 | Stick Man by Julia Donaldson
Buy new: £6.02 / Used from: £2.91 The adventures of a little stick have been put together in a very rounded story. It's a super way to focus on sticks and their multiple uses.
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 | We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
Buy new: £3.46 / Used from: £0.01 A versatile book for many outdoor activities. Every teacher needs a copy.
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 | Beatrix Potter - the Complete Tales: The 23 Original Tales by Beatrix Potter
Buy new: £18.62 / Used from: £17.25 These stories are useful introductions to different British wild animals. Whilst not all stories are ideal for listening to outside, many are great.
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 | Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
Buy new: £3.46 / Used from: £0.01 Available as a big book too. A good starting point to discussions about safety in the woods.
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 | Frederick by Leo Lionni
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £0.01 Leo Lionni has many nature themed books. This beautiful story covers the seasons and the need for stories and using our imaginations.
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 | Winnie the Pooh: Complete Collection of Stories and Poems by A.A. Milne
Buy new: £17.47 / Used from: £15.73 The stories can be used to illustrated many themes including climate change. The simplicity of each story and poem makes it ideal for young children as well as older ones.
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 | Follow My Leader by Emma Chichester Clark
Buy used from: £0.14 A great book about a follow my leader game through a wood.
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 | Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt
Buy new: £4.23 / Used from: £1.99 A handy book about being prepared and facing fears. An essential book and worth putting in a book bag to go home!
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 | Percy the Park Keeper: A Classic Treasury by Nick Butterworth
Buy used from: £38.00 Another useful collection of stories based on British wild animals.
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 | Where the Wild Things are by Maurice Sendak
Buy new: £2.48 / Used from: £1.77 Can't get to the forest? Then grow one in your room. Brilliant.
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 | The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew it Was None of His Business by Werner Holzwarth
Buy new: £3.96 / Used from: £0.01 Great for nature detective work based upon animal scat. Also a good introduction to young children about how and where to go to the toilet in the woods.
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 | Little Rabbit Foo Foo by Michael Rosen
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £0.01 Good for work around the theme of treating animals and others kindly.
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 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Buy new: £4.26 / Used from: £0.01 Many books by Eric Carle have nature or animal themes which children like and enjoy.
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 | The Usborne Book of Fairy Tales: "Cinderella", "The Story of Rumpelstiltskin", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Sleeping Beauty", "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", "Three Little Pigs" by Heather Amery
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £1.80 So many fairy tales have forest themes. Even the "Three Little Pigs" links nicely to building shelters.
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 | Little Beaver and the Echo by Amy MacDonald
Buy new: £3.74 / Used from: £0.01 Beautiful illustrations and theme of friendship is clear. Can also be used to discuss extinct British wildlife and controversial re-introduction schemes!
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 | Brian Wildsmith's Favourite Fables by Brian Wildsmith
Buy new: £9.22 / Used from: £7.85 A useful collection of beautifully illustrated stories. Some have an outdoor theme.
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 | The Snowy Day (Picture Puffin) by Ezra Jack Keats
Buy new: £3.46 / Used from: £0.01 Based in the city not a forest, but there is a stick in the story! Quite simply the best book about what to do in the snow, wherever you are!
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 | The Pear Tree by Meredith Hooper
Buy used from: £0.01 An animal counting book which moves through the months too.
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 | The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
Buy new: £2.96 / Used from: £0.01 A fun book with rhyming text which helps stimulate children's imagination outdoors as they investigate what could be in the woods.
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 | Into the Forest by Anthony Browne
Buy new: £3.67 / Used from: £1.77 Strangely powerful and mysterious. The story is based loosely on different fairy tale characters a boy meets whilst walking through a forest to visit his Gran.
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