January’s Top Texts have been chosen by Alison Leach, an experienced primary teacher and English lead who now helps teachers to discover quality children’s books for their classrooms and school libraries through the website booksfortopics.com. Alison completed a Master of Education in Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature at the University of Cambridge, during which time she was awarded the Jacqueline Wilson Award in Children’s Literature Research. Find her on Twitter as @booksfortopics.