List of must reads for Children
There are so many fantastic children’s books written by women. So many in fact that I couldn’t cover them all in my new show ‘Stories of Inspirational Women - The Writers Edition’. However I can honour them here and hope that I inspire some young aspiring writers to check out their books.
Short stories and picture books
The selection of stories below are a list of titles by women that are perfect for quick reads in the classroom or library.
Maya Angelou - ‘Life Doesn’t Frighten Me’
Crystal Swain Bates - ‘Big Hair Don’t Care’
Janay Brown-wood - ‘Iman’s Moon’
’Trish Cooke - ‘So Much’
Julia Donaldson - ‘The Gruffalo’
Judith Kerr - ‘Tiger who Came to Tea’
Hannah Lee - ‘My Hair’
Sharee Miller - ‘Don’t Touch My Hair’
Ibithaj Muhammad - ‘The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family’
Lesley Newman - ‘Heather Has Two Mommies’
Beatrix Potter - ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’
Chitra Soundar - ‘Pattan’s Pumpkin’
Claire Walsh - ‘The Princess Without a Crown’
Longer reads
This selection of women’s books are perfect for diving in and out of, on long trips or lazy days.
Floella Benjamin - ‘Coming to England’
Malorie Blackman - ‘Cloud Busting’
Sita Brahmachari - ‘The River Whale’
Camilla Chester 'Thirteenth Wish’
Suzanne Collins - ‘The Hunger Games’
Candy Courlay - ‘Bone Talk’
Madelene L'engle - ‘A Wrinkle in Time’
Vicky Martin - ‘M is for Autism’
Edith Nesbit - ‘Five Children and It’
J.K.Rowling - ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone’
Mary Shelly - ‘Frankenstein’
Renee Watson - ‘Ways to make Sunshine’
Jacqueline Wilson - ‘The Story of Tracy Beaker’