Bookclub Picks

Here are some current favourite read-alouds, picture books, graphic novels, and non-fiction children’s books, from the teachers and school library staff at a Primary and Intermediate Schools Bookclub.The books' details were taken from the National Library Catalogue

For a summary of the story, find the book in the catalogue, then click on 'detailed view'.

Recommended Read-alouds

-- Dumb creatures / Jeanne Willis ; illustrated by Nicola Slater
-- Hoot / Carl Hiaasen
-- Kensuke’s kingdom / Michael Morpugo ; with illustrations by Michael Foreman
-- The tale of Despereaux : being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread / Kate DiCamillo ; illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering

Picture Books to Share

-- Edwina, the dinosaur who didn’t know she was extinct / words and pictures by Mo Willems
-- The grumble rumble mumbler / by Melanie Drewery ; illustration and design by Loudmouth Productions
-- SuperHero ABC / by Bob McLeod

Popular Graphic Novels

-- Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty : the graphic novel / adapted by June Brigman & Roy Richardson
-- Boffin Boy and the lost city / David Orme ; illustrated by Peter Richardson

Fun Non-fiction

-- Pharaoh’s Egypt / Mick Manning & Brita Granstrom (see also other great non-fiction by these authors, on a wide variety of topics)