Episode 28 - Is It Time To Rethink Dressing-Up For World Book Day?

School Reading List podcast hosted by Tom Tolkien

Season 1: Episode 28

For transcripts, resources, show notes and contact details, see https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/podcasts/series-1-episode-28/

Part 1
Book post

• Diary Of A Future Billionaire by Pamela Butchart, illustrated by Wotto
• Surviving Vesuvius by Christopher Harrisson, illustrated by Beth Waters
• Paloma Flies Away by María J. Guarda
• I Really Really Love My Noisy Bum by Karl Newson and Duncan Beedie
• Let’s Play Rugby by Gordon D’Arcy and Paul Howard
• Detective Stanley and the Mystery at the Museum by Hannah Tunnicliffe and Erica Harrison
• The Notwitches by Gary Panton, illustrated by Dotty Sutton
• Be the Change by Robin Greenfield and Antonia Banyard
• Speedwheels 3000: The Race Against Crime by Jenny Pearson, illustrated by Katie Kear and Nick East
• School for Fireflies by Erica Gomez
• Shiver Point: Beneath the Ghostly Graves by Gabriel Dylan
• Red Flags by Sophie Jo
• Mondays are Murder by Ravena Guron

Rundown - top 30 children's and YA books to buy in March 2025

• The Magnificent Book of Trees by Tony Russell
• Mr Norton's New Hat by Huw Lewis Jones & Corey Egbert
• The Bookshop Dog by Harriet Evans
• Mary Fowler: Football Legends by Kit Cross
• Noura's Crescent Moon by Zainab Khan
• Wolf in the City by Rachel Tilda Wolf
• Nightweaver by R.M. Gray
• Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai
• The Deadly Fates by Dhonielle Clayton
• Meet the Mubbles by Liz Pichon
• Vanya and the Wild Hunt by Sangu Mandanna
• Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion by Abiola Bello
• Dadbot by Jack Noel
• Stealing Happy by Brian Conaghan
• When the Bones Sing by Ginny Myers Sain
• A Home Is A Nest by Emma Carlisle
• While We’re Young by K.L Walther
• The Greatest Stuff on Earth by Steve Tomecek
• The Appletree Animal Agency by Katya Balen
• Please Don't Read The Footnotes Please by Rob Walton
• After by Padraig Kenny
• Puloma and the Bear by Jasbinder Bilan
• See Inside AI by Alex Frith & Victoria Williams
• Encyclopedia of Birds by Jules Howard
• Away by Megan E. Freeman
• Keep Smashing It by Jodie Ounsley
• Bronte Tempestra and the Weather Witch by Bex Hogan
• Hidden Treasure by Jessie Burton
• The Beck by Anthony McGowan
• Bigg School: Scaredy Cat by Lisa Williamson
• Serial Chillers: The Witch in the Woods by Jennifer Killick

March 2025 books of the month

• Fiction: Please Don't Read the Footnotes Please by Rob Walton, illustrated by Reena Makwana
• Nonfiction: Into the Ice: Reflections on Antarctica by Alison Lester and Coral Tulloch
• Picture book: Mr Norton's New Hat by Huw Lewis Jones and Corey Egbert

Part 2
Our recommended books for year 1 classrooms

New book pitches:• Oakley the Superhero by Roxanne Constantine; The Tilly and Harry Adventures by Ashton Moon; Danny the Ducky and Gilly the Goose by Dushka Petkovich

Part 3
Is it time to rethink dressing up for World Book Day?

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