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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Little Light book cover

Little Light

An inventive and evocative story, told in poems.

Ava is ...

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I Talk Like a River book cover

I Talk Like a River

What if words got stuck in the back of your mouth whenever ...

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Happy Here: 10 Stories from Black British Authors & Illustrators

Exploring themes of joy, home and family through a wide ...

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Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed

‘You go to school to fill in the gaps.’ You know, in those ...

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The Girl Who Speaks Bear

Yanka has always felt that she doesn’t quite fit in in the ...

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War Is Over

A child’s eye view of the final months of World War 1 is at ...

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A Kind of Spark

Addie is given a hard time at school by many of the other ...

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High Rise Mystery

Nik and her older sister Norva live on an estate known as ...

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Annie Lumsden. A Girl from the Sea

Annie Lumsden lives by the sea with her mother who sells ...

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Katherine Johnson: A Life Story

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

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The Space We're In

Katya Balen’s expertly crafted and emotionally engaging ...

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Poems the Wind Blew In

Short poems that reveal the magic in small, everyday things ...

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