Books you may like to share with your children

Texts that help children's understanding of rhythm and rhyme

• Ross Collins 'There's a Bear on my Chair' and 'This Zoo is Not for You'
• Chae Strathie/Nicola O'Byrne 'Gorilla loves vanilla'
• Giles Andrae/Sarah McIntyre 'Morris the Monkiest Monster'
• Tony Mitton/Guy Parker-Rees 'Down by the Cool of the Pool' and 'Alien Tea on Planet Zum-zee'
• Kate Umansky/Nick Sharratt 'Stomp, Chomp, Big Roars, Here come the Dinosaurs'

Texts that are good for prediction

• Emily Gravett 'Old Hat' and 'Wolf won't bite'
• Gemma Merino 'The Crocodile who didn't like Water'
• James O'Neill 'The Wolf who cries Boy!'
• Lucy Ruth Cummins 'A Hungry Lion: or a dwindling assortment of animals'

Texts that are good for early inference

• Morag Hood 'When Grandad was a Penguin'
• Nicola Byrne 'Use your imagination'
• David Litchfield 'The Bear and the Piano'
• Mo Willems 'Don't let the Pigeon drive the Bus'
• Rob Scotton 'Splat the cat!'

Other quality texts

Karl Newson 'The Same, but Different Too'

Kes Gray 'You're called What?!'

Camilla de la Bedoyere 'Could a Tiger walk a Tightrope?' and 'Could a Crocodile play Basketball?'

Emily Gravett 'Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears'