1001 Children's Books You Should Read Before You Grow Up

Alfie gets in first

Shirley Hughes

Peace at Last

Jill Murphy

Stellaluna

Janell Cannon

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Eric Carle

Where's My Teddy?

Jez Alborough

Dear Zoo

Rod Campbell

Are you my mother?

P. D. Eastman

Amos & Boris

William Steig

Bad Case Of Stripes

David Shannon

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Teacher's Guide

Bill Martin Jr.

Corduroy

Don Freeman

Corduroy

Don Freeman

Crispin and the 3 Little Piglets

Ted Dewan

Each Peach Pear Plum

Allan Ahlberg

Frederick (Step Into Reading, Step 3)

Leo Lionni

Goodnight moon

Jean Little

I Hate School

Jeanne Willis

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

John Steptoe

Slinky Malinki, open the door

Lynley Dodd

Story about Ping

Marjorie Flack

The church mouse

Graham Oakley

The jungle book

Kate Hannigan

The little engine that could

Watty Piper

Toby

Hazel Mitchell

'Twas the night before Christmas; or, account of A visit from St. Nicholas

Clement Clarke Moore

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Judith Viorst

Angelina Ballerina Box Set

Katharine Holabird

Are We There Yet?

Doreen Gonzales

Barbapapa's voyage ...

Annette Tison

Bedtime for Frances

Hoban

Beegu

Alexis Deacon

Borka

John Burningham

Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde

Caps for Sale/Book and Cassette

Esphyr Slobodkina

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Judi Barrett

Crictor

Tomi Ungerer

Dogger

Shirley Hughes

Ea

Mary Elizabeth Salzmann

Ea

Mary Elizabeth Salzmann

End

John Bray

Enormous Crocodile

Roald Dahl

Fox

Margaret Wild

Gaston

Kelly Dipucchio

Guess how much I love you

Sam McBratney

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

Gumdrop on the move

Val Biro

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's dairy

Lynley Dodd

Hey, Al

Arthur Yorinks

Holes

Henry Arthur Pluckrose

I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato (Charlie & Lola)

Lauren Child

Ivor the Engine - the First Story (Picture Lions)

Oliver Postgate

Jumanji

Chris Van Allsburg

Katie Morag Delivers the Mail

Mairi Hedderwick

Little women

Ronne Randall

Marc Just Couldn't Sleep

Garbiela Keselman

Miffy

Dick Bruna

Millions of cats

Wanda Gág

Mog the forgetful cat

Judith Kerr

Mr. Archimedes' bath

Pamela Allen

My Place

Nadia Wheatley

Northern Lights

Ben McClanahan

Not Now, Bernard (Mini Hardback)

David Mckee

Not So Fast Songololo

Niki Daly, Narrated by Gcina Mhlope, Music Score by Murray Anderson

Old Bear

Jane Hissey

Olivia

Natalie Shaw

Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) Goes to the Moon

Katheen Hale

Out of the Dust

O'Brien

Owl Babies

Martin Waddell

Peanuts

Jacquie Bloese

Peter in Blueberry Land

Elsa Beskow

Pinocchio

Carlo Collodi

Polar Express

Chris Van Allsburg

Pollyanna

Peterson

Skippyjon Jones In Mummy Trouble

Judith Byron Schachner

Sleep Well, Little Bear

Quint Buchholz

Smith

Robin S. Doak

Stone Soup

Ying Chang Compestine

Storm boy

Paul Owen Lewis

Strega Nona

Jean Little

Swimmy

Leo Lionni

Tar Beach

Faith Ringgold

That pesky rat

Lauren Child

The Emperor's New Clothes

Hans Christian Andersen

The Gruffalo

Julia Donaldson

The House That Jack Built

Jess Rawles

The School for Cats

Esther Averill

The Story of Babar

Jean de Brunhoff

The Story of the Treasure Seekers

Edith Nesbit

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Judith Kerr

The Ugly Duckling

Casey Malarcher

The boy who grew flowers

Jennifer Wojtowicz

The scarlet letter

Chris Rice

The sea-thing child

Russell Hoban

Three Pigs

David Wiesner

Ug

Raymond Briggs

Up in the Tree

Margaret Atwood

Velveteen Rabbit

Margery Williams

When We Were Very Young

A. A. Milne

Where the Red Fern Grows

Novel Units Inc.

