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 and 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 Pena & 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 and 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 Egneus

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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