Alan Wallace and Iain Huntley from Espoo City Library present their favourite English-language books for primary school children published in 2025. The video takes a closer look at five books suitable for 5th–6th graders and concludes with an overview of recommended books for different primary school grade levels. The video includes Finnish subtitles.
Alan Wallace ja Iain Huntley Espoon kaupunginkirjastosta vinkkaavat suosikkinsa vuoden 2025 englanninkielisistä alakouluikäisille sopivista kirjoista. Vinkkauksessa pureudutaan tarkemmin viiteen 5.–6.-luokkalaisille sopivaan kirjaan. Videon lopussa on katsaus eri luokka-asteille sopiviin alakoululaisille suunnattuihin kirjoihin. Videossa on suomenkielinen tekstitys.
Featured titles / Esitellyt kirjat:
- The Last Pebble – Alex Horne. Walker Books 2025
- Shrapnel Boys – Jenny Pearson. Hachette Children’s Books 2025
- I Am Wolf – Alastair Chisholm. Nosy Crow 2025
- Turtle Moon – Hannah Gold. HarperCollins Children’s Books 2025
- The Beck – Anthony McGowan. HarperCollins Children’s Books 2025
Books by grade level / Kirjavinkit luokka-asteittain:
Grades 1–2 / 1.–2. luokat
- Puppy Problem – Serena Patel. Usborne Publishing 2025
- Celeste Express: The War of the Wurms – Alexander Slater. Puffin 2025
- Mermaids Diary – Chris Riddell. Macmillan Children’s Books 2025
- Emerald and the Magic Shell – Harriet Muncaster. Oxford University Press 2025
- Meet the Mubbles – Liz Pichon. Macmillan Children’s Books 2025
- Murray the Pirate – Adam Stower. HarperCollins Children’s Books 2025
- The Guinea-Pig Party – Holly Webb. HarperCollins Children’s Books 2025
Grades 3–4 / 3.–4. luokat
- Land of the Last Wildcat – Lui Sit. Macmillan Children’s Books 2025
- Diary of a Big Bad Wolf – Ben Miller. Simon & Schuster Children’s UK 2025
- The Good, the Bad and the Rusty – Guy Bass. Little Tiger 2025
- The Cabbage Juice Crime – David O’Connell. Scholastic 2025
- The Unlikely Diary of Prince Kal the Alien – Ross Welford. HarperCollins Children’s Books 2025
- Diary of a Future Billionaire – Pamela Butchart. Scholastic 2025
- The Girl and the Robot – Oz Rodriguez & Claribel A. Ortega. Disney Hyperion 2025
- The Boy with Big Decisions – Helen Rutter. Scholastic 2025
Grades 5–6 / 5.–6. luokat
- The Last Pebble – Alex Horne. Walker Books 2025
- Shrapnel Boys – Jenny Pearson. Hachette Children’s Books 2025
- I Am Wolf – Alastair Chisholm. Nosy Crow 2025
- Turtle Moon – Hannah Gold. HarperCollins Children’s Books 2025
- The Beck – Anthony McGowan. HarperCollins Children’s Books 2025
- Gloam – Jack MacKay. Little Tiger 2025
- A Box Full of Murders – Janice Hallett. Puffin 2025
- The Witch in the Woods – Jennifer Killick. HarperCollins Children’s Books 2025
- The Wrong Shoes – Tom Percival. Simon & Schuster 2025
- Hunt for the Golden Scarab – M. G. Leonard. Macmillan Children’s Books 2025
- The Sign of the Five – Ali Standish. HarperCollins Children’s Books 2025
- Clem Fatale Has Been Betrayed – Eve Wersocki-Morris. Little Tiger 2025
- Bird Boy – Catherine Bruton. Nosy Crow 2025
What is Tarinasaalis?
Tarinasaalis is a collection in which library professionals present and recommend some of the best children’s and young adult books published in 2025. The collection also includes recommendations for games suitable for children and young people, children’s music, as well as materials for children and young people from Viittomakielinen kirjasto (the Finnish Sign Language Library).
The Tarinasaalis collection is now produced for the fourth time. The first set was compiled from materials published in 2022. In the Tarinasaalis collection, the themes have been divided among the participating libraries. Each library has produced its recommendation videos in its own way and submitted them to Kirjastokaista as part of the collection.
The idea for the Tarinasaalis collection originally came from Espoo City Library. The production of Tarinasaalis is coordinated jointly by the National Special Assignment for Promoting Reading among Children and Young People at Seinäjoki City Library (Seinäjoki Erte) and Kirjastokaista.
The Tarinasaalis videos produced by libraries have been published according to the libraries’ preferences either on the Kirjastokaista platform or on the participating libraries’ own YouTube channels. The videos have then been brought together on Kirjastokaista as the Tarinasaalis collection.
This video has been brought to Kirjastokaista from the Kirjastokurre YouTube channel.
Tämä video on tuotu Kirjastokaistalle Kirjastokurren YouTube-kanavalta.
See also – Katso lisää:
All Tarinasaalis videos from 2025
Information about the Tarinasaalis collection on the Kirjastokaista blog
Backgrounds, editing and translation: Alan Wallace
Filming and sound: Timo Ylönen
Graphics for the Tarinasaalis series: Mikko Helander
Video production: Espoo City Library
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