Chestnut Books
Inspire a life-long love for reading in your school.
We’ve updated our best selling Poetry Collections!
Discover our bestselling class texts & transform your English lessons
Summer Term Collections
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Summer Term Collections 〰️
Our Reading Challenges have been carefully put together to stretch able readers and to encourage all children to read widely. As teachers, many of us will have wonderful memories of the first books we really loved & they will forever hold a special place in our hearts. These collections are designed to guide children towards discovering their own precious books.
Each challenge comes with a downloadable booklet for your children to complete.
Introducing…
The Reading Challenges
Book Corners
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Book Corners 〰️
Update Classrooms and Libraries with our Books of the Year!
Best Selling Book Corners
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Best Selling Book Corners 〰️
Update your Book/Reading Corners with these fantastic collections that ensure you meet the new Reading Guidance. Show progression throughout school and engage your children with the best in children’s fiction & non-fiction. Every book in these collections has been read by us to ensure it meets our high standards and is suitable for sharing with your class. As with all our collections, we work hard to ensure there is a diverse range of characters and families.
New Library Stock
Fill your library with high-quality, engaging books that will inspire a life-long love of reading. We specialise in finding the right books to meet your needs and always ensure that every collection includes lots of wonderful recently published books that reflect a diverse range of characters and families, promote children’s well-being & kindness and address issues that we know children care about such as climate change. We aim to take children on magical adventures, hear them laugh out loud and inspire curiosity and fascination with our world and beyond.
Faye Novak-Lemmings, Headteacher ~ Duffield Meadows Primary School
“We are so thrilled with the new library and the books are simply fabulous! Thank you for your input and we look forward to continuing to work with you.”
Hilton Primary School
“The new Early Years library looks fabulous! A huge thank you for all your help and hard work getting it set up for us. It really does look amazing. I can’t thank you enough for the amazing turn around.”
Just Added
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Just Added 〰️
Starting from Scratch Library Collections
We are always expanding our range of Curriculum & Library Collections ready to update your library and get the children in your school excited to read.
Our pre-made library collections cover some of our most popular requests. From Space to Climate to Dinosaurs or Evolution; there are collections for lots of the topics you teach in school and we’re always adding more! We’ve organised our books by age group and theme to make them easy to search through.
Curriculum & Library Collections
Our pre-made book corners have been out for a whole year so we decided it was time to create some beautiful expansion packs to update your reading corners! We know your classes love their book corners so let’s keep their enthusiasm and make sure they are inspired to read by adding the most exciting books we’ve read over the last year. Made to the same high standards, these collections include only the best books that have been published in the last year. We’ve selected each carefully and made sure we’ve included a diverse range of characters & families
Class Texts
Class Texts
Our recommended class texts have been selected for text-based teaching in your classroom. We have chosen the best in classics and newly-published fiction to inspire your class to read, write and love their English lessons. We always choose books with our shared values in mind ~ kindness, celebrating diversity and promoting self-confidence & well-being.
This is our second collection of 39 stories has been put together so you can send a different book home with each child in your class for every week of the school year. The first proved so popular that we’ve had lots of school requesting a second collection!
These books will help promote reading for pleasure at home. By providing a bedtime story to your families, children will have a calm and relaxed time before bed creating memories with their family and parents will be provided with high-quality books that will show the value of sharing stories.
We have carefully selected each book for their beautiful illustrations, lyrical text and calm, supportive themes. Our books will help parents start conversations with their children and give little ones ways to talk about their emotions and their day.
Scroll through to see all 39 books!
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Can’t find any books on the theme you were searching for? Get in touch and we’ll do the research for you.
“The books we love when we’re growing up shape us in a special way Tilly. The characters in the books we read help us decide who we want to be.”
— Anna James - Tilly and the Book Wanderers, Pages & Co.
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