Books you ought to have read before age 11
Europe has ranked England 6th in their reading skills between the age of 9 and 10. And David Walliams, the English comedian and actor, said they should put full stop to children literacy in England.
He has teamed up Nicky Morgan, the Education Secretary, to make children start reading again.
He said, “A good and interesting book can make children stick to it and with that no child will miss it.” So, how can we compare today’s education with the previous ones?
These are the books an 11 year should have read:
- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl
- Good Night Mister Tom, by Michelle Magorian
- Alice In Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
- Matilda, by Roald Dahl
- The Gruffalo, by Julia Donaldson
- The Chronicles Of Narnia, by C.S Lewis
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
- We’re going On A Bear Hunt, by Michael Rosen
- Dogger, by Shirley Hughes
- Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak
- Stig of the Dump, by Clive King
- Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell
- The Iron Man, by Ted Hughes
- Flat Stanley, by Jeff Brown.
- Winnie the Pooh, by A. A. Milne
- Funnybones, by Allan and Janet Ahlberg
- Owl Babies, by Martin Waddell and Patrick Benson
- The Hobbit, by J R R Tolkien
- Green Eggs And Ham, by Dr Seuss
- War Horse, by Michael Morpurgo
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales, by the Brothers Grimm
- The Tiger Who Came To Tea, by Judith Kerr
- Peace At Last, by Jill Murphy
- Artemis Fowl series, by Eoin Colfer
- Hairy Maclary From Donaldson’s Dairy, by Lynley Dodd
- Not Now Bernard, by David McKee
- Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney
- The Twits, by Roald Dahl
- I Am David, by Anne Holm
- The Highwayman, by Alfred Noyes
- The Paddington Series, by Michael Bond
- Amazing Grace, by Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch
- Esio Trot, by Roald Dahl
- Five Children And It, by E Nesbit
- Clockwork, by Philip Pullman
- The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Magic Far Away Tree, by Enid Blyton
- Farmer Duck, by Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury
- Swallows And Amazons, by Arthur Ransome
- The Silver Sword, by Ian Serraillier
- The Worst Witch series, by Jill Murphy
- The Alfie And Annie Rose series, by Shirley Hughes
- Shakespeare Stories, by Leon Garfield
- Journey To The River, by Eva Ibbotson
- Six Dinner Sid, by Inga Moore
- Sad Book, by Michael Rosen
- The Borrowers, by Mary Norton
- A Dark, Dark Tale by Ruth Brown
- The Jolly Postman, by Allan Ahlberg
- Percy Jackson And The Lightening Thief, by Rick Riordan
- Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
- Zoo, by Anthony Browne
- Treasure Island, by R L Stevenson
- Voices In The Park, by Anthony Browne
- Cinderella, by Charles Perrault and illustrated by Roberto Innocenti
- Pig Heart Boy, by Malorie Blackman
- The Railway Children, by E Nesbit
- Cloud Busting, by Malorie Blackman
- Kidnapped, by R L Stevenson
- The Sheep Pig, by Dick King-Smith
- Beegu, by Alexis Deacon
- The Wind In The Willows, by Kenneth Graham
- Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
- The Mr Men And Little Miss series, by Kenneth Graham
- Gentle Giant, by Michael Murpurgo
- Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kiling
- The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams
- Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, illustrated by Roberto Innocenti
- Eagle Of The Ninth, by Rosemary Sutcliff
- Theseus And The Minotaur, by David Orme and Wendy Body
- The Just William series, by Richmal Crompton
- On The Way Home, by Jill Murphy
- Pumpkin Soup, by Helen Cooper
- Street Child, by Berlie Doherty
- The Happy Prince and Other Stories, Oscar Wilde
- Angelo, by Quentin Blake
- The Day The Crayons Quit, by Drew Draywalt and Oliver Jeffers
- The Snowman, by Raymond Briggs
- My Mum, by Anthony Browne
- The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The Tunnel, by Anthony Browne
- Face, by Benjamin Zephaniah
- The Turbulent Term Of Tyke Tyler, by Gene Kemp
- The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein
- Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type, by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin
- The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
- The Tale Of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter
- I Will Never Not Ever Eat A Tomato, by Lauren Child
- The Skulduggery Pleasant, by Derek Landy
- The Early Years At Malory Towers, by Enid Blyton
- Wolf Brother, by Michelle Paver
- Birds Beasts And Relatives, by Gerald Durrell
- The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen, by Alan Garner
- The Mrs Pepperpot series, by Alf Proysen
- The Asterix Series, by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
- The Fib And Other Stories, by George Layton
- The Giant’s Necklace, by Michael Morpurgo
- The Kipper Series, by Mick Inkpen
- The Milly-Molly-Mandy series by Joyce Lankester Brisley
- The Suitcase Kid, by Jacqueline Wilson
Teachers said all children must have finished reading all these books before leaving primary school. The question Mr. Walliams is asking now is, ‘How many have you read?’