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

Alfie gets in first

Shirley Hughes

Are You My Mother?

P. D. Eastman

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

Lynley Dodd

Owl Moon

Jane Yolen

Peace at Last

Jill Murphy

Stellaluna

Janell Cannon

The Bear Went over the Mountain (Baby Bear Books)

John Prater

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Eric Carle

Dear Zoo

Rod Campbell

Amos & Boris

William Steig

Bad Case Of Stripes

David Shannon

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Bill Martin Jr.

Corduroy

Don Freeman

Corduroy

Don Freeman

Doctor De Soto (A Sunburst Book)

William Steig

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

Mo Willems

Each Peach Pear Plum

Allan Ahlberg

Frederick (Step Into Reading, Step 3)

Leo Lionni

Goodnight moon

Jean Little

Harry the Dirty Dog Board Book

Gene Zion

Henry and Amy (right-way-round and upside down)

Stephen Michael King

I Hate School

Jeanne Willis

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

John Steptoe

Old Tom Goes to Mars (Old Tom)

Leigh Hobbs

Pumpkin soup

Helen Cooper

Story about Ping

Marjorie Flack

The Paper Bag Princess

Robert N. Munsch

The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew It Was None of His Business

Werner Holzwarth

The church mouse

Graham Oakley

The day the babies crawled away

Peggy Rathmann

The little engine that could

Watty Piper

The three railway engines

Reverend W. Awdry

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

Animalia

Graeme Base

Are We There Yet?

Doreen Gonzales

Asterix the Gaul (Asterix)

René Goscinny

Avocado Baby (Red Fox Picture Books)

John Burningham

Barbapapa

Annette Tison

Bedtime for Frances

Hoban

Beegu

Alexis Deacon

Borka

John Burningham

Chanticleer and the fox

Geoffrey Chaucer

Charlotte's Web

Ladybird Books Staff

Crictor

Tomi Ungerer

Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish

Michael Foreman

Dogger

Shirley Hughes

Dragonsong

Russell Young

Ea

Mary Elizabeth Salzmann

Ea

Mary Elizabeth Salzmann

End

John Bray

Fahrenheit 451

Mary L. Dennis

Father Christmas

Raymond Briggs

Figgie hobbin.

