The Dunnock's Year
Decodable Phonics Reader (Ages 5-7)
Published on 21. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-1-7391763-6-5 (ISBN)
Description
Discover the quiet life of the dunnock - a small, shy bird often seen darting beneath hedges. In The Dunnock's Year, children aged 5-7 follow this overlooked garden bird through a full calendar of activity.
This gentle, decodable book is part of the Enchanted Nature series and features phonics-friendly language and rich illustrations that support both reading development and a love of wildlife. Follows the Letters and Sound progression.
Other books in the Enchanted Nature garden birds series:
The Robin's Year, The Song Thrush's Year, The Chaffinch's Year, The Magpie's Year, The Starling's Year
This gentle, decodable book is part of the Enchanted Nature series and features phonics-friendly language and rich illustrations that support both reading development and a love of wildlife. Follows the Letters and Sound progression.
Other books in the Enchanted Nature garden birds series:
The Robin's Year, The Song Thrush's Year, The Chaffinch's Year, The Magpie's Year, The Starling's Year
Reviews / Votes
The set of six books aims to engage young readers, by describing a year in the life of a garden bird, ranging from 'A Chaffinch's Year' to 'A Robin's Year.'Each absorbing book will capture the imagination of the young reader, whilst the decodable format of the text supports and encourages early reading and phonics development.
The nature based theme of garden birds is absorbing and captivating, as the young reader learns about the annual cycle of each bird, using wonderful, descriptive text, alongside colourful and beautiful illustrations.
The books provide positive momentum in developing independent reading for young, inquisitive minds. The nature based theme will ignite a love of reading, whilst stimulating an awareness of the annual, natural cycle in the life of garden birds.
Perfect and unmissable for young children, I have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending this superb set of books, to teachers and parents alike.
Geoffrey Brant
M.A. B.Ed (Hons) Cert. Ed.
Retired Headteacher
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
One Creative Services Ltd
Target group
Children/juvenile
Illustrations
12 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 147 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
48 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7391763-6-5 (9781739176365)
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Person
Caroline Petherbridge BA(hons) Ed. QTS is a former primary school teacher with a background in the creative arts and literacy. She is a published author and has written and designed materials for many educational publishers including Scholastic, TTS Group, Jolly Learning and Sparkle Education.
Her series 'Fantasy Phonics', published by BCA, sold 20,000+ copies and her publication, 'The Bumper Book of Phonics Fun', published by Jolly Learning, won the Communication, Language & Literacy Award at the 2021 Teach Primary Awards.
She was one of the main contributing writers for the Eat Happy Project, Tesco's Farm to Fork initiative; and Scholastic's magazine publication 'Children Education'. Her stories, books and materials have been commissioned and sold by major retail outlets including Marks & Spencer, Mothercare, The Early Learning Centre and WH Smith.
Her series 'Fantasy Phonics', published by BCA, sold 20,000+ copies and her publication, 'The Bumper Book of Phonics Fun', published by Jolly Learning, won the Communication, Language & Literacy Award at the 2021 Teach Primary Awards.
She was one of the main contributing writers for the Eat Happy Project, Tesco's Farm to Fork initiative; and Scholastic's magazine publication 'Children Education'. Her stories, books and materials have been commissioned and sold by major retail outlets including Marks & Spencer, Mothercare, The Early Learning Centre and WH Smith.