Books to read out loud

To celebrate World Book Day 2012, and the Storytelling Superstar competition, why not enjoy sharing some of our favourite books to read aloud?

A Necklace of Raindrops

by Joan Aiken

Jonathan Cape Children's Books

Filled with poetic repetitions, each story beautifully balances the prosaic with the wondrous.

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The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon

by David Almond

Walker Books

A child's imagination is a wonderful thing and Paul's is more wonderful and vivid than many. He has a theory - that the moon is not really the moon but a great big hole in the sky.

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Fruits: a Caribbean counting poem

by Valerie Bloom

Macmillan Children's Books

From half a pawpaw to five jew-plums through to ten bananas, this girl’s love of Caribbean fruits is so infectious you can almost taste the juice dribbling down your chin.

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Framed

by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Macmillan Children's Books

The story centres on Dylan Hughes, the only boy left in a small Welsh mountain town called Manod. This is an immensely entertaining book, about the power of art to bring about change and to redeem.

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Tiddler

by Julia Donaldson

Alison Green books

Although he looks small and ordinary, Tiddler is a fish who loves to tell tall tales. But one day he is swept up in a fisherman's net and then thrown back in to an unfamiliar part of the sea.

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Sticky Ends

by Jeanne Willis

Anderson Press

Jeanne Willis brings you 19 delightfully disgusting cautionary tales, from mishaps on the toilet to adventures with bubble gum in this collection. Hear the fate of a variety of feckless children, from The Tale of Icy Clare who ran off...

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