#HookedOnBooks
By SF Said
By SF Said
I asked the children's books community on Twitter to recommend books they'd seen turn kids into readers. I was flooded with replies and recommendations. From them, I put together this crowd-sourced list of children's books. It includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, picture books, illustrated books, and books with no illustration. The one thing they have in common is that they're all books that have got many kids reading, across all ages, genders and backgrounds - especially kids who found reading difficult before. (Illustration by Emer Stamp)
Horrible History of the World
Terry Deary and Martin Brown
£9.99 £9.49The whole Horrible Histories series was recommended!
Chronicles of Ancient Darkness: Wolf Brother: Book 1 in the million-copy-selling series
Michelle Paver
£7.99 £7.59
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World; Teen Edition Retold by Malala for her Own Generation
Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick
£7.99 £7.59
Funky Chickens
Benjamin Zephaniah
£6.99 £6.64Talking Turkeys was the book that was specifically recommended. It's currently out of print, sadly, but all of Benjamin Zephaniah's books are brilliant!
Read the original #HookedOnBooks piece on this BookTrust blog!