Winnie the Witch

Valerie Thomas

Henry and Mudge and the tall tree house

Cynthia Rylant

The cat in the hat

Dr. Seuss

Little blue and little yellow

Leo Lionni

Amelia Bedelia

Peggy Parish

The giving tree

Shel Silverstein

Bad habits!, or, The taming of Lucretzia Crum

Babette Cole

Through the Looking Glass

Matthew K. Manning

One Snowy Night

Seon-Hye Jang

The little red lighthouse and the great gray bridge

Hildegarde Hoyt Swift

A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

A Christmas carol

Charles Dickens, Lisbeth Zwerger

A child's Christmas in Wales

Dylan Thomas

Alice's adventures in Wonderland

David Blair

Blueberries For Sal

Robert McCloskey

Bubble and Squeak

Philippa Pearce

Eloise

Kay Thompson

Else-Marie and her seven little daddies

Gabrielle Charbonnet

Frog and Toad Are Friends Book and Tape

Arnold Lobel

Grandfather's Dance (Sarah, Plain and Tall)

Patricia MacLachlan

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Salman Rushdie

Horrid Henry

Francesca Simon

Joyful Noise

Paul Fleischman

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

Kevin Henkes

Madlenka Doll

Peter Sís

Mr. Majeika and the school book week

Humphrey Carpenter

My Father's Dragon

Ruth Stiles Gannett

Poems for the Very Young (Poetry)

Michael Rosen

The Giver

Lois Lowry

The Hundred Dresses (Voyager Books)

Eleanor Estes

The Rose And The Ring

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Shrinking of Treehorn

Florence Parry Heide

The Slave Dancer

Paula Fox

The Swiss family Robinson

Richard Blandford

The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (The World of Beatrix Potter)

Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Jean Little

The magic finger

Roald Dahl

The three musketeers

Alan Weissman

Thomas the Tank Engine

Wilbert V. Awdry, W. Awdry

Just Annoying

Andy Griffiths

Oh, the places you'll go!

Dr. Seuss

Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?

Martin Waddell

A chair for my mother

Vera B. Williams

Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak

In the Night Kitchen

Maurice Sendak

A Farmer Boy Birthday (My First Little House Books)

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Mary Poppins

Pamela L. Travers

Runaway train

Wim Coleman

The giant jam sandwich

John Vernon Lord

The Boxcar Children

Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Graveyard book: volume 1

Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell

Flat Stanley

Jeff Brown

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Shel Silverstein

The Little House

Nobody's Boy

Hector Malot

Charlotte's Web

E. B. White

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne

A Bear Called Paddington

Michael Bond

A parcel of patterns

Jill Paton Walsh

A wrinkle in time

Kari Sutherland

Aldabra, or, The tortoise who loved Shakespeare

Silvana Gandolfi

Anastasia Krupnik

Lois Lowry

Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo

Black Beauty

Anna Sewell

D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths

Ingri Parin D'Aulaire

Dougy

James Moloney

Elidor

Alan Garner

Emil and the Detectives

Erich Kästner

Fairy Tales

Ruth B. Bottigheimer

Finn Family Moomintroll

Tove Jansson

Fire, Bed and Bone

Henrietta Branford

Flour babies

Anne Fine

From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E. L. Konigsburg

Gold dust

Chris Lynch

Granny

Anthony Horowitz

Hitler's Daughter

Jackie French

Inkheart

Jane B. Mason

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Scott O’Dell

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl

Julie of the Wolves

Jean Craighead George

Lassie Come-Home

Eric Knight - undifferentiated

Little House in the Big Woods

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Make Way for Ducklings

Robert McCloskey

Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli

Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories

Joyce Lankester Brisley

Misty of Chincoteague

Marguerite Henry

Mother Goose

W. Pogany

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Richard Atwater

My Side of the Mountain

Jean George

Number the stars

Lois Lowry

Old Yeller

Fred Gipson

Peter Pan

Wendi Lowery

Pippi Longstocking

Astrid Lindgren

Playing Beatie Bow

Ruth Park

ROWAN AND THE KEEPER OF THE CRYSTAL Rowan of Rin #3

Emily Rodda

Rabbit Hill

Robert Lawson

Ramona the Pest

Beverly Cleary

River Boy

Tim Bowler

Robinson Crusoe

edward w. dolch

Round the World in 80 Days

Jules Verne

Sunny

Kate Klimo

Telephone Tales

Gianni Rodari

The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

Laura Lee Hope

The Brothers Lionheart

Astrid Lindgren

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

The Cay

Theodore Taylor

The Chocolate War

Robert Cormier

The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again

Gillian Cross

The Dutch Twins and The Japanese Twins (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) [UNABRIDGED]

Lucy Fitch Perkins

The Hardy Boys

Franklin W. Dixon

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

The House at Pooh Corner and Now We Are Six

A. A. Milne

The Incredible Journey

Sheila Burnford

The Indian in the Cupboard

Lynne Reid Banks

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Magic Pudding

Norman Lindsay

The Night Swimmers

Betsy Byars

The Outsiders

S. E. Hinton

The People Could Fly

Virginia Hamilton

The Princess and the Goblin

George MacDonald

The Summer of the Swans

Betsy Cromer Byars

The Whipping Boy (Chivers Children's Audio Books)

Sid Fleischman

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Joan Aiken

The adventures of Tom Sawyer

Quadrum Solutions (Firm)

