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.
Little people, big dreams series
This series explores the lives of outstanding people who all began life as children with a dream.
Bear's House of Books
Rabbit loves adventure stories, Hedgehog adores happy endings, and Mouse and Fox enjoy reading together. So when the friends discover a mysterious house full of books, it's a dream come true!
The Way Home for Wolf
Wilf is as strong and independent as a wolf cub can be. He doesn't need help from his friends and family - whatever it is, he can do it all by himself.
The Secret garden
The classic story is retold and beautifully illustrated! Open the door to a world of wonder and enter the secret garden...
My teacher is a monster! : (no, I Am Not)
Are all monsters what they seem?
Air miles
A poignant book about new horizons and saying goodbye from best-loved creators: John Burningham and Helen Oxenbury. Miles is a difficult dog who loves to ride in his motor car.
Pick a Story series
It's up to you to decide how the story ends!
Swashby and the Sea
Captain Swashby loves the sea, his oldest friend. And he loves his life by the sea just as it is: salty and sandy and serene.One day, much to Swashby's chagrin, a young girl and her granny commandeer the empty house next door. All Swashby wants is for his new neighbors to GO AWAY and take their ruckus with them.
This is Finland
Tatu and Patu’s guide contains hard facts couched in hilarious form. Those wacky Oddville brothers Tatu and Patu do not leave a stone, a sauna, or even a Santa unturned in their quest to get to the bottom of Finland, its history, its wild natural landscape, or even its quirky inhabitants.
Starbird
Starbird's songs weave the richest dreams and delight all who hear him, but when the Moon King traps him in a cage, the colour and life in his voice begin to drip away. What follows is a story with the feel of a timeless myth, with the message that that captivity dims even the brightest star.
I Want My Hat Back
This hilarious book tells the story of a bear who's hat has gone. And he wants it back.
Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse
One small step for a mouse; one giant leap for aviation!
The tale of a toothbrush
Children use their toothbrush each morning and evening, and get new ones every few months.That's billions of toothbrushes! What happens to them all when they're no longer needed?
The bear and the piano
What happens when the bear learns to play the piano?
In a jar
When Llewellyn, a little rabbit who collects ordinary things in jars, meets a young girl named Evelyn, he joins with her to capture the extraordinary.
A book of feelings
Feelings. We all have them, all the time. This book is about them.
Kites
The day that David moved to Fivehills, the first thing he noticed was the kites.
Endlessly ever after
Grab your basket and your coat. Put on some walking shoes. Turn the page and begin: Which story will you choose?
A Coder Like Me or A Scientist Like Me or A Mathematician Like Me
Would you like to become a coder, a mathematician, or a scientist?
The astro naughty naughty baddies
The Naughty Naughty Baddies are wickedly wicked, awfully awful and diabolically dreadful, and they have just come up with a mischievous plan to blast off to the moon and to stitch up the President.
The book that did not want to be read
This picture book will do anything in its power to stay unread!
Interstellar Cinderella
Once upon a planetoid, amid her tools and sprockets, a girl named Cinderella dreamed of fixing fancy rockets.
Reading champion series
Exciting stories and beautiful artwork.
Read with Oxford series
Read with Oxford offers an exciting range of carefully levelled reading books to build your reading confidence.
Usborne first reading series
An exciting series of for children who are just starting to learn to read.
Little Gems series
Fun, colorful pictures and easy to read books.
Read it yourself
Reading these Ladybird books is fun.
Green Bananas series
Three easy and fun stories in each book to learn reading.
Blue bananas series
Blue Bananas are exciting short stories for beginner readers that bridge the gap between picture books and fiction.
Red bananas series
Red Bananas helps students progress from the first stages of fluent reading to the demands of a chapter book.
Early Reader series
Early Readers are fun stories that help beginning readers go from picture books to chapter books.
DK Super Readers
Combining DK's four-level reading program with the ever-popular Marvel comics, these books will help kids learn how to read - and learn to love reading.
Yasmin series
Yasmin is a spirited second-grader who's always on the lookout for those "aha" moments to help her solve life's little problems.
Zoe's Rescue Zoo series
Zoe lives at her uncle’s rescue zoo that takes care of lost and homeless animals. But Zoe also has a secret: she can understand what animals say and talk to them!
Sydney and Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World
Sydney is a skunk and Taylor is a hedgehog, but no matter how odd the pairing may seem, their friendship comes naturally.
Julia Donaldson's Early Reader series
Easy-reading stories.
Gnomes Gnomes Gnomes!
Sam loves making gnomes out of clay. When Sam's mum says the gnomes will have to go, he plans a send-off for his clay friends.
Ready to Read series
Batman Has a Plan was written for children who have learned the alphabet and are ready to start reading!
Reading Ladder series
Level 1 Reading Ladder titles are perfect for new readers who are beginning to read simple stories.
The Beast of Bramble Woods
Nell and Freddie go camping and have the best time ever! But the Beast of Bramble Woods wants to join in the fun...
Sir Lance-a-Little series
Sir Lance-a-Little is the bravest, cleverest knight in all the whole kingdom of Notalot - or so he likes to think ...
