Brave Roots & Brave Wings
Recommended Reading List
142 books curated across both programmes — from board books for newborns to chapter books for 11-year-olds.
📚 Reading List
🎓 Curriculum Overview (All Year Groups)
216 weeks · Years 1–6 · themes, subjects & weekly focus
142 books
| Programme | Age / Year | Theme | Title | Author | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brave Roots | Ages 0–1 | Sensory & Attachment | Dear Zoo | Rod Campbell | 9780230747722 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 0–1 | Sensory & Attachment | Each Peach Pear Plum | Janet Ahlberg, Allan Ahlberg | 9780141500393 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 0–1 | Sensory & Attachment | Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown | 9780694003617 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 0–1 | Sensory & Attachment | The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Eric Carle | 9780241003008 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 0–1 | Sensory & Attachment | Where's Spot? | Eric Hill | 9780723263678 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 1–2 | I Can Do It | We're Going on a Bear Hunt | Michael Rosen | 9781406356946 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 1–2 | I Can Do It | Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes | Mem Fox | 9780547186542 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 1–2 | I Can Do It | Clap Hands | Helen Oxenbury | 9780744524338 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 1–2 | I Can Do It | Peek-a-Who? | Nina Laden | 9780811826020 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 2–3 | Me & You | Elmer | David McKee | 9781842707319 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 2–3 | Me & You | The Snail and the Whale | Julia Donaldson | 9781405020466 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 2–3 | Me & You | Sharing a Shell | Julia Donaldson | 9780330415064 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 2–3 | Me & You | My Friend Bear | Jez Alborough | 9780744578089 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 2–3 | Me & You | Titch | Pat Hutchins | 9780099264781 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 3–4 | Big Feelings | The Huge Bag of Worries | Virginia Ironside | 9781444903997 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 3–4 | Big Feelings | In My Heart: A Book of Feelings | Jo Witek | 9781419713101 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 3–4 | Big Feelings | When Sophie Gets Angry – Really, Really Angry | Molly Bang | 9780439598453 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 3–4 | Big Feelings | The Colour Monster: A Story About Emotions | Anna Llenas | 9781783705504 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 3–4 | Big Feelings | Ruby's Worry | Tom Percival | 9781408889442 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 3–4 | Big Feelings | Nothing | Mick Inkpen | 9780340863589 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 4–5 | Ready & Rooted | The Dot | Peter H. Reynolds | 9781406306590 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 4–5 | Ready & Rooted | What Do You Do With a Problem? | Kobi Yamada | 9781943200009 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 4–5 | Ready & Rooted | Beautiful Oops! | Barney Saltzberg | 9780761157281 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 4–5 | Ready & Rooted | The Most Magnificent Thing | Ashley Spires | 9781554537044 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 4–5 | Ready & Rooted | Ish | Peter H. Reynolds | 9781406314861 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 0–5 | Nature & Discovery | Owl Babies | Martin Waddell | 9781406313598 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 0–5 | Nature & Discovery | The Gruffalo | Julia Donaldson | 9780333710937 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 0–5 | Nature & Discovery | Commotion in the Ocean | Giles Andreae | 9781408312520 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 0–5 | Nature & Discovery | The Very Busy Spider | Eric Carle | 9780241136461 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 0–5 | Language & Story | Room on the Broom | Julia Donaldson | 9780333961124 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 0–5 | Language & Story | Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy | Lynley Dodd | 9780141381718 |