Charles Causley

Fox

Margaret Wild

Friends from the other side =

Gloria Anzaldúa

Gaston

Kelly Dipucchio

Gorilla

Steve Macleod

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

Gumdrop on the move

Val Biro

Handa's Surprise

Guy Merchant

Heart

Deedee Cummings

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

Jennifer Jones Won't Leave Me Alone

Frieda Wishinsky

Journey

Jules Verne

Jumanji

Chris Van Allsburg

Katie Morag Delivers the Mail

Mairi Hedderwick

Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch

Ronda Armitage

Marc Just Couldn't Sleep

Garbiela Keselman

Meg and Mog

Ladybird Books Staff

Miffy

Dick Bruna

Millions of cats

Wanda Gág

Mister Magnolia

Quentin Blake

Mog the forgetful cat

Judith Kerr

Mousehole Cat

Jean Evans

Mr Tickle and the scary Halloween

Roger Hargreaves

Mr. Archimedes' bath

Pamela Allen

Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present

Charlotte Zolotow

My Place

Nadia Wheatley

Northern Lights

Ben McClanahan

Not So Fast Songololo

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

Now We Are Six

A. A. Milne

Old Bear

Jane Hissey

Olivia

Natalie Shaw

Ox-cart man

Donald Hall - undifferentiated

Peanuts

Jacquie Bloese

Peter in Blueberry Land

Elsa Beskow

Polar Express

Chris Van Allsburg

Pollyanna

Peterson

Rosie's Walk

Pat Hutchins

Sleep Well, Little Bear

Quint Buchholz

Slinky Malinki's Christmas Crackers

Lynley Dodd

Smith

Robin S. Doak

Stone Soup

Ying Chang Compestine

Storm boy

Paul Owen Lewis

Strega Nona

Jean Little

Struwwelpeter

Heinrich Hoffmann

Swimmy

Leo Lionni

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

William Steig

Tar Beach

Faith Ringgold

That pesky rat

Lauren Child

The Baby's Catalogue

Janet Ahlberg

The Children of the New Forest

Frederick Marryat

The Emperor's New Clothes

Hans Christian Andersen

The Enormous Crocodile

Eileen Jones

The Garden

Elizabeth Laird

The Giant Jam Sandwich

John Vernon Lord

The Gruffalo

Julia Donaldson

The House That Jack Built

Jess Rawles

The Little Fox

Ram Papish

The Night Pirates

Peter Harris

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Penny Dolan, Martin Impey

The School for Cats

Esther Averill

The Story of Babar

Jean de Brunhoff

The Story of the Treasure Seekers

Edith Nesbit

The Sword in the Stone

Grace Maccarone

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Judith Kerr

The Ugly Duckling

Casey Malarcher

The boy who grew flowers

Jennifer Wojtowicz

The sea-thing child

Russell Hoban

The three pigs

Tony Ross

Ug

Raymond Briggs

Up in the Tree

Margaret Atwood

Velveteen Rabbit

Margery Williams

Way home

Elizabeth Hathorn

When We Were Very Young

A. A. Milne

Where the Red Fern Grows

Novel Units Inc.

Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears

Verna Aardema

Why the Whales Came

Jillian Powell

Winnie the Witch

Valerie Thomas

Zen Shorts (Collector's Edition) (Zen)

Jon J. Muth

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 child's Christmas in Wales

Dylan Thomas

Blueberries For Sal

Robert McCloskey

Bubble and Squeak

Philippa Pearce

Eloise

Kay Thompson

Else-Marie and her seven little daddies

Gabrielle Charbonnet

Grinny

Nicholas Fisk

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Salman Rushdie

Hodgeheg

Dick King-Smith

Horrid Henry

Francesca Simon

How the Whale Became

Ted Hughes

Journey to Jo'burg

Beverley Naidoo

Joyful Noise

Paul Fleischman

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

Kevin Henkes

Lion in the Meadow

Margaret Mahy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Virginia Lee Burton

Mr. Majeika and the school book week

Humphrey Carpenter

My Father's Dragon

Ruth Stiles Gannett

Poems for the very young

Michael Rosen

Robinson Crusoe

Martin Powell

Sarah, plain and tall

Patricia MacLachlan

The Canterville Ghost

Susanna Davidson

The Giver

Lois Lowry

The Hundred Dresses (Voyager Books)

Eleanor Estes

The Prince and the Pauper

Susanna Davidson

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 Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Selma Lagerlöf

The cuckoo clock

Jean Little

The last giants

François Place

The magic finger

Roald Dahl

The magic fishbone

Nancy Holder

The runaway bunny

Jean Little

The scarlet letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The three musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

Two little bears

Hanna Johansen

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 Boxcar Children

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Flat Stanley

Jeff Brown

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Shel Silverstein

The Little House

Nobody's Boy

Hector Malot

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne

A Bear Called Paddington

Michael Bond

A hundred million francs

Paul Berna

A long way from Verona

Jane Gardam

A parcel of patterns

Jill Paton Walsh

A wrinkle in time

Kari Sutherland

Across the barricades

Joan Lingard

Aesop's Fables

Aesop

Aldabra, or, The tortoise who loved Shakespeare

Silvana Gandolfi

Anastasia Krupnik

Lois Lowry

Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo

Black Beauty

Anna Sewell

Carrie's War

Nina Bawden

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Ian Fleming

Clockwork, or All wound up

Philip Pullman

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

Stacia Deutsch

Conrad

Christine Nöstlinger

Crispin

Avi

Crispin

Avi

D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths

Ingri Parin D'Aulaire

Dougy

James Moloney

Edge of the Cloud

K. M. Peyton

Elidor

Alan Garner

Emil and the Detectives

Erich Kästner

Field Guide

Holly Black

Finding Violet Park

Jenny Valentine

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

Grover

Vera Cleaver

Hazel Green

Odo Hirsch

Heart's delight

Per Nilsson

Hitler's Daughter

Jackie French

Homecoming

Diane Dakers

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

King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table

Benedict Flynn

Lassie Come-Home

Eric Knight - undifferentiated

Lavender's Blue

Kathleen Lines

Little House in the Big Woods

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Love you forever

Robert N. Munsch

Madame Doubtfire.

Anne Fine

Make Way for Ducklings

Robert McCloskey

Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli

Marianne Dreams

Catherine Storr

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 Possum's Book of Practical Cats

