It’s that time of the year again, the Summer Reading Challenge is back!
Find out more information here:
https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/
Keep the class up to date with what you are reading on the Google Classroom, you could even write your own book reviews for your classmates.
Please see below a recommended list of books for Year 4 children, if you are looking for some inspiration:
Core book list from the Centre for Literature in Primary Education 2016/17(www.clpe.org.uk/corebooks)
Year 3 and 4
Literature list
Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears by Emily Gravett
Orange silver sausage a collection of poems Zephaniah to Agard
My Funny Family by Chris Higgins
My life as a goldfish and other poems by Rachel Rooney
Who’s afraid of the big bad book? By Lauren Child
Window by Jeannie Baker
Fairy tale by Tony Ross
The Ice Bear by Jackie Morris
The fastest boy in the world by Elizabeth Laird
Under the spell of the moon
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Emil and the detectives by Erich Kastner
The borrowers by Mary Norton
Greek Myths by Marcia Williams
The Lion the Unicorn and other hairy tales by Jane Ray
Aesio’s fables by Beverly Naidoo
Beware of the storybook wolves by Lauren Child
Leon and the place between by Angela McAllister
Krindlekrax by Philip Ridley
Me and My Cat? by Satoshi Kitamura
The Day of Ahmed’s Secret by Florence Parry Heide
Danny Champion of the world by Road Dahl
Ug: Boy genius of the stone age aby Raymond Briggs
Traction man meets Turbodog by Mini Grey
Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson
Mouse bird snake wolf by David Almond
Black Dog by Levi Pinfold
The Ice Palace by Robert SwindellsBill’s new frock by Anne Fine
The children of Winter by Berlie Doherty
The greenship by Quentin Blake
Gregory Cool by Caroline Binch
Seal Surfer by Michael Foreman
Lost happy endings by Carol Ann Duffy
The tine forest by Helen Ward
Bookside down by Joanne Limburg
Varjak Paw by S F Said
Moon Man by Tomi Ungerer
Charlotte’s web by E B White
Tales of Wisdom and Wonder by Hugh Lupton
The Iron Man (illustrated by Laura Carlin) by Ted Hughes
The Lion and the unicorn by Shirley Hughes
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
Christophe’s story by Nicki Cornwell
Into the forest by Anthony Browne
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
One dog and his boy by Eva Ibbotson
Journey by Aaron Becker
African Tales by Gina Mhlophe
Fortunately the Milk by Neil Gaiman
The village that vanished by Ann Grifalconi
The wicked tricks of Till Owlyglass by Michael Rosen
Gorilla by Anthony Browne
Can you Whistle, Johanna? By Ulf Stark
Little leap forward . A Boy in Beijing
A hen in the wardrobe by Wendy Meddour
The Ogress and the snake by Elizabeth Laird
Fairy Tales by Terry Jones
Earwig and the witch by Diana Wynne Jones
The last Polar bears by Harry Horse
Fly, Eagle, Fly! By Christopher Gregorowski
Small change for stuart by Lissa Evans
Storm by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Goth girl and the Ghost of a mouse by Chris Riddell
I was a rat! Or the scarlet slippers by Philip Pullman
The Imaginary by A F Harrold
Noah Barleywater runs away by John Boyne
If you could see Laughter by Mandy Coe
Jemmy Button by Jennifer Uman
Mufaro’s beautiful daughters by John Steptoe
Madame Pamplemousse and the time-travelling café by Rupert Kingfisher
The boy with the magic numbers by Sally Gardner
The Wolf’s story by Toby Forward
Classic Fairy Tales by Berlie Doherty
Pugs of the frozen north by Philip Reeve
Poetry Pie by Roger McGough
Demolition dad by Phil Earle
Ronia the robber’s daughter by Astrid Lindgren
Oliver and the seawigs by Philip Reeve
The day my father became a bush by Joke Van Leeuwen
The naming of Tishkin silk by Glanda Millard
The dancing bear by Michael Morpurgo
The little blue slipper by Jude Daly
Pinocchio by Michael Morpurgo
The No1Car spotter by Atinuke
Learning to read list
Anacy and Mr Dry-Bone by Friona French
Angry Arthur by Oram
Artemis Fowl the graphic novel
Asterix the Gaul by Goscinny
Banana! By Ed Vere
Bananas in my ears by Michael Rosen
Belonging by Jeannie Baker
Beware of boys by Tony Blundell
Billionaire Boy by David Walliams
Bringing the rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema
Changes by Anthony Browne
Cheese belongs to you! By Alexis Deacon
Chicken Clicking by Jeanne Willis
Clown by Quentin Blake
