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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Katherine Johnson: A Life Story

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

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The Dictionary of Difficult Words

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

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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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Lesser Spotted Animals

Martin Brown alerts readers to the fact that the same ...

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Now or Never: A Dunkirk Story

In 1939 Fazal Khan decides to leave his home in Rawalpindi ...

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Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII

Sally Deng explores the role of women pilots during World ...

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Stories for South Asian Super Girls

Clearly influenced by Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls in ...

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Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women

Rebel Voices puts women’s fight for the right to vote into a ...

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Suffragette: The Battle for Equality

A well-researched account of the women’s suffrage movement ...

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The World in My Kitchen

An enticing and well-organised global recipe book. Each ...

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Women in Science

This appealingly designed book highlights the work of women ...

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Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya

This picture book describes the life of Wangari Maathai, who ...

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