The World Book Day free schools pack, which you should have received at the beginning of term, has ideas for classroom activities including some based on what the publishers and booksellers call Super Reads - 35 fiction and non-fiction titles selected by the book trade for their appeal to children from pre-school to teenage years with a wide range of reading abilities. The list includes TV tie-ins and practical activity books as well as poetry and contemporary classics, and newcomers alongside big-name authors.
0-5 years
After the Storm
Nick Butterworth, Collins Picture Lions pound;5.99
Teddybears and the Cold Cure
Susanna Gretz and Alison Sage
Aamp;C Black pound;4.99
Alfie Gets In First
Shirley Hughes
Red Fox pound;3.99
Kipper
Mick Inkpen
Hodder pound;4.99
Suddenly!
Colin McNaughton
Collins Picture Lions pound;4.99
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury
Walker Books pound;4.99
Come on, Daisy!
Jane Simmons
Orchard Books pound;4.99
5-8 years
Please Mrs Butler
Allan Ahlberg
Puffin pound;4.99
Ms Wiz Spells Trouble
Terence Blacker
Macmillan pound;2.99
Roald Dahl’s Revolting Recipes
illustrated by Quentin Blake
Red Fox pound;6.99
The Rugrats Versus The Monkeys
Luke David
Pocket Books pound;2.50
The Diary of a Killer Cat
Anne Fine
Puffin pound;3.99
Where’s Wally?
Martin Handford
Walker Books pound;5.99
Amazing race
Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch
Frances Lincoln pound;4.99
8-11 years
The Indian in the Cupboard
Lynne Reid Banks
Collins Children’s Books pound;4.50
Pig Heart Boy
Malorie Blackman
Corgi pound;3.99
Art Attack
Great Art Attack Stuff
Neil Buchanan
Dorling Kindersley pound;9.99
Horrible Histories: The Smashing Saxons
Terry Deary
Scholastic pound;3.99
Blabber Mouth
Morris Gleitzman
Macmillan pound;3.99
The Usborne Soccer School: Ball Control
Gill Harvey
Usborne pound;3.99
The Iron Man
Ted Hughes
Faber pound;4.99
Super.activ: Computers Unlimited
Lisa Hughes
Hodder pound;3.99
The Snow Spider
Jenny Nimmo
Mammoth pound;4.99
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
J K Rowling
Bloomsbury pound;4.99
Martin’s Mice
Dick King-Smith
Puffin pound;3.99
Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Prom Time
Bobbi J Weiss and David Cody Weiss
Pocket Books pound;3.50
Double Act
Jacqueline Wilson
Corgi Yearling pound;3.99
Teenage
Skellig
David Almond
Hodder pound;4.99
Tightrope
Gillian Cross
Oxford UP pound;5.99
Redwall
Brian Jacques
Red Fox pound;4.99
Truckers: The First Book of Nomes
Terry Pratchett
Corgi pound;4.99
Northern Lights
Philip Pullman
Scholastic pound;5.99
The Machine Gunners
Robert Westall
Macmillan pound;3.99
Face
Benjamin Zephaniah
Bloomsbury pound;4.99