The devil's arithmetic

Jane Yolen

The friends

Rosa Guy

The hundred and one Dalmatians

Dodie Smith

The mystery of the yellow room

Gaston Leroux

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

Twilight

Avner Gold

Two Weeks with the Queen

Morris Gleitzman

Viking's dawn

Henry Treece

Walking naked

Alyssa Brugman

When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit

Judith Kerr

Whispers in the Graveyard

Theresa Breslin

White Fang

Jack London

Why the Whales Came

Michael Morpurgo

Window

Dave Cole

Winter in wartime

Jan Terlouw

Winter song

Dorothy Oxley

Worzel Gummidge and Saucy Nancy

Barbara Euphan Todd

Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson

Little House on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception

Eoin Colfer

Matilda

Roald Dahl

My Naughty Little Sister

Dorothy Edwards

Sounder

William H. Armstrong

The wind in the willows

Kenneth Grahame

Dear nobody

Mary Rose

Charlie and the chocolate factory

Roald Dahl

Stormbreaker

Anthony Horowitz

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

A Dog So Small

Philippa Pearce

A Girl of The Limberlost

Gene Stratton-Porter

A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Lemony Snicket

Aesop's fables

Aesop

Badger on the Barge

Janni Howker

Bilgewater

Jane Gardam

Brother in the Land

Robert Swindells

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis

Caddie Woodlawn

Carol Ryrie Brink

Carrie's war

Nina Bawden

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch

Jean Lee Latham

Changeover

Margaret Mahy

Charlotte Sometimes

Penelope Farmer

Charmed Life (Chrestomanci, Book 1)

Diana Wynne Jones

Cirque du Freak

Darren Shan

Detectives in togas

Henry Winterfeld (Manfred Michael)

Dragon Ball

Akira Toriyama

Five children and It

Edith Nesbit

Flambards

K. M. Peyton

Grimms' Fairy Tales

Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]

Heart

Lexi Harris

How I live now

Meg Rosoff

I'm the king of the castle.

Susan Hill

Jacob Have I Loved

Katherine Paterson

Johnny and the bomb

Terry Pratchett

Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling

Keeper

Mal Peet

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson

Knight's fee

Rosemary Sutcliff

Lost and Found

Judith M. Masson, Christine Harrison, Annie Pavlovic

Millions

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Minnow on the Say

Philippa Pearce

Mouse and His Child

Russell Hoban

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh/Newbery Summer

Robert C. O'Brien

Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind

Hayao Miyazaki

Ordinary Jack

Helen Cresswell

Private Peaceful

Michael Morpurgo

Skellig

David Almond

Snow Spider

Jenny Nimmo

Stone cold

Pete Hautman

Stony heart country

David Metzenthen

Story of Tracy Beaker

Jacqueline Wilson

Stuart Little

E. B. White

The Black Stallion

Walter Farley

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger

The Dark Is Rising (The Dark Is Rising Sequence)

Susan Cooper

The Little White Horse

Elizabeth Goudge

The Owl Service

Alan Garner

The Ruby in the Smoke

Philip Pullman

The School at the Chalet

Elinor M. Brent-Dyer

The Snowman

Bob Eckstein

The Vile Village

Lemony Snicket

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

Alan Garner

The Wool-pack

Cynthia Harnett

The box of delights

John Masefield

The coral island

Robert Michael Ballantyne

The dark frigate

Charles Boardman Hawes

The little grey men

"BB,"

The running man

Michael Gerard Bauer

The witch of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth George Speare

Thunder and Lightnings

Jan Mark

Thursday's child

Noel Streatfeild

Tomorrow, when the war began

John Marsden

Truckers

Terry Pratchett

Tulku

Peter Dickinson

Uncle (A Puffin Book)

J.P Martin

Village by the Sea

Anita Desai

What Katy Did

Susan Coolidge

Wolf brother

Michelle Paver

The real thief.

William Steig

See How They Run

Susan Goodman

The hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

A wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Anne of Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Ark Angel

Anthony Horowitz

Ballet Shoes

Noel Streatfeild

Coram Boy

Jamila Gavin

Harriet the spy

Louise Fitzhugh

Heidi

Johanna Spyri

I Am The Messenger

Markus Zusak

Johnny Tremain

Esther Forbes

Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Puffin Classics)

Jules Verne

Moonfleet

John Meade Falkner

Mortal Engines

Philip Reeve

My friend Flicka

Mary O'Hara

P

Andrew Lewis Conn

P

Andrew Lewis Conn

Postcards from no man's land

Aidan Chambers

Redwall

Brian Jacques

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor

Swallows and Amazons

Arthur Michell Ransome

Tal

Paul Fenimore Cooper

Tales from Shakespeare

Charles Lamb

The collected tales of Nurse Matilda

Christianna Brand

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Amulet of Samarkand

Jonathan Stroud

Arabian Nights

Kappa Books Publishers

Complete Adventures of the Borrowers

Mary Norton

Goodnight Mister Tom

Michelle Magorian

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the goblet of fire

J. K. Rowling

Homecoming

Cynthia Voigt

Hounds of the Morrigan

Pat O'Shea

Lord of the flies

William Golding

The Blue Fairy Book (Large Print)

Andrew Lang

The Fellowship of the Ring

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The new policeman

Kate Thompson

Toby Alone

Timothée de Fombelle

Tom Brown's schooldays

Thomas Hughes

Watership down

Richard Adams