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Discover new texts and old favourites along with resources, reviews and recommendations. Let us help you bring books alive in your classroom or library.

The Teachers’ Hub can help you find texts for age groups, topics or subject areas. Please explore the site and you’re sure to discover some wonderful books to use in your school, classroom or library.

Explore our books

Need help to make a friend, find a river or visit the past? Explore books from the dawn of the printing press to the very latest release.

Lila Mackay is Very Misunderstood
Sims, Gill
Scream and Scream Again!
Stine, R. L.
How to Go to Big School
Ayoub, Sarah/ Purnell, Mimi
Howzat Pat (Book 4): Cricket Champs
Cummins, Pat/ Hartley, Dave/ Geddes, Serena
The Wheels on the Bus and Other Songs 60th Anniversary Edition
Play School
Adventure Awaits
Furneaux, Ky
How to get Magically Popular
Sanghani, Radhika
The Fairy Tale Fixers: Cinderella
Underwood, Deborah/ Lacera, Jorge
Cat & Cat Adventures (Book 5): Magic at the Mansion
Yi, Susie
First Day Around the World
Zoboi, Ibi/ Londoño, Juanita
All About: Dinosaurs
Collins Kids
Scaring and Daring: Terrifying Takes on 15 Classic Tales
Horror Writers Association
Sona and the Golden Beasts
LaRocca, Rajani
What It Was Like To Be an Ancient Greek
Long, David/ Tambellini, Stefano
Look Inside Space
Jones, Rob Lloyd/ Giaufret, Benedetta/ Rusina, Enrica

Spotlight reading lists

Need help finding books for the latest craze, some suggestions for your space obsessed students, or to put together a wide-reading box for a topic your class is studying? Our Spotlight reading lists have been compiled by our education expert and include new releases, old favourites and hidden gems.

Human Rights Day

Normal Women: Teen Edition
Gregory, Philippa/ Snell, Alexis
A Good Kind of Trouble
Blurton, Brooke/ Saward, Melanie
Lift-the-Flap First Q&A: Why Are There Wars?
Daynes, Katie/ Mackinnon, Mairi/ Drachkovska, Oksana
Hitler's Daughter
French, Jackie
The Stone Home
Kim, Crystal Hana
The Fights That Make Us
Hagger-Holt, Sarah
Outspoken
Samar, Dr Sima/ Armstrong, Sally
Finding Papa
Krans, Angela Pham/ Bui, Thi
Wandering Souls
Pin, Cecile
Running with Ivan
Leal, Suzanne
What We'll Build
Jeffers, Oliver
Punching the Air
Salaam, Yusef / Zoboi, Ibi

International Day of Persons with a Disability

Dylan Alcott Fair Game (Book 2)
Alcott, Dylan/ Regan, Fiona/ Ziersch, Nahum
The Mizzy Mysteries (Book 1): A Skeleton in the Closet
Hatcher-Smith, Claire
Wolf Siren
O'Brien, Beth
Brielle and Bear (Book 1): Once Upon a Time
Doku, Salomey
Ink Girls
Nijkamp, Marieke/ Bi, Sylvia
Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star (Book 1)
Noakes, Laura/ Sorrentino, Flavia
Song in the City
Bernstrom, Daniel/ Mohammed, Jenin
Five Things About Ava Andrews
Dilloway, Margaret
Penguin Bloom Young Readers' Edition
Kunz, Chris/ Grant, Shaun/ Cripps, Harry
I Am Enough
Byers, Grace / Bobo, Keturah A
All the Light We Cannot See
Doerr, Anthony

Christmas

Santa & Son
Walliams, David/ Stower, Adam
A Song for the King
Nannestad, Katrina/ Blackwood, Freya
A City Full of Santas
Ho, Joanna/ Thai, Phuong
This Is an Elf
Stanton, Beck/ Stanton, Matt
The Christmas Tree Catastrophe
Bowd, Emma/ Shanks, Matt
A Barney Gumnut Christmas
Ainslie, Tamsin
Operation Nativity
Pearson, Jenny/ Kear, Katie
On the Hunt for Santa
Gibbes, Lesley/ King, Stephen Michael
Juniper's Christmas
Colfer, Eoin/ Prabhat, Chaaya
The Boy Who Slept Through Christmas
Lucas, Matt/ Burdett, Forrest
Teeny Tiny Stevies: Christmas Days in the Sunshine
Stephen, Byll/ Stephen, Beth/ Teeny Tiny Stevies/ Howe, Simon
Virtually Christmas
Baddiel, David

The resources you need in one place

From colouring in and group work to collages and essay questions, as well as insights from the creators themselves, our resources offer children engaging and thought-proving ways to access our books. From children not yet at school to those in their final years of secondary education, we have resources across a range of KLAs, themes and text types – and they’re all free for you to use in your classroom or library.

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Summer Holiday Reading Guide 2025 – Picture Books

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