Recommended Reading List for Year 3

Here’s a recommended reading list for Year 3 children aged 7-8 years. This is just a guide and if you feel your children have read most of these, you can move to the recommended reading list for Year 4 children.

Classics and Popular Authors

• The Charlie Moon collection – Shirley Hughes

• The Reluctant Dragon – Kenneth Grahame

• Winnie-the-Pooh - A A Milne

• Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C S Lewis

• Matilda – Roald Dahl

• The Orchard Book of first Greek myths – Saviour Pirotta

• The Sandman and the Turtles – Michael Morpurgo

• Charlotte’s web – E B White

• The Famous Five – Enid Blyton

• Five Find-outers series – Enid Blyton

• The Narnia Books – C.S Lewis

• The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr

• Heidi – Johanna Spyri

• The Puffin book of stories for 8 year olds

• Five Children and it – E Nesbit

Animals

• The world according to Humphrey – Betty G Birney

• Fantastic Mr Fox – Roal Dahl

• Willa and old Miss Annie – Berlie Doherty

• The Diary of a Killer cat – Anne Fine

• All because of Jackson – Dick King-Smith

• Mrs Cockles cat – Phillipa Pierce

• Mrs Pepperpot Stories – Alf Proysen

• A bear called Paddington – Michael Bond

• Black beauty – Anna Sewell

Mystery Stories

• The mystery of the strange messages – Enid Blyton (S)

Humour

• The Accidental Prime Minister – Tom McLaughlin

• Flat Stanley- Jeff Brown

• The Magic Finger- Roald Dahl

• My naughty little sister -Dorothy Edwards

• The twits – Roald Dahl

• Mr Majeika – Humphrey Carpenter

• The legend of Spud Murphy – Eoin Colfer

• Spaceboy- David Walliams

• Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lingsen

Fantasy

• How to train your dragon – Cressida Cowell

Light Reading for reluctant readers

• Charlie and Lola picture books

• The owl who was afraid of the dark – Jill Tomlinson

• Diary of a Wimpy kid – Jeff Kinney

• The boy who climbed into the moon - David Almond

• The Puffin book of stories for 7 year olds

Adventure stories

• The River of Adventure – Enid Blyton

• Julian Secret Agent – Ann Cameron

• The Wolves of Willoughby chase – Joan Aitken

• Emil and the detectives- Erich Kastner

• The Falcon’s Malteser – Anthony Horowitz

• The House that Sailed Away – Pat Hutchins