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Best ‘All About Me’ Books for Children

Celebrate individuality with our list of the best children’s books to support an ‘All About Me’ or ‘Ourselves’ topic for EYFS and KS1 – a popular topic in classrooms as children learn more about themselves and others. 

Each child is unique from the tips of their toes to the end of their nose – with different hobbies, feelings, hairstyles, eye colour, cultural heritages or body shapes.

Whether you want EYFS and KS1 All About Me books celebrating individuality like Super Duper You and Can I Build Another Me or stories about wonderful growing bodies like Measuring Me and Hair Love, we’ve got this All About Me topic covered with this booklist. We’ve also included stories celebrating difference and diversity, including Hats of Faith and All Are Welcome.

Our booklist features recommended All About Me children’s books to help children understand more about their bodies and to positively celebrate the similarities and differences individuals encounter as they find their place within their communities. 

Professor Astro Cat’s Human Body Odyssey

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The newest addition to the popular Professor Astro Cat series, this time taking a journey through the amazing human body. FIlled with bold, contemporary illustrations and scientific ideas are introduced in a very child-friendly way. This series is always a huge hit in the classroom.​

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You Choose

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Get pupils choosing, imagining and expressing their own preferences with this massively appealing picture book full of choices.

Each double-page spread is themed around a different choice to make and packed with all sorts of possibilities from the tame to the outright wacky; choose furniture for your ideal house, choose a pet (watch out for the dragon) and choose favourite food (the ice cream looks good but I’m not sure about the boar’s head!).

The You Choose series of books have seen enormous popularity and are well-loved by children because of the premise of letting the reader choose items from an appealing illustrated scene on each page. Readers are invited to select their favourite food, destination, clothing, hobby and family from a mix of plausible and not-so-plausible cartoon options, illustrated by the inimitable Nick Sharratt. These engaging books have mileage to be read over and over again, and children love interacting with them together with friends or family as they discuss their choices.

There is nothing that can quite take the place of this fantastically engaging series!

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What’s Eating You?

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Non-fiction

All about the tiny creatures that live on or in human and animal bodies. Find out about the parasites that live in skin, hair, fur, feathers, blood, guts, livers, hearts and lungs. Filled with diagrams, cartoons and easy-to-read chunks of text, this information book is accessible and engaging.

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Hello World

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Non-fiction
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How do you say hello? How many other ways can you think of? This lift-the-flap book is a celebration of languages and cultures, showing people from different countries saying ‘hello’ in their native language. Find out what ‘hello’ in different languages looks and sounds like in this visually appealing non-fiction text.

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Human Body (Shine-A-Light)

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This engaging picture book invites readers to interact by shining a torch through each page to reveal hidden details in the pictures of different body parts, such as the food travelling through the digestive system or the baby inside the mother’s uterus. The pictures, hidden images and text work together to create perfectly interactive information books that both delight and intrigue their readers. Remember to supply a torch too!

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Let’s Make Faces

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This is a delightful visual text brimming with creativity and fun. On each page the reader is challenged to make faces out of everyday objects or shapes, including DIY tools, food, clothes and many others. Let’s Make Faces is a super book to use as a stimulus for creative work and also helps to put feelings words to different facial expressions.

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One Day, So Many Ways

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Every moment of every day there are children all around the world sharing common experiences in a diversity of ways. From waking up and travelling to school to enjoying snack time and play time, there are hundreds of different ways to go about the same routines. With clear and colourful illustrations and easy-to-read text, this is a wonderful non-fiction text to make available for KS1. Readers will be surprised by the amazing diversity displayed by children around the world completing familiar tasks that are part of their own daily routines.

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Look Out! How We Use Our Five Senses!

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Picturebook

We love information texts with interactive elements and this one does not disappoint! The book explores the five senses and what each sense is for using fun characters, bright illustrations and simple infographics. When you hold up certain pages to the light (or shine a torch through), extra details are revealed. This book, along with the other book in the series Atchoo! How We Catch A Cold available from Amazon, would make a great addition to classroom libraries in Early Years and KS1.

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Can I Build Another Me?

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This is a wonderful picturebook about the nature of individuality, perfect for building a classroom or school culture where the uniqueness of each person is celebrated.

The book invites readers on a whimsical journey that follows a young boy’s desire to create a robot clone of himself. However, before he can bring his cloned self to life, he must embark on a quest to uncover the essence of his individuality. What is it, exactly, that makes him who he is?

Younger classes will enjoy imagining what a robot close of themselves might look, act and feel like, while older children can get philosophical about the factors that have come together to make them who they are, or even about the potential ethics of cloning oneself (I’m sure overly busy teachers may also be tempted to wish for a clone!).

Either way, this is a really fun focal point for classrooms and one that works best if children are given enlarged or close-up access to the illustrations.

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