100 must-read books for every year group

New cover reissue of this magical story from award-winning international bestselling picture book creator, Oliver Jeffers

The classic picture book story of Sophie and her extraordinary teatime guest has been loved by millions of children since it was first published more than fifty years ago. Now an award-winning animation!

The Hargraves want their new baby to grow up big and strong. But the puny mite will hardly eat a thing. One day Mrs Hargraves finds an avocado in the fruit bowl and the baby gobbles it up. Soon, the strangest things start to happen...

One night Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief of one kind and another, so his mother calls him 'Wild Thing' and sends him to bed without his supper.

An alien is lost on earth and finds children friendly but adults less so.

Each Peach Pear Plum - the classic picture book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg.

One day when Man had set out for a distant star, the dinosaurs came back to life and tidied up the barren wastes he had left behind him. Man was only allowed back when he agreed that the Earth should be shared and enjoyed by everyone.

Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a perennial favourite with children and adults alike. Its imaginative illustration and clever cut-out detail charts the progress of a very hungry caterpillar as he eats his way through the week.

For brave hunters and bear-lovers, the classic chant-aloud by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury.

Elmer is different. Elmer is patchwork.

A mother promises her daughter a range of things if she will eat her peas.

40th anniversary edition of the story about a chicken pursued by a fox during a walk

A peephole book in which each page shows what the baby can see on the next page

A bear asks a series of animals if they have seen his missing hat.

Hairy Maclary goes off for a walk with a few of his friends and comes up against something that gives them all a nasty surprise

A retelling of the traditional story about a girl encountering a wolf on her way to visit her grandmother

When a frog decides that he doesn't want to sit on a log, a cat teaches that all animals have their special places to sit!

A novelty book about a boy's birthday party where his dog finds a soggy balloon which turns out to have mysterious and magical properties.

The characters of the story get swallowed up by the pages of the book and the reader is called upon to rescue them.

A retelling of the classic story about three pigs building their homes and a wolf who keeps blowing them down

While a group of children prepare for a party, Jim has just one job. He must pass the jam. As the pages fill with piles and piles of food, the jam is still missing. Gradually, it becomes apparent that Jim will not be able to pass the jam - some has been eaten, some has been spilled and quite a lot is covering the walls, floor and Jim!

A monkey wants a banana but first must remember how to ask politely for it

Oliver goes looking for vegetables in his grandfather's garden.

Cat, Duck and Squirrel live in an old white cabin, with a pumpkin patch in the garden. Every day Cat slices up some pumpkin, Squirrel stirs in some water and Duck tips in some salt to make perfect pumpkin soup... until the day Duck wants to do the stirring...

A bear goes in search of the perfect hug

A retelling of the favourite fairy tale of how three pigs outwit the bad wolf.

A puffin gets separated from his best friend during a storm but a kindly whale helps to search for him

Depicts the things a child will see, do, and experience when they start school.

A retelling of the traditional fairy tale about a boy encountering a giant at the top of a beanstalk

A boy gets a series of letters from his crayons after they quit their jobs asking for better treatment.

A collection of poems including number rhymes, story poems and reflective poems.

An array of animals cause mayhem as they ride in all sorts of unsuitable transportation.

A introduction to colour, from primary colours and the colour wheel, through to the moods and meanings of different colours.

An unusual egg contains a surprise package.

A fun spot-the-difference book of vehicles for young children.

A lift-the-flap introduction to what people do on the sites of various buildings and structures

A polar bear cub keeps scaring the other animals.

Simple and fun experiments introduce children to scientific principles and processes.

A dragon fed up with being defeated in his own fairy tale tries to join the characters in other fairy tales

A baby is given gifts of food from the stall holders unbeknown to his mother as she goes round the market buying her groceries.

A boy tries to catch a star from the sky and thinks that a starfish on the beach may be one.

When a storm blows down a tree in the park, Percy has to find the animals new homes.

Would you rather drink snail squash or eat mashed worms? Help a witch make a stew? Tickle a monkey? Or maybe - if you could really be anyone or do anything in the world - would you rather just be ...you?

Follows the adventures of a young boy's action figure as he plays with him

This is the first Funnybones in the series and introduces the skeletons - a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton.

A boy finds himself captaining a pirate boat and fighting dinosaur pirates

Includes a collection of simple rhymes on the topic of dinosaurs.

A male sea horse meets other fathers looking after their eggs and babies in the sea.

The reader is encouraged to puts his or her finger into the holes on the pages which feature different foodstuffs, and they turn out to have animals hidden in them.

A spider does its best to be adopted by a family as a pet

Follows Bob's day as he works as a guide on the moon.

Grace discovers that, with the support of her mother and grandmother, she can do anything she wants to do.

A boy is anxious to grow as he sees the plants and animals around him getting bigger

Alfie has won the race to be first home, but, oh dear, he has slammed the front door and Mum and Annie Rose are on the other side.

