Children and It
by E Nesbit

 

Clockwork
by Phillip Pullman

 

The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett

 

The Magic Far Away Tree
by Enid Blyton

 

Farmer Duck
by Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury

 

Swallows and Amazons
by Arthur Ransome

 

The Silver Sword
by Ian Serraillier

 

The Worst Witch series
by Jill Murphy

 

The Borrowers
by Mary Norton

 

A Dark, Dark Tale
by Ruth Brown

 

The Jolly Postman
by Allan Ahlberg

 

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan

 

Coraline
by Neil Gaiman

 

Zoo
by Anthony Browne

 

Treasure Island
by R L Stevenson

 

Voices in the Park
by Anthony Browne

 

Cinderella
by Charles Perrault

 

Pig Heart Boy
by Malorie Blackman

 

The Railway Children
by E Nesbit

 

Cloud Busting
by Malorie Blackman

 

Kidnapped
by R L Stevenson

 

The Sheep Pig
by Dick King-Smith

 

Beegu
by Alexis Deacon

 

The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Graham

 

Eragon
by Christopher Paolini

 

The Mr Men and Little Miss series
by Roger Hargreaves

 

Gentle Giant
by Michael Morpurgo

 

Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling

 

The Velveteen Rabbit
by Margery Williams

 

Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi

 

Eagle of the Ninth
by Rosemary Sutcliff

 

Theseus and the Minotaur
by David Orme and Wendy Body

 

The Just William series
by Richmal Crompton

 

On the Way Home
by Jill Murphy

 

Pumpkin Soup
by Helen Cooper

 

Street Child
by Berlie Doherty

 

The Happy Prince and Other Stories
by Oscar Wilde

 

Angelo
by Quentin Blake

 

The Day the Crayons Quit
by Drew Draywalt and Oliver Jeffers

 

The Snowman
by Raymond Briggs

 

My Mum
by Anthony Browne

 

The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

The Tunnel
by Anthony Browne

 

Face
by Benjamin Zephaniah

 

The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler
by Gene Kemp

 

The Giving Tree
by Shel Silverstein

 

Click Clack Moo: cows that type
by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin

 

The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster

 

The Tale of Peter Rabbit
by Beatrix Potter

 

I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato
by Lauren Child

 

The Skulduggery Pleasant series
by Derek Landy

 

The Early Years at Malory Towers
by Enid Blyton

 

Wolf Brother
by Michelle Paver

 

Birds Beasts and Relatives
by Gerald Durrell

 

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
by Alan Garner

 

The Mrs Pepperpot series
by Alf Proysen

 

The Asterix Series
by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo

 

The Fib and Other Stories
by George Layton

 

The Giant’s Necklace
by Michael Morpurgo

 

The Kipper series
by Mick Inkpen

 

The Milly-Molly-Mandy series
by Joyce Lankester Brisley

 

The Suitcase Kid
by Jacqueline Wilson

 

Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak

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