T. S. Eliot

Old Yeller

Fred Gipson

Orlando

Jonathan Carlisle

Peeling the onion

Wendy Orr

Pippi Longstocking

Astrid Lindgren

Playing Beatie Bow

Ruth Park

Rabbit Hill

Robert Lawson

Ramona the Pest

Beverly Cleary

River Boy

Tim Bowler

Rowan of Rin

Emily Rodda

See ya, Simon

Hill, David

Seven Little Australians

Ethel Turner

Some of the Kinder Planets

Tim Wynne-Jones

Sounder

William H. Armstrong

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 Catcher in the Rye

Nigel Tookey

The Cay

Theodore Taylor

The Dutch Twins

Lucy Fitch Perkins

The Graveyard Book

P. Craig Russell, Neil Gaiman

The Haunting

Margaret Mahy

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

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 Red Pony

John Steinbeck

The Summer of the Swans

Betsy Cromer Byars

The Twenty-One Balloons

William Pène Du Bois

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 demon headmaster

Gillian Cross

The devil's arithmetic

Jane Yolen

The friends

Rosa Guy

The hundred and one Dalmatians

Dodie Smith

The jungle book

Rudyard Kipling

The little captain

Paul Biegel

The mystery of the yellow room

Gaston Leroux

The wind in the willows

Kenneth Grahame

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tuck Everlasting

Natalie Babbitt

Twilight

Avner Gold

Two Weeks with the Queen

Morris Gleitzman

Twopence a tub

Susan Price

Under the mountain

Maurice Gee

Viking's dawn

Henry Treece

Walkabout

James Vance Marshall

Walking naked

Alyssa Brugman

When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit

Judith Kerr

Whispers in the Graveyard

Theresa Breslin

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

Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception

Eoin Colfer

Matilda

Roald Dahl

My Naughty Little Sister

Dorothy Edwards

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

Alex

Frank Deford

Badger on the Barge

Janni Howker

Ballet Shoes

Noel Streatfeild

Bilgewater

Jane Gardam

Brother in the Land

Robert Swindells

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis

Caddie Woodlawn

Carol Ryrie Brink

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

Frog and Toad

Arnold Lobel

Good Master

Kate Seredy

Grimms' Fairy Tales

Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]

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

Little women

Louisa May Alcott

Looking for Alibrandi

Melina Marchetta

Lost and Found

Judith M. Masson, Christine Harrison, Annie Pavlovic

M.C. Higgins, the Great

Virginia Hamilton

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

Nobody's Family Is Going to Change

Louise Fitzhugh

Ordinary Jack

Helen Cresswell

Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse

Pagan's Crusade

Catherine Jinks

Parvana's Journey

Deborah Ellis

Private Peaceful

Michael Morpurgo

Refugee Boy

Benjamin Zephaniah

Silver Sword

Ian Serraillier

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 Bed and Breakfast Star

Jacqueline Wilson

The Black Stallion

Walter Farley

The Dark Is Rising (The Dark Is Rising Sequence)

Susan Cooper

The Little White Horse

Elizabeth Goudge

The Owl Service

Alan Garner

The Peppermint Pig

Nina Bawden, Nina Bawden Deceased

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 chocolate war

Robert Cormier

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

Tom Brown's Schooldays

Thomas Hughes undifferentiated

Tomorrow, when the war began

John Marsden

Truckers

Terry Pratchett

Tulku

Peter Dickinson

Uncle (A Puffin Book)

J.P Martin

Underground to Canada

Barbara Smucker

Village by the Sea

Anita Desai

Water-Babies

Charles Kingsley

Westing Game

Ellen Raskin

What Katy Did

Susan Coolidge

Where the Lilies Bloom

Bill Cleaver

Witch child

Celia Rees

Wolf brother

Michelle Paver

The real thief.

William Steig

See How They Run

Susan Goodman

The Borrowers Aloft

Mary Norton

A wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Lemony Snicket

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Anne of Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Ark Angel

Anthony Horowitz

Coram Boy

Jamila Gavin

Eagle of the Ninth

Rosemary Sutcliff

Fairy Tales

Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]

Harriet the spy

Louise Fitzhugh

Heidi

Johanna Spyri

I Am The Messenger

Markus Zusak

Johnny Tremain

Esther Forbes

Journey to the River Sea

Eva Ibbotson

Little Bookroom

Eleanor Farjeon

Little house on the prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

Rifles for Watie

Harold Keith

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 Wind Singer

William Nicholson

The collected tales of Nurse Matilda

Christianna Brand

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

With Clive in India

G. A. Henty

Amulet of Samarkand

Jonathan Stroud

Arabian Nights

Kappa Books Publishers

Around the World in 80 Days

Jules Verne

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

Hounds of the Morrigan

Pat O'Shea

Lord of the flies

William Golding

Neverending Story

Michael Ende

Peter Pan

J. M. Barrie

Storm

Bonnie S. Calhoun

The Blue Fairy Book (Large Print)

Andrew Lang

The Fellowship of the Ring

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Sterkarm Handshake

Susan Price

The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Toby Alone

Timothée de Fombelle

Watership down

Richard Adams

White Fang

Jack London