Books for primary schools

Books and furniture for primary schools

Whether you're updating your curriculum topic support, refreshing your classroom reading collection or embedding a reading for pleasure culture throughout your whole school, we can help. Our children's book specialists can support with everything from reading schemes for primary schools, to phonics reading books and book banding, to diverse and inclusive fiction and non-fiction.

Black History Month: Reclaiming narratives

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The theme for this year's Black History Month is 'Reclaiming Narratives'. This theme offers a fresh perspective on Black history that goes beyond the traditional focus on slavery and civil rights and focuses on celebrating Black excellence in all its forms — in the arts, sciences, politics, and everyday life.

Use the sliders and wheel to find out about the achievements of four pioneering black men and women.

Discover the life of Lewis Hamilton, Formula One racing champion.

Discover the life of Mae Jemison, scientist, astronaut and the first ever black woman in space.

A simple, illustrated biography of the football player Marcus Rashford.

Discover the life of Sir Lenny Henry, the multi-talented comedian, actor, writer and activist.

Recounts the life of Mary Seacole and her role as a nurse during the Crimean War.

Discover the life of Olive Morris, the social justice activist and campaigner.

A short biography of Jude Bellingham, following his football career in England, Germany and Spain.

Celebrates Black lives with contributors from 52 cultural luminaries.

Recounts the true story of Olaudah Equiano's life from being kidnapped from his village in Africa as a child and sold into slavery to earning his freedom and settling in London.

A celebration of the lives and achievements of inspirational black scientists through history.

Discover the stories of black British servicemen who fought on the battlefields in the First World War.

An illustrated biography of pioneering nurse Mary Seacole.

Meet 100 icons of colour from the past and presents, in a celebration of achivement.

A celebration of the lives and achievements of inspirational black people through history who made a difference through their sport.

Follows Ghanan skier Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong's

See the world through Faith Ringgold's eyes and be inspired to produce your own masterpieces.

A look at the inspiring stories of iconic figures from Black British History

A collection of potted biographies of inspirational BAME figures from around the world, illustrated in a comic-book style.

This richly illustrated collection presents the extraordinary life stories of fourteen bright stars from Black British history - from Tudor England to modern Britain - and charts their ongoing influence.

National Poetry Day: Counting poems

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A collection of counting rhymes for the very young, and some more challenging poems based around numbers and maths. The titles selected aims to support a love of poetry across all subjects in school, and reflects the theme of "counting" for this year's National Poetry Day on 3rd October.

The twelve days of Christmas or Grandma is overly generous

An illustrated re-telling of the classic Christmas poem

Help Peter rescue Paul in this interactive story.

Ten little bottles... sitting on the wall

An adaptation of the traditional nursery rhyme, Ten Green Bottles.

A board book based on the nursery rhyme, with sliders on each page

An illustrated board edition of the favourite children's song, with die cut holes throughout.

Two little dickie birds sitting on a wall

Retelling of the nursery rhyme of Two little dicky birds

An illustrated version of the classic nursery rhyme for sharing with very young children.

Explores the different activities that Peppa and her friends do at playgroup and gently teaches first numbers from 1 to 10.

A great introduction to books through well-known nursery rhymes and interactive text. Singing songs and rhymes is the perfect way to bond with your baby and share quality time. It also aids language development by introducing them to the natural sounds and patterns of speech. Combining these with actions also stimulates the brain and helps muscle development.

Counts down the numbers 10 to 1 with a story about a group of princesses getting into various scrapes

Reworking of this popular rhyme that introduces counting backwards from ten to one.

A collection of poems by Caribbean poets.

Counts down the numbers 10 to 1 with a story about a group of superheroes getting into various scrapes.

Counts down from 10 to 1, with a group of little penguins as they slide and dive through a wintry, watery wonderland.

Introduces the numbers 1 to 10 with a story about a group of pirates getting into various scrapes on the high seas

The familiar counting song featuring 10 colourful unicorns.

A selection of nursery rhymes and accompanying actions for babies and toddlers.

A version of the classic nursery rhyme, ten in the bed.

A collection of poetry on the theme of mathematics

Celebrate the wonders of science, identity and the natural world with this collection of more than 100 poems by the acclaimed poet John Agard, author of Half-Caste. Jam-packed with beautiful interior illustrations, this anthology is perfect for budding poets, keen performers and those constantly curious children!