Book Ideas

If you are not sure what to read with your kids, or what to give them to read, try some of our favourites below.

have fun!!

There are lots of good places to search for book recommendations. Your local library, plus Suffolk Libraries, Guardian Books, Booktrust, Words for Life.

Book Ideas

0 to 1 Years

  • Rosie's Walk
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • Where's My Duck
  • Dear Zoo
  • Lulu Loves Stories
  • Book of Nursery Rhymes
  • Wally Whale
Book Ideas

2 to 3 Years

  • We're all going on a Bear Hunt
  • Penguin
  • Quiet
  • Room on the Broom
  • I Want My Hat Back
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • The Tiger that Came to Tea
Book Ideas

4 to 5 Years

  • Penguin
  • What the Ladybird Heard
  • You Choose
  • Storytime First tales for Sharing
  • The Runaway Pea
  • Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
  • Hairy Maclairy from Donaldson'e Dairy
  • Aliens Love Underpants
  • The Ginger Bread Man
  • Hugless Douglas
  • The Gruffalo
Book Ideas

6 to 7 Years

  • Isadora Moon
  • Owen and the Soldier
  • The Maker of Monsters
  • The Secret of Black Rock
  • Leaf
  • Wild
  • The Boy at the Back of the Class
  • Varjak Paw
  • Roald Dahl: Dirty Beasts
  • Treetop Fiction Collection
  • Horrid Henry Rocks
  • Jolly Roger
  • You Choose
  • Rover
Book Ideas

8 to 10 Years

  • Mirror
  • D-Day Dog
  • Roald Dahl
  • The Graveyard Book
  • The Good Thieves
  • Phoenix
  • Wonder
  • The Last Wild
  • The Dreamsnatcher
  • Absolutely Everything
  • The Arrival
  • Joan Lingard Collection
  • Stormbreaker
  • And then There Were 10
  • Smelly Billy's Whiffy Weekend
Book Ideas

11 to 13

  • Look Both Ways
  • The Kid Who Came form Space
  • Holes
  • Noughts and Crosses
  • The Island
  • Northern Lights
  • Once
  • Floodland
  • Harry Potter
Book Ideas

14 to 16 Years

  • Becoming Dinah
  • The Hate U Give
  • Two Can Keep a Secret
  • Chinglish
  • A Pocketful of Stars
  • One of Us is Lying
  • Wing Jones
  • Harry Potter

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