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 Bee is Not Afraid of Me book cover

The Bee Is Not Afraid Of Me: A Book of Insect Poems

Edited by Fran Long and Isabel Galleymore, with ...

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The Midnight Fair book cover

The Midnight Fair

A spectacular, surreal and cinematic wordless picture book ...

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Chicken on the Roof book cover

Chicken on the Roof

there's a chicken

there's a chicken

there's a chicken on ...

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Stars With Flaming Tails book cover

Stars With Flaming Tails: Poems by Valerie Bloom

This soaring collection speaks to all realms of human ...

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When Creature Met Creature book cover

When Creature Met Creature

A powerful picture book about communicating emotions and ...

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Wolfboy book cover

Wolfboy

Join Wolfboy in a hilarious, high-energy adventure that ...

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How To Be Cooler Than Cool book cover

How To Be Cooler Than Cool

A laugh-out-loud page-turner from a brilliant author and ...

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Milo Imagines the World

Milo and his sister are taking their monthly Sunday train ...

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The Last Garden

In a war-torn city, Zara tends the last garden left, growing ...

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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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