Kirjallisuusdiplomi

English Reading Diploma grades 1-2

This HelMet English Reading Diploma is for 1-2 grade students.

When you have read ten (10) books, you get a diploma. You can select books from this list or select books that are interesting to you that are not found on this list. All the books you read can be used for the Reading Diploma. You can also ask a librarian for ideas.

You can also read audiobooks.

Table of contents

Picture books • Easy readers • Children's fiction • Poetry and fairy tales • Nonfiction • Graphic novels and comics

Picture books

Little people, big dreams series

Bishop Poppy

Bear's House of Books

Bright Rachel

The Way Home for Wolf

Brill Calista

The Secret garden

Brown Peter

My teacher is a monster! : (no, I Am Not)

Burningham John

Air miles

Coyle Sarah

Pick a Story series

Ferry Beth

Swashby and the Sea

Havukainen Aino

This is Finland

King-Chai Sharon

Starbird

Klassen Jon

I Want My Hat Back

Kuhlmann Torben

Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse

Leonard M.G.

The tale of a toothbrush

Litchfield David

The bear and the piano

Marcero Deborah

In a jar

McCardie Amanda

A book of feelings

Mole Simon

Kites

Snyder Laurel

Endlessly ever after

Somara Shini

A Coder Like Me or A Scientist Like Me or A Mathematician Like Me

Sperring Mark

The astro naughty naughty baddies

Sundin David

The book that did not want to be read

Underwood Deborah

Interstellar Cinderella

Easy readers

Reading champion series

Read with Oxford series

Usborne first reading series

Little Gems series

Read it yourself

Green Bananas series

Blue bananas series

Red bananas series

Early Reader series

DK Super Readers

Faruqi Saadia

Yasmin series

Cobb Amelia

Zoe's Rescue Zoo series

Davies Jacqueline

Sydney and Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World

Donaldson Julia

Julia Donaldson's Early Reader series

Fine Anne

Gnomes Gnomes Gnomes!

Gallo Tina

Ready to Read series

Hargreaves Roger

Reading Ladder series

Hart Caryl

The Beast of Bramble Woods

Impey Rose

Sir Lance-a-Little series

Jenner Caryn

Dorling Kindersley readers

Lyons Kelly Starling

Miles Lewis

Meadows Daisy

Rainbow magic series

Shaw Hannah

Unipiggle

Umansky Kaye

Meet the Weirds

Webb Holly

Animal Stories series

Woodfine Katherine

Sophie Takes to the Sky

Children's fiction

Bird Pip

Super Cute series

Colfer Eoin

Anna Liza and the happy practice

Davidson Zanna

Billy and the Mini Monsters series

Gough Julian

Rabbit and Bear series

Hale Shannon

The princess in black series

Harrison Paula

The secret rescuers series

Harrison Paula

Kitty series

Henn Sophy

Bad Nana: Older not wiser

Huddleston Tom

Cosmic Creatures series

James Anna

Hetty and the Battle of the Books

McCall Smith Alexander

Freddie Mole, lion tamer

Meadows Daisy

Magic Animal Friends series

Mongredien Sue

The Secret Mermaid series

Morpurgo Michael

Mimi and the mountain dragon

Muncaster Harriet

Mirabelle series

Murphy Jill

The worst witch series

Nadin Joanna

Penny Dreadful series

Osborne Mary Pope

Magic Tree House series

Parvela Timo

Bicycling to the moon

Powers Mark

Space detectives series

Thomas Valerie

Winnie the Witch series

Vulliamy Clara

Marshmallow Pie series

Poetry and fairy tales

Billy and the Minpins

Usborne Illustrated Stories of Mermaids

Find Peace in a Poem

Tales of Brave and Brilliant Animals

A World Full of Poems

Brooks Felicity

Usborne Stories to Read Aloud

Coelho Joseph

Smile out Loud

Dahl Roald

The enormous crocodile

Dahl Roald

Revolting rhymes

Davidson Susanna

Usborne First Reading fairy tales

Donaldson Julia

Shuffle and squelch : poems and rhymes for children

Jansson Tove

Stories from Moominvalley

Jeffers Oliver

The fate of Fausto

Klassen Jon

The Skull

Milne A.A:

Always Pooh and me : a collection of favourite poems

Naidoo Beverley

Who is King? : ten magical stories from Africa

Rissanen Riikka

Green tights -18 funny rhymes

Saint-Exupery Antoine De

The Little Prince

Scheffler Axel

Axel Scheffler's treasury of fairy tales

Shearer Wendy

Spooky Stories of the World

Stevens Roger

Apes to Zebras: An A-Z of Shape Poems

Nonfiction

Creature Features series

Stella Gurney

Everyday journeys of ordinary things

Usborne pet guides series

100 Things to Know About... Series

National Geographic Kids series

My First Book of Everything series

Barr Catherine

The story of people

Barr Catherine

Let's save the Great Barrier Reef : why we must protect our planet

Biesty Stephen

Stephen Biesty's incredible cross-sections of everything

Bone Emily

Usborne Young beginners series

Brett Anna

Daredevil's guide to outer space

Brooks Felicity

All about series

Davies James

Meet the... series

Daynes Katie

What is a virus?

Dickins Rosie

Usborne lift-the-flap series

Halford Katy

Around the world in 80 ways

Hunt Wendy

What do animals do all day?

Layton Neal

The Story of Everythin

Lomax Dean R.

My Book of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life

Packham Chris

Amazing animal journeys

Sanchez Vegara Isabel

Little People, Big Dreams series

Zommer Yuval

The big book of bugs

Graphic novels and comics

Haddow Swapna

Little Dinosaurs, Big Feelings

Lindgren Astrid

Pippi: The Strongest in the World

Nguyen Trang

Saving Sorya

O'Hara Mo

Agent Moose

Osborne Mary Pope

Magic Tree House graphic novels

Tabor Corey

Sir Ladybug

Tysoe Alina

The Great Puptective