Classic Novels

Reading helps children to identify and understand the use of figurative language, the rules of the English syntax and spellings. Encouraging children to read suitable classic books will improve their ability to deal with more complex English and will help develop a broader vocabulary. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to expose children to poetry, prose and drama of various literary periods and movements. These suggestions include longer classic novels that avid and able readers will appreciate:

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World, Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles

C.S Lewis All of the Narnia Series starting with The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie, Little House in the Big Woods

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden, A Little Princess

William Golding Lord of the Flies

J.R.R Tolkien The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King), The Hobbit

Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

George Orwell Animal Farm

Roald Dahl books e.g. The BFG, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Giant Peach

Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

Lucy Montgomery Anne of Green Gables

Jonathan Swift Gulliver s Travels

Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island, Kidnapped

Rudyard Kipling Jungle Book, Just So Stories

Louisa May Alcott Little Women

Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland

Hugh Lofting Dr Dolittle

Jules Verne Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Around the World in 80 days

Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre

H.G. Wells The Time Machine

Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist

Thomas Hardy Tess of the D Urbervilles