| Brave Roots | Ages 0–5 | Language & Story | Zog | Julia Donaldson | 9781407121086 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Garden Pharmacist | The Tiny Seed | Eric Carle | 9780140502183 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Garden Pharmacist | Grandpa's Garden | Stella Fry | 9781846863318 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Garden Pharmacist | What's in the Garden? | Marianne Berkes | 9781584694738 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Shadow Chaser | The Dark | Lemony Snicket | 9780316187947 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Shadow Chaser | Nothing | Mick Inkpen | 9780340863589 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Shadow Chaser | Switch On, Switch Off | Melvin Berger | 9780064451413 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Bird Watcher | Actual Size | Steve Jenkins | 9780618375943 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Bird Watcher | About Birds: A Guide for Children | Cathryn Sill | 9781561456886 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Map Maker | As the Crow Flies: A First Book of Maps | Gail Hartman | 9780689717628 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Map Maker | Me on the Map | Joan Sweeney | 9780517885573 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Map Maker | Mapping Penny's World | Loreen Leedy | 9780805067804 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Year in a Box | The Invisible String | Patrice Karst | 9780875167343 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Year in a Box | We're All Wonders | R.J. Palacio | 9781524773153 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Year in a Box | The Rabbit Listened | Cori Doerrfeld | 9780735229255 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Cardboard Architect | Building a House | Byron Barton | 9780688093266 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Cardboard Architect | Iggy Peck, Architect | Andrea Beaty | 9780810989535 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Year in a Box | Grandfather's Journey | Allen Say | 9780395570357 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Market Trader | Whoever You Are | Mem Fox | 9780152060305 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Market Trader | All Are Welcome | Alexandra Penfold | 9781524770204 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Kitchen Alchemist | Mix It Up | Hervé Tullet | 9781452147987 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Sound Detective | The Listening Walk | Paul Showers | 9780064433193 |
| Brave Wings | Year 1 (Age 5–6) | Sound Detective | Sounds All Around | Wendy Pfeffer | 9780062386691 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Weather Watcher | The Reasons for Seasons | Gail Gibbons | 9780823410866 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Weather Watcher | Autumn: An Alphabet Acrostic | Steven Schnur | 9780618096312 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Weather Watcher | The Cloud Book | Tomie dePaola | 9780823409995 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Seed Traveller | How Did That Get in My Lunchbox? | Chris Butterworth | 9781406340136 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Seed Traveller | Farmer Duck | Martin Waddell | 9781406302004 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Body Builder | My Amazing Body Machine | Robert Winston | 9780241228975 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Body Builder | The Usborne Big Book of the Body | Minna Lacey | 9781474937733 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Water Guardian | The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor | Joanna Cole | 9780590414333 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Water Guardian | Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean | Arthur Dorros | 9780064450928 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Water Guardian | Water Is Water | Miranda Paul | 9781596439642 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Water Guardian | A Drop Around the World | Barbara McKinney | 9781584690023 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Time Detective | Pompeii…Buried Alive! | Edith Kunhardt | 9780394888484 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Change Journal | The Lorax | Dr. Seuss | 9780007158317 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Change Journal | Last Stop on Market Street | Matt de la Peña | 9780399257742 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Change Journal | One Plastic Bag | Miranda Paul | 9781467716499 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | General / Cross-Curricular | Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin | Lloyd Moss | 9780689839269 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | General / Cross-Curricular | The Noisy Book | Margaret Wise Brown | 9780062854667 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | General / Cross-Curricular | Fly! A Brief History of Flight Illustrated | Barry Moser | 9780060228938 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | General / Cross-Curricular | Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride | Pam Muñoz Ryan | 9780590960755 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Material Scientist | Touch It! Materials, Matter and You | Adrienne Mason | 9781553377610 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Colour Scientist | Mouse Paint | Ellen Stoll Walsh | 9780152001186 |
