School Reading List podcast hosted by Tom Tolkien

Season 1: Episode 27

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Part 1
Book post

  • Loverboy by Ben Tomlinson
  • One Day: A True Story of Courage and Survival in the Holocaust by Michael Rosen and Benjamin Phillip
  • The Really Beautiful Thing by Frances Tosdevin
  • Guardians of the New Moon: The Year of the Rat by Eric Huang, illustrated by Phung Nguyen Quang
  • Sammy and the Stolen Paintings by Charlie P. Brooks
  • Mission: Manta Ray by Philip Kavvadis
  • Alex Neptune, Dragon Champion by David Owen, illustrated by George Ermos
  • People Like Stars by Patrice Lawrence
  • Murder for Two (A Tariq Twins Mystery) by Niyla Farook
  • The Zombie Project by Alice Nuttall
  • After Life by Gayle Forman
  • Bingsu For Two by Sujin Witherspoon
  • The Wilderness of Girls by Madeline Claire Franklin

Rundown - top 30 children's and YA books to buy in February 2025

  • Paloma Flies Away by Maria J. Guarda
  • All Better Now by Neal Shusterman
  • Diary of a Future Billionaire by Pamela Butchart
  • Let's Play Rugby! By Gordon D'Arcy and Paul Howard
  • Red Flags by Sophie Jo
  • I Really, Really Love My Noisy Bum by Karl Newson & Duncan Beedie
  • Shiver Point: Beneath the Ghostly Graves by Gabriel Dylan
  • Black Star by Kwame Alexander
  • Mondays Are Murder by Ravena Guron
  • Island of Influencers by Monique Turner
  • Alan, King of the Universe by Tom McLaughlin
  • Dragon Riders of Roar by Jenny McLachlan & Alla Khatkevich
  • The Notwitches by Gary Panton & Dotty Sutton
  • Speedwheels 3000: The Race Against Crime by Jenny Pearson & Katie Kear
  • Boobies by Nancy Vo
  • My Big Fat Smelly Poo Diary 2 by Jim Smith
  • The Full Stop That Got Away by Laura Baker & Nathan Reed
  • The Boy at the Window by Lucy Strange & Rohan Eason
  • Wink, Murder: a Bletchley Park Mystery by Rhian Tracey
  • Surviving Vesuvius by Christopher Harrisson & Beth Waters
  • Destiny Ink: Birthday Secret by Adeola Sokunbi
  • Cloud Nine by Sue H. Cunningham
  • Wiggling Words by Kate Rolfe
  • The Found Things by Petr Horacek
  • Normal Women: Making History for 900 Years by Philippa Gregory
  • Pieces of Us by Stewart Foster
  • How To Roller-Skate with One Leg by Ella Dove
  • My Mum and Other Poems by Laura Dockrill

February 2025 books of the month

  • Fiction: Diary of a Future Billionaire by Pamela Butchart
  • Nonfiction: Surviving Vesuvius by Christopher Harrisson & Beth Waters
  • Picture book: Paloma Flies Away by Maria J. Guarda

Part 2
Our recommended books for year 2 classrooms

New book pitches:•Oakley the Superhero by Roxanne Constantine; Efua's Magic Stew by Angela Ackah-McIntyre; Danny the Ducky and Gilly the Goose by Dushka Petkovich

Part 3Why teaching discrete subjects and avoiding topic teaching encourages reading for pleasure.

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