Transcript Stuck for a book? Take a look! Mr Hughes A Little History of the World – E H Gombrich It really puts the.

Stuck for a book? Take a look!
Mr Hughes
A Little History of the World – E H Gombrich
It really puts the UK in perspective and gives you a real
sweep of the world. Inspirational. Every child and adult
should read it.
Mr File
His Dark Materials Trilogy – Philip Pullman
This book works on many levels and articulates some
very powerful and complicated ideas about
religion/science/philosophy in a brilliant plot spanning the
multiverse. My wife and I had an extract read as part of
our wedding ceremony.
Mr Branca
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K Dick
I like the post-apocalyptic setting and exploration
of what it is to be human.
Miss Whitehouse
It started my love of fiction set in the times of real
historical events and multi generational novels.
Miss West
The Catcher in the Rye – J D Salinger
One of the most important American novels of the 20th
century! I just loved the development of the narrator's
character and the satirical tone of it.
Mr Le
Across the Nightingale Floor
series by Liam Hearn
My most favourite and all time book - that got me into
reading - is Across the Nightingale Floor series by Liam
Hearn. First books that I've ever read as a kid and got
me hooked on to the Urban-Fantasy and Fantasy/
Adventure novels/ series.
Mrs Blake
• This is awesome and she was my idol for
a time... The book is hilarious!
Miss Neville
• Anything by Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse, The
Voyage Out, The Years, Night & Day...)
• I started reading her at secondary school and ended up
specialising in her works in my final year at uni.
Mr Sibley
• My favourite book is 'A Curious Incident of a Dog in the night'. I read
this 9 years ago when I was a teaching assistant to an autistic boy in
a school I worked in before here. He gave me the book and asked
me to read it. He said that sometimes he thinks like that and there
was a list of traits at the beginning. He had crossed these out or
ticked them to explain to me which ones he was or wasn’t. It was
one of the most interesting reads I had, not just because it was such
a great book but because my student had given it to me as a way to
bridge the gap between me and him. I could not put it down.
Mr Wilson
Mrs Ward-Penny
• I love Sherlock Holmes and it made me
look at the characters in a totally new way.
Mr Bonehill
• I do like Stephen King's novella, The Mist.
• I prefer Frank Darabont's interpretation of the end, as does Stephen
King himself.
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• When I first read the book it helped me better understand the conflict
between science and religion.
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Mrs Baker
• I hated English Literature at school, and it was always
my worst subject. It turned me off reading too, as we
only ever studied books by writers such as Dickens and
Shakespeare whose eras I couldn't relate to, or books for
children that were clearly to educate rather than
entertain. There was one reason why I passed my 'O'
level exam and started to enjoy reading, and that was
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. With the teenage
hormones flowing I fell in love with Mr Darcy, and many
other romantic heroes since. I still like to lose myself in a
good love story.
Mr Ford
• For me it's always been the Hobbit - I stopped reading
for several years as a child and this got me back into the
habit and reminded me why I loved reading. Action and
adventure, edge of your seat thrills and scares,
genuinely side-splitting moments of hilarity and some
heart-warming, tear-jerking moments to boot. It's got it
all, and I still read it to this day!
Mr Selway
• Just an awesome tale of travel and
adventure. But also an hilarious account of the
deeper values of our world. Tongue in cheek
and a satirical analysis of human vices and
follies, yet honest, thought provoking and
enlightening.
Mrs Brady
• I loved "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret
Mitchell because I learned about the
history of the American Civil War whilst
reading a fantastically detailed love story
with well drawn characters and
unexpected events.
Mrs Wright
• The Hobbit! ... a gripping adventure story. I
loved the main characters, Bilbo Baggins
and Gandalf, between the, wise,
endearing and lovable.
Mrs Procter
• It by Stephen King
• Reading for teenagers was almost nonexistent in the 80s and I stumbled upon Mr
King by accident. Visceral and intelligent,
reinforcing why clowns are evil!