The Book Club recommends children’s books on different themes and for different age groups every Monday until the end of August. Recommendations include old favourites, classics, new releases, books you can borrow from the library and books to delight the whole family.
This year is even more special because they've enlisted the help of Frank Cottrell-Boyce, SLA Patron, award-winning author and screenwriter and the current Waterstones Children’s Laureate, as well as Cressida Cowell, author and illustrator of the bestselling the How to Train Your Dragon.
As Frank is a Patron of the SLA, this year we thought we'd get involved and support the Book Club by suggesting our own reading recommendations on each weekly theme!
The Book Club this week recommends children’s books on the theme of Nature. Frank Cottrell-Boyce, SLA Patron, award-winning author and screenwriter and the current Waterstones Children’s Laureate, as well as Cressida Cowell, author and illustrator of the bestselling the How to Train Your Dragon have made some great suggestions.
Frank recommends:
Cressida recommends:
At the SLA, we have added ours
Theme: Nature
KS1
- A journey along the Thames highlighting the nature seen along the way.
KS2
- Angela Harding's distinctive prints showing us how to conserve our environment.
KS3
- David Almond is a firm favourite of mine as his atmospheric writing of the Northumberland Fells means the reader is there on the moors.
- Poems inspired by the collection in London's Natural History Museum
Do check back next week to see what the theme for next week will be.
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