Topic: English, PSHE & Citizenship
Age Range: 3-6
Call the Puffins is a delightful series for readers 5+ all about puffins and teamwork. Each book follows a group of young puffins who are in training to join a search and rescue team.
Download these fun activity sheets to use with your class
Topic: Science
Age Range: 3-6
Related Book: Meet the Microbes!
Book Creator: Emily Grossman, Maggie Li
Meet the Microbes will help your class discover how these tiny organisms, including bacteria, viruses and fungi, are vital to life on Earth.
Download this fun activity sheet to share with your class and introduce your class to Dr Emily Grossman in this fascinating video as she reassures children about the positives of microbes
Topic: Empathy, History, PSHE & Citizenship
Age Range: 3-6
Related Book: When We Say Black Lives Matter
Book Creator: Maxine Beneba Clarke
When We Say Black Lives Matter is a beautifully illustrated and poignant picture book about the Black Lives Matter movement – its deep history, background and meaning – as well as a focus on the tremendous amount of work still left to do.
Download these activity sheets to use with your class
Topic: Climate change, Non-Fiction
Related Book: Eco Explorers: A Climate in Chaos: and how you can help
Book Creator: Neal Layton
A Climate in Chaos is a timely guide for kids about how they can help protect our planet, including suggestions, big and small, to inspire them to get involved. Download these activity sheets to use with your students
Themes: Climate Change | Taking action
Topic: Climate change, Non-Fiction
Related Book: Eco Explorers: A Climate in Chaos: and how you can help
Book Creator: Neal Layton
A Climate in Chaos is a timely guide for kids about how they can help protect our planet, including suggestions, big and small, to inspire them to get involved.
Themes: Climate Change | Greenhouse gases | The impact of climate change | Carbon footprints | Taking action | The environment
Topic: Careers, Maths, Non-Fiction, Science
Age Range: 3-6
Related Book: An Engineer Like Me
Book Creator: Nadja Sarell, Shini Somara
Discover how planes stay up in the air, why ice creams melt and how robots have gone to Mars in these brilliant picture books designed to unlock a love of science – written by scientist and TV presenter Dr Shini Somara.
Packed with female role models and accurate non-fiction content, these colourful books are perfect for inspiring the future engineers, coders and scientists in your class and will be great additions to your KS1 STEM lessons.
Themes: STEM | Science | Technology | Non fiction | Biography
Topic: Careers, Maths, Non-Fiction, Science
Age Range: 3-6
Related Book: An Engineer Like Me
Book Creator: Nadja Sarell, Shini Somara
Discover how planes stay up in the air, why ice creams melt and how robots have gone to Mars in these brilliant picture books designed to unlock a love of science – written by scientist and TV presenter Dr Shini Somara.
Packed with female role models and accurate non-fiction content, these colourful books are perfect for inspiring the future engineers, coders and scientists in your class and will be great additions to your KS1 STEM lessons.
Themes: STEM | Science | Technology | Non fiction | Biography
Topic: English
Related Book: Bumble and Snug and the Angry Pirates
Book Creator: Mark Bradley
A full-colour, young graphic novel series about two monsters with BIG feelings, written and illustrated by Mark Bradley.
Themes: Graphic Novels | Imagination | Funny
Topic: English
Age Range: 3-6
Related Book: The Queen's Hat
Book Creator: Steve Antony
Follow the Queen on a hilarious adventure through London, in pursuit of her fly-away hat in this laugh-out-loud celebration of London and Queen Elizabeth II from Steve Antony. Download these fun activity sheets to use with your class
Also available: Queen’s Hat Trail Activity
Topic: English
Related Book: Oi Frog! Board Book
Free curriculum-linked resources for Reception and KS1 pupils to support lesson topics on phonics and rhyming sounds based on the bestselling Oi Frog and Friends! picture book series by creators Kes Gray and Jim Field.
These resources will help to develop reading, comprehension and spelling as well as cross-curricular links to art and emotional literacy. Featuring the Oi Frog and Friends! trademark animal, rhyming silliness from the picture books, these are guaranteed to get kids giggling!
Themes: Animals | Humour | Rhyming | Phonics | Comprehension | Emotional Literacy
Topic: Art, Climate change, English
Age Range: 3-6
Related Book: Sea Keepers: The Mermaid's Dolphin
Book Creator: Coral Ripley
The Sea Keepers series is a mermaid series with a strong environmental message about saving our seas.
Themes: Environment | Conservation | Creative Writing | Art
Age Range: 3-6
Related Book: Wee Unicorn
Book Creator: Meg McLaren
Inspired by Scottish folklore, Wee Unicorn is a tale of being yourself and finding friendship in the most unexpected places . . . because even the beast at the bottom of the loch needs a friend.
Themes: Friendship | Folklore | Scotland | Magic