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Mistaken for a Bear

Jamie Beard & Philip Ardagh

In the melting pot of London in 1839, two young dock workers chase a tiger on the loose – a dangerous splash of colour in a world of soot and grime! Written by Philip Ardagh, Mistaken for a Bear is a true story about mistaken identities, brought vividly to life by debut illustrator Jamie […]

Adventure, Animals, Fiction, Historical, Identity, Multicultural/international

AGES: 10-12

Swallow’s Kiss

Jane Ray & Sita Brahmachari

When Blessing finds a lost bag of paper birds she follows a trail of hopes and wishes to the community who made them, in this lyrical, free-verse tale about kindness and friendship. Filled with light, love and birdsong, Swallow’s Kiss is a wonderfully uplifting story that explores the common threads that connect our communities, […]

Faith/ Culture, Family, Fiction, Friendship, Identity, Migration/ Refugees, Multicultural/international

AGES: 7-10

The Little Crayon

Amelia Kai & Jamie Beard

Little Crayon is neither Blue like its mummy, nor is it yellow like its daddy. One day, it’s asked to make an impossible choice that leaves the poor crayon confused and in doubt of its identity. The Little Crayon is a touching story about family, friendship and self-love, brought to life by vibrant colours and […]

Family, Friendship, Identity, Multicultural/international, Picture Books

AGES: 3-7

The Day the Rains Fell

Anne Faundez & Karin Littlewood

Long ago, when the world was new, Lindiwe gazed down from the heavens, proud of the earth and the creatures she’d created. She and her daughter Thandi swooped down to check their work, only to discover something was wrong. Everything was wilting and dusty and the animals looked sad; the earth needed rain. When the […]

Animals, Family, Multicultural/international, Myths and Legends, Picture Books

AGES: 3-7

AGES: 7-10

Meerkat Mail

Emily Gravett

Sunny the meerkat lives with his enormous family in the Kalahari desert. They are all very close . . . so close, in fact, that one day Sunny decides it’s just too crowded and packs his bags. He’s off to visit his mongoose cousins. But from the watery world of the Marsh Mongoose to the nocturnal lifestyle […]

Adventure, Animals, Multicultural/international, Picture Books

AGES: 3-7

Chicken in the Kitchen

Mehrdokht Amini

What would you do if you woke up one night to find the shadow of a giant chicken passing your bedroom door? Go and investigate, of course! When Anyaugo follows a giant chicken into her kitchen one warm night in Nigeria, she embarks on a fun-filled adventure where nothing is quite as it seems. Is […]

Animals, Faith/ Culture, Family, Fiction, Multicultural/international, Picture Books

AGES: 3-7

Bone Talk

Samkad dreams of becoming a mighty headhunter like his father, carrying his own weapons and etching tattoos across his chest to proclaim his greatness as a warrior. His best friend is a girl his age, Little Luki and Little Luki wants to become a mighty warrior too … except in their culture, girls don’t grow […]

Adventure, Family, Fiction, Friendship, Grief/Loss, Historical, Historical Fiction, Multicultural/international, Personal/social issues, Politics/human rights, Warriors

AGES: 10-12

Son of the Circus: A Victorian Story

E. L. Norry

From the slums to the circus, a mixed-race Victorian boy seeks a place to belong. Ted lives with his mum and poorly big brother in the city of Bradfield. When a stranger turns up in their kitchen, Ted gets two big surprises. Firstly, the man – Pablo Fanque – is the first black circus owner […]

Adventure, Chiltern Open Air Museum, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Identity, Multicultural/international, Performance, Prejudice, Racism, Victorian

AGES: 10-12

AGES: 7-10

Now or Never

Bali Rai

A gripping adventure in an exciting new series reflecting the authentic, unsung stories of our past! Now or Never brings a young soldier, Private Fazal Khan, from his home in India to the battlefields of the Second World War. Fazal’s world is now focused on Company 32 and the animals he cares for in the […]

Adventure, Bletchley Park, Chiltern Open Air Museum, Empathy, Faith/ Culture, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Multicultural/international, Prejudice, Violence, War, World Wars 1&2

AGES: 10-12

AGES: 12-14

MISS BANDARI’S GOLDEN HEART

Sufiya Ahmed

It’s about the friendship between a kind monkey and an old crocodile…

Animals, Fiction, Friendship, Multicultural/international, Picture Books

Shubh Diwali!

