The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs

Author: Jon Scieszka

Illustrator: Lane Smith

Witty and menacing yet disconcertingly plausible. Brings into question the motivation of the press.

Story sack ideas: toys of pictures for the wolf and the pigs, a non-fiction book about pigs or wolves, a newspaper.

The Troll

Author: Julia Donaldson

Illustrator: David Roberts

Slow Loris

Author: Alexis Deacon

Illustrator: Alexis Deacon

A glorious book depicting the danger of making assumptions. Moody illustrations match Slow Loris perfectly.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Author: J K Rowling

These books are my guilty pleasure. They have fun clues to solve along the way and are familiar.

The series is useful for descriptions of setting, Latin and Greek derived words and names and looking at adaptation. It also explores reputation, primarily through Severus Snape.

Mortal Engines

Author: Philip Reeve

I adore this book. It combines thought provoking ideas on history, science, love and trust. It also deals with ideas of tradition and reputation.

Voices in the Park

Author: Anthony Browne

Illustrator: Anthony Browne

This amazing picturebook uses multiple narrators to retell an event. The artwork is detailed and makes a lot of intertextual references.