Featured Reviews

Looking for ideas of what to read? Check out these reviews from other teachers.

Zoe from the Teachers’ Reading Challenge team will be curating your reviews, posting a selection based on different themes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. You can flick through, print the page and respond to the reviews using the message feature at the bottom of each review.

Books are fantastic for boosting moods. Today we have picked out our favourite teacher reviews of uplifting books to inspire reading for pleasure in the classroom.

The Five Realms: The Legend of Podkin One-Ear

"We couldn't put it down and read it quite late into the evening!"

The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

"The narrative moves at a clip and the language choices are lyrical and unique … This would be a good class reader for year 5 upwards"

Animal Stories by Enid Blyton

"This book is full of wonderful short stories about 5 minutes long – all based on animal characters. Lovely for a quick read with children before bed."

Nadiya’s Bake me a Celebration Story by Nadiya Hussain

"This book is full of amazing stories and activities."

While We Can’t Hug by Eoin McLaughlin

"An uplifting read. I think children of all ages would get something out of this story a good book to read alone or in a group storytelling."

Granddad’s Island by Benji Davies

"What a sweet, emotional short story that everyone should have the opportunity to read."