Recommendations

Great picture book authors I recommend (there's no order whatsoever, sorry about that):

- Emily Gravett: The Odd Egg, Wolf won’t bite, Monkey and Me, Again (Infantil) Wolves (both Infantil and Primary 1 and 2).

- Oliver Jeffers: Stuck, The Incredible Book-eating Boy, The Day the Crayons Quit, The Great Paper Paper and The New Jumper (for Primary 1, 2 or 3), How to Catch a Star, Lost and Found and Up and Down (Infantil).

- Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler: The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Zog, The Smartest Giant in Town, Monkey puzzle, The Snail and the Whale, Stickman and Room on the Broom (Primary 1 and 2)

- Polly Dumbar: Penguin and Tilly and Friends book collection (Infantil)

- Eric Carle: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear, Brown Bear (mmm, I think Eric Carle is the illustrator for this book, but not the author), The Mixed-up Chameleon (up until Primary 1).

- Roald Dahl: The Enormous Crocodile, The Giraffe the Pelly and Me (Years 2, 3, 4), Magic Finger, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Twits (Years 3, 4 and 5), James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Revolting Rhymes, Dirty Beasts (Years 5 and 6. The last ones are poetry books).

- Michael Rosen: We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (E.I. 5 and Primary 1). He also has books and poems for older kids!

- Jon Klassen: I want my hat back, This is not my hat (they seem simple, but the humour is subtle so I would suggest Primary).

- Martin Waddell: Owl babies (Infantil), Farmer duck (E.I. 5 and Primary 1)

- Dr. Seuss: Green Eggs and Ham, Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?, Fox in Socks, Ten Apples Up On Top! (ideal to start reading real books in the classroom with Primary 2 and 3. Not many words, repetition and humour (quite absurd, hehe)), Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (two classics for older kids in Primary). There are a lot more from this author!

- David Walliams: they call him the next Roald Dahl. He has great (difficult) books for Year 5 and 6. At school we recommend them to children that have a very high level of English. You can find his books in Catalan and Spanish too. Here are my favourites: Billionaire Boy, Gangsta Granny, Mr. Stink, The Boy in the Dress and Ratburger. Critical citizens books, no doubt about it.

Other classics you need to know:
- Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell (Infantil)
- Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury (2 to 3 year-olds)
- Where's Spot? by Eric Hill (2 to 3 year-olds)
- Meg and Mog by Helen Nichol and Jan Pienkowski (ideal Halloween story for Infantil and Primary 1)
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (ok, so maybe I wouldn't use this in the English classroom, but it's a must have book!)
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff (up until Primary 1)
- Olivia by Ian Falconer (all the kids love this pig. E.I. 5 and Primary 1)
- The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish by Neil Gaiman (a bit perverse, hehe, Primary 2 and 3)
- Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann (another classic for Infantil)
- Elmer by David McKee (E.I. 4 to Year 2. You can use it to talk about people being different, but I use it to introduce Carnival).