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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Blow, Wind, Blow! book cover

Blow, Wind, Blow!

Chase Wind through the oceans, fields and mountains as, from ...

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My Big Book of Outdoors book cover

My Big Book of Outdoors

Discover the great outdoors with this beautifully ...

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Count on Me

Katherine is from a dual heritage family where everyone has ...

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What We’ll Build – Plans for Our Together Future

In this sequel to Here We Are, dedicated to his daughter ...

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A Planet Full of Plastic

Neal Layton provides a guide for children in an accessible ...

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Once Upon a Raindrop

James Carter’s poetic narrative explores the story of water ...

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Winter Sleep: A Hibernation Story

Sean Taylor partners with ecologist Alex Morss and ...

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The Ways of the Wolf

This book reveals many aspects of the lives of these ...

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Hummingbird

After revealing the amazing information that there are 300 ...

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Amelia Earhart

Strikingly patterned illustrations accompany this brief life ...

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Here We Are

Inspired by the birth of his son, Oliver Jeffers was moved ...

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We Travel So Far.jpg

We Travel So Far

Animals and birds from around the world briefly describe ...

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