Chitra Soundar

Illustrated by Charlene Chua Diwali has arrived! Rangoli art decorates the floor and strings of flowers hang around the doors. Now it’s time to ring the bells, light the lamps, and welcome the new year with family and friends. A sweet introduction to the Hindu festival of lights.

Faith/ Culture, Family, Fiction, Friendship, Growing Up & the Facts of Life, Multicultural/international, Picture Books

AGES: 3-7

Under the Great Plum Tree

Sufiya Ahmed

An unlikely friendship between Miss Bandari and Mr Magarmach forms when the pair meet under the great plum tree, deep in the heart of India. Mr Magarmach is old and his hunting days are over but Miss Bandari loves hearing his stories as they munch plums together. One day their friendship is tested but with […]

Animals, Fairy tales and folk tales, Fiction, Folklore & Folk Tales, Friendship, Jungle, Multicultural/international, Myths and Legends, Nature/ Outdoors, Picture Books

AGES: 3-7

AGES: 7-10

Tomorrow

Nadine Kaadan

Yazan no longer goes to the park to play, and he no longer sees his friend who lives next door. Everything around him is changing. His parents sit in front of the television with the news turned up LOUD and Yazan’s little red bike leans forgotten against the wall. Will he ever be able to […]

Adventure, Empathy, Faith/ Culture, Family, Fiction, Grief/Loss, Migration/ Refugees, Multicultural/international, Picture Books, Travel, Violence, War

AGES: 3-7

AGES: 7-10

Journey to Jo’burg

Beverley Naidoo

This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa’s apartheid. Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, who works there as a maid. Their journey […]

Adventure, Family, Fiction, Love, Multicultural/international, Prejudice, Racism, South Africa's apartheid

AGES: 10-12

AGES: 7-10

Illegal

Andrew Donkin

This is a powerful and timely story about one boy’s epic journey across Africa to Europe, a graphic novel for all children with glorious colour artwork throughout. Ebo: alone. His sister left months ago. Now his brother has disappeared too, and Ebo knows it can only be to make the hazardous journey to […]

Empathy, Fiction, Graphic Novel/ Comic, Grief/Loss, Identity, Migration/ Refugees, Multicultural/international

AGES: 10-12

AGES: 12-14

AGES: 14+

Make More Noise!

Catherine Johnson & Patrice Lawrence

“You have to make more noise than anybody else” – Emmeline Pankhurst

Historical, Multicultural/international, Poetry

AGES: 10-12

AGES: 7-10

Island

Chris Riddell & Nicky Singer

Urban teenager Cameron arrives on an uninhabited Arctic Island. He’s prepared for ice and storms and, stripped of his smart technology, possibly boredom. But he’s not prepared for 24-hour daylight and erupting graves! At first Cameron believes the explanations of his research scientist mother. But, as the island reveals itself to him, he begins to […]

Animals, Environment/Climate Change, Faith/ Culture, Fantasy/ Supernatural, Fiction, Friendship, Historical, Multicultural/international, Myths and Legends, Nature/ Outdoors, Travel

AGES: 10-12

AGES: 12-14

AGES: 14+

Koshka’s Tales

James Mayhew

The wise old storytelling cat, Koshka, recounts the magical legends of Russia as she sits in an oak tree on the remote Island of Bouyan telling stories to the Tsarita and her son. These enchanting stories are beautifully illustrated in full color in the rich tradition of Russian folk art.

Faith/ Culture, Fiction, Folklore & Folk Tales, Multicultural/international, Myths and Legends

AGES: 10-12

Children Who Changed the World: Incredible True Stories About Children’s Rights!

Marcia Williams

From the heroes familiar to everyone, such as Malala Yousafzai, to the amazing activists you might not have heard of, like Baruani Ndume, the teenager who gave a voice to fellow refugee children in Tanzania, discover the incredible true stories of child activists. An inspirational and moving book from beloved author-illustrator Marcia Williams, providing […]

Anthology, Biography, Faith/ Culture, Justice, Migration/ Refugees, Multicultural/international, Non-fiction, Personal Stories, Social Activism, Values/ Virtues

AGES: 10-12

AGES: 7-10

The Drum

Ken Wilson-Max

This is the drum. This is the beat. Clap your hands. Stomp your feet! Babies love song, rhythm and dance. Come along and step to the beat in the new Children. Music. Life. series. It explores different musical instruments from around the world and how they make you feel and move! Music helps the physical, […]

