A good website to visit is http://www.carolhurst.com which introduces itself as "a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics."
You can subscribe to a (free) online quarterly newsletter from the site, which, though it has a US focus in reviews and topics, could be useful for ideas - the latest newsletter has a booklist of "time fantasies" including old favourites like Tuck Everlasting, and Tom's Midnight Garden.
Carol Hurst was a great advocate for children's books and how they could be used in the classroom - she was an author, storyteller, lecturer, consultant, teacher and librarian. She died in 2007, and her daughter Rebecca Otis Hurst is continuing her work on the website / newsletter.
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