Children's Books & Authors

Recommended:

• Everything in the Puffin series – all of the Newbery Medal and Honor books
• Aesop's Fables
• Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights (Everyman's Library of Children's Classics)
• Altsheler, Joseph A. (American Henty)
• And the Green Grass Grew All Around (Poems and Songs)
• Andersen, Hans Christian
• Anne of Green Gables series and Emily of New Moon series
• Babar series
• Barron, T. A.
• Baum, L. Frank
• Bevis: the Story of a Boy – Richard Jefferies
• Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes - Marguerite de Angeli
• Bounty Trilogy – Nordhoff and Hall
• Boy Life on the Prairie (and other Hamlin Garland, mainly Middle Border series)
• Boys and Girls Plutarch
• Boys Froissart - Sidney Lanier
• Boys King Arthur - Sidney Lanier
• Bullfinch's Mythology
• Burroughs, Edgar Rice
• Chalet School series
• Child's Garden of Verses
• Colum, Padraic
• Cooper, James Fennimore
• Curious George series
• D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths
• de la Mare Verse (and short stories)
• Dink Stover series
• Dove (two versions of this book:  one for kids, one for adults)
• Doyle, A. C.
• Dr. Doolittle series
• Dr. Seuss
• Enright, Elizabeth
• Fair Girls and Grey Horses – Pullein-Thompson
• Farnol, Jeffery
• Frank Merriwell series
• Freddy the Pig series
• Golden Treasury of Myths and Legends
• Goldsmith (mainly Vicar of Wakefield but verse too)
• Grimm's' Fairy Tales
• Hans Brinker
• Hardy Boys series
• Heidi
• Henty, G. A.
• I Saw Esau – Opies (others too)
• John, W. E.
• Lambs' Tales from Shakespeare
• Lays of Ancient Rome
• Limberlost series
• Little Women series
• London, Jack
• MacDonald, George
• Madeline series
• Mary Poppins series
• Milne, A. A.
• Mundy, Talbot
• My Side of the Mountain (Trilogy) – all by Jean Craighead George
• Nancy Drew series
• Narnia series
• Nesbit, E.
• New Oxford Book of Children's Verse
• Omoo
• Oxford Book of American Children's Verse
• Oxford Book of Children's Verse
• Oxford Illustrated Classics (8-volumes)
• -The Bible Story
• -The Odyssey
• -El Cid
• -Don Quixote
• -Canterbury Tales
• -Gulliver's Travels
• -Pinocchio
• -Moby Dick
• Paddington Bear series
• Pease, Howard
• Penrod -- Booth Tarkington
• Pilgrim's Progress
• Potter, Beatrix
• Pullman, Philip (mainly “His Dark Materials”)
• Pyle, Howard
• Robinson Crusoe
• Rover Boys series
• Sabatini, Rafael
• Scott, Sir Walter (mainly verse but prose too)
• Seredy, Kate
• Seventeen -- Booth Tarkington
• Stevenson, R. L.
• Sutcliff, Rosemary
• Swallows and Amazons series
• Tanglewood Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Tales of Washington Irving
• Tatar, Maria (ed.) – The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
• The Swiss Family Robinson
• The Wind in the Willows
• Tom Swift series
• Twain, Mark
• Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Two Years Before the Mast
• Typee
• Uncle Remus
• Verne, Jules
• Watson (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to Children’s Literature in English
• Wells, H. G. (particularly the Outline of History but also sci-fi)
• Wonder Book – Nathaniel Hawthorne