School Reading List podcast hosted by Tom Tolkien
Season 1: Episode 27
For transcripts, resources, show notes and contact details, see https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/podcasts/series-1-episode-27/
Part 1
Book post
- Loverboy by Ben Tomlinson
- One Day: A True Story of Courage and Survival in the Holocaust by Michael Rosen and Benjamin Phillip
- The Really Beautiful Thing by Frances Tosdevin
- Guardians of the New Moon: The Year of the Rat by Eric Huang, illustrated by Phung Nguyen Quang
- Sammy and the Stolen Paintings by Charlie P. Brooks
- Mission: Manta Ray by Philip Kavvadis
- Alex Neptune, Dragon Champion by David Owen, illustrated by George Ermos
- People Like Stars by Patrice Lawrence
- Murder for Two (A Tariq Twins Mystery) by Niyla Farook
- The Zombie Project by Alice Nuttall
- After Life by Gayle Forman
- Bingsu For Two by Sujin Witherspoon
- The Wilderness of Girls by Madeline Claire Franklin
Rundown - top 30 children's and YA books to buy in February 2025
- Paloma Flies Away by Maria J. Guarda
- All Better Now by Neal Shusterman
- Diary of a Future Billionaire by Pamela Butchart
- Let's Play Rugby! By Gordon D'Arcy and Paul Howard
- Red Flags by Sophie Jo
- I Really, Really Love My Noisy Bum by Karl Newson & Duncan Beedie
- Shiver Point: Beneath the Ghostly Graves by Gabriel Dylan
- Black Star by Kwame Alexander
- Mondays Are Murder by Ravena Guron
- Island of Influencers by Monique Turner
- Alan, King of the Universe by Tom McLaughlin
- Dragon Riders of Roar by Jenny McLachlan & Alla Khatkevich
- The Notwitches by Gary Panton & Dotty Sutton
- Speedwheels 3000: The Race Against Crime by Jenny Pearson & Katie Kear
- Boobies by Nancy Vo
- My Big Fat Smelly Poo Diary 2 by Jim Smith
- The Full Stop That Got Away by Laura Baker & Nathan Reed
- The Boy at the Window by Lucy Strange & Rohan Eason
- Wink, Murder: a Bletchley Park Mystery by Rhian Tracey
- Surviving Vesuvius by Christopher Harrisson & Beth Waters
- Destiny Ink: Birthday Secret by Adeola Sokunbi
- Cloud Nine by Sue H. Cunningham
- Wiggling Words by Kate Rolfe
- The Found Things by Petr Horacek
- Normal Women: Making History for 900 Years by Philippa Gregory
- Pieces of Us by Stewart Foster
- How To Roller-Skate with One Leg by Ella Dove
- My Mum and Other Poems by Laura Dockrill
February 2025 books of the month
- Fiction: Diary of a Future Billionaire by Pamela Butchart
- Nonfiction: Surviving Vesuvius by Christopher Harrisson & Beth Waters
- Picture book: Paloma Flies Away by Maria J. Guarda
Part 2
Our recommended books for year 2 classrooms
New book pitches:•Oakley the Superhero by Roxanne Constantine; Efua's Magic Stew by Angela Ackah-McIntyre; Danny the Ducky and Gilly the Goose by Dushka Petkovich
Part 3
Why teaching discrete subjects and avoiding topic teaching encourages reading for pleasure.
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