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Get your new class hooked on books with our fabulous collections perfect for the Autumn Term
Fill your library with high-quality, engaging books that will inspire a life-long love of reading. We specialise in finding the right books to meet your needs and always ensure that every collection includes lots of wonderful recently published books that reflect a diverse range of characters and families, promote children’s well-being & kindness and address issues that we know children care about such as climate change. We aim to take children on magical adventures, hear them laugh out loud and inspire curiosity and fascination with our world and beyond.
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Our favourite EYFS collections to start their reading journey
This collection of 39 stories has been put together so you can send a different book home with each child in your class for every week of the school year.
These books will help promote reading for pleasure at home. By providing a bedtime story to your families, children will have a calm and relaxed time before bed creating memories with their family and parents will be provided with high-quality books that will show the value of sharing stories.
We have carefully selected each book for their beautiful illustrations, lyrical text and calm, supportive themes. Our books will help parents start conversations with their children and give little ones ways to talk about their emotions and their day.
This collection contains 39 books: scroll through to see them all!
This is our second collection of 39 stories has been put together so you can send a different book home with each child in your class for every week of the school year. The first proved so popular that we’ve had lots of school requesting a second collection!
These books will help promote reading for pleasure at home. By providing a bedtime story to your families, children will have a calm and relaxed time before bed creating memories with their family and parents will be provided with high-quality books that will show the value of sharing stories.
We have carefully selected each book for their beautiful illustrations, lyrical text and calm, supportive themes. Our books will help parents start conversations with their children and give little ones ways to talk about their emotions and their day.
Scroll through to see all 39 books!
If you would like to be invoiced for this collection, please email julia@chestnutbooks.co.uk with an order number and we’ll be happy to help.
Starting school can be a challenging time for children and their teachers! This collection of books has been carefully chosen to support your new class and to help them develop growth mindsets and the characteristics of learning that are essential to a happy and nurturing environment. We’ve included lots of brand new books and a few of our favourites.
These fantastic stories cover the following characteristics: school routine & expectations, friendship, sharing, kindness, overcoming anxiety, determination & perseverance, courage, teamwork, managing & articulating emotions, community & diversity and independence.
There are 22 books in this collection. Scroll through to see them all.
If you would like to be invoiced for this product, please email julia@chestnutbooks.co.uk with an order number.
Looking for a new class text?
The heartwarming and action-packed illustrated novel exploring what happens when nature and technology collide. When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is - but she knows she needs to survive.
After battling a fierce storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realises that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home - until, one day, her mysterious past comes back to haunt her.
If you would like to be invoiced for this product (or would like a different quantity), please email julia@chestnutbooks.co.uk with an order number and we’ll be happy to help.
On one side of the underwater street is the remains of a house . . . It's beautiful here, and eerie, a lost kingdom, a ghost village . . .
It's the near-future and Britain is having yet another heatwave. Of course, the government have put in the normal curfews for this kind of weather, and shops are forced to shut again. For Polly, it's the sort of heat that makes her do wild, out-of-character things just to cool down.
Like face her fear of deepwater. Essential when she and her brother have been sent to their aunt's eco lake-side house for the summer. But Truthwater Lake is beginning to dry up.
As the water level diminishes, a lost village emerges. Swimming over the rooftops at midnight, Polly dives down and is suddenly able to breathe, to hear church bells and bird song... Polly has discovered an underwater gateway… to the past!
If you would like to be invoiced for this product (or would like a different quantity), please email julia@chestnutbooks.co.uk with an order number and we’ll be happy to help.
See that tall, skinny kid with the ball in his handsayin see ya later to his mate? That’s me: Nathan Wilder Nate. A 10 years old and a week away from the end of Year 5. A Life can be tough in your last year of primary school.
Tests to take, preparing for the change to high school. Nate is ready for it all, knowing his best friend PS is at his side - they’ve been inseparable since Nursery. But when they are put in two different classes and PS finds a new friend in Turner, the school bully, Nate's world turns upside-down.
As he struggles to make sense of this and forge new friendships, he’s dealt another blow when his youngest brother, Dylan is rushed into hospital. His new teacher, Mr Joshua, sees a spark inside of Nate that’s lit by his love of reading and writing and shows him how to use this to process what’s going on. But with so much working against him, and anger rising inside him, will this be enough?
A powerful and lyrical story about finding your place in the world and the people that matter within it.
If you would like to be invoiced for this collection (or would like a different quantity), please email julia@chestnutbooks.co.uk with an order number and we’ll be happy to help.