Radio 4 Children's Summer Book Club: Adventure

Date: 05 08 2024

The Today programme’s Children’s Summer Book Club has returned for the holidays!

The Book Club recommends children’s books on different themes and for different age groups every Monday until the end of August. Recommendations include old favourites, classics, new releases, books you can borrow from the library and books to delight the whole family.

The Book Club this week recommends children’s books on the theme of Adventure. 

Frank Cottrell-Boyce, SLA Patron, award-winning author and screenwriter and the current Waterstones Children’s Laureate, as well as Cressida Cowell, author and illustrator of the bestselling the How to Train Your Dragon have made some great suggestions. 

At the SLA, we have added ours 

Do check back next week to see what the theme for next week will be. 

 

Theme: Adventure

Frank recommends:
  • The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt  
  • Adventures on Trains (series) by M.G. Leonard  
  • In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak 
 
Cressida recommends:
  • Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston  
  • Time Travelling with A Hamster by Ross Welford  
  • You Choose by Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart 
 
The SLA recommends:

KS1

A Wild Walk to School by Rebecca Cobb 
Two young girls and their mother embark on the adventure of getting to school on time. 

A monster + princess + shark adventure
by Sarah Coyle and Adam Walker-Parker     Pick a story 
Something to please everyone while you can choose your own monsters, princesses, or sharks in a story. 

KS2

I am Rebel by Ross Montgomery 
When Tom leaves Rebel to go off on a dangerous adventure, Rebel is determined not to be left behind. 

At the top of the world: the greatest mountains on earth (and how to climb them) 
Robin Jacobs and Ed J. Brown  
Explores eight of the world's most significant mountains 

KS3

In the shadow of the Wolf Queen by Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Manuel Sumberac  
Ysolda begins her quest to rescue her sister, captured by the Wolf Queen 

The goblin's revenge, Andrew Prentice and Tom Knight   
Fantasy adventure gamebooks where you are in charge have never lost their appeal  

 

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