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Guide2 Classic Children's Books

Title Author Year published References and Brief Introduction

| Panchatantra Vishnu Sharma c. 800 BC Ancient Indian inter-related collection of animal fables in verse and prose, in a frame story format. Similar stories are found in later works including Aesop's Fables and the Sindbad tales in Arabian Nights.[4] |

Aesop's Fables Aesop c. 600 BC [5][6]
Kathasaritsagara Somadeva 11th Century AD Collection of Indian legends, fairy tales and folk tales as retold by a Saivite Brahmin named Somadeva. Generally believed to derive from Gunadhya's Brhat-katha, written in Paisachi dialect from the south of India.[citation needed]
Arabian Nights Unknown before 8th century AD [7][8]
Orbis Pictus John Amos Comenius 1658 Earliest picture book specifically for children.[9][10]
A Token for Children. Being An Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives, and Joyful Deaths of several Young Children James Janeway 1672 One of the first books specifically written for children which shaped much eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writing for children.[citation needed][11]

18th century

Title Author Year published References
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1719 [1][3][12]
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 [1][13]
Tales of Mother Goose Charles Perrault 1729 (English) [3][2][14]
Little Pretty Pocket-book John Newbery 1744 [15]
Little Goody Two Shoes Oliver Goldsmith 1765 [16]
in print for over a century.[17]
The History of Sandford and Merton Thomas Day 1783-9 A bestseller for over a century, it embodied Rousseau's educational ideals.[18]

