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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · 16d

STONE AGE BOOKLIST - updated for Sept 2025!
We only feature quality texts on our booklists!

👀 Browse our curated list of children's books about the Stone Age to Iron Age history topic! Here's the recommended book list:
➡️➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...

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Abena Eyeson @eyesab2.bsky.social · 16d

Did you know National Fitness Day is on 24th September? Well, @booksfortopics.bsky.social have put together a great reading list to inspire you, including my debut novel Running My Own Race.
www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...

@nosycrow.bsky.social
#nationalfitnessday
#bookstoinspire

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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · 23d

📚 YEAR 7 Booklist: booksfortopics.com/booklists/re...

This reading list of recommended books is for Year 7 pupils as they grow through the first year of secondary school.

There is also a downloadable checklist and printable poster, plus purchasing options for schools!

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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · 28d

💛KINDNESS BOOKLIST💛
When the world seems bleak, don't forget that children voted 'Kindness' as their latest Word of the Year- highlighting just how much this value resonates with them.

👀 Check out our list of children’s books about being kind: ➡️ www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...

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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · 28d

🦣 STONE AGE to IRON AGE 🦣 - a KS2 history curriculum topic and a favourite of ours!

📚 The BooksForTopics Stone Age BOOKLIST is specially curated to support the topic:
➡️➡️ www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...

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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · 29d

🔎 Looking for topic books for an ANCIENT EGYPT topic? We've unwrapped the best for KS2!

Egypt booklist: ➡️➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...

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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌟PRESCHOOL 🌟Recommended Booklist:
➡️➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists/re...

🛝This preschool booklist features RECOMMENDED books for preschoolers, including newly published books, classic stories, laugh-out-loud picturebooks, classroom favourites, poetry books and non-fiction...

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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · Sep 3

New term 💥 New plans 💥 New books 💥 Let's go!

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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · Aug 29

🎒 BACK TO SCHOOL books: ➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...
🌟Don't miss our UPDATED list of back-to-school picturebooks to share with children returning to classrooms – grouped into themes of community, being yourself, starting something new, big feelings, friendship and fun.

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Book Clubs in Schools @bookclubsinschools.bsky.social · Aug 15

So useful for keeping track of the shortlists for children's book awards.

Thank you @booksfortopics.bsky.social 👏

Here's the full page: bit.ly/3JfHHWV

#ReadingForPleasure #KidLitUK

A calendar that shows which months the shortlists for children's book awards come out. It has been produced by Books For Topics.

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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · Aug 19

🌟BACK TO SCHOOL🌟picturebooks list:
➡️➡️ www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...

🎒 See our UPDATED list of back-to-school books to share with children returning to classrooms – grouped into themes of community, being yourself, starting something new, big feelings, friendship and fun.

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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · Aug 15

🌳🍁🌠 Autumn term brings NEW starts, new classes & new topics - and our booklists are nestling in with new books too!

🎒 Browse booksfortopics.com to find book inspiration for topics including Autumn, festivals, WW2, All About Me, electricity, space, Stone Age and more!

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Mrs Burton-Gardner @mrsb-g.bsky.social · Aug 9

Visited York Castle museum today - we loved it! I particularly liked the fact that at several points there were lots of fabulous books to relate to that section. Lovely idea! Great place to
Visit @openuni-rfp.bsky.social #readingforpleasure @booksfortopics.bsky.social

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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · Aug 8

💥YEAR 5💥 booklist: ➡️➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists/re... /

50 recommended reads for Y5 - including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, picture books, golden oldies and newly published titles too!

🖨️PLUS printable poster and checklist📚

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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · Aug 6

🏺⚡️Ancient Greece🏺⚡️ topic booklist: www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...

If you or your colleagues are teaching an ANCIENT GREECE topic next term, take a look at our recommended book list - designed to support the KS2 history topic. 📚

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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · Aug 5

“I had lots of brilliant suggestions to add to my Ancient Egypt book box ... these were selected using
@booksfortopics and the children have loved them!" Mrs C.

🤩 We love seeing our book recommendations in action!

➡️Ancient Egypt booklist: ➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...

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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · Aug 4

💫YEAR 8💫 Recommended Reading List 👇
www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/re...

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Abena Eyeson @eyesab2.bsky.social · Aug 1

www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/bo...

Thank you @booksfortopics.bsky.social for selecting RUNNING MY OWN RACE as one of your five outstanding titles for August 🙏🏽❤️.

#runningmyownracebook
#bookofthemonth
#booksfortopics
#summerread

Best children's books - Best Books This Month - August 2025

Discover our top children's book picks for April 2025, featuring the latest releases recommended by our expert review panel.

www.booksfortopics.com

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · Jul 29

I’m doing a couple of signings up north this September, and I’ll be announcing them first on my mailing list tomorrow at 4pm IF YER INTERESTED —> jamiesmart.substack.com

(then more widely after, obvs)

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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · Jul 30

🔎Looking for children's books for an ANCIENT EGYPT topic?

➡️ Ancient Egypt booklist: booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...

We've unwrapped the best KS2 books for this fascinating topic - AND we're regularly updating our history topic lists with exciting newer titles! 🥳

BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · Jul 29

⚡️ROMANS Topic Booklist
➡️➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...

Conquer the topic with our Romans booklist for KS2, which is regularly updated to aid the quest to find recommended children's books about the Romans...

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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · Jul 28

🪓VIKINGS 🪓topic booklist: booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...

🗺️🐲🛖 From raiders and traders to myths and monsters, the Vikings topic offers a hoard of fascinating themes. We’ve put together this reading list of the best Viking-themed children’s books for KS2.

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Kate Gettings @kategettings.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thank you for including so many @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social series - we love making first chapter books!

BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · Jul 24

🌟 Booklist: FIRST CHAPTER BOOKS 🌟
➡️➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...

🦘Make the LEAP into reading! Check out our team's curated list featuring recommended colour-illustrated short chapter books.

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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · Jul 24

🌟 Booklist: FIRST CHAPTER BOOKS 🌟
➡️➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...

🦘Make the LEAP into reading! Check out our team's curated list featuring recommended colour-illustrated short chapter books.

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BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social · Jul 23

🪖 WORLD WAR 2 topic booklist:
➡️➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...

📚 This WW2 history curriculum booklist for KS2 is available to browse on the BooksForTopics website. We've added links to audio versions and downloadable resources where we can too.

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