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Collection: Books for 5 and 6 year olds biography and autobiography

Books for children in years 1 and 2 

Our full collection of books for 5 and 6-year-olds includes picture books, young fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

For our top recommendations for school reading lists, please look at our easy purchase packs.

Best Books for year 1: recent books to keep your book collections up-to-date

Books for year 2: recent books to keep your book collections up-to-date

Teachers' Treasures for year 1  classic and well-established books that are firm classroom favourites.

Teachers' Treasures for Year 2 classic and well-established books that are firm classroom favourites

 

Easy purchase packs
  • Greta and the Giants inspired by Greta Thunberg's stand to save the world
    Greta and the Giants

    5+ 7+

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  • Listen : How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion

    5+ 7+

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  • National Trust: Beatrix and her Bunnies
    Beatrix and her Bunnies

    5+ 7+

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  • Malala's Magic Pencil
    Malalas Magic Pencil

    5+ 7+

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  • Stone Girl Bone Girl The Story of Mary Anning of Lyme Regis
    Stone Girl Bone Girl

    5+ 7+

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  • Wild Life : The Extraordinary Adventures of Sir David Attenborough

    5+ 7+

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  • Greta Thunberg

    3+ 5+

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  • Emmeline Pankhurst

    3+ 5+

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  • Fantastically Great Women Who Made History
    Fantastically Great women Who Made History

    5+ 7+ 9+

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  • Counting on Katherine
    Counting on Katherine

    5+ 7+

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  • David Attenborough

    3+ 5+

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  • Fantastically Great Women Who Saved the Planet
    Fantastically Great Women Who Saved the Planet

    5+ 7+ 9+

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  • Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World
    Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World

    5+ 7+ 9+

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  • What Miss Mitchell Saw
    What Miss Mitchell Saw

    5+ 7+

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    £9.60
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  • On a Beam of Light A Story of Albert Einstein
    On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein

    5+ 7+

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  • Queen Victoria's Bathing Machine

    5+ 7+

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