Summer Books for Children

By Poetry Pharmacy

Summer Books for Children

'Summer is the perfect time to encourage children to read. Books draw us into other worlds. A child who reads on holiday enters one new world inside another.' – Guardian

Here are some Poetry Pharmacy recommendations with emphases on play, curiosity and the natural world.

Night Sky

Rola Shaw and Lara Hawthorne

£10.99

£10.44

The Girl Who Planted Trees

CARYL HART and Anastasia Suvorova

£7.99

£7.59

National Trust: Go Wild in the Woods: Woodlands Book of the...

Goldie Hawk and Rachael Saunders

£7.99

£7.59

Make This Book Wild

Fiona Danks and Jo Schofield

£10.99

£10.44

Green on Green

Dianne White and Felicita Sala

£12.99

£12.34

So Much

Trish Cooke and Helen Oxenbury

£8.99

£8.54

We're Going on a Bear Hunt: My Adventure Field Guide

£6.99

£6.64

A First Book of the Sea

Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton

£12.99

£12.34

The Woodland Trust: Into The Forest

Christiane Dorion and Jane McGuinness

£12.99

£12.34

Earth Poems

Judith Nicholls and Beth Krommes

£7.99

£7.59

The Big Book of Bugs

Yuval Zommer

£14.99

£14.24

Bug Hotel

Libby Walden and Clover Robin

£9.99

£9.49

The Sea: Exploring our blue planet

Miranda Krestovnikoff and Jill Calder

£14.99

£14.24

The Bee Book

Charlotte Milner

£12.99

£12.34

Match a Leaf: A Tree Memory Game

Tony Kirkham and Holly Exley

£14.99

£14.24

The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Nature Sticker and Colouring Book

Eric Carle

£5.99

£5.69

The Lost Book of Adventure: From the Notebooks of the Unknown...

Unknown Adventurer

£20.00

£19.00

Bug Bingo

Christine Berrie

£19.99

£18.99

Bird Bingo

Christine Berrie

£19.99

£18.99

The Bee Is Not Afraid Of Me: A Book of Insect Poems

Emma Dai'an Wright

£8.99

£8.54

The Woolly Bear Caterpillar

Julia Donaldson and Yuval Zommer

£12.99

£12.34

The Extraordinary Gardener

Sam Boughton

£6.99

£6.64

If You Go Down to the Woods Today: More than 100 things to find

Rachel Piercey and Freya Hartas

£14.99

£14.24

By Ash, Oak and Thorn

Melissa Harrison

£7.99

£7.59

A Poem for Every Summer Day

Allie Esiri

£15.99

£15.19

Wild Child: A Journey Through Nature

Dara McAnulty and Barry Falls

£14.99

£14.24

National Trust: The Wide, Wide Sea

Anna Wilson and Jenny Lovlie

£11.99

£11.39

National Trust: Who's Hiding at the Seaside?

Katharine McEwen

£7.99

£7.59

National Trust: Who's Hiding in the Woods?

Katharine McEwen

£7.99

£7.59

National Trust: Go Wild at the Seaside

Goldie Hawk and Rachael Saunders

£7.99

£7.59

National Trust: Hedgehogs, Hares and Other British Animals

Nikki Dyson

£4.99

£4.74

National Trust: Look What I Found in the Woods

Moira Butterfield and Jesus Verona

£6.99

£6.64

National Trust: Beetles, Butterflies and other British...

Nikki Dyson

£4.99

£4.74

National Trust: Look What I Found at the Seaside

Moira Butterfield and Jesus Verona

£6.99

£6.64

National Trust: Who's Hiding on the River?

Katharine McEwen

£7.99

£7.59

National Trust: Who's Hiding on the Farm?

Katharine McEwen

£7.99

£7.59

National Trust: 123, A walk in the countryside

Rosalind Beardshaw

£6.99

£6.64

National Trust: Birch Trees, Bluebells and Other British Plants

Nikki Dyson

£4.99

£4.74

National Trust: Sharks, Seahorses and other British Sea...

Nikki Dyson

£4.99

£4.74

National Trust: Go Wild on the River

Goldie Hawk and Rachael Saunders

£7.99

£7.59

National Trust: Look and Say What You See in the Countryside

Nosy Crow Ltd and Sebastien Braun

£6.99

£6.64

Where's My Teddy?

Jez Alborough

£7.99

£7.59

Poo Bingo

Aidan Onn and Claudia Boldt

£18.99

£18.04

The Nature Seed: How to Raise Adventurous and Nurturing Kids

Kenneth Greenway and Lucy Jones

£16.99

£16.14