This page is a work in progress, my attempt to make a printable PDF page of the Children’s Literature Book List.
- Abel’s Island by William Steig
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The by Mark Twain
- Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- All-of-a-Kind Family (series) by Sydney Taylor
- Animal Family, The by Randall Jarrell
- Anne of Green Gables (series) by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Babe: The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith
- Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink
- Ballet Shoes (series) by Noel Streatfeild
- Bear Called Paddington, A by Michael Bond
- Beatrix Potter: The Complete Tales by Beatrix Potter
- Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
- Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by Robert Lawson
- Betsy-Tacy (series 1 of 10) by Maud Hart
- BFG, The by Roald Dahl
- Birchbark House, The by Louis Erdrich
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
- Book of Three, The: The Chronicles of Prydain series Lloyd Alexander
- Borrowers, The (series) Mary Norton
- Box of Delights, The John Masefield
- Boxcar Children, The Gertrude Chandler Warner
- Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson
- Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis
- Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery (series) Deborah Howe
- By the Great Horn Spoon! Sid Fleischman
- Cabin Faced West, The Jean Fritz
- Caddie Woodlawn Carol Ryrie Brink
- Call of the Wild, The Jack London
- Capture, The (Guardians of Ga’hoole series) Kathryn Lasky
- Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Jean Lee Latham
- Catherine, Called Birdy * Karen Cushman
- Catwings (series) Ursula K. Le Guin
- Cay, The Theodore Taylor
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (sequel 1 of 2) Roald Dahl
- Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
- Cheaper by the Dozen (sequel – Belles on Their Toes) Frank B. Gilbreth
- Children of Green Knowe, The Lucy M. Boston
- Children of Noisy Village, The (series) Astrid Lindgren
- Children of Odin, The: Book of Northern Myths Padraic Colum
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car Ian Fleming
- Chocolate Touch, The Patrick Skene Catling
- Christmas Carol, A Charles Dickens
- City of Ember, The (series) Jeanne DuPrau
- Comet in Moominland (series) Tove Jansson
- Coraline Neil Gaiman
- Courage of Sarah Noble, The Alice Dalgliesh
- Cricket in Times Square, The George Selden
- Crispin: Cross of Lead (sequel – Crispin: At the Edge of the World) Avi
- Danny, the Champion of the World Roald Dahl
- Dark is Rising, The (series 1 of 5) Susan Cooper
- Dealing With Dragons Patricia C. Wrede
- Dear Mr. Henshaw Beverly Cleary
- Deltora Quest (series) Emily Rodda
- Diary of a Young Girl, The * Anne Frank
- Doctor Dolittle (series) Hugh Lofting
- Doll People, The (series) Ann M. Martin
- Door in the Wall, The Marguerite De Angeli
- Dragon Rider Cornelia Funke
- Edge Chronicles, The: Beyond the Deepwoods (series) * Paul Stewart
- Egg and I, The Betty MacDonald
- Egypt Game, The Zilpha Keatley Synder
- Ella Enchanted * Gail Carson Levine
- Enchanted Castle, The Edith Nesbit
- Enormous Egg, The Oliver Butterworth
- Eragon (series 1 of 3) Christopher Paolini
- Esperanza Rising Pam Muñoz Ryan
- Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, The * Jacqueline Kelly
- Family Under the Bridge, The Natalie Savage Carlson
- Fantastic Mr. Fox Roald Dahl
- Fever 1793 * Laurie Halse Anderson
- Five Children and It Edith Nesbit
- Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Margaret Sidney
- Frindle Andrew Clements
- From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E. L. Konigsburg
- George’s Secret Key to the Universe (followed by sequel) Lucy & Stephen Hawking
- Ginger Pye (series) Eleanor Estes
- Girl of the Limberlost, A Gene Stratton-Porter
- Girl Who Owned a City, The * O. T. Nelson
- Giver, The * (trilogy 1 of 3) Lois Lowry
- Golden Compass, The (series) Philip Pullman
- Gone-Away Lake (sequel – Return to Gone-Away) Elizabeth Enright
- Graveyard Book, The Neil Gaiman
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
- Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift
- Half Magic (series) Edward Eager
- Happy Hollisters Jerry West
- Harriet the Spy Louise Fitzhugh
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (series) J. K. Rowling
- Hatchet * Gary Paulsen
- Heidi Johanna Spyri
- Hitty, Her First Hundred Years Rachel Field
- Hobbit, The by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Holes * Louis Sachar
- Homecoming (Tillermans series) * Cynthia Voigt
- Homer Price Robert McCloskey
- Hoot Carl Hiassen
- House of the Scorpion, The * Nancy Farmer
- House With a Clock In Its Walls, The (series) John Bellairs
- Hundred and One Dalmations, The Dodie Smith
- Hundred Dresses, The Eleanor Estes
- Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain Robert Burch
- Igraine the Brave Cornelia Funke
- In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Bette Bao Lord
- Incredible Journey, The Sheila Burnford
- Indian in the Cupboard (series) Lynne Reid Banks
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
- James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl
- Johnny Tremain * Esther Forbes
- Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne
- Julie of the Wolves (series 1 of 3) Jean Craighead George
- Jungle Book, The Rudyard Kipling
- Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling
- Keeper Kathi Appelt
- Kensuke’s Kingdom Michael Morpurgo
- King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table Roger Lancelyn Green
- Light Princess, The George MacDonald
- Lightning Thief, The (Percy Jackson series 1 of 6) Rick Riordan
- Lily’s Crossing Patricia Reilly Giff
- Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The C. S. Lewis
- Lion To Guard Us, A by Clyde Robert Bulla
- Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers (series) Ralph Moody
