This list is intended to be a guide to books suitable for children in year 3. The list, covering a range of genres, is drawn from a number of sources. Some of the texts are more difficult to read than others and care should be taken when choosing those which your child might enjoy. Please discuss the books your child reads with him/her and remember that it is also important to continue to read stories to your child as she/he moves through the junior school.

The magic faraway tree / Enid Blyton / The Sheep Pig / Dick King-Smith
Secret seven series / “ / Bill’s New Frock / Anne Fine
Famous five series / “ / The Hundred Mile an Hour Dog / Jeremy Strong
Cool / Michael Morpurgo / Return of the Hundred Mile an Hour Dog / Jeremy Strong
The Butterfly Lion / “ / Animal ark series / Lucy Daniels
Kensuke’s Kingdom / “ / Horrid Henry series / Francesca Henry
Billy the kid / “ / Charlotte’s web / E B White
Charlie and chocolate factory / Roald Dahl / Flat Stanley / Jeff Brown
Fantastic Mr Fox / “ / Fungus the Bogeyman / Raymond Briggs
The Twits / “ / The Indian in the cupboard / Lynne Reid Banks
Danny - champion of the World / “ / Mr Majeika / Humphrey Carpenter
Matilda / “ / Please Mrs Butler / Alan Ahlberg
James and the giant peach / “ / Whizziwig / Malorie Blackman
The BFG / “ / Animals of farthing wood / Colin Dann
The magic finger / “ / The little Prince / Antoine Saint-Exupery
George’s marvellous medicine / “ / How to write really badly / Anne Fine
Two weeks with the queen / Morris Gleitzman / Diary of a killer cat / Anne Fine
The Iron man / Ted Hughes / War Boy / Michael Foreman
The Falcon’s Maltezer / Anthony Horowitz / The Worst Witch series / Jenny Nimmo
All because of Jackson / Dick King-Smith / The tale of Rickety Hall / Penny Dolan
Dragon boy / “ / Esio Trot / Roald Dahl
The golden goose / “ / Charm school / Anne Fine
The Hodgeheg / “ / How to train your dragon / Cressida Cowell
Jiggy McCue / Michael Lawrence / Blitz / Robert Westall
Pippi Longstocking / Astrid Lindgren / Cliffhanger / Jacqueline Wildon
The perfect hamburger / Alexander McCall Smith / Harry Potter / J K Rowling
Daedalus and Icarus / Geraldine McCaughrean / Ice Place / Robert Swindells
Mr Popper’s penguins / Richard & Florence Atwater / My mum’s going to explode / Jeremy Strong
The trumpet of the swan / E B White / Whistling Jack / Linda Newberry
How to eat fried worms / Thomas Rockwell / The Owl tree / Jenny Nimmo
Handa’s surprise / Eileen Brown / Mrs Frisby and the owls of Nimh / Robert O’Brien
Daft Jack and the bean stalk / Laurence Anholt / Little Wolf series / Ian Whybrow
Mrs Armitage / Quentin Blake / The great Kapok tree / Lynne Cherry
Where the forest meets the sea / Jeannie Baker / Arthur series / Marc Brown
Storm / Kevin Crossley-Holland / Paddington Bear / Michael Bond
Dragon Boy / Pippa Goodheart / Keeping Henry / Nina Bawden
The wrong kind of bark / Julia Donaldson / Gorilla / Anthony Brown
A dog called whatnot / Linda Newberry / The earth giant / Melvin Burgess
Clown / “ / The green ship / Quentin Blake
Jack and Nancy / “ / Christophe’s story / Nicki Cornwell
A gift from Winklesea / Helen Cresswell