| Brave Wings | Year 2 (Age 6–7) | Colour Scientist | Red: A Crayon's Story | Michael Hall | 9780062252074 |
| Brave Wings | Year 3 (Age 7–8) | Bridge Builder | Forces Make Things Move | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | 9780064452141 |
| Brave Wings | Year 3 (Age 7–8) | Bridge Builder | Move It! Motion, Forces and You | Adrienne Mason | 9781553377344 |
| Brave Wings | Year 3 (Age 7–8) | Myth Hunter | Ancient Egypt (DK Eyewitness) | DK | 9781405368742 |
| Brave Wings | Year 3 (Age 7–8) | Myth Hunter | The Awful Egyptians | Terry Deary | 9781407104263 |
| Brave Wings | Year 3 (Age 7–8) | Rock Detective | If You Find a Rock | Peggy Christian | 9780152048150 |
| Brave Wings | Year 3 (Age 7–8) | Rock Detective | Rocks and Minerals (DK Eyewitness) | DK | 9781405368872 |
| Brave Wings | Year 3 (Age 7–8) | Rock Detective | The Big Rock | Bruce Hiscock | 9780689718434 |
| Brave Wings | Year 3 (Age 7–8) | World Builder | Rainforest (DK Eyewitness) | DK | 9781405368483 |
| Brave Wings | Year 3 (Age 7–8) | World Builder | Tropical Rainforests | Seymour Simon | 9780061170645 |
| Brave Wings | Year 3 (Age 7–8) | Print Maker | Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press | Bruce Koscielniak | 9780618263516 |
| Brave Wings | Year 3 (Age 7–8) | Electricity Detective | The Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip | Joanna Cole | 9780590446839 |
| Brave Wings | Year 3 (Age 7–8) | Food Scientist | The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten: A Book About Food Chains | Pat Relf | 9780590484145 |
| Brave Wings | Year 3 (Age 7–8) | Inventor | Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille | Jen Bryant | 9780449813379 |
| Brave Wings | Year 3 (Age 7–8) | My Story World | Ralph Tells a Story | Abby Hanlon | 9780761461807 |
| Brave Wings | Year 4 (Age 8–9) | Forces Detective | Energy (DK Eyewitness) | DK | 9781405362023 |
| Brave Wings | Year 4 (Age 8–9) | Forces Detective | The Story of Energy with Max Axiom | Agnieszka Biskup | 9781429634304 |
| Brave Wings | Year 4 (Age 8–9) | My Brilliant Mind | The Wild Robot | Peter Brown | 9781783447581 |
| Brave Wings | Year 4 (Age 8–9) | My Brilliant Mind | The One and Only Bob | Katherine Applegate | 9780062991317 |
| Brave Wings | Year 4 (Age 8–9) | Ancient Worlds | Castle (DK Eyewitness) | Christopher Gravett | 9781405341325 |
| Brave Wings | Year 4 (Age 8–9) | Ancient Worlds | The Story of Buildings | Patrick Dillon | 9780763669904 |
| Brave Wings | Year 4 (Age 8–9) | Ecosystem Explorer | Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults | Robin Wall Kimmerer | 9781571313836 |
| Brave Wings | Year 4 (Age 8–9) | Human Body | The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body | Joanna Cole | 9780590414272 |
| Brave Wings | Year 4 (Age 8–9) | Light and Shadow | The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow: A Book About Color | Joanna Cole | 9780590922513 |
| Brave Wings | Year 4 (Age 8–9) | Light and Shadow | Eyewitness: Light | David Burnie | 9780789448859 |
| Brave Wings | Year 4 (Age 8–9) | Trade and Culture | Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | Grace Lin | 9780316038638 |
| Brave Wings | Year 4 (Age 8–9) | Trade and Culture | How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World | Marjorie Priceman | 9780679880837 |
| Brave Wings | Year 4 (Age 8–9) | Code Breaker | Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code | Laurie Wallmark | 9781454920007 |
| Brave Wings | Year 4 (Age 8–9) | Code Breaker | Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine | Laurie Wallmark | 9781939547200 |
| Brave Wings | Year 4 (Age 8–9) | Earth's Story | The Pebble in My Pocket: A History of Our Earth | Meredith Hooper | 9781847807687 |
| Brave Wings | Year 4 (Age 8–9) | Earth's Story | Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution | Steve Jenkins | 9780618164769 |
| Brave Wings | Year 5 (Age 9–10) | The Trade Route Explorer | Marco Polo | Demi | 9780547255375 |
| Brave Wings | Year 5 (Age 9–10) | The Trade Route Explorer | Around the World in 80 Days | Jules Verne | 9780143107439 |
| Brave Wings | Year 5 (Age 9–10) | The Renaissance Thinker | Big Ideas for Curious Minds | The School of Life | 9780995753617 |