Fiction, Multicultural/international, Music/ Dancing, Picture Books

AGES: 3-7

Oscar seeks a friend

Antonia Lloyd-Jones & Pawel Pawlak

What if you could turn the world the other way around and take a peek at what’s on the other side? Perhaps you’ll find something you never expected. Such as friendship. The sad little skeleton on the cover of this book might not look very promising, but when Oscar meets a lonely little girl, it’s […]

Fantasy/ Supernatural, Fiction, Friendship, Magic, Multicultural/international

AGES: 3-7

Why Comics

Asia Alfasi

Why Comics? are the educational arm of Positive Negatives, an innovative organisation producing comics about current events and issues around the world, bringing together talented graphic artists and real-life testimony. Each comic is linked to resources you can use in the classroom, and can be a rich addition to your literacy, humanities or SMSC curriculum.

Empathy, Graphic Novel/ Comic, Identity, LGBT/ Gender, Migration/ Refugees, Multicultural/international, Non-fiction, Personal Stories

AGES: 12-14

AGES: 14+

Reaching the Stars: Poems about Extraordinary Women and Girls

Michaela Morgan

Written by Liz Brownlee, Jan Dean, Michaela Morgan; this feisty collection of brand-new poems is a celebration of the achievements of women and girls throughout history. It includes poems about Malala Yousafzai, Rosa Parks, Margaret Hamilton, Ada Lovelace, Helen Keller, Mary Shelley, Edith Cavell and many more.

Historical, Multicultural/international, Personal Stories, Poetry

AGES: 7-10

Dim Ond Traed Brain

Anni Llŷn

Ti’n agor llyfr. Ac mae’n hedfan, yn drybowndian yn dy ben, ac yn dawnsio â’th ddychymyg. Beth am fentro troi’r tudalennau felly a mwynhau gwledd o gerddi lliwgar a chyffrous sy’n siŵr o’th hudo? A chyda lluniau ansbaradigaethus Valériane Leblond yn gefndir i’r geiriau, dyma gyfrol fydd yn gwneud i ti… wingo’n llawn cyffro

Multicultural/international, Picture Books, Welsh

AGES: 7-10

Fruits: A Caribbean Counting Poem

Valerie Bloom

How much fruit do you think one small girl can manage to eat in one day? In the case of the narrator of this counting poem, the answer is a lot! Count from one to ten and learn the names of some Caribbean fruits, and find out what happens after eating a cocktail of mangoes, […]

Food, Multicultural/international, Numbers, Picture Books, Poetry

AGES: 3-7

The Jungle

Pooja Puri

There was a story Jahir used to tell me. About how the first humans were born with wings. Can you imagine what that would be like? To fly anywhere in the world without worrying about having the right papers? Mico has left his family, his home, his future. Forced to set out in search […]

Empathy, Fiction, Migration/ Refugees, Multicultural/international, War

AGES: 12-14

AGES: 14+

Freedom

Catherine Johnson

Nathaniel doesn’t want to move to England with his master’s family, leaving behind his mother and sister on the Jamaican plantation. But then he remembers what his mother told him: once a slave sets foot on English soil, they’re free. Perhaps he can earn his fortune and buy his family’s freedom, too.

Adventure, Family, Historical, Historical Fiction, Migration/ Refugees, Multicultural/international, Travel

AGES: 10-12

AGES: 12-14

Immi

Karin Littlewood

Immi finds a beautiful wooden bird at the end of her fishing line, and every day after that she discovers something new, until her igloo is the brightest thing in the land. But where are these mysterious gifts coming from, and who is sending them? Hope and friendship echo across continents in this beautiful, timeless […]

Magic, Multicultural/international, Picture Books

AGES: 3-7

Ash Mistry and the City of Death

Sarwat Chadda

Ash Mistry is leading a pretty complicated life. There’s school, his unrequited crush on girl-next-door Gemma… and then there’s the fact that he’s the reincarnation of the great Indian hero Ashoka, not to mention the small detail that he died last year, and came back as an agent of the goddess of death. So when […]

Fantasy, Fiction, Magic, Monsters, Multicultural/international, Myths and Legends, Romantic, Spooky/Scary

AGES: 10-12

AGES: 12-14

Mabrook!

Na'ima B. Robert

Lyrical description of Muslim wedding ceremonies across the world, including Pakistan, Morocco, Somalia and UK. This colourful and exotic picture book shows the different ways Muslims in different countries celebrate the sacred ceremony, while also describing the vows and promises common to all Muslim marriages.

