Episode 2 - Should classrooms have wall displays?

School Reading List podcast hosted by Tom Tolkien

Season 1: Episode 2

For transcripts, links to all the books featured, resources, show notes and contact details, click here: https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/podcasts/series-1-episode-2 

Part one.
Book post:

• Stone by Finbar Hawkins 
• Who's Hiding by Satoru Onishi 
• The Curse of the Tomb Robbers by Andy Seed 
• Stories of Peace and Kindness For a Better World by Elizabeth Laird 
• The Worlds We Leave Behind by A.F. Harrold illustrated by Levi Pinfold 
• The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma Carroll
• My Rhinoceros by Jon Agee
• The Tale of Truthwater Lake by Emma Carroll
• No Place For Monsters by Kory Merritt 
• Unraveller by Frances Hardinge 
• The TreeKeepers by Kieran Larwood 
• Shu Lin's Grandpa by Matt Goodfellow and Yu Rong 
• The Island by Armin Greder

Rundown - top 30 children's and YA books to buy in August 2022:

• It's Tough to be Tiny by Kim Woolcock
• Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair by Ella McLeod
• Egyptian Myths by Jean Menzies
• Ella and the Waves by Britta Teckentrup
• All the Pieces of Me by Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott
• World of Weird: A Creepy Compendium of True Stories by Tom Adams
• Paper Boat, Paper Bird by David Almond
• The Dangerous Life of Ophelia Bottom by Susie Bower
• Ergo by Alexis Deacon
• The Last Whale by Chris Vick
• The Accidental Stowaway by Judith Eagle
• The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean by Alastair Humphreys
• Giant Island by Jane Yolen
• The Worlds We Leave Behind by A.F. Harrold.
• Our Tower by Joseph Coelho
• Which Bum's Mum's? by Jonny Leighton.
• Medicine: A Magnificently Illustrated History by Briony Hudson
• The Blue-Footed Booby by Rob Biddulph
• The Cartoons That Saved The World by Tom Ellen
• Vi Spy: The Girl with the Golden Gran by Maz Evans
• Resist!: One Girl's Fight Back Against the Nazis by Tom Palmer
• To Catch A Cloud by Elena de Roo
• Passionate about Penguins by Owen Davey
• Bad Panda: The Cake Escape by Swapna Haddow
• How Many Ways Can You Cook An Egg? By Lizzie Mabbott Berlin
• Britannica's Word of the Day by Patrick and Rennee Kelly
• Waking the Witch by Rachel Burge.
• Lift-the-flap Strongest, Cleverest, Deadliest… by Darran Stobbart and Lan Cook
• Rosie Raja: Churchill's Spy by Sufiya Ahmed
• Powered by Plants by Clive Gifford
• The Beastly Bunch by Leisa Stewart-Sharpe

August 2022 books of the month:

• Fiction: Resist by Tom Palmer
• Nonfiction: Britannica's Word of the Day by Patrick and Rennee Kelly & Sue Macy
• Picture book: Ella and the Waves by Britta Teckentrup

Part two.
Time travelling to a world of second-hand books. In this episode, we feature children's science fiction writer, Nicholas Fisk.

Part three.
Should school classrooms feature wall displays? (And how this impacts reading for pleasure). With a social media poll.

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