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Child’s
Play Books in School
Easy Reference Guide
A
number of the books published by Child’s Play are not only
suitable for reading for pleasure but also can support learning
objectives of the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies and
the National Curriculum. Many of the books can also support development
in PSHE and Citizenship. Games are indicated in italics.

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Key Stage 1
Fiction
Stories with Familiar Settings
The Wheels on the Bus
Down at the Station
Mrs Honey’s Tree
Mrs Honey’s Hat
Mrs Honey’s Holiday
Our Cat Cuddles
Stories
and Rhymes with
Predictable and Patterned Language
Classic Books with Holes
What’ the time, Mr Wolf?
Ten Little Speckled Frogs
Ten in the Bed
Mrs Honey’s Holiday
Mrs Honey’s Hat
Mrs Honey’s Dream
Mrs Honey’s Glasses
Our Cat Cuddles
The Big Hungry Bear
Quick as a Cricket
Traditional
Stories and Rhymes / Fairy Stories
See You Later Alligator
Pass the Parcel
24 Robbers
Classic Books with Holes
The Gingerbread Man
What’ the time, Mr Wolf?
Ten Little Speckled Frogs
Ten in the Bed
The Giant that Sneezed (alternative version of Jack and the
Beanstalk)
The Princess and the Dragon
Flip-up Fairy Tales
Stories from a range of cultures
Monkey’s Clever Tale
The Tiger and the Wise Man
Salamatu and Kandoni go missing
From Beans to Batteries
Plays
Princess and the Dragon Mask Book (with playscript)
Stories
about Fantasy Worlds
Balloonia
Tooth Fairy
Wild Weather Soup
Stories
with Language Play
The Prince who wrote a letter
A Present for Prince Paul
Fisherman Fred
Extended
Stories
What’s the Matter, Royston Knapper?
Royston Knapper, Return of the Rogue
The Secret Hedgehog
The Incredible Reversing Peppermints
Trilby
Key
Stage 1
Non Fiction
Information
Texts
Pocket Pals
Great Pals
Proud Parents
Pals
Dinosaur Pals

Key
Stage 2
Fiction
Stories with Familiar
Settings
What’s the Matter, Royston Knapper?
Royston Knapper, Return of the Rogue
The Secret Hedgehog
The Incredible Reversing Peppermints
Trilby
Stories
based on Observation and the Senses
Night Diary
One Odd Old Owl
Puzzle Island
The Red Herring Mystery
Around the World with Phineas Fog
Myths,
Legends, Fables and Parables
The Tiger and the Wise Man (Indian Tale)
Baby Earth (Original myth)
The Elephant’s Child
Traditional
Stories, Stories with Related Themes
The Giant that Sneezed
Witch, Witch (characters from traditional tales)
Flip-up Fairy Tales
The Princess and the Dragon
Adventure
and Mystery Stories
Puzzle Island
One Odd Old Owl
The Red Herring Mystery
Around the World with Phineas Frog
Stories
in a Series
What’s the matter, Royston Knapper?
Royston Knapper, Return of the Rogue
Stories by the Same Author
Puzzle Island
One Odd Old Owl
The Red Herring Mystery
Around the World with Phineas Frog
The Chicken that could swim
A Peacock on the Roof
The Secret Hedgehog
The Incredible Reversing Peppermints
Trilby
All by Paul Adshead
Word
Puzzles, Puns and Riddles
Puzzle Island
One Odd Old Owl
The Red Herring Mystery
Around the World with Phineas Frog
Stories
from a variety of cultures
Monkey’s Clever Tale
The Wise Man and the Tiger
Key
Stage 2
Non Fiction
Information
Texts on Topics of Interest, Information Texts on Same or Similar
Themes, Information Texts Linked to other Curricular Areas
Misunderstood Series – ‘Bats’, ‘Spiders’,
‘Chameleons’, ‘Snakes’
Metamorphoses Series – ‘Egg, Tadpole, Frog’,
‘Butterfly’, ‘Dragonfly’
Children of the Sun
Time Tunnel
Ocean Deep (available Spring 05)
The
National Literacy Strategy Range of Texts

Life
Processes and Living Things
Pocket Pals
Great Pals
Proud Parents
I Know a Secret
Misunderstood Series – ‘Bats’, ‘Spiders’,
‘Chameleons’, ‘Snakes’
Metamorphoses
Series – ‘Egg, Tadpole, Frog’, ‘Butterfly’,
‘Dragonfly’
Ocean Deep
Physical
Processes
Children of the Sun
Recognise
changes in the environment
Wild Weather Soup
Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer
Recognise
changes in physical features
Tristan’s Temper Tantrum
Tristan’s Bedtime
Mrs Honey’s Tree
Grid References
Lost in Space
History/Geography
Time Tunnel
Number
24 Robbers
Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer
10 Fat Sausages (available Spring 05)
Five Little Ducks
Ten Little Monkeys
This Old Man
Ten in the Bed
Ten Little Speckled Frogs
Numbers Snap
Old Macdonald Counting Snap
Addition
and Subtraction
Five Little Ducks
Ten Little Monkeys
Ten in the Bed
Ten Little Speckled Frogs
Arithmetic Lotto
Jolly Roger Arithmetic
Giant Dice
10 Fat Sausages
(available Spring 05)
Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer
(available Spring 05)
Multiplication
and Division
Numbers Factory
Giant Dice
Shapes
Pass the Parcel
Pass the Bag
Measures
Ten Beads Tall
Weight Training
Time
What’s the time, Mr Wolf?
Ten Little Monkeys
Here we go round the Mulberry Bush
Hickory Dickory Dock
Fractions
Fruit Salad
Vegetable Soup
Recognise
how places compare with other places, recognise how places are
linked to other places in the world
Come Home with us
Come and Ride with us
Come and Play with us
Come and Eat with us
From Beans to Batteries
Salamatu and Kandoni go missing
Starting
points for music
The Musical Life of Gustav Mole
The Lost Music
Musical
Families
Gustav Mole Puppet
The Music Man (available Spring 05)
Fear/Sharing
The Big Hungry Bear
Scaredy Cats
Understanding
other Cultures
Salamatu and Kandoni go missing
From Beans to Batteries
Come Home with us
Come and Ride with us
Come and Play with us
Come and Eat with us
Monkey’s Clever Tale
The Tiger and the Wise Man
Self
Esteem
Quick as a Cricket
Who Love you Little Beetle
Mrs Honey’s Holiday
Magic Shoelaces
Environment
Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer
Behaviour
Presto-Change-O
Runaway Kitten
The Princess and the Dragon
Tristan’s Temper Tantrum
What’s the matter, Royston Knapper?
Royston Knapper, Return of the Rogue
See you later. Alligator!
New
Baby
Little Snail’s Big Surprise
Waiting for Baby (wordless)
The New Baby (wordless)
Baby Earth
Stress
Relax
Reproduction
I know a Secret
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