Recommended books for 5 to 7 year olds

Author	Title	Cover
Joan Aiken	The Kingdom Under the Sea A Necklace of Raindrops Tales from a One way Street
Enid Blyton	The Faraway Tree series
Gina Wilson	Ignis
E. Nesbit	The Book of Beasts
Russell Hoban	Jim's Lion
Raymond Briggs	Fungus the Bogeyman
MP Robertson	Seven Ways to Catch the Moon The Egg
Hugh Lofting	The Story of Dr. Dolittle
Robert Leeson	Lucky Lad Idle Jack Why is the Cow on the Roof
Roald Dahl	Matilda The Witches The Magic Finger Charlie & the Chocolate Factory BFG
PL Travers	Mary Poppins series
Arnold Lobel	Mouse Tales Frog and Toad series
Maurice Sendak	Little Bear A Hole is to Dig
Eric Linklater	The Pirates of the Deep Green Sea The Wind on the Moon
Rosemary Manning	Green Smoke Dragon's Quest
Francesca Simon	Horrid Henry series Helping Hercules
Crossley-Holland	The King that Was (Arthur)
James Mayhew	Katie meets …. (hist. Of art)
Barbara Sleigh	Carbonel Carbonel & Calidor
Philip Pullman	The Firework Maker's Daughter
Rosemary Harris	The Enchanted Horse
Dorothy Edwards	My Naughty Little Sister
Ted Hughes	How the Whale Became
Waters	The Brave Sister
CS Lewis	Narnia stories
Tove Jansson	Moomintroll books
Humphrey Carpenter	Mr. Majeka series
Grindley	The Hare and the Tortoise (Aesop)
Michael Morpurgo	The Butterfly Lion
Philippa Pearce	A Dog So Small Tom's Midnight Garden
Jill Murphy	Worst Witch series
Dick King-Smith	The Sheep Pig (Babe)
Kipling	The Just-so stories
Tolkien	Farmer Giles of Ham
Kate Saunders	The Belfry Witches series
Don't forget picture books:
John Burningham	Borka Simp Get off Our Train Shirley Would you rather
PJ Lynch (Ill)	Melisande The Snow Queen East O'the Sun Catkin Fairy Tales
Angela Barrett (ill)	The Ice Palace Snow White Joan of Arc
Posy Simmonds	Lulu and the Flying Babies Bouncing Buffalo
Rosemary Sutcliff	The Minstrel and the Dragon Pup
Babette Cole	Dr. Dog Prince Cinders Winni Allfours Drop Dead
Christian Birmingham (ill.)	The Night Before Christmas The Silver Swan
Shields	Dinosaur Stomp! Martian Rock
Barefoot Books fairytale series	Mother & Daughter/Son Father & Daughter

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