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Reading Spines

Each year group has a set of books which will be the books they will have heard more than once through that year, a common bank of stories that bind us together as a community.  They will become your child's classic books that they will hopefully remember for a long time to come.  By the end of their time at St Ives Infant and Nursery your child will have learned and loved over 30 books.

*New titles added for 2023*

Nursery Reading Spine:

Rumble in the Jungle

Whatever Next

Suddenly

What the Ladybird Heard

When Jelly had a Wobble

Aliens Love Underpants 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Counting Creatures

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

The Gruffalo

There's a Monster in Your Book

Year 1 Reading Spine:

The Hat Full of Secrets

Once Upon a Raindrop

Billy Monster's Daymare

Stick Man

Poems Aloud: First Poems to Read and Perform

Anita and the Dragons

Not Now Bernard

Look Up 

The Invisible

Five Minutes Peace

After the Fall

Marv and the Mega Robot

 

Reception Reading Spine:

The Lion Inside

Astro Girl

Rumble in the Jungle

Do you Love Bugs?

Sulwe

How to Catch a Star

Ruby's Worry

The Colour Monster

Room on the Broom

A Dress with Pockets

Elmer

Year 2 Reading Spine:

Six Dinner Sid

The Proudest Blue

Lubna and Pebble

The Day the Crayons Quit

The Three Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

Billy and the Beast

There's a Snake in My School

Poems Aloud: Anthology of Poems to Read Out Loud

The Squirrels Who Squabbled

Pizzaz

My Beautiful Voice