• My Pet Star – Corrinne Averiss & Rosaline Beardshaw

Year 1 Recommended Reading List

• The Name Jar – Yangsook Choi

• Never Show a T-Rex a Book – Rashmi Sirdeshpande & Diane Ewen

• Rain before Rainbows – Smriti Halls & David Litchfield

• Billy and the Beast by Nadia Shireen

• The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad, S.K. Ali & Hatem Aly

• Out of the Blue by Robert Tregoning

• Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

• Tibble and Grandpa – Wendy Meddour and Daniel Egnéus

• The Storm Whale – Benji Davies

• Where to Hide a Star – Oliver Jeffers

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• Flower Block by Lanisha Butterfield and Hoand Giang

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• There’s a Tiger on the Train – Mariesa Dulak & Rebecca Cobb

Year 1 Recommended Reading List

• A Dress With Pockets by Lily Murray & Jenny Lovlie

• Speak Up! – Nathan Bryon & Dapo Adeola

• We’re Going to Find a Monster! - Malorie Blackman & Dapo Adeola

• Amara and the Bats – Emma Reynolds

• One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab by April Pulley Sayre, Jeff Sayre & Randy Cecil

• Oh Dear, Look What I got – Michael Rosen & Helen Oxenbury

• The Can Caravan by Richard O'Neill & Cindy Kang

• Home – Patricia Hegarty & Britta Teckentrup

• Too Much Stuff! – Emily Gravett

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• Islandborn – Junot Diaz & Leo Espinosa

• The Girl and the Dinosaur – Hollie Hughes & Sarah Massini

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• You Choose - Nick Sharratt & Pippa Goodhart

Year 1 Recommended Reading List

• There’s a Rang-Tan in my Bedroom – James Sellick & Frann Preston-Gannon

• Gorilla - Anthony Browne

• All Through the Night - Polly Faber & Harriet Hobday

• Gina Kaminski Saves the Wolf - Craig Barr-Green & Francis Martin

• Everything Changes - Clare Helen Welsh & Asa Gilland

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• Rabbit and Bear - A Bite in the Night - Julian Gough & Jim Field

• Harry and the Poisonous Centipede - Lynne Reid Banks & Tony Ross

• The Princess in Black - Shannon & Dean Hale & LeUyen Pham

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• A Mathematician Like Me - Dr Shini Somara & Nadja Sarell

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• Once Upon a Raindrop - James Carter & Nomoco

• Troll - Frances Stickley & Stefano Martinuz

• Yum Yum! A book about food chains - Mick Manning & Brita Granstrom

Year 1 Recommended Reading List

• What if? A book about recycling - Mick Manning & Brita Granstrom

• Little Kids First Big Book of Dinosaurs - Catherine D. Hughes

• Lifesize – Sophy Henn

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• Tadpoles and Frogs - Anna Milbourne

• My First Discoveries Series

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• The Big Book of the Blue - Yuval Zommer

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• Look Inside Space - Jones Rod LLoyd

• The Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies - Kay Barnham & Maddie Frost

• Flip Flap Forest - Axel Scheffler

• A Superhero Like You – Dr Ranj & Liam Darcy

Year 1 Recommended Reading List

• Handa’s Surprise by Eileen Browne

• Lulu Gets a Cat – Anna McQuinn & Rosalind Beardshaw

• The Magic Porridge Pot by Amelia Marshall & Elena Bia

• The Three Little Pigs - Mara Alperin & Ag Jatkowska

• Zim Zam Zoom! Zappy Poems to Read Out Loud -James Carter

• Wild - Emily Hughes

• Jack and the Beanstalk - illustrated by Lorena Alvarez

• Anna Hibiscus’ song - Atinuke & Lauren Tobia

• Ada Twist, Scientist – Andrea Beaty & David Roberts

Books we read at school

• The Three Billy Goats Gruff - Miles Kelly & Marcela Calderon

• The Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler

• Three by the Sea – Mini Grey

Year 1 Recommended Reading List

• Lila and the Secret of Rain – David Conway

• Beegu – Alexis Deacon

• Goldilocks and Just the One Bear – Leigh Hodgkinson

• Coming to England – Floella Benjamin & Diane Ewen

• Abigail – Catherine Rayner

• Lulu Meets the Bees – Anna McQuinn & Rosalind Beardshaw

• Kind – Axel Scheffler and other illustrators

• My Skin Your Skin - Laura Henry-Allain & Onyinye Iwu

• The Koala Who Could – Rachel Bright & Jim Field

Books we read at school

• I Want My Hat Back – Jon Klassen

• How to Heal a Broken Wing – Bob Graham