Please can you share what your school age child’s favourite book is?

[StrumpersPlunkett]

I had an induction for my teacher training course.
My homework for the summer is to find some good books for each school year reception to year 6.

I have 2 children but they are now teenagers and there are fabulous new authors on the scene since my boys were little.

Thanks in advance.

Happy to pm if you want more details. I can send you the resources when I get them back from our current upper school teacher.

Harry Potter
One that stuck in my mind was 101 Dalmatians by Dody Smith
The shoes stories by Noel Stretfield
Anything by Roald Dahl
The brambly hedge books

Oh and Flower Fairy poems

Was the task specified to be fiction? If not, consider non-fiction, poetry etc as well.

I hve a seven year old. He will read anything not actually nailed to a shelf or in the hands of someone else. Has devoured Tom Gates, Wimpy Kid, and Walliams books this year. He’s currently ploughing his way through the Pokemon manga books.

DS is just finishing Y3, he loves anything by David Walliams, Harry Potter, the How To Train Your Dragon series and the newer Cressida Cowell books, Wizards of Once. Also a great fan of Asterix!

Dd year 5 going to year 6 is loving diary of a wimpy kid books

Year 4 child here and he loves the Tom Gates series. In year 3 it was diary of a wimpy kid
My year 1 son has just started to read the horrid Henry books

My year 6 likes Kid Normal, the Wizards of Once series, the Hamish series, the Dark Lord series.
My year 4 likes Harry Potter, How to Train Your Dragon, Tom Gates, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
I listen to Year 4 read and their choice is overwhelmingly one of: Wimpy Kid, Tom Gates, David Walliams, David Baddiel, Harry Potter and the police dog comics that are written by the Captain Underpants people.

DD1 loved The Roman Mysteries, Alex Rider and Cherub books at junior level
Dd2 loved The Chalet School and A Coronet for Cathy by Gwendoline Courtney.
Ds favourites have varied between Cue for Treason (Geoffrey Trease), The Gay Dolphin Adventure (Malcolm Saville), Biggles, Storm Ahead (Monica Edwards) and Swish of the Curtain (Pamela Brown)

Y3 loves David Walliams and Michael Morpurgo as well as anything else you provide (an avid, voracious reader)

Y1 doesn't like reading and hasn't found anything they really enjoy

Year 5 - Wonder

Year 6 - Bubble Boy

Year 6 - Boy At The Back Of The Class

I’m amazed a year 5 (isn’t that like age 10?) is reading and understanding Philip Pullman books- I recently re-read them and they really were hard going!!!

DD loves the questioneers, we’ve just read Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters.

Also working our way through lemony Snicket’s series of unfortunate events

Year6 "Kick" by Mitch Johnson

Wow!! You are all fab. Thank you so much.
I have a great place to start from now. Going to look these up and get reading to decide which ones to show when I get to my first lecture in September 🙌👍

Dinosaur Cove series was what got DS into reading on his own.
Tom Palmer Football series very popular.