Dorling Kindersley readers
Fiction and nonfiction titles from DK for early and emerging readers.
Miles Lewis
Miles Lewis loves science and sports. But when his teacher announces a class field trip to an ice skating rink to learn about physics, he isn't so excited.
Rainbow magic series
These fairy books are divided to smaller book series. You can read any book from this series.
Unipiggle
Meet the princess who loves breaking the rules and her Royal Unicorn, who happens to be a pig! A madcap and much-loved adventure series for 6-8 year olds, perfectly bridging the gap from picture books to chapter books.
Meet the Weirds
The Weird family move in next door and Pinchton Primm is fascinated by them.
Animal Stories series
These beautifully illustrated stories introduce a host of lost and lonely puppies and kittens. These books are guaranteed to melt your heart!
Sophie Takes to the Sky
Scaredy-Cat Sophie is afraid of everything! So when a balloonist comes to the town fair, Sophie is left behind while everyone else goes to watch him fly in his marvellous balloon.
Super Cute series
Prepare to enter a whole world of cute! Pip Bird's laugh-out-loud, heart-warming stories celebrate the differences in us all.
Anna Liza and the happy practice
Anna Liza likes to cheer up her mother's psychiatric patients.
Billy and the Mini Monsters series
Billy is an ordinary boy until one night he finds five mini monsters living in his sock drawer.
Rabbit and Bear series
This is a brilliantly funny series of a rabbit and a bear who discover that things are always better when they're shared with a friend. Ideal for readers moving on from picture books.
The princess in black series
When trouble raises its blue monster head, Princess Magnolia becomes the Princess in Black!
The secret rescuers series
Can Sophy and the other children manage to keep their rescued baby dragons and other mythical animals secret?
Kitty series
Kitty is a superhero-in-training with feline superpowers. She dreams of being like her superhero mum one day, but she's still got a lot to learn.
Bad Nana: Older not wiser
Jeanie’s Grandma is BAD. Not bad like a vampire or a gangster or anything, more like . . . up to no good. Sometimes she can be a bit embarrassing but most of the time she’s REALLY fun, especially when she gets Jeanie involved in her mischievous schemes.
Cosmic Creatures series
On a faraway planet, cute alien animals need help! Luckily, Charlie and her robot friend, Random, are ready for any rescue adventure...
Hetty and the Battle of the Books
The library is Hetty’s very favourite place in school, and since falling out with her best friends Ali, Mei and Rocket she’s been spending even more time there. So she’s absolutely horrified when she learns that her head teacher is planning to close it down, claiming there aren’t enough funds to keep the library going.
Freddie Mole, lion tamer
Freddie is an ordinary boy who joins the circus one day. He can't believe his luck as he is asked to understudy some of the acts. But is he brave enough to go into the lions' cage?
Magic Animal Friends series
In this magical world animals can talk and play just like us. Read about their magical adventures.
The Secret Mermaid series
Far out in the ocean live the Shell-Keeper mermaids. While the rest of the world sleeps, one little girl joins them for some magical mermaid adventures.
Mimi and the mountain dragon
A Christmas tale from Switzerland about a brave little girl and a terrible mountain dragon...
Mirabelle series
Mirabelle's mum is a witch and her dad is a fairy and she LOVES getting up to magical mischief.
The worst witch series
Mildred Hubble is a trainee witch at Miss Cackle's Academy, and she's making an awful mess of it.
Penny Dreadful series
Penny’s name is not actually Penny Dreadful. She just happens to be a magnet for disaster…
Magic Tree House series
Perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books!
Bicycling to the moon
Purdy the cat and Barker the dog live together in a sky-blue house on top of a hill.
Space detectives series
Dog lost in space? Grown an extra head and don't know why? Pocket money stolen by a green blob? You need the Space Detectives!
Winnie the Witch series
Winnie the Witch lives in a black house. She has black chairs and black stairs, black floors and black doors. Winnie’s cat Wilbur is black, too. And that is how the trouble begins!
Marshmallow Pie series
Marshmallow Marmaduke Vanilla-Bean Sugar-Pie Fluffington-Fitz-Noodle is a big, fluffy (and grumpy) cat.
Billy and the Minpins
Billy's mum says he must never go out through the garden gate and explore the dark forest beyond. So, one day, that's exactly what he does!
Usborne Illustrated Stories of Mermaids
Discover mermaid tales from around the world!
Find Peace in a Poem
Poems about mindfulness.
Tales of Brave and Brilliant Animals
A beautiful anthology for animal lovers of ten folk tales.
A World Full of Poems
Poems about everything from science, sports, and space, to friendship, family, and feelings.
Usborne Stories to Read Aloud
Perfect for storytime, this collection of ten traditional and much-loved stories includes The Princess and the Pea, Jack and the Beanstalk, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Little Red Riding Hood.
Smile out Loud
From the fantastic duo behind Poems Aloud comes twenty five original poems designed to be read aloud to project confidence, conjure happiness, make you laugh or cheer others up.
The enormous crocodile
The Enormous Crocodile is a horrid greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little boys and girls. But the other animals have had enough of his cunning tricks, so they scheme to get the better of this foul fiend, once and for all!
