20 Non-fiction Books for Primary Teachers
By Ben Harris
Booklist
ALEXANDER, Kwame / NELSON, Kadir
The Undefeated
Andersen Press
Black History
BECKER, Helaine / PHUMIRUK, Dow
Counting on Katherine
Macmillan
Mathematics, History
BURNELL, Cerrie/BALDO, Lauren
I am not a label
Wide Eyed Books
Citizenship, disability
DAVEY, Owen
Obsessive about Octopuses (+ other animal books)
Flying Eye Books
Living things
DAVIES, Nicola / SUTTON, Emily
Lots
Grow
Walker
Science
DYU, Lily
Earth Heroes
Nosy Crow
Citizenship, Environment
HARRISON, Vashti
Little Leaders (series)
Puffin
History
HENN, Sophie
Lifesize
Lifesize Dinosaurs
Red Shed
Living things
The HISTRONAUTS
An Egyptian/Viking/Roman Adventure
b small
History
Graphic Novel
HOLLAND, Michael / GIORDANO, Phillip
I ate sunshine for breakfast
Flying Eye Books
Living things (Plants)
LONG, David Survivors
Heroes
Faber
History, Citzenship
MARTINEAU, Susan / BARKER, Vicky
Real-life Mysteries
Real-life Disasters
b small
History, Science
MARTINEAU, Susan / BARKER, Vicky
Question Everything
b small
Critical Thinking
McGUINESS, Jane
Say Hi to Hedgehogs
Walker
Living things
MORGAND, Virginie
What do Grown Ups Do all day?
Wide Eyed Books
Citizenship
MOTUM, Marcus
Curiosity: the story of a Mars rover
Walker Studio
Science, Technology
ROHDE, Marie G.
Planet S.O.S.
Wide Eyed Books
Geography, Environment
RUSSELL-WILLIAMS, Imogen / LOCKHART, Louise
The Big Book of the U.K.
Ladybird
Geography
WRIGHT, Emma / PIERCEY, Rachel
The Head that Wears a Crown: Poems about Kings and Queens
Emma Press
History
(Various Authors)
Little People, Big Dreams (biography series)
Lincoln Children’s Books
History, Citizenship
(Monthly Magazine)
Science and Nature (magazine)
First News
Science, Technology
About Ben Harris
Ben is an experienced Primary-school teacher and English Lead and is a passionate believer in the power of Reading and Writing for Pleasure in schools. As @one_to_read, he runs the weekly Twitter hashtag-group, #BooksNearBedtime, which focuses on fun Book Chat and developing teachers’ understanding of themselves and others as readers. He writes regularly for the OU RfP site and reviews for Just Imagine. Ben’s blog, a repository of the rest of his thinking about reading, ranges from the place of Magic in children’s books to the enduring power of a childhood fear of the supernatural, and can be found at afewtoread.blogspot.com.