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As we celebrate Mother’s Day this month, our children’s book expert shares her recommended books about mums.

If you’re looking for books on the theme of going Back to School, this selection is just the thing. With fabulous recommendations and links to other content on the Primary English website, it’s here to help you launch the new year in a bookishly good way!

With the holidays fast approaching I am sure everybody is thinking about how to keep children reading over the summer, so the theme this month is Humour! Funny books are the perfect way to engage children’s interest, which also makes them great read-alouds for an end of the day / end of the term classroom treat.

In this article children’s literature expert, Joy Court, gives us her recommendations for books on the theme of evolution.

Here at Primary English, not a day goes by without us thinking about a book that we’ve seen or read and imagining the learning opportunities it holds. We are bookworms through and through and like all educators want to inspire a love of reading.

Once upon an ordinary a day an ordinary teacher was looking for an ordinary book to read with her ordinary children during their ordinary guided reading lesson, when..she stumbled across a quite extraordinary book indeed: Once Upon an Ordinary School Day by Colin McNaughton and Satoshi Kitamura.