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
A child's garden of verses
Robert Louis Stevenson
A Christmas carol
Charles Dickens
A hundred million francs
Paul Berna
A long way from Verona
Jane Gardam
A pack of lies
Geraldine McCaughrean
A parcel of patterns
Jill Paton Walsh
A thief in the village, and other stories
James Berry
Across the barricades
Joan Lingard
Aesop's fables
Aesop
Aldabra, or, The tortoise who loved Shakespeare
Silvana Gandolfi
Alex
Tessa Duder
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Anancy-spiderman
James Berry
Anastasia Krupnik
Lois Lowry
Are You There God? It's Me Margaret
Judy Blume
Ash Road
Ivan Southall
Bear Called Paddington
Michael Bond
Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo
Betsy Tacy
Maud Hart Lovelace
Borrowers
Mary Norton
Carrie's War
Nina Bawden
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Ian Fleming
Clockwork, or All wound up
Philip Pullman
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Judi Barrett
Crispin
Avi
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
Ingri Parin D'Aulaire
Dragon Ball (Volume 7)
Akira Toriyama
Edge of the Cloud
K. M. Peyton
Emil and the Detectives
Erich Kästner
Eye of the wolf
Daniel Pennac
Field Guide
Holly Black
Finn Family Moomintroll
Tove Jansson
Fire, Bed, and Bone
Henrietta Branford
Friedrich
Hans Peter Richter
From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E. L. Konigsburg
Grover
Vera Cleaver
Handles
Jan Mark
Harriet the Spy
Louise Fitzhugh
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Hitler's daughter
Jackie French
Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
Indian in the Cupboard
Lynne Reid Banks
Italian folk tales
Italo Calvino
Jennings & Darbishire
Anthony Buckeridge
Journey to Jo'burg
Beverley Naidoo
Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories
Rudyard Kipling
Lassie Come-Home
Eric Knight
Love you forever
Robert N. Munsch
Madame Doubtfire.
Anne Fine
Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey
Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories
Joyce Lankester Brisley
Misty of Chincoteague
Marguerite Henry
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Richard Atwater
My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics)
Jean Craighead George
Now We Are Six
A. A. Milne
Number the stars
Lois Lowry
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
T. S. Eliot
Old Yeller
Fred Gipson
Parvana's Journey (The Breadwinner #2)
Deborah Ellis
Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
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
David Hill
Seven Little Australians
Ethel Turner
Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Slaves of Quentaris
Paul Collins
Smith
Leon Garfield
Stone Cold
Robert Swindells
Telephone Tales
Gianni Rodari
The Adventures of the Wishing-chair
Enid Blyton
The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain)
Lloyd Alexander
The Brothers Lionheart
Astrid Lindgren
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends)
George Selden
The Dutch Twins (Yesterday's Classics)
Lucy Fitch Perkins
The Haunting
Margaret Mahy
The Magic Pudding
Norman Lindsay
The Mouse and the Motorcycle Read-Aloud Edition
Beverly Cleary
The Night Swimmers
Betsy Byars
The People Could Fly
Virginia Hamilton
The Pigman
Paul Zindel
The Princess and the Goblin
George MacDonald
The Summer of the Swans
Betsy Cromer Byars
The Twenty-One Balloons
William Pène Du Bois
The View from Saturday
E. L. Konigsburg
The bears' famous invasion of Sicily
Dino Buzzati
The cay
Theodore Taylor
The demon headmaster
Gillian Cross
The devil's arithmetic
Jane Yolen
The hundred and one Dalmatians
Dodie Smith
The little captain
Paul Biegel
The little prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The peppermint pig
Nina Bawden