Conker by Michael Morpurgo
Count Karlstein by Philip Pullman
Counting on Leroy by Steve Mills
Cudweed in Outer Space by Marcus Sedgwick
Daft Jack and the Beanstack by Laurence Anholt
Dave’s Cave by Fran Preston-Gannon
Diary of a wimpy kid by Jeff Kinney
Dinosaurs and all that rubbish by Michael Foreman
Don’t put your finger in the jelly, Nelly by Nick Sharratt
Emily’s Legs by Dick King-Smith
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
FArTHER by Grahame Baker-smith
Frog and toad are friends by Arnold Lobel
Fungus the bogeyman by Raymond Briggs
Good little wolf by Nadia Shireen
Green eggs and ham by Dr Seuss
Grendel a cautionary tale about chocolate by David Lucas
Have you seen who’s just moved in next door to us? By Colin McNaughton
Here come the aliens by Colin McNaughton
Hiccup: how to train your dragon by Cressida Cowell
Horrid Henry by Francesca Simon
Horrid Henry’s car journey by Francesca Simon
I have the right to be a child by Alain Serres
Is there a dog in this book? By Viviane Schwarz
It’s a book by Lane Smith
John Patrick Norman McHennessy by John Burningham
Juggling with Gerbils by Vrian Patten
Knock Knock Who’s there? By Sally Grindley
Leon and Bob by Simon James
Little Red Hood by Marjolaine Leray
Living with Vampires by Jeremy Strong
Lizzie Zipmouth by Jacqueline Wilson
Mairi’s Mermaid by Michael Morpurgo
Me and Youy by Anthony Browne
Mixed Up Fairy Tales
Morris the Mankiest Monster by Giles Andreae
Mrs Wobble the Waitress by Ahlberg
No! by David McPhail
Oi frog! By Kes Gray
On the way home by Jill Murphy
Once upon an alphabet by Oliver Jeffers
Piggybook by Anthony Browne
Quick quack Quentin by Kes Gray
Rainbow Bird by Eric Maddern
Sam’s sandwich by David Pelham
Shhh! By Sally Grindley
Six dinner sid by Inga Moore
Slinky Malinki by Lynley Dodd
Snow White in New York by Fiona French
Sophie’s snail by Dick King-Smith
Space race by Malorie Blackman
Sterling and the Canary by Andy Stanton
Stormbreaker the graphic novel by Anthony Horoqitz
Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah
Adventures of the dish and the spoon by Mini Grey
The best book in the world by Rilla
The blurred man and I know what you did last Wednesday by Horowitz
The boy who cried ninjha by Alex Latimer
The boy who cried wolf by Tony Ross
The cat in the hat by Dr Seuss
The cat, the dog, little red, the exploding eggs, the wolf and grandma’s wardrobe by Cristyan Fox
The day I swapped my dad for two goldfish by Neil Gaiman
The finger-eater by Dick King-Smith
The fish who could wish by John Bush
The Journey by Francesca Sanna
The Many adventures of Singenpoo by Paul Jennings
The Promise by Davies and Carlin
The rabbits by John Marsden
The sad book by Michael Rosen
The stepsisters’ story by Kaye Umansky
Suitcase kid by Jacqueline Wilson
The three pigs by David Wiesner
The Troll by Julian Donaldson
The tunnel by Anthony Browne
The wolves in the walls by Neil Gaiman
Thirteen Unpredictable tales by Paul Jennings
Use your imagination by Nicola O’Byrne
Vern and Lettuce by Sarah McIntyre
Voices in the park by Anthony Browne
Wacky Wednesday by Dr Seuss
War and Peas by Michael Foreman
Where the forest meets the sea by Jeannie Baker
Where’s Wally by Martin Handford
Who’s that banging on the ceiling? By Colin McNaughton
Willy’s pictures by Anthony Browne
Yo! Yes? By Christ Raschka
You are (not) small by Anna Kang
You’re a bad man Mr Gum by Andy Stanton
Information book list
Atlas of adventures by Rachel Williams
Barefoot books world atlas by Nick Crane
A little guide to wild flowers by Charlotte Voake
Something about a bear by Jackie Morris
Brother William’s year: a monk at Westminster Abbey by Jan Pancheri
Wolves by Emily Gravett
Professor Astro cat’s frontiers of space by Dominic Walliman
B is for Bangladesh by Urmi Rahman
Fossil Girl: Mary Anning’s dinosaur discovery by Catherine Brighton
Mirror by Jeannie Baker
I is for India by Prodeepta Das
Stonegirl. Bonegirl the story of Mary Anning of Lyme Regis by Laurence Anholt
City Atlas by Georgia Cherry
The Tudors. Kings, queens, scribes and freets! By Marcia Williams
The pebble in my pocket a history of our earth by Meredith Hooper
A world of your own by Laura Carlin
The great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
Mad about monkeys by Owen Davey
A filth of starlings by Patrick George
Poo: a natural history of the unmentionable by Nicola Davies
A walk in London by Salvatore Rubbino
