Books Alive: Play-Making for Children

Contact Books Alive:

Rose Cottage
35 Spylaw Street
Edinburgh, EH13 OJT
t: 01031 441 4440
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Book-A-Book

Nursery

  • Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
  • Mr Gumpy’s Outing/Mr Gumpy’s Motorcar by John Burningham
  • Where’s my Darling Daughter? by Mij Kelly & illustrator Katherine McEwen
  • We’re Going On a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen & illustrator Helen Oxenbury
  • Ginger/ Ginger Finds a Home by Charlotte Voake
  • The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle
  • Mr Magnolia by Quentin Blake

Early Years

  • Smiley Shark /Fidgety Fish by Ruth Galloway
  • A Squash and a Squeeze/ Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson & illustrator Axel Scheffler
  • Katie Morag Delivers the Mail by Mairi Hedderwick
  • Mrs Armitage on Wheels by Quentin Blake
  • Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson & illustrator Axel Scheffler
  • When the Moon Smiled by Petr Horacek
  • Bringing Down the Moon by Jonathan Emmett illustrated by Vanessa Cabban
  • Lullaby Hullabaloo by Mick Inkpen
  • Little Lost Cowboy by Simon Puttock

Seven to Nines

  • The North Wind and the Sun by Brian Wildsmith
  • The Gigantic Turnip by Aleksei Tolstoy & illustrator Niamh Sharkey
  • Six Dinner Sid by Inge Moore
  • Jinny Ghost by Berlie Doherty & Jane Ray
  • A Sailing Boat in the Sky by Quentin Blake
  • Mr Wolf’s Pancakes by Jan Fearnley
  • The Minpins by Roald Dahl
  • Fantastic Mr Fox by Roadl Dahl

Ten to Twelves

Poetry:

  • Jabberwocky by Lewis Carrol
  • The Shooting of Dan McGrew by Robert Service
  • The Pied Piper of Hamlyn by Robert Browning

Short story collection:

  • On the Money Four Stories

Novels:

  • I Was a Rat! by Phillip Pulman
  • Step by Wicked Step by Anne Fine
  • The Eejits by Roald Dahl, translated by Matthew Fitt

You can choose a title from Book-A-Book or suggest a title you would like us to develop with your children.