Corebooks

CLPE's Corebooks list helps primary schools choose the very best children's books for their school or classroom libraries. Selected by our dedicated Librarian, this database contains more than 700 quality books to suit readers of all ages and stages of reading development.


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Wildlife in Your Garden

Exceptionally clear photographs make this a useful guide to ...

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The Story of the Windrush

Describing the story of the Windrush generation who came to ...

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A Climate in Chaos

Neal Layton speaks directly to young readers using an ...

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Katherine Johnson: A Life Story

A biography of Katherine Johnson, the African American ...

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The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook

This is much more than a recipe book. The first part is ...

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The History of Prehistory

With two modern day children as guides, we take a trip back ...

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I Love This Tree

The author begins by describing a single sweet chestnut tree ...

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Little Leaders: Visionary Women Around the World

Following her book about Black women in history, Vashti ...

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The Dictionary of Difficult Words

This is a book to create logophiles! Written and compiled by ...

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Snow Leopard

The author, a zoologist who filmed snow leopards for the TV ...

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Child of St Kilda

An atmospheric and unusual picture book describing life on a ...

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The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II

Michael Rosen often writes about his family including his ...

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