Book Lists for 5-7 Year Olds

Explore these book lists to find some great reads for your book club.

Stories for 5-7 year olds

The Goody

by Lauren Child

The Runaway TARDIS

by Rebecca Gyllenhaal and Kim Smith

Thank you, heores

by Patricia Hegarty and Michael Emmerson

The tree

by Graeme Base

Jelly Boy

by Nicole Godwin (also available as a Storybox AUSLAN edition)

You choose fairy tales

by Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart

Ivy Bird

by Tania McCartney and Jess Racklyeft 

The Incurable Imagination

by Paul Russell & Aska

How to make a bird

by Meg McKinlay (also available in Storybox AUSLAN edition)

Wilam

by Aunty Joy Murphy, Andrew Kelly and Lisa Kennedy

Series for 5-7 year olds

Macca the Alpaca

A series by Matt Cosgrove (also available in Storybox)

Naughty dragons

A series by Natalie Prior

Aussies vs England: game on!

A series by Mitchell Starc.

Monty’s Island

A series by Emily Rodda.

RSPCA animal tales

A series by the RSPCA partnering with a variety of authors.

Super sidekicks

A series by Gavin Aung Than

Willa and Woof

A series by Jacqueline Harvey

The Magic Faraway Tree

A series by Enid Blyton. Also available as CD and eAudio.

Fartboy

A series by Adam Wallace and James Hart

Time Dogs

A series by Helen Moss.

Books to screen for 5-7 year olds

The Ickabog

by J.K. Rowling

Little Critter

by Mercer Mayer

Little Lunch

A series by Danny Katz (also available as ebooks and in Storybox)

The Tales of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

Claude

by Alex T. Smith

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury

Factual books for 5-7 year olds

Art Sparks

by Marion Abrams

Pandemic

by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley

Let’s get gardening

by Bethany Patch

Fun and Easy Crafting with Recycled Materials

by Kimberly McLeod

Extraordinary elephants

by Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery

Australia’s Wild Weird Wonderful Weather

by Stephanie Owen Reader and Tania McCartney

So many questions about …

A series for curious kids by Sally Spray

A mathematician like me

by Shini Somara

The bushfire book

by Polly Marsden (also available on Storybox)

Who am I?

by Philip Bunting