Here are all our reads for the 5-10s age group. We hope you love them as much as we do and they become a firm fav on your shelf! We've tried our hardest to select books which are part of a series - cos, while it's great to have a favourite, it's also great to read something else once in a while too! (Look for the star) If you don't have a copy of any of these yet, then click the 10ofthose.com link, get hunting for a second hand copy or get an audiobook version! Week 1 It is a

You probably know this story by another name - Babe, the tale of a small piglet who is adopted by a sheep-dog and learns the family trade. It is both adorable and well written. Back when the film version of this story came out, it prompted people to go and buy their very own 'Babe', later regretting it when they realised just how large a Large White really is! Babe is a piglet on a mission. He is won by the farmer at a fair and then promptly adopted by the farm's border colli

So I need to confess that I actually watched the film of this before I read the book. Sorry! But no matter as the content of both is brilliant! I mean who doesn't like a story with a dragon in it? If you haven't read the book (or watched the film!) then here's is what happens... A group of tough Vikings live in a remote and harsh island where dragons dwell. Throughout their history, these Vikings have sought to master the dragons and make them subject to them. Until the small

This story has gripped the nations ten year olds for over a decade. If you've not had the pleasure here it is in short form: Two guys (Andy & Terry, who write the book) live in a fantastical thirteen storey treehouse and spend most of their days putting off writing the book. It has fab illustrations and the most ingenious inventions that every kid would die to have in their room. But perhaps the most telling overall theme of the book is Andy and Terry's lack of motivation to

This book was given to me by a stranger. No word of a lie. Someone my dad worked with thought this book was so good, she bought loads of copies and kept giving it to anyone she knew who had any vague connection with children. And so my dad was given a copy with the instructions to give it to his grandchildren. I have no idea who she was, but she was not wrong about it. Here's the genius of it all... The story follows a box of crayons with some work related issues. They form a

By far, above all other books I read as a child, this one will always hold dear to my heart. I can remember spending hours pouring over the intricate pictures on a rainy day, and looking in hedgerows to see if I had found the fabled mice of Brambly Hedge on sunny ones. It is quality of writing and illustration which is hard matched. If you've never been driven to rake through hedges on a day out before, here's what it's all about... The stories follow a community of mice who

Although there is now a veritable cornucopia of Flat Stanley books, the first book is definitely where a reader should start in order to find out the origin of how Stanley Lambchop becomes the ‘Flat Stanley’ of the title (regardless of which book they choose to read next!). For those who have never come across the book, here’s a brief rundown… Stanley Lambchop lives with his younger brother Arthur and parents. One night, while asleep in his bed, a large noticeboard falls from

This story was so beloved in our family when I was growing up that one of the lines in it was regularly used at meal times when trying to get (more) pudding “My mouse place is full up, but my grasshopper place isn’t.” This passed down to my own children before they had even read the book so when I first read it with them there was a very definite ‘A-ha’ moment! For those unfamiliar with the story of Plop (as the title used to begin), here’s the synopsis… A baby barn owl (Plop