Top 100 recommended Year 1 books
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The Reader Teacher has chosen 100 recommended reads for Year 1 pupils, aged 5 to 6 years old. In the selection you will find: information books to engage and inspire, poetry, classic tales, early chapter books and brilliant picture books.
The Reader Teacher Top 100 Recommended Reads Book Packs contain all of the titles from the relevant Reader Teacher list as displayed on their website. From time to time, a book in the list will be unavailable. When this happens, we will select a suitable replacement to complete your book pack. A full list of the books is shown below or you can download it on The Reader Teacher website.
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The Reader Teacher has chosen 100 recommended reads for Year 1 pupils, aged 5 to 6 years old. In the selection you will find: information books to engage and inspire, poetry, classic tales, early chapter books and brilliant picture books.
From time to time this list may change - you can always find and download the most up to list of what the pack contains on The Reader Teacher website.
Title | Format |
A Bottle of Happiness | Paperback / softback |
The Wonder | Paperback / softback |
When Sadness Comes to Call | Paperback / softback |
Welcome to Our World: A Celebration of Children Everywhere! | Paperback / softback |
Silly Billy | Paperback / softback |
Ruby's Worry : A Big Bright Feelings Book | Paperback / softback |
Rain Before Rainbows | Paperback / softback |
The Velveteen Rabbit | Hardback |
Until I Met Dudley | Paperback / softback |
Under the Ocean | Hardback |
Through the Eyes of Me | Paperback / softback |
Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit's Bad Habits : Book 1 | Paperback / softback |
The Proudest Blue : A Story of Hijab and Family | Paperback / softback |
Polly and the Puffin : Book 1 | Paperback / softback |
Poems Aloud : An anthology of poems to read out loud | Paperback / softback |
This Is How We Do It : One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from around the World | Paperback / softback |
That Rabbit Belongs To Emily Brown | Paperback / softback |
The Paper Bag Princess | Paperback / softback |
What is racism? (Lift-the-Flap First Questions & Answers) | Paperback / softback |
Mrs Noah's Pockets | Hardback |
The Tales of Olga Da Polga | Paperback / softback |
The Tale Of Peter Rabbit : The original and authorized edition | Hardback |
You're Called What? | Paperback / softback |
Tadpole's Promise | Paperback / softback |
Zim Zam Zoom! : Zappy Poems to Read Out Loud | Paperback / softback |
Beegu | Paperback / softback |
Splash | Paperback / softback |
The Pirate Mums | Paperback / softback |
The Most Important Animal Of All | Paperback / softback |
Milo Imagines The World | Paperback / softback |
Midnight Magic | Paperback / softback |
Meet the Twitches | Paperback / softback |
Marv and the Mega Robot | Paperback / softback |
Luna and the Moon Rabbit | Hardback |
Lubna and Pebble | Paperback / softback |
Little Glow | Paperback / softback |
Kitty and the Moonlight Rescue | Paperback / softback |
Jasper and Scruff | Paperback / softback |
I Talk Like a River | Paperback / softback |
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners | Hardback |
Everything Under the Sun : a curious question for every day of the year | Hardback |
The Day The Crayons Quit | Paperback / softback |
Dadaji's Paintbrush | Hardback |
Cinnamon | Paperback / softback |
Building a Home | Paperback / softback |
Britannica First Big Book of Why : Why can't penguins fly? Why do we brush our teeth? Why does popcorn pop? The ultimate book of answers for kids who need to know WHY! | Hardback |
The Boy Who Grew A Tree | Paperback / softback |
Amara and the Bats | Paperback / softback |
Sweep | Paperback / softback |
The Most Magnificent Thing | Hardback |
Mixed Up Fairy Tales : Split-Page Book | Paperback / softback |
Here We Are : Notes for Living on Planet Earth | Hardback |
Greta and the Giants : inspired by Greta Thunberg's stand to save the world | Paperback / softback |
Lights on Cotton Rock | Paperback / softback |
The Girls | Paperback / softback |
Bee & Me | Paperback / softback |
Ballerina Dreams | Paperback / softback |
Badger's Parting Gifts : 35th Anniversary Edition of a picture book to help children deal with death | Paperback / softback |
A Seed Is Sleepy | Paperback / softback |
Gaspard the Fox | Paperback / softback |
Frog and Toad are Friends | Paperback / softback |
Fanatical About Frogs | Hardback |
Anna Hibiscus | Paperback / softback |
And Tango Makes Three | Paperback / softback |
Amazing Grace | Paperback / softback |
All the Ways to be Smart : the beautifully illustrated international bestseller that celebrates the talents of every child | Paperback / softback |
Du Iz Tak? | Paperback / softback |
The Dot | Paperback / softback |
Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish | Paperback / softback |
After the Fall | Paperback / softback |
An Engineer Like Me | Paperback / softback |
Ada Twist, Scientist | Hardback |
Hotel Flamingo | Paperback / softback |
The Book With No Pictures | Paperback / softback |
Can Bears Ski? | Paperback / softback |
Can I Join Your Club? | Paperback / softback |
Mixed | Paperback / softback |
Meerkat Mail | Paperback / softback |
Man on the Moon : a day in the life of Bob | Paperback / softback |
Squishy McFluff: The Invisible Cat! | Paperback / softback |
Something Else | Paperback / softback |
Somebody Swallowed Stanley | Paperback / softback |
Small in the City | Paperback / softback |
Lots : The Diversity of Life on Earth | Paperback / softback |
Look Up! | Paperback / softback |
here's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom | Paperback / softback |
Super Silly Museums PB | Paperback / softback |
Julian Is a Mermaid | Paperback / softback |
I Want My Hat Back | Paperback / softback |
Islandborn | Hardback |
The Dark | Paperback / softback |
Coming to England : An Inspiring True Story Celebrating the Windrush Generation | Paperback / softback |
Claude in the City | Paperback / softback |
Chocolate Cake | Paperback / softback |
If You Come to Earth | Hardback |
If All the World Were... | Paperback / softback |
I Don't Like Books. Never. Ever. The End. | Paperback / softback |
The Cat and the King | Paperback / softback |
Izzy Gizmo | Paperback / softback |
We Are All Born Free : The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures | Paperback / softback |
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