For teaching
Books to inspire children’s writing
Wordless and wildly imaginative books that hand children a world to write into: the best books to inspire writing across KS1 and KS2.
The books that spark the best writing are rarely the ones with a tidy lesson. They are the strange, open, wordless and wonderful ones that leave room: a found camera full of impossible photographs, a door into another world, a day the crayons walked out.
These are our favourites for getting children writing, not by setting an exercise but by being so inviting that a class wants to fill in what happens next, describe what they can see, or answer back. Many are wordless on purpose, so the story belongs to the writer. They run from Key Stage 1 picture books to richer graphic novels for older writers.
Brilliant stories first. The writing follows because children cannot help it.
