School Reading List podcast hosted by Tom Tolkien
Season 1: Episode 2
For transcripts, links to all the books featured, resources, show notes and contact details, click here: https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/podcasts/series-1-episode-2
Part one.
Book post:
- Stone by Finbar Hawkins
- Who's Hiding by Satoru Onishi
- The Curse of the Tomb Robbers by Andy Seed
- Stories of Peace and Kindness For a Better World by Elizabeth Laird
- The Worlds We Leave Behind by A.F. Harrold illustrated by Levi Pinfold
- The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma Carroll
- My Rhinoceros by Jon Agee
- The Tale of Truthwater Lake by Emma Carroll
- No Place For Monsters by Kory Merritt
- Unraveller by Frances Hardinge
- The TreeKeepers by Kieran Larwood
- Shu Lin's Grandpa by Matt Goodfellow and Yu Rong
- The Island by Armin Greder
Rundown - top 30 children's and YA books to buy in August 2022:
- It's Tough to be Tiny by Kim Woolcock
- Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair by Ella McLeod
- Egyptian Myths by Jean Menzies
- Ella and the Waves by Britta Teckentrup
- All the Pieces of Me by Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott
- World of Weird: A Creepy Compendium of True Stories by Tom Adams
- Paper Boat, Paper Bird by David Almond
- The Dangerous Life of Ophelia Bottom by Susie Bower
- Ergo by Alexis Deacon
- The Last Whale by Chris Vick
- The Accidental Stowaway by Judith Eagle
- The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean by Alastair Humphreys
- Giant Island by Jane Yolen
- The Worlds We Leave Behind by A.F. Harrold.
- Our Tower by Joseph Coelho
- Which Bum's Mum's? by Jonny Leighton.
- Medicine: A Magnificently Illustrated History by Briony Hudson
- The Blue-Footed Booby by Rob Biddulph
- The Cartoons That Saved The World by Tom Ellen
- Vi Spy: The Girl with the Golden Gran by Maz Evans
- Resist!: One Girl's Fight Back Against the Nazis by Tom Palmer
- To Catch A Cloud by Elena de Roo
- Passionate about Penguins by Owen Davey
- Bad Panda: The Cake Escape by Swapna Haddow
- How Many Ways Can You Cook An Egg? By Lizzie Mabbott Berlin
- Britannica's Word of the Day by Patrick and Rennee Kelly
- Waking the Witch by Rachel Burge.
- Lift-the-flap Strongest, Cleverest, Deadliest… by Darran Stobbart and Lan Cook
- Rosie Raja: Churchill's Spy by Sufiya Ahmed
- Powered by Plants by Clive Gifford
- The Beastly Bunch by Leisa Stewart-Sharpe
August 2022 books of the month:
- Fiction: Resist by Tom Palmer
- Nonfiction: Britannica's Word of the Day by Patrick and Rennee Kelly & Sue Macy
- Picture book: Ella and the Waves by Britta Teckentrup
Part two.
Time travelling to a world of second-hand books. In this episode, we feature children's science fiction writer, Nicholas Fisk.
Part three.
Should school classrooms feature wall displays? (And how this impacts reading for pleasure). With a social media poll.
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