Year 2 Booklist

There is a wealth of brilliant books to share with children in Year 2. Now old enough to sit and listen to longer stories, many 6 and 7 year olds start to enjoy chapter books at this age.

Picture books remain important at this age too, both for independent reading and for shared storytimes with adults, where the words and pictures can be discussed and enjoyed together.

Children at this age are often able to handle an increasing complexity of themes, including learning to empathise where characters experience a range of emotions and new experiences.

Funny books are hugely popular with this age group, as are visually appealing and highly illustrated non-fiction texts covering topics of interest.

  • Traction Man is Here – Mini Grey

  • Billy and the Beast – Nadia Shireen

  • The Big Book of the Blue – Yuval Zommer

  • The Couch Potato – Jory John & Pete Oswald

  • Claude at the Circus – Alex T. Smith

  • Can I Build Another Me? – Shinsuke Yoshitake

  • Investigators – John Patrick Green

  • The Secret Sky Garden – Linda Sarah & Fiona Lumbers

  • Poems Aloud – Joseph Coelho & Daniel Gray-Barnett

  • Mr Big – Ed Vere

  • Hello World Animals – Nicola Edwards

  • The Storm Whale – Benji Davis

  • The Naughtiest Unicorn – Pip Bird

  • Marge in Charge – Isla Fisher & Eglantine Ceulemans

  • Spyder – Matt Carr

  • The Bear and the Piano – David Litchfield

  • An Emotional Menagerie – The School of Life

  • Milo Imagines the World – Matt de la Peña & Christian Robinson

  • Martin’s Mice – Dick King-Smith

  • Fred Wizard in Training – Simon Philip & Sheena Dempsey

  • The Invisible – Tom Percival

  • Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs – Giles Andreae & Russell Ayto

  • Flat Stanley – Jeff Brown & Rob Biddulph

  • The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig – Eugene Trivizas & Helen Oxenbury

  • Book of the Brain – Betina Ip & Mia Nilsson

  • Perfectly Peculiar Pets – Elli Woollard & Anja Boretzki

  • Sometimes: A Book of Feelings – Stephanie Stansbie & Elisa Paganelli

  • Inside the Villains – Clotilde Perrin

  • The Rainbow Bear – Michael Morpurgo

  • Oliver and the Seawigs – Philip Reeve & Sarah McIntyre

  • Anna Hibiscus – Atinuke & Lauren Tobia

  • Unlocked – Delaram Ghanimifard

  • Beegu – Alexis Deacon

  • Bloom – Anne Booth & Robyn Owen Wilson

  • The Proudest Blue – Ibtihaj Muhammad, S. K. Ali & Hatem Aly

  • Into the Forest – Anthony Browne

  • The Secret of Black Rock – Joe Todd-Stanton

  • The King Who Banned the Dark – Emily Haworth-Booth

  • The Story of the London Underground – David Long & Sarah McMenemy

  • The Enchanted Wood – Enid Blyton

  • Midnight Feasts – A. F. Harrold & Katy Riddell

  • The Jasmine Sneeze – Nadine Kaadan

  • Under Your Feet – Royal Horticultural Society

  • George’s Marvellous Medicine – Roald Dahl

  • Lubna and Pebble – Wendy Meddour & Daniel Egnéus

  • Gregory Cool – Caroline Binch

  • Leaf – Sandra Dieckmann

  • A Planet Full of Plastic – Neal Layton

  • The Bee Book – Charlotte Milner

  • Counting on Katherine – Helaine Becker & Dow Phumiruk

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