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Recommended Reading List

Key Stage 1

Key Stage 2

Book

Topic

Book

Topic

The Selfish Giant
Oscar Wilde

Seasons

Trilogy:
Under the Hawthorn Tree,
Wildflower Girl,
Fields of Home

Marita Conlon-McKenna

Famine. Life in Ireland

The Lonely Tree
Nicholas Halliday

Seasons, evergreen and deciduous, ancient oaks

Meeting the Other Crowd
Eddie Lenihan

Folklore

The Tiny Seed
Eric Carle

Plants and Flowers, Seasons, Seed Growth

Tales from Old Ireland
Malachy Doyle

Folklore

Welcome, Brown Bird
Mary Lyn Ray

Seasons, migration

Trilogy:
The Magic Faraway Tree
The Enchanted Wood
The Folk of the Faraway Tree

Enid Blyton

Folklore, trees

Little Guide to Wild Flowers,
Little Guide to Trees

Charlotte Voake

Flowers, Trees

The Three Trees
Angela Elwell Hunt

Deforestation, life of Christ

The Wild Woods
Simon James

Trees

Between a Shadow and the Moon
Susan Mary Stokholm

Interdependance, nature, rivers, animals

Eddie’s Garden
Sarah Garland

Plants and Flowers, Seed Growth

Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame

Trees, animals, rivers

Ten Seeds
Ruth Brown

Plants and Flowers, Seed Growth

The Secret River
Majorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rivers

The Three Trees
Angela Elwell Hunt

Deforestation, life of Christ

The River at Green Knowe
Lucy Boston

Rivers

Red Fox on the move
Hannah Giffard

Conservation, deforestation

A River Ran Wild
Lynne Cherry

Rivers, Conservation

Why should I recycle?
Why should I protect nature? Why should I save energy? Why should I save water?

Jen Green

*complete with teachers notes* conservation, sustainability

Think about it…Journeys
Harry Cory Wright

Birds, river travel

How Green are You?
David Bellamy

Conservation

The Boy Who Drew Birds
Jacqueline Davies

Birds, Art

Dear Greenpeace
Simon James

Conservation, ponds

The Museum’s Secret,
The Hidden World

Henry Chancellor

Early man, museum visits

The Prince of the Pond
Donna J. Napoli

Frogs, Pondlife

Anooka’s Answer
Majorie Cowley

Early man

Growing Frogs
Vivien French

Frogs

A is for Aarrgh!
William J. Brooke

Early man

Billy’s Beetle
Mick Inkpen

Minibeasts

Stone Age (History in a hurry)
John Farman

Early man

The Very Busy Spider, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Bad-tempered Ladybird,
The Very Quiet Cricket

Eric Carle

Minibeasts

11, 000 years lost
Peni R. Griffin

Early man

Insects are my Life
Megan McDonald and Paul B. Johnson

Minibeasts

Mill Girl
Sue Reid

Victorians, mill work

Insect Detective
Steve Voake

Minibeasts

Poppy’s Secret, Poppy’s Big Push
Mary Hooper

Victorian Estate

Tales from Old Ireland
Malachy Doyle

Folklore

The Not-so-Nice Victorians, SPARKS
Several authors

Victorians

Mixed Up Fairy Tales
Hilary Robinson

Folklore

Sir Richard Wallace: the Lisburn Connection
Helen Long

Sir Richard Wallace