A race of dragons learn how to be environmentally responsible and to take care of the planet

An African girl talks to the sky in the hope of saving her village from drought.

Biff the dog dreams of being a ballet dancer

Looks at the life cycle of plants, as well as introducing young children to the concept of counting backwards from 10 to 1 .

A boy causes mayhem when he tries to get his kite down from a tree.

Two children take a trip in an imaginary yellow digger picking up a host of animals as they dig their way through the Earth to Australia.

Mog the cat catches a burglar

A little boy sets off on a round-the-world night train to dreamland with only his toy dog for company. But soon all sorts of endangered animals are asking if they can jump up and join on their journey.

A humorous take on the traditional Perrault fairy tale, Cinderella.

A young boy and alien make friends when both find themselves stranded on the moon.

Clarice Bean introduces herself, and her friends and family to the reader.

When Claude visits the city, he foils a robbery at the museum and becomes a hero

A boy communicates with his uncle via Email over the issue of the dragon he is having to look after while his uncle is on holiday.

Ulf, the finger-eating troll, bites off more than he can chew when he meets the plucky Gudrun.

A lonely alien beams up children's toys to keep him company because he has lost his own favourite toy.

A dog interviews the family who want to take him home as their pet.

A young boy doesn't like having a new baby brother until he gets older and they can have fun together.

A bear wants to learn to read but everyone he asks to teach him are too scared of him until he meets a little girl who helps him learn to read with her.

A young boy desperate to keep a tarantula as a pet has to overcome his mother and sisters' dislike of spiders

A little toy rabbit dreams of becoming a real rabbit if he is loved enough by his owner.

Follows a young girl's correspondence with Greenpeace about the whale living in her pond.

A mean rabbit is befriended by a bear, who he has stolen food from whilst she was hibernating.

Squishy McFluff accompanies Ava on holiday at the seaside.

A meerkat goes on travels and tries out different animals' homes but realises that his original home is best.

Tells the story of Ug and his parents who live in the Stone Age and Ug's constant quest for improving their family life.

A boy plays a computer game which brings real aliens to Earth and he must collect samples of life to save the planet

A little boy finds comfort in a statue of a unicorn and the friendship of an injured soldier when he is evacuated from London during the war

The paperbag Prince is an old man living in a railway carriage on a rubbish dump. But he knows that even rubbish can sometimes contain treasure, and that if he stays long enough, gentle nature will heal the countryside and make the green come again.

A witty collection of poems about school. Full of classroom events that will be recognized and enjoyed by everyone: the candid revelations in a pupil's newsbook, the problem of copycats, bickering, making up, swaps, picking teams and forming gangs.

50th anniversary edition of the classic story of Wilbur the pig and Charlotte the spider.

Trevor has to train his dog by the end of the school holidays or his parents will get rid of her.

NOTE : Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal 1986.

Follows the adventures of Super Diaper Baby, the first baby ever to fight crime.

Four people enter a park, and through their eyes we see four different visions.

A classic tale about a boy and a robot defending Earth from a creature in outer space.

A young girl's life seems unexciting in comparison to her storybook heroine until she helps her solve the mystery of a missing school cup

A modern day boy visits the stone age and learns about prehistoric life.

Leon takes his younger siblings to a magic show and ends up becoming part of the act.

A lively rhyme showing the chaos a zany cat brings to a household.

A strange black dog grows bigger and bigger as each member of a family becomes terrified by it until the youngest family member makes them see the dog for what it is by not being scared of it.

Barry attempts to get Bunky his best friend back, organises a girly-screamvoice test and tries to avoid seeing his teacher kissing his gran.

An anthology of poems from various poets celebrating festivals from all over the world.

Children discover that their teachers have been taken over by aliens.

Anna and her family take a trip to the village where her grandparents were born

Three funny stories with Billy, centred around the World Cup

Anna helps local children learn to read and write while visiting her Grandparent's childhood village, and makes a special friend while she is there.

A collection of poems and songs portraying primary school life.

You all know the story of the 3 little pigs - well you're in for a shock.

Follows the mishaps of Tim on an adventure holiday.

A boy leaves home to pursue his destiny after his uncle becomes obsessed with canning fish.

A boy has an adventure at sea with a cast of fantastical people and creatures when he goes in search of his missing parents.

Follows the antics of the author and illustrator as they put-off writing their next book by expanding their tree house

Tells the story of one family's flight to seek refuge and a new life in a strange country.

A young girl woken from hibernation has to save everyone when mutated cakes and scavenger aliens threaten the spaceship

An 11-year-old boy helps his 13-year-old super-powered brother stop an obsessed business man as well as an asteroid from destroying Earth

Barry and his friends battle a property developer at an island camp for young children

A girl investigates the disappearance of chocolate after the arrival of a new chocolate shop to her hometown

Follows the adventures of Christopher Robin and his toy animal friends in the Hundred Acre Wood.