Revolting rhymes
This book is filled with revolting rhymes!
Usborne First Reading fairy tales
Easy-reading fairy tales.
Shuffle and squelch : poems and rhymes for children
A wonderful rhyme book full of action and noise!
Stories from Moominvalley
Anything can happen in Moominvalley!
The fate of Fausto
There was once a man who believed he owned everything and set out to survey what was his.
The Skull
A brave girl named Otilla has escaped from terrible danger and run away, and when she finds herself lost in the dark forest, the lonely house beckons.
Always Pooh and me : a collection of favourite poems
This selection of poetry features Christopher Robin and his dear friend, Pooh, with beautiful decorations from Winnie-the-Pooh artist E.H.Shepard, making it the perfect book for those who would like to be six for ever and ever.
Who is King? : ten magical stories from Africa
This book has African fairy tales, for example one story tells how elephants got their trunks.
Green tights -18 funny rhymes
Green Tights is a playful rhyme and word-gymnastics book for young and older schoolchildren and all wordniks who take an interest in English. The colourful illustrations contain terms in both English and Finnish.
The Little Prince
Meet the Little Prince, a young fellow who hails from a tiny, distant planet. He loves to watch sunsets and look after his flower, to ask questions and to laugh. And now here he is on Earth, appearing out of nowhere in the middle of the desert, looking for a friend.
Axel Scheffler's treasury of fairy tales
Classic stories brought to life by Axel Scheffler, illustrator of The Gruffalo and Zog.
Spooky Stories of the World
More than 20 fright-filled stories from around the globe.
Apes to Zebras: An A-Z of Shape Poems
This beautiful book features a full alphabet of shape poems of different animals, birds, and insects.
Creature Features series
This is a dinosaur book with a difference!
Everyday journeys of ordinary things
Why does a light come on when you flick a switch? How can cheese from the supermarket have come out of a cow? What happens when you send a text?
Usborne pet guides series
Looking after cats, dogs, rabbits or gerbils is fun. But what do they need?
100 Things to Know About... Series
These richly illustrated books are perfect for broadening knowledge of an essential subject, away from the classroom.
National Geographic Kids series
Easy-reading nonfiction books.
My First Book of Everything series
Go on a journey of discovery!
The story of people
When did the first humans live? How did humans spread all over the world? What will happen to humans in the future?
Let's save the Great Barrier Reef : why we must protect our planet
Discover why we must protect the Great Barrier Reef from climate change.The Great Barrier Reef is a wonderland of colour beneath the waves. The largest coral reef in the world, it is home to a quarter of all ocean life.
Stephen Biesty's incredible cross-sections of everything
How many rivets and bolts hold the wings of a Boeing 777 plane together? Why does an astronaut's space suit have a layer of liquid-cooled underwear? Who puts the jam in doughnuts?Find out the answers to these questions and much, much more in Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections of Everything.
Usborne Young beginners series
You can read about woodland creatures, dinosaurs or seashore.
Daredevil's guide to outer space
Five. Four. Three. Two. One. Blast off!
All about series
Nonfiction books about various topics.
Meet the... series
Take a trip to history!
What is a virus?
All the big questions children are asking about viruses (and adults are struggling to answer) are covered in this much-needed addition to the ever-popular First Questions & Answers series.
Usborne lift-the-flap series
Lift the flaps in these books to find out all about various topics!
Around the world in 80 ways
Travel around the world by yacht, tram, train, jetpack, camel...
What do animals do all day?
What do animals do on a tropical island or in a desert? This book introduces animals from 14 different habitats from a jungle to a coral reef.
The Story of Everythin
The story of the world from the Big Bang until now!
My Book of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life
From the first living cells to fearsome dinosaurs and giant mammals, take a journey through prehistory to find out about the supersized, the scary, and the downright bizarre animals and plants that inhabited Earth in ancient times.
Amazing animal journeys
Many animals migrate to other places each year. Find out more about them.
Little People, Big Dreams series
Discover the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists and activists. All of them achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream.
The big book of bugs
"Just how slow does a snail go? Are bugs afraid of the dark?" Find the answers to these questions and even more from this book.
Little Dinosaurs, Big Feelings
Learn how to navigate different emotions with the help from Doctor Diplo!
Pippi: The Strongest in the World
The complete Pippi Longstocking comics.
Saving Sorya
Written by scientist and environmental activist Trang Nguyen, Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear is an inspirational graphic-novel adventure, based on a true story about a young conservationist who overcomes the odds to save a sun bear.
Agent Moose
Agent Moose, the best (worst) secret agent in the Big Forest, and his slightly-more-intelligent sidekick Owlfred are on the case in this new full colour graphic novel series.
Magic Tree House graphic novels
Jack and Annie Smith are sent on adventures and missions through a magical tree house.
Sir Ladybug
Ladies and gentlebugs, presenting the duke of the dandelion patch, champion of truth and justice, the one, the only - Sir Ladybug! With his herd, Pell, and his trusty squire, Sterling, he never shies away from a guest, no matter how dangerous.
The Great Puptective
Poppy is not only a pup... she’s also a puptective!