Faith/ Culture, Family, Multicultural/international, Non-fiction, Poetry, Prejudice, Romantic

AGES: 3-7

AGES: 7-10

The Phoenix of Persia

Amin Hassanzadeh Sharif & Sally Pomme Clayton

In a bustling marketplace in Iran, a traditional storyteller regales her audience with the tale of Prince Zal and the Simorgh. High up on the Mountain of Gems lives the Simorgh, a wise phoenix whose flapping wings disperse the seeds of life across the world. When King Sam commands that his long-awaited newborn son Zal […]

Animals, Fairy tales and folk tales, Faith/ Culture, Fantasy/ Supernatural, Folklore & Folk Tales, Historical, Magic, Multicultural/international, Myths and Legends, Picture Books, Waddesdon Manor

AGES: 3-7

AGES: 7-10

Pirates of Pangaea

Neill Cameron

The year is 1717. The newly discovered island of Pangaea is the most dangerous place on Earth, where dinosaurs still walk the land – Sophie Delacourt has been sent to Pangaea to stay with her uncle. But little does she know its perils – for Pangaea is a lawless wilderness, teeming with cut-throat pirates! Kidnapped […]

Adventure, Dinosaurs, Fantasy, Graphic Novel/ Comic, Historical, Historical Fiction, Jungle, Multicultural/international, Pirates

AGES: 7-10

A Jar of Pickles and a Pinch of Justice

Chitra Soundar

Delightful trickster tales from India

Adventure, Fantasy, Multicultural/international

AGES: 7-10

Pattan’s Pumpkin

Chitra Soundar

An exciting, vibrantly illustrated Flood Story from India

Family, Folklore & Folk Tales, Food, Multicultural/international, Myths and Legends, Picture Books, Water

AGES: 3-7

Love From Anna Hibiscus

Atinuke

The seventh title in this brilliant series about Anna Hibiscus, who lives in Africa with her large extended family, by a renowned Nigerian storyteller.

Adventure, Emotion/ Feelings, Empathy, Family, Fiction, Friendship, Learning, Multicultural/international

AGES: 7-10

Anna Hibiscus

Atinuke

A collection of four linked stories of family life set in modern west Africa.

Adventure, Food, Multicultural/international, Picture Books, Water

AGES: 7-10

Alpha

Barroux & Bessora & Sarah Ardizzone

An incredible story of journeys and survival.

Empathy, Fiction, Grief/Loss, Migration/ Refugees, Multicultural/international, Personal Stories, Picture Books, War

AGES: 12-14

AGES: 14+

The Pomegranate Tree

Vanessa Altin

'As we sat in the little courtyard listening to the gunfire in the streets below us, I started to write...’

Family, Fiction, Grief/Loss, Migration/ Refugees, Multicultural/international, War

AGES: 10-12

AGES: 12-14

AGES: 14+

The Crow’s Tale

Naomi Howarth

A beautiful debut book from author-illustrator Naomi Howarth.

Animals, Fairy tales and folk tales, Faith/ Culture, Fiction, Folklore & Folk Tales, Multicultural/international, Myths and Legends, Waddesdon Manor

AGES: 3-7

Jasmine Skies

Sita Brahmachari

Continue Mira's story with the beautiful sequel to Artichoke Hearts.

Adventure, Family, Fiction, Multicultural/international, Travel

AGES: 10-12

AGES: 12-14

Soonchild

Alexis Deacon

A magical tale by celebrated author Russell Hoban, illustrated by Alexis Deacon

Animals, Magic, Multicultural/international, Myths and Legends, Picture Books

AGES: 10-12

The Colour of Home

Karin Littlewood

Mary Hoffman's tale of a refugee child finding a new home in the UK, sensitively illustrated by Karin Littlewood.

Empathy, Family, Migration/ Refugees, Multicultural/international, Picture Books

AGES: 3-7

AGES: 7-10

Granny Ting Ting

Patrice Lawrence

Nine-year-old Michael is coming from London to Trinidad to visit his grandmother, who is recovering from a difficult operation, and his ten-year-old cousin, Shayla.

Adventure, Friendship, Multicultural/international, Picture Books

AGES: 7-10

City of Ghosts

Bali Rai

An epic tale of love, war and rebellion. Can the ghosts of the past change the future of the citizens of Amritsar . . . ?

Friendship, Historical, Historical Fiction, Multicultural/international, Romantic, War

AGES: 12-14

AGES: 14+