A girl and her family who run a tiny bookshop find themselves mixed up in a conspiracy when they manage to win a bigger bookshop as a raffle prize

A boy with a love of science accidentally invents a machine that can make cats talk.

A girl is given a fifty pence coin that grants wishes and uses it to get a pet.

The 35th anniversary of The Hodgeheg - a timeless classic tale for young children from the master of animal stories, Dick King-Smith. Includes an author profile and interview, and fun facts.

A collection of light-hearted poems on the theme of science and technology

Silly facts and humorous asides about pets and their habits.

A look at the life and work of groundbreaking herpetologist Joan Procter.

Izzy and her Year 4 friends fear there is a yeti in their playground when they are snowed in at school by the Beast from the East.

Stories of Paddington Bear have delighted children for fifty years.

A young girl learns of the hardship and suffering of children in a local concentration camp and begins to help them secretly

A boy must make a radical medical decision.

This is the dangerous inner city at night and we travel with Shane as he takes home a stray kitten, running terrified from a gang, leaping through screaming traffic, escaping a fierce dog and finally arriving 'home'

A young Jewish girl must escape Germany with her family when Nazis persecute all Jews and war breaks out

Three children who live on a rubbish dump make a dangerous journey to find a safe place they can call home.

An 11-year-old Ethiopian boy hopes to realise his dream of becoming an athlete when he joins his grandfather on a trip to the capital city of Addis Ababa.

A cat learns about an ancient martial art from a mysterious ancestor when he is forced out of his home and made to survive in the city

A boy is employed by a magician to work in his shop and helps him defeat an evil sorcerer by using the power of imagination

When strange plant spores begin destroying buildings and killing people, a young boy and others strive to survive in their tower block in south London.

A group of animals travel across the country to find a new home after their wood is bulldozed by men

A collection of witty poems by Michael Rosen

Two children investigate when their cousin goes missing

A boy with OCD turns detective when he is the last person to see a neighbour's young son before he goes missing.

A girl struggling with growing pains finds new friends and motivation through joining a roller derby team.

A young pickpocket on the streets of Paris finds her life changed after a chance encounter with the Montgolfier family and their quest to be the first people to fly in a hot-air balloon.

Two children set off on a quest to defeat the evil Ice Queen who keeps their world in her icy grip.

Twin brother and sister, Arthur and Maudie set off to find their explorer father who is reputed to have died trying to reach South Polaris.

The granddaughter of Baba Yaga yearns to change her destiny which ties her to her grandmother's enchanted house which moves from place to place at will.

When Ella joins a new school she is befriended by a girl who turns out to be cruel and manipulative

Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, who works there as a maid.

Peter and his family live among the Quinces in the cookery section of a mystical library, and at night, when the library comes to life, Peter ventures out of his home to find a missing volume...

Some school friends discover a seemingly haunted hotel room.

Although Sam bullies Davey in front of his friends, when he gets to know him, he realizes he likes him, but won't let his friends know, until a joke endangers Davey's life.

A boy. A wolf. A legend for all time. The first book in the internationally bestselling WOLF BROTHER (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) series by renowned author Michelle Paver.

A girl survives on an island after a catastrophic flood separates her from her family

The classic adventures of three children who find their new home is near a railway line.

A boy recounts his adventure when he finds a strange, lost 'thing' in the street and tries to find out where it belongs.

A twelve-year-old boy plans to steal all the fairies' gold, but his plan is thwarted by the fairies of the crack LEPrecon Unit.

The 13-year-old proprietor of a Penny Dreadful magazine encounters a dark mystery when she investigates the deranged writings of inmates of Bedlam insane asylum predicting events of the 20th century.

The Hobbit is the unforgettable story of Bilbo, a peace-loving hobbit, who embarks on a strange and magical adventure.

A 10-year-old boy born with a facial abnormality attempts mainstream school for the first time

A deprived and physically abused boy from London flourishes under the care of an old man when he is evacuated to the countryside during World War II.

A human boy must team up with enemy aliens to fulfill his destiny of saving the galaxy from a lethal supernova.

Reissue of Benjamin Zephaniah's collection of poetry.

Ten-year-old Ayesha risks death to make a lifesaving dash through war-torn Lebanon to try and find medicine for her sick grandmother.

A young girl must help clear the name of a man traumatised by war when he is accused of abducting a girl who has gone missing.

Elliot teams up with Olympian gods when he and the zodiac Virgo accidentally released the sleep daemon from his prison.

A fierce dragon is tricked into being turned into a human when she drinks a magical chocolate potion.

Two boys, one of whom has anger issues and has been bullying the other who has OCD, are forced to spend the summer cooperating together in the building of a raft.