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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The Drum book cover

The Drum

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This is the drum ...

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Peck Peck Peck book cover

Peck Peck Peck

Today my daddy said to me, “It's time you learnt to peck a ...

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The Cat and the Rat and the Hat book cover

The Cat and the Rat and the Hat

A raucous, rhyming tale that will have children (and adults) ...

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Caterpillar Cake book cover

Caterpillar Cake

The tuneful, witty and warm poems that form this collection ...

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We're Going to Find the Monster! book cover

We're Going to Find the Monster!

A rip-roaring picture book adventure from superstar pairing ...

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Zeki Gets a Checkup book cover

Zeki Gets a Checkup

Zeki is never daunted by new experiences. Daddy and Mummy ...

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Catch That Chicken!

No-one in Lami’s village is as good at catching chickens as ...

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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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Jabari Tries

The endearing father-child dynamic of Jabari Jumps is re ...

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Bloom

A girl stops every day to admire and talk to a flower ...

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Happy in Our Skin

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

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