- Little House in the Big Woods (series) Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Little Prince, The Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Little Princess, A Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Little White Horse, The Elizabeth Goudge
- Little Women Louisa May Alcott
- Lost Years of Merlin, The (series) * T. A. Barron
- Mandy Julie Andrews Edwards
- Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli
- Martin’s Mice Dick King-Smith
- Mary Poppins T. L. Travers
- Matchlock Gun, The Walter D. Edmonds
- Matilda Roald Dahl
- Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The Howard Pyle
- Midnight for Charlie Bone (series) Jenny Nimmo
- Miracles on Maple Hill Virginia Sorenson
- Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The Kate DiCamillo
- Miss Happiness & Miss Flower Rumer Godden
- Missing May Cynthia Rylant
- Mistress Masham’s Repose T. H. White
- Misty of Chincoteague (series) Marguerite Henry
- Moby Dick Herman Melville
- Moffats, The (series) Eleanor Estes
- Moon Over Manifest Clare Vanderpool
- Moorchild, The Eloise McGraw
- Morning Girl Michael Dorris
- Mouse and His Child, The Russel Hoban
- Mouse and the Motorcycle, The (series) Beverly Cleary
- Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater
- Mr. Tucket (series) Gary Paulsen
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Robert C. O’Brien
- Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (series) Betty MacDonald
- My Family and Other Animals Gerald Durrell
- My Father’s Dragon (series) Ruth Stiles Gannet
- My Side of the Mountain (series 1 of 2) Jean Craighead George
- Mysterious Benedict Society, The (series) Trenton Lee Stewart
- Neverending Story, The Michael Ende
- New Way Things Work, The David Maccaulay
- Nim’s Island Wendy Orr
- No Flying in the House Betty Brock
- Number the Stars * Lois Lowry
- One Crazy Summer Rita Williams-Garcia
- Out of the Dust * Karen Hesse
- Owls in the Family Farley Mowat
- Penderwicks, The (series) Jeanne Birdsall
- Peter Pan J. M. Barrie
- Phantom Tollbooth, The Norton Juster
- Pinocchio Carlo Collodi
- Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren
- Pollyanna Eleanor H. Porter
- Poppy (series) Avi
- Prince and the Pauper, The Mark Twain
- Princess and the Goblin, The by George McDonald
- Rabbit Hill Robert Lawson
- Railway Children, The Edith Nesbit
- Ramona the Pest (series) Beverly Cleary
- Rascal Sterling North
- Really Short History of Nearly Everything, A Bill Bryson
- Redwall (series, book 1) Brian Jacques
- Reluctant Dragon Kenneth Grahame
- Rescuers, The Margery Sharp
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (series) * Mildred D. Taylor
- Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter Astrid Lindgren
- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Eleanor Coerr
- Sarah, Plain and Tall (series) Patricia MacLachlan
- Saturdays, The (series) Elizabeth Enright
- Savvy Ingrid Law
- Sea of Trolls, The (trilogy) Nancy Farmer
- Secret Garden, The by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Secret of Platform 13, The Eva Ibbotson
- Shiloh (series 1 of 3) Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Sign of the Beaver, The Elizabeth George Speare
- Sing Down the Moon Scott O’Dell
- Skellig David Almond
- Slave Dancer Paula Fox
- Socks Beverly Cleary
- SOS File, The Betsy Byars
- Space Race (series) Sylvia Waugh
- Spiderwick Chronicles, The Holly Spider
- Stone Fox John Reynolds Gardiner
- Storm, The (The Lighthouse Family series) Cynthia Rylant
- Story of Mankind, The Hendrik Van Loon
- Story of the Treasure Seekers (series) Edith Nesbit
- Stuart Little E. B. White
- Summerland Michael Chabon
- Swallows and Amazons (series) Arthur Ransome
- Swiss Family Robinson, The Johann David Wyss
- Sword in the Stone, The Terence Hanbury White
- Tale of Desperaux, The Kate DiCamillo
- Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Taste of Blackberries, A Doris Buchanan Smith
- The Land I Lost Quang Nhuong Huynh
- The Midwife’s Apprentice Karen Cushman
- The Stray Dick King-Smith
- Thimble Summer Elizabeth Enright
- Thirteen Clocks, The James Thurber
- Time Machine, The H. G. Wells
- Tolliver’s Secret Esther Wood Brady
- Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
- Tom’s Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce
- Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
- Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Betty Smith
- True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The * Avi
- Trumpet of the Swan, The by E. B. White
- Tuck Everlasting * Natalie Babbitt
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Twenty-One Balloons, The William Pene du Bois
- Underneath, The Kathi Appelt
- Understood Betsy Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
- View from Saturday, The E. L. Konigsburg
- Water Horse, The Dick King-Smith
- Westing Game, The Ellen Raskin
- Wheel on the School, The Meindert DeJong
- When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Grace Lin
- Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls
- Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein
- Whipping Boy, The Sid Fleischman
- White Fang Jack London
- Wind in the Willows, The by Kenneth Grahame
- Winnie-the-Pooh (series) A.A. Milne
- Witch of Blackbird Pond, The Elizabeth George Speare
- Witches, The Roald Dahl
- Wizard of Earthsea, A (series) * Ursula K. Le Guin
- Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series) Michelle Paver
- Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The Joan Aiken
- Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet (series) Eleanor Cameron
- Wonderful O, The James Thurber
- Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More Roald Dahl
- Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (series) L. Frank Baum
- Word After Word After Word Patricia MacLachlan
- Wrinkle in Time, A (series) Madeleine L’Engle
- Yearling, The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- Yggyssey, The (sequel 2 of 2) Daniel Pinkwater
- Zoo in My Luggage, A (series) Gerald Durrell
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