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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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  • Literature (85)
  • Learning to read (74)
  • (-) Information (22)

Year Group

  • (-) Nursery and Reception (22)
  • Years 1 and 2 (45)
  • Years 3 and 4 (34)
  • Years 5 and 6 (33)
  • Years 7 and 8 (0)
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  • Early Years (21)
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My Pet Goldfish

A charming new Nature Storybook all about looking after ...

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A New Green Day

Natural phenomena describe themselves and invite readers to ...

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Hey, Water!

A poetic text describes all the wonders of water using an ...

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Happy in Our Skin

A poetic text invites young children to think about how skin ...

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The Hueys in None the Number

A counting book that begins and ends with a debate between ...

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Tad

This is the story of Tad’s survival from being the tiniest ...

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Beware of the Crocodile

This engaging introduction to the lives of crocodiles begins ...

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Trees

A brief poetic text gradually builds information about trees ...

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Once Upon a Star

Subtitled ‘A poetic journey through space’, the poem in this ...

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Lulu Gets a Cat

In the fifth book about Lulu, she and her family adopt a cat ...

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Happy

A variety of feelings are humorously portrayed by the way a ...

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Once Upon a Jungle

A picture of a jungle is built up using brief repetitive and ...

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