1001 Children's Books You Should Read Before You Grow Up
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Classic and essential children's books from the bestselling guide by Julia Eccleshare. Spanning picture books to young adult fiction.
Based on the book by Julia Eccleshare
452 of 998 books rated
Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) Goes to the Moon
Katheen Hale
Owl Babies
Martin Waddell
Ox-cart man
Donald Hall - undifferentiated
Peter in Blueberry Land
Elsa Beskow
Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg
Professor Branestawm's Mouse War
Norman Hunter
Rosie's Walk
Pat Hutchins
School for Cats
Esther H. Averill
Sleep Well, Little Bear
Quint Buchholz
Story of the Little Mole Who Knew It Was None of His Business
Werner Holzwarth
Strega Nona
Tomie dePaola
Swimmy
Leo Lionni
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
William Steig
Tar Beach
Faith Ringgold
The Baby's Catalogue
Janet Ahlberg
The Berenstain Bears: Come Clean for School
Jan Berenstain, Mike Berenstain
The Children of the New Forest
Frederick Marryat
The Gruffalo
Julia Donaldson
The Night Pirates
Peter Harris
The Paper Bag Princess
Robert N. Munsch
The Pied Piper (Classics Illustrated Junior)
Robert Browning
The Quangle Wangle's hat
Edward Lear
The Snowman
Raymond Briggs
The Story of Babar
Jean de Brunhoff
The Story of Ferdinand
Munro Leaf
The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (adapted from the original): Adapted from the original (Beatrix Potter First Stories)
Beatrix Potter
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Judith Kerr
The boy who grew flowers
Jennifer Wojtowicz
The composition
Antonio Skármeta
The sea-thing child
Russell Hoban
This Is The Bear (Read and Share)
Sarah Hayes
Three Pigs
David Wiesner
Ugly Duckling (Classic Fairy Tales)
Hans Christian Andersen
Up in the Tree
Margaret Atwood
Way home
Elizabeth Hathorn
When We Were Very Young
A. A. Milne
Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears
Verna Aardema
Wolf brother
Michelle Paver
Zen Shorts (Collector's Edition) (Zen)
Jon J. Muth
The cat in the hat
Dr. Seuss
Little blue and little yellow
Leo Lionni
Amelia Bedelia
Peggy Parish
The giving tree
Shel Silverstein
The little red lighthouse and the great gray bridge
Hildegarde Hoyt Swift
A child's Christmas in Wales
Dylan Thomas
Bears on Hemlock Mountain
Alice Dalgliesh
Blueberries For Sal
Robert McCloskey
Eloise
Kay Thompson
Frederick (Step Into Reading, Step 3)
Leo Lionni
Frog and Toad Are Friends Book and Tape
Arnold Lobel
Granny
Peter Härtling
Grimms' fairy tales
Jacob Grimm
Grinny
Nicholas Fisk
Harold and the purple crayon
Crockett Johnson
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie
Hodgeheg
Dick King-Smith
Horrid Henry
Francesca Simon
How the Whale Became
Ted Hughes
Joyful Noise
Paul Fleischman
Lion in the Meadow
Margaret Mahy
Meg and Mog
Helen Nicoll
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Virginia Lee Burton
Mother Goose, or, The old nursery rhymes
Kate Greenaway
Mr Majeika (Kestrel Kites)
Humphrey Carpenter
Peanuts
Charles M. Schulz
Poems for the Very Young (Poetry)
Michael Rosen
Sarah, plain and tall
Patricia MacLachlan
Stone soup
Marcia Brown
Tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
May Gibbs
The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
The House That Jack Built
Randolph Caldecott
The Hundred Dresses (Voyager Books)
Eleanor Estes
The Rose And The Ring
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Shrinking of Treehorn
Florence Parry Heide
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-duck (Peter Rabbit)
Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (The World of Beatrix Potter)
Beatrix Potter
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Selma Lagerlöf
The last giants
François Place
The magic finger
Roald Dahl
The runaway bunny
Margaret Wise Brown
The whipping boy
Sid Fleischman
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
Elmer
David McKee
In the Night Kitchen
Maurice Sendak
The Letter for the King
Tonke Dragt
The little engine that could
Watty Piper
The giant jam sandwich
John Vernon Lord
The Boxcar Children
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Flat Stanley
Jeff Brown
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein
The Little House
Virginia Lee Burton
Nobody's boy
Hector Malot
Charlotte's Web
E. B. White