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Recommended book list - Year 1

Cinamon – Neil Gaiman

I can only draw words – Will Mabbitt

The very hungrey caterpillar – Eric Carle

Goodnight everyone – Chris Haughton

We’re going on a bear hunt – Michael Rosen

Peace at last – Jill Murphy

The bad tempered ladybird – Eric Carle

Funnybones – Allan Ahlberg

The Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson

A Bear called Paddington – Michael Bond

A lion in the meadow – Margret Mahy

Cops and Robbers – Allan Ahlberg

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy – Julia Donaldson

Owl Babies – Martin Waddell

The Emperor of Absurdia – Chris Riddell

There are cats in this book – Viviane Schwarz

Mr Magnolia – Quentin Blake

Katie Morag’s Island stories – Mairi Hedderwick

My Friend Bear – Jez Alborough

Avocado baby – John Burningham

The Tiger who came to tea – Judith Kerr

Meg and Mog – Helen Nichol

Not now Bernard – David McKee

A Dark Dark Tale – Ruth Brown

Dogger – Shirley Hughes

I want my hat back – Jon Klassen

The Dark – Lemoney Snicket

You can’t take and Elephant on the bus – Patricia Cleveland – Peck

Penguin – Polly Dunbar

You choose – Pippa Goodhart

Stanley’s stick – Neale Layton and John Hegley

What to do if an elephant stands on your foot – Michelle Robinson

How to wash a wooley mamouth – Michelle Robinson

Dinosaurs in the supermarket – Timothy Knapman

The adventures of the dish and the spoon – Mini Grey

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