19th century

Title Author Year published References
The Swiss Family Robinson Johann Rudolf Wyss 1812-3 [1]
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King E. T. A. Hoffmann 1816 [19]
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1819 [20]
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1819 [1][21]
Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving 1820 [1][22]
Grimm's Fairy Tales Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 1823 (English) [3][23]
A Visit From St. Nicholas Clement Clarke Moore 1823 [3]
Tales of Peter Parley About America Peter Parley (pseudonym) 1827 [3]
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1838 [1]
Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1839
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1843 [1][2]
The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas, père 1844
Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen 1846 (English) [3]
The Children of the New Forest Frederick Marryat 1847
Slovenly Peter Heinrich Hoffmann 1848 (English)
David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1850 [1]
The Wide, Wide World Elizabeth Wetherell (pseudonym) 1850 [3]
The King of the Golden River John Ruskin 1851 [3]
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1853 [1]
The Coral Island R. M. Ballantyne 1857
Tom Brown's Schooldays Thomas Hughes 1857 [3]
Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1861 [1][24]
The Water Babies Charles Kingsley 1863 [3]
A Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne 1864 [1]
Little Prudy Rebecca Sophia Clarke 1864 [25]
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 [1][2]
Max and Moritz Wilhelm Busch 1865
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates Mary Mapes Dodge 1865 [1]
Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1868 [1][3][2]
Ragged Dick Horatio Alger, Jr. 1868 [3]
Lorna Doone R. D. Blackmore 1869
Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances Juliana Horatia Ewing 1869 [26]
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1870 [1]
At the Back of the North Wind George MacDonald 1871 [1]
The Brownies and other Tales Juliana Horatia Ewing 1871
The Princess and the Goblin George MacDonald 1871 [3]
Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll 1871 [1][3]
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne 1872 [1]
A Dog of Flanders Ouida 1872
What Katy Did Susan Coolidge 1873 [3]
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 1876 [1][3][2][27]
Black Beauty Anna Sewell 1877 [1][3]
The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain 1881
The Adventures of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi 1883 [1][3][2][27]
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 1883 [2][27]
Nights with Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1883
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1883 [1][3][2][27]
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 [1][27]
Heidi Johanna Spyri 1884 (English) [3]
King Solomon's Mines H. Rider Haggard 1885
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 [1][2]
Little Lord Fauntleroy Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886 [1][3]
The Happy Prince and Other Tales Oscar Wilde 1888
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1889
The Blue Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1889
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1894 [1][3][2][27]
Seven Little Australians Ethel Turner 1894 [3]
The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1895 [1]
Moonfleet J. Meade Falkner 1898
The Black Corsair Emilio Salgari 1898
The Reluctant Dragon Kenneth Grahame 1898
The Story of the Treasure Seekers E. Nesbit 1899
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum 1900 [1][3][2][27]
The Tigers of Mompracem Emilio Salgari 1900
Title Author Year published References
Five Children and It E. Nesbit 1902 [3]
Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1902 [1][3][2]
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter 1902 [3][2]
King Arthur and His Knights Howard Pyle 1902-3
The Call of the Wild Jack London 1903 [1]
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Kate Douglas Wiggin 1903 [1]
A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett 1905 [1][3]
The Railway Children E. Nesbit 1906
White Fang Jack London 1906
Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery 1908 [1][3]
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1908 [1][3][27]
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 1909/1911 [1][3][2]
Peter and Wendy J. M. Barrie 1911 [2] Based on the author's play Peter Pan (1904)
Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
The Lost World Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1912
Pollyanna Eleanor H. Porter 1913 [3]
The Magic Pudding Norman Lindsay 1918 [28]
Raggedy Ann Johnny Gruelle 1918
A Dog Albert Payson Terhune 1919 [1]
The Story of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1920 [1][3][2]
Juan Bobo Puerto Rican school children 1921 [29]
The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams 1922 [1]
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1922 [1]
The Dark Frigate Charles Boardman Hawes 1923 [1]
Smoky the Cowhorse Will James 1926 [1]
Winnie-the-Pooh A. A. Milne 1926 [1][3][2]
The House at Pooh Corner A. A. Milne 1928 [1][3]
Bambi Felix Salten 1928 [1]
The Trumpeter of Krakow Eric P. Kelly 1928 [1]
Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories Joyce Lankester Brisley 1928
Emil and the Detectives Erich Kästner 1929 [30]
Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome 1930–1931 [3]
Babar Jean de Brunhoff 1931
Little House in the Big Woods Laura Ingalls Wilder 1932 [1]
Mary Poppins P. L. Travers 1934
Ballet Shoes Noel Streatfeild 1936
The Story of Ferdinand Munro Leaf 1936
The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 [1][3][2][27]
The Sword in the Stone T. H. White 1938
Madeline Ludwig Bemelmans 1939
My Name Is Aram William Saroyan 1940 Children's immigrant experience in the US
Curious George H. A. Rey 1941
Five on a Treasure Island Enid Blyton 1942
Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes 1943 [1][2]
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 [1][31]
Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 1945 [1][32]
Happy Dan, The Cynical Dog Ward Greene 1945
The Little White Horse Elizabeth Goudge 1946
Thomas the Tank Engine Wilbert Awdry 1946
Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown 1947 [2][33]
I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith 1948
Finn Family Moomintroll Tove Jansson 1949 [34]
Noddy Goes To Toyland Enid Blyton 1949
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis 1950 [1][3][2][27]
Charlotte's Web E. B. White 1952 [1][35][36]
The Borrowers Mary Norton 1952
The Children of Green Knowe Lucy M. Boston 1954
Beezus and Ramona Beverly Cleary 1955
Eloise Kay Thompson 1955 It was first published in 1955, but was aimed at adults. It was re-published in 1969, this time marketed to children.
The Hundred and One Dalmatians Dodie Smith 1956
Harry the Dirty Dog Gene Zion 1956
The Silver Sword Ian Serraillier 1956 Known in the US as Escape From Warsaw.
The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss 1957 First high quality limited-vocabulary book, written for early readers[citation needed]
Little Bear Else Holmelund Minarik 1957
Tom's Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce 1958
A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond 1958
The Rescuers Margery Sharp 1959
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen Alan Garner 1960
James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl 1961 [1]
The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster 1961 [1]
The Big Honey Hunt Stan and Jan Berenstain 1962
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle 1962
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Joan Aiken 1962
Stig of the Dump Clive King 1963
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak 1963
Clifford the Big Red Dog Norman Bridwell 1963
Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish 1963
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl 1964 [1]
Flat Stanley Jeff Brown 1964
The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein 1964
Harriet the Spy Louise Fitzhugh 1964
The Magical Car Ian Fleming 1964
The Fox and the Hound Daniel P. Mannix and John Schoenherr 1967
The Owl Service Alan Garner 1967
the first book had a non-white hero, the later books explored the role of gender in fantasy and power, and the quest structure is not good vs. evil but balance.[citation needed]
The Iron Man Ted Hughes 1968
The Tiger Who Came to Tea Judith Kerr 1968
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle 1969
Charlotte Sometimes Penelope Farmer 1969
Are You There, God
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr 1971
The Lorax Dr Seuss 1971
Watership Down Richard Adams 1972
A Taste of Blackberries Doris Buchanan Smith 1973 Taboo-breaