New recommended book list for 2023

Staff recommended reads - Autumn 2023

Our school teachers have recommended a new selection of books for our library - this year's theme is non-fiction books.

Recommended by Mr Drew
“Into the Forest” by Christiane Dorion and Jane McGuinness

Recommended by Mrs Begum
“My Heart Was a Tree” by Michael Morpurgo

Recommended by Miss Kang 
“Gants Hill - A History in Photographs” By Vincent Goodman & Jef Page
“Lessons from our Ancestors” by Raksha Dave and Kimberlie Clinthorne-Wong

Recommended by Miss Yates
“Amazing Evolution” by Wesley Robins

Recommended by Mr Alam 
“Knowledge Encyclopaedia: Ocean” (DK book)

Recommended by Mrs Patel
“Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World” by Kate Pankhurst

Recommended by Mr Nobeebaccus 
“History’s biggest show-offs” by Andy Seed and Sam Caldwell

Recommended by Mrs Cotton
“When I Grow Up - Sports Heroes” by Clare Lloyd

Recommended by Mrs Kilbey-Holmes, Miss O’Reilly, Ms Olusesan, Miss Yerosimou, Mrs Razzak
“First Facts Bugs (DK book)
“Trees to spot” (Usborne mini)
“My first book of woodland animals” by Zoe Ingram
“Flowers to spot” (Usborne mini)
“My first book of birds” by Zoe Ingram

Recommended by Mrs Zubair
“Look inside space” by Rob Lloyd Jones and Baredetto Goulet and Enrica Rusins
“Trees, leaves and seeds” (DK book)
“The Polar bear” by Jenni Desmond

Recommended by Mrs Suleiman
“What’s in the Egg?” By Maike Biederstadt

Recommended by Mrs Moore
‘The Lost Species’ by Jess French and Daniel Long 

Recommended by Mr Cross
“My first question and answer book” by Miles Kelly

Recommended by Miss Lee
“Neil Armstrong” by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Christophe Jacques

Recommended by Miss Khalid
“Children of the World” by Nicola Edwards and Andrea Stegmaier

Recommended by Mrs Choudhury
“She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History” by Chelsea Clinton

Recommended by Ms Suppiah
“Hidden figures” by Margot Lee Shetterly and Laura Freeman
“A computer called Katherine” by Suzanne Slade and Veronica Miller Jamison

Recommended by Miss Akhtar
“To Change a Planet” by Christina Soontornvat and Rahele Jomepour Bell

Recommended by Mr Choudhury 
“What a waste” by Jess French

Recommended by Miss Fan
“A galaxy of her own” by Libby Jackson

Recommended by Miss Begum
‘Human 2.0: A Celebration of Human Bionics’ by Patrick Kane and Samuel Rodriguez

Recommended by Mrs Dias and Mrs Begum
"The Street Beneath my Feet" by Charlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer


This collection will be available for children to borrow shortly.  Watch out for a new display outside Mr Drew's office.

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