October’s Top Texts have been chosen by Mary Roche. A former primary teacher and lecturer in teacher education, Mary built on her PhD research to write the book Developing Children’s Critical Thinking through Picturebooks (Routledge 2015) which received a UKLA Academic Book Award. Her ‘Critical Thinking and Book Talk’ (CT&BT) teaching approach is currently part of the Literacy support materials for the revised language curriculum in Ireland and is a prescribed text in several Initial Teacher Education colleges internationally. Mary provides teacher CPD and supports schools nationally in developing a school plan for using CT&BT. You can follow Mary on Twitter @marygtroche