Premier's Reading Challenge booklists 2010
This selection of books is intended to whet reading appetites and represents a range of subject matter, genres, authors and fiction and non-fiction. The reading levels targeted within the lists are broad and overlap to reflect the range of ability that exists within year levels (e.g. Many Year 1 students are still consolidating pre-reading skills while others are ready for more challenging texts). Refer to linked reviews for more information on suggested titles.
Students are not restricted to books listed for their particular year level, and may select books suitable for their particular level of reading ability.
Prep to Year 1 | Year 1 to Year 3 | Year 3 to Year 5 | Year 5 to Year 7
Prep - Year 1
This list contains picture books that support the development of pre-reading and early reading strategies. Prep to Year 1 students can read independently and/or 'experience' these books. 'Experiencing' a book can include a range of classroom or home activities such as shared reading, listening and reading along with a text, or being read to. A print friendly version (new window
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Students, parents/caregivers and/or teachers may choose books from these lists, but it is not mandatory.
| Title | Author | Fiction/NF/other |
|---|---|---|
| The ABC book of animals | Martin, H; Simpson, J; Bowman, A | NF |
| The ABC book of lullabies | ABC Books | NF |
| All pigs are beautiful | King-Smith, Dick; Jeram, Anita (illus) | NF |
| Cottonwool Colin | Willis, Jeanne; Ross, Tony | F |
| Diary of a wombat | French, Jackie; Whatley, Bruce (illus) | F |
| Dinosnore! | Bendall-Brunello, John | F |
| Does a kangaroo have a mother too? | Carle, Eric | NF |
| Eat your peas | Gray, Kes; Sharratt, Nick | F |
| Going for kalta : hunting for sleepy lizards at Yalata | Edwards, Yvonne; Day, Brenda | NF |
| Goodnight, baby bat | Gliori, Debi | F |
| Have you ever seen a Sneep? | Pym, Tasha; Stewart, Joel (illus) | F |
| Hey, Cat! | Arena, Felice | F |
| How absurd! | Wheeler, Beck | F |
| I am too absolutely small for school : featuring Charlie and Lola. | Child, Lauren | F |
| I love birthdays | Walker, Anna | F |
| Leaf : ideas, sound effects and pictures | King, Stephen Michael | F |
| Little Blue | Chapman, Gaye | F |
| Little brothers are... | Norling, Beth | F |
| Little Humpty | Wild, Margaret; James, Ann | F |
| The little red fish | Yoo, Taeeun | F |
| Me and you | Holmes, Janet A; Rossell, Judith | F |
| Miss Llewellyn-Jones | Forrestal, Elaine; Court, Moira (illus) | F |
| The naked penguin | Lardner, Kym; Lardner, Oliver (illus) | F |
| Nudge's tale | McKelvey, Bridgette | F |
| Number crunching | Warren, Kathleen; Carter, Karen (illus) | NF |
| One of those days | Heffernan, John; Perkins, Gwyn | F |
| Our granny | Wild, Margaret; Vivas, Julie (illus) | F |
| Parsley Rabbit's book about books | Watts, Frances; Legge, David | NF |
| People and places | Austin, Debbie | NF |
| The Polar express | Van Allsburg, Chris | F |
| Queenie the bantam | Graham, Bob | F |
| Roar : talk to the wild animals | Lester, Alison | NF |
| Ruby makes a friend | Burke, Tina | F |
| Sheep in wolves' clothing | Kitamura, Satoshi | F |
| Shoes from grandpa | Fox, Mem; Mullins, Patricia (illus) | F |
| Sophie's big bed | Burke, Tina | F |
| These are my hands | Horacek, Judy | F |
| Tom Tom | Sullivan, Rosemary; Huxley, Dee | F |
| Too tight, Benito! | Brian, Janeen; Rossell, Judith | F |
| Wendy | Gordon, Gus | F |
| What shall I make? | Nayar, Nandini; Roy, Proiti (illus) | F |
| Where the wild things are | Sendak, Maurice | F |
| A year on our farm | McLean, Andrew; Matthews, Penny (illus) | F |