| Brave Wings | Year 5 (Age 9–10) | The Health Detective | Horrible Science: Disgusting Digestion | Nick Arnold | 9780439944083 |
| Brave Wings | Year 5 (Age 9–10) | The Astronomer | A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle | 9780312367541 |
| Brave Wings | Year 5 (Age 9–10) | The Social Entrepreneur | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Readers Edition) | William Kamkwamba | 9780142428146 |
| Brave Wings | Year 5 (Age 9–10) | The Algorithm Explorer | Coding Projects in Scratch | Jon Woodcock | 9781465477356 |
| Brave Wings | Year 5 (Age 9–10) | The Democracy Analyst | Vote! | Eileen Christelow | 9781328499226 |
| Brave Wings | Year 5 (Age 9–10) | The Democracy Analyst | What Is the Constitution? | Patricia Brennan Demuth | 9781524786090 |
| Brave Wings | Year 5 (Age 9–10) | The Sound Engineer | The Magic School Bus in the Haunted Museum: A Book About Sound | Joanna Cole | 9780590484121 |
| Brave Wings | Year 5 (Age 9–10) | My Pattern Discovery | Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature | Sarah C. Campbell | 9781590787526 |
| Brave Wings | Year 6 (Age 10–11) | The Advocate | Who Was Nelson Mandela? | Pamela Pollack | 9780448479330 |
| Brave Wings | Year 6 (Age 10–11) | The Advocate | I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education | Malala Yousafzai | 9780316322409 |
| Brave Wings | Year 6 (Age 10–11) | The Ethical Philosopher | Front Desk | Kelly Yang | 9781338237917 |
| Brave Wings | Year 6 (Age 10–11) | The Ethical Philosopher | The One and Only Ivan | Katherine Applegate | 9780062335227 |
| Brave Wings | Year 6 (Age 10–11) | The Future Designer | Old Enough to Save the Planet | Loll Kirby | 9781913520403 |
| Brave Wings | Year 6 (Age 10–11) | The History Investigator | Archaeologists Dig for Clues | Kate Duke | 9780064451758 |
| Brave Wings | Year 6 (Age 10–11) | The History Investigator | History Year by Year | DK | 9781465414182 |
| Brave Wings | Year 6 (Age 10–11) | The Scientist's Method | This Book Thinks You're a Scientist | Harriet Russell | 9781849764810 |
| Brave Wings | Year 6 (Age 10–11) | The Scientist's Method | George's Secret Key to the Universe | Lucy Hawking | 9781416985846 |
| Brave Wings | Year 6 (Age 10–11) | The Systems Thinker | If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers | David J. Smith | 9781894786348 |
| Brave Wings | Year 6 (Age 10–11) | The Systems Thinker | The Incredible Ecosystems of Planet Earth | Rachel Ignotofsky | 9781526361745 |
| Brave Wings | Year 6 (Age 10–11) | The Systems Thinker | Rube Goldberg's Simple Normal Humdrum School Day | Jennifer George | 9781419725586 |
| Brave Wings | Year 6 (Age 10–11) | The Mathematician's Eye | Math Curse | Jon Scieszka | 9780670861941 |
| Brave Wings | Year 6 (Age 10–11) | The Media Analyst | Killer Underwear Invasion!: How to Spot Fake News, Disinformation & Conspiracy Theories | Elise Gravel | 9781797214917 |
| Brave Wings | Year 6 (Age 10–11) | My Change | Change Sings: A Children's Anthem | Amanda Gorman | 9780593203224 |
| Brave Wings | All Years | Cross-Curriculum | Kid Activists: True Tales of Childhood from Champions of Change | Robin Stevenson | 9781683690185 |
| Brave Wings | All Years | Cross-Curriculum | The Way Things Work Now | David Macaulay | 9780544836875 |
| Brave Wings | All Years | Literacy Read-Alouds | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis | 9780006716785 |
| Brave Wings | All Years | Literacy Read-Alouds | Danny the Champion of the World | Roald Dahl | 9780141365381 |
| Brave Wings | All Years | Literacy Read-Alouds | The BFG | Roald Dahl | 9780141365374 |
| Brave Wings | All Years | Literacy Read-Alouds | Matilda | Roald Dahl | 9780141365466 |
| Brave Wings | All Years | Literacy Read-Alouds | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 9780141321066 |
| Brave Wings | All Years | Literacy Read-Alouds | Swallows and Amazons | Arthur Ransome | 9780099427667 |
| Brave Wings | All Years | Literacy Read-Alouds | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 9780141321004 |
| Brave Wings | All Years | Literacy Read-Alouds | The Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum | 9780141321028 |
ISBN numbers are provided as a guide. Editions may vary — search by title and author if a specific ISBN is unavailable in your region. Each title has been selected for the reading band of its year group; chapter books listed under "All Years" are intended as shared read-alouds.
Brave Wings Curriculum Overview
Complete subject coverage for all 6 year groups — every theme, big question, weekly focus, and daily subject area (Enquiry, Quest, Maths, Literacy, Discovery Day) across all 216 weeks.
216 weeks · 6 years · 3 terms · 9 themes per year · 5 subjects per week