An easy place to start is the list of 100 books from the Books Trust voted on by the Great British Public.
A book challenge list has the advantage that lots of them are easy and can bolster your child’s confidence with reading books. Click here for advice on finding your child’s reading level and picking which ones to start with…
Or you could try the 100 Kids Books Scratch Off Bucket List.
It’s lovely but quite pricy (£12 ish).
Here is the list if you fancy ticking them off (a lot are out of copyright so you can get the ebook for free at Gutenberg.org):
- Charlottes Web – E. B. White, 1952
- A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, 1843
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter, 1902
- The Cat in the Hat – Dr. Seuss, 1957
- The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937
- Anne of Green Gables – Lucy Maud Montgomery,1908
- The Hunger Games Series – Suzanne Collins, 2008
- To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee, 1960
- Winne The Pooh – A. A. Milne, 1926
- Fairytales – Christian Jackson
- The Little Mermaid – C.A. Reitzel, 1836
- Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling, 1997
- The Chronicles of Narnia – C. S. Louis, 1950
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle, 1969
- Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Bernard Sendak, 1963
- The BFG – Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake, 1982
- His Dark Materials – Sir Philip Pullman, 1995
- A Series of Unfortunate Events – Lemony Snicket, 1999
- The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame, 1908
- Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie, 1911
- Madeline – Ludwig Bemelmans, 1939
- The Snowman – Raymond Redvers Briggs, 1978
- The Jolly Postman – Janet and Allen Ahlberg, 1986
- The Famous Five – Enid Mary Blyton, 1942
- The Magic Faraway Tree – Enid Blyton, 1943
- Father Christmas – Raymond Briggs, 1973
- Green Eggs and Ham – Dr. Seuss, 1960
- Matilda – Roald Dahl, 1988
- Guess How Much I Love You – Sam McBratney, 1994
- The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling, 1894
- The Princess And The Pea – Hans Christian, 1835
- A Bear Called Paddington – Michael Bond, 1958
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon, 2003
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1865
- The Tiger Who Came To Tea – Judith Kerr, 1968
- The 101 Dalmatians – Walt Disney, 1961
- Pippi Long Stocking – Astrid Lindgren, 1945
- Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883
- Fantastic Mr. Fox – Roald Dahl, 1970
- Five Children and It – E. Nesbit, 1902
- The Sword in the Stone – T. H. White, 1938
- Watership Down – Richard Adams, 1972
- The Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson, 1999
- Good Night Mr. Tom – Michelle Magorian, 1981
- Grimm’s Fairytales – Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, 1812-1858
- The Story of Tracy Beaker – Jacqueline Wilson, 1991
- Horrid Henry – Francesca Simon, 1994
- The Velveteen Rabbit – Margery Williams, 1922
- Snowy Day – Ezra Jack Keats, 1962
- Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown, 1947
- The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein, 1964
- Mr. Popper’s Penguins – Richard and Florence Atwater,1938
- The Story of Barbar the Little Elephant – Jean de Brunhoff, 1931
- The Lorax – Dr. Seuse, 1981
- The Worst Witch – Jill Murphy, 1974
- Granny – Anthony Horowitz, 1994
- Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling, 2003
- The Doll People – Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin, 2003
- The Mennyms – Sylvia Waugh, 1995
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1911
- The Owl and The Pussycat – Edward Lear, 1871
- Stig of the Dump – Clive King, 1963
- Heidi – Johanna Spyri, 1880
- There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly – Simms Taback, 1997
- Elmer – David McKee, 1989
- Funnybones – Janet Ahlberg, Allan Ahlberg, 1980
- Carrie’s War – Nina Bawden, 1973
- The Railway Children – E. Nesbit, 1906
- Stormbreaker – Anthony Horowitz, 2001
- The Story of Dr. Dolittle – Hugh Lofting, 1920
- How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff, 2004
- Tales from MoominValley – Tove Jansson, 1962
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott, 1868
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding, 1954
- A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle, 1962
- The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank, 1942
- Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1870
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain, 1884
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum, 1900
- Mary Poppins – P. L. Travers, 1934
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians – Rick Riordan, 2005
- The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman, 2008
- A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness, 2011
- The Adventures of Mog – Judith Kerr, 1993
- Goosebumps – R.L. Stine, 1992
- Animal Farm – George Orwell, 1884
- Miss Happiness and Miss Flower – Rumer Godden, 1961
- We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – Michael Rosen, 1989
- Stuart Little – E.B. White, 1945
- Coraline – Neil Gaiman, 2002
- I Want my Hat Back – Jon Klassen, 2011
- Owl Moon – Jane Yolen, 1987
- The Day the Crayons Quit – Drew Daywalt, 2014
- Tales from Shakespeare – Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, 1899
- Black Beauty – Anna Sewell, 1877
- Thomas the Tank Engine – Wilbert Awdry, 1985
- James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl, 1961
- Each Peach Pear Plum – Janet Ahlberg, Allan Ahlberg, 1978
- Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale – Marcus Pfister, 1998
- Harold and the Purple Crayon – Crockett Johnson, 1955
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