School Reading List podcast hosted by Tom Tolkien
Season 1: Episode 28
For transcripts, resources, show notes and contact details, see https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/podcasts/series-1-episode-28/
Part 1
Book post
- Diary Of A Future Billionaire by Pamela Butchart, illustrated by Wotto
- Surviving Vesuvius by Christopher Harrisson, illustrated by Beth Waters
- Paloma Flies Away by María J. Guarda
- I Really Really Love My Noisy Bum by Karl Newson and Duncan Beedie
- Let’s Play Rugby by Gordon D’Arcy and Paul Howard
- Detective Stanley and the Mystery at the Museum by Hannah Tunnicliffe and Erica Harrison
- The Notwitches by Gary Panton, illustrated by Dotty Sutton
- Be the Change by Robin Greenfield and Antonia Banyard
- Speedwheels 3000: The Race Against Crime by Jenny Pearson, illustrated by Katie Kear and Nick East
- School for Fireflies by Erica Gomez
- Shiver Point: Beneath the Ghostly Graves by Gabriel Dylan
- Red Flags by Sophie Jo
- Mondays are Murder by Ravena Guron
Rundown - top 30 children's and YA books to buy in March 2025
- The Magnificent Book of Trees by Tony Russell
- Mr Norton's New Hat by Huw Lewis Jones & Corey Egbert
- The Bookshop Dog by Harriet Evans
- Mary Fowler: Football Legends by Kit Cross
- Noura's Crescent Moon by Zainab Khan
- Wolf in the City by Rachel Tilda Wolf
- Nightweaver by R.M. Gray
- Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai
- The Deadly Fates by Dhonielle Clayton
- Meet the Mubbles by Liz Pichon
- Vanya and the Wild Hunt by Sangu Mandanna
- Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello
- Dadbot by Jack Noel
- Stealing Happy by Brian Conaghan
- When the Bones Sing by Ginny Myers Sain
- A Home Is A Nest by Emma Carlisle
- While We’re Young by K.L Walther
- The Greatest Stuff on Earth by Steve Tomecek
- The Appletree Animal Agency by Katya Balen
- Please Don't Read The Footnotes Please by Rob Walton
- After by Padraig Kenny
- Puloma and the Bear by Jasbinder Bilan
- See Inside AI by Alex Frith & Victoria Williams
- Encyclopedia of Birds by Jules Howard
- Away by Megan E. Freeman
- Keep Smashing It by Jodie Ounsley
- Bronte Tempestra and the Weather Witch by Bex Hogan
- Hidden Treasure by Jessie Burton
- The Beck by Anthony McGowan
- Bigg School: Scaredy Cat by Lisa Williamson
- Serial Chillers: The Witch in the Woods by Jennifer Killick
March 2025 books of the month
- Fiction: Please Don't Read the Footnotes Please by Rob Walton, illustrated by Reena Makwana
- Nonfiction: Into the Ice: Reflections on Antarctica by Alison Lester and Coral Tulloch
- Picture book: Mr Norton's New Hat by Huw Lewis Jones and Corey Egbert
Part 2
Our recommended books for year 1 classrooms
New book pitches:• Oakley the Superhero by Roxanne Constantine; The Tilly and Harry Adventures by Ashton Moon; Danny the Ducky and Gilly the Goose by Dushka Petkovich
Part 3
Is it time to rethink dressing up for World Book Day?
Credits and licensing
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