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
The story of a seagull and the cat who taught her to fly
Luis Sepúlveda
The winged watchman
Hilda Van Stockum
The wonderful farm
Marcel Aymé
Tuck everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
Two Weeks with the Queen
Morris Gleitzman
Twopence a tub
Susan Price
Uncle (A Puffin Book)
J.P Martin
Under the mountain
Maurice Gee
Utterly me, Clarice Bean
Lauren Child
Viking's dawn
Henry Treece
Village by the Sea
Anita Desai
Walkabout
James Vance Marshall
Walking naked
Alyssa Brugman
When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit
Judith Kerr
Whispers in the Graveyard
Theresa Breslin
Why the Whales Came
Michael Morpurgo
Winnie the Witch
Valerie Thomas
Winnie-the-Pooh
A. A. Milne
Winter in wartime
Jan Terlouw
Worzel Gummidge and Saucy Nancy
Barbara Euphan Todd
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
The Railway Children
Edith Nesbit
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
Little Toot
Hardie Gramatky
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mary Poppins
Pamela L. Travers
Matilda
Roald Dahl
My Naughty Little Sister
Dorothy Edwards
Peace at Last
Jill Murphy
The bfg
Roald Dahl
James and the giant peach
Roald Dahl
Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sounder
William H. Armstrong
Charlie and the chocolate factory
Roald Dahl
My Father's Dragon
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Prince Caspian
C. S. Lewis
Roll of thunder, hear my cry
Mildred D. Taylor
The Giver
Lois Lowry
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (paper-over-board) (Narnia)
C. S. Lewis
A Dog So Small
Philippa Pearce
A little princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Badger on the Barge
Janni Howker
Ballet Shoes
Noel Streatfeild
Bilgewater
Jane Gardam
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
Caddie Woodlawn
Carol Ryrie Brink
Changeover
Margaret Mahy
Charlotte Sometimes
Penelope Farmer
Charmed Life (Chrestomanci, Book 1)
Diana Wynne Jones
Dear Nobody
Berlie Doherty
Detectives in togas
Henry Winterfeld (Manfred Michael)
Dolls' House
Rumer Godden
Dragonsong (Harper Hall Trilogy)
Anne McCaffrey
Five children and It
Edith Nesbit
Flambards
K. M. Peyton
Fly away home
Christine Nöstlinger
Good Master
Kate Seredy
Johnny and the bomb
Terry Pratchett
Journey to the river sea
Eva Ibbotson
Keeper
Mal Peet
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
Knight's fee
Rosemary Sutcliff
Looking for Alibrandi
Melina Marchetta
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
OUT OF THE DUST.
Karen Hesse
Ordinary Jack
Helen Cresswell
Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie
Private Peaceful
Michael Morpurgo
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Silver Sword
Ian Serraillier
Skellig
David Almond
Snow Spider
Jenny Nimmo
Story of Tracy Beaker
Jacqueline Wilson
Stuart Little
E. B. White
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
The Bed and Breakfast Star
Jacqueline Wilson
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
The Gathering
Isobelle Carmody
The School at the Chalet
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
The Vile Village
Lemony Snicket
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Alan Garner
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Joan Aiken
The black stallion
Walter Farley
The box of delights
John Masefield
The coral island
Robert Michael Ballantyne
The dark frigate
Charles Boardman Hawes
The illustrated mum
Jacqueline Wilson
The slightly true story of Cedar B. Hartley (who planned to live an unusual life)
Martine Murray
The witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
Thunder and Lightnings
Jan Mark
Thunderwith
Elizabeth Hathorn
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Thomas Hughes undifferentiated
Tomorrow, when the war began
John Marsden