Simon Smith's Top Book Recommendations

Simon Smith@jamescarterpoet @CushnDoodle @LittleTigerUK It’s a fantastic book James. (Source)

Simon Smith@MrsJT_Y6 Fantastic book. (Source)

Simon SmithWow! This book is absolutely top-drawer. “Driftwood Days” by William Miniver and the utterly brilliant Charles Vess is a beautiful delicate story of cyclical change, seasons, ecology and environment. The sublime art and poetic words make it a just breathtaking. #picturebookpage https://t.co/m0bF00gOX8 (Source)

Simon SmithWell this is just the most brilliant counting book. “Everybody Counts” by Kristin Rokifte is full of repeating characters and developing stories. It’s wonderfully clever and cleverly wonderful. So much to see and so many stories to tell. #PicturebookPage https://t.co/fNhGHxbOCJ (Source)

Simon Smith@MissSMerrill @KirstyApplebaum @Traceycoleman82 Definitely one of the best of the year. Fantastic book. (Source)

Michael ArringtonA creepy book narrated by the 16-year old protagonist Frank Cauldhame. It’s not really science fiction but it was Banks’ first novel and well worth the read, and he has become a giant of science fiction since. Make sure to read all of his Culture novels that may very well lay out the future of humanity. Humans and computers live together harmoniously in a vast galactic empire. Computers are... (Source)

Simon Smith@grahamandre @simonkidwell @aly_sea @8bitteacher @kateowbridge @Happytoteach1 @HYWEL_ROBERTS @ColletteR @Misterbodd @MrGPrimary @3edmigos @darynsimon Yes it’s an amazing book. (Source)

Simon Smith@LozWesty @edgechristopher It’s brilliant. (Don’t tell Christopher but I think it’s his best book) (Source)

Simon Smith@Mat_at_Brookes @NathanBryon @DapsDraws @GalwayMr @MrEFinch @RebeccaLucas @jonnybid @charliehacking @DiLeed @f33lthesun @PaulWat5 They really would. It’s a really fantastic book. Just a gorgeous sense of family and culture about it. It left me with a huge grin. (Source)

Wayne Dhesi@DapsDraws @PuffinBooks @NathanBryon Amazing! Thank you. The book looks gorgeous! ❤️ (Source)

Simon SmithFor anyone looking for a really good story set in a rainforest this by @ChloeDaykin is really good. Quirky, great characters, surprises. Just a really good book. Chloe is a gem of a writer. https://t.co/iPK7RGaCcL (Source)

Simon Smith@fod3 @OxfordEdEnglish Love that book. (Source)

Simon Smith@lindsanderson @Misterbodd @PaulWat5 @f33lthesun Awesomely scary book full stop! Great though. (Source)

Simon Smith@DiLeed @BarbaraBleiman @jon_hutchinson_ @rapclassroom @marygtroche’s book about picturebooks and dialogic talk is a great starting point, for thinking critically about the role of talk and developing meaning. https://t.co/a3m7uG4VXY (Source)

Simon Smith@mr_o_connor Great book. It was in my top twenty. (Source)

Beverley NaidooThe first in a series of children’s novels about a boy called Felix, a Jewish orphan, who is caught in the middle of the Holocaust (Source)

Simon Smith@fod3 @Braunteaches It made me cry. Fantastic book. (Source)

Zoe GreavesThis is a human and wholly accessible account of World War I. Both hilarious and heartbreaking. Reading it, I felt very much that this is a classic. The pictures it conjured in my head are so vivid, the characters so familiar – I’m convinced this is a book that will be with us for decades. It makes the 100 years between 1918 and 2018 not seem so very far apart. (Source)

Simon Smith@Miss_H_Y2_NQT It’s a brilliant book and a fantastic story. (Source)

Kiran Millwood HargraveKatherine Rundell has talked about the image that inspired her to write this book, the image of a young girl riding a wolf into Red Square. (Source)

Simon SmithJust reread Wolf Wilder and it as brilliant as when I first read it. If anyone wants a recommendation for a book to use in Year 6 this would definitely be one of mine. I know it doesn’t link to a topic, that’s even more reason to read it in my opinion. https://t.co/Q5jQvqbSDa (Source)

Simon SmithWhat an absolute stunner of a book. A beautiful poetic love-letter to the joy of reading by @kwamealexander stunningly illustrated by Melissa Sweet. It truly captures the sweet pleasure that getting lost in a book and savouring the words. An utter delight!#picturebookpage https://t.co/MNRd6FeEXl (Source)

Simon Smith@MoreMorrow @Teacherglitter @StephenConnor7 @MrMclugash @Misterbodd @PaulWat5 @MrCYear4 @f33lthesun @MrEFinch @lukeframburton @vashti_hardy @ThomasHTaylor Loved The Middler by @KirstyApplebaum (it had a touch of the John Wyndham’s for me) and Malamander by @ThomasHTaylor would both be brilliant in Year 5 or 6. The best book I’ve read recently however is The Whispers @greghowardbooks think it... (Source)

Simon Smith@Mrs_E_J_C @kwamealexander Completely, it’s a fantastic book. (Source)

Dave CousinsWritten in free-verse, there’s some great bits of humour in there, and again this isn’t just a story about football. (Source)

Simon Smith@BrianFloca @Martin_Impey @BTeckentrup @opifan64 @Cmdr_Hadfield @jamescarterpoet @ProfAstroCat @LittleTigerUK The new version is fantastic. (So was the older version to be fair) it’s a great book. (Source)

Meghan CamarenaWhile I was walking to the gym I finished the last chapter of The Graveyard Book by @neilhimself. I must’ve looked like a mad woman because I was balling my eyes out in public. Damn, what an incredible story. (Source)

Simon Smith@carveresque ...but The Graveyard Book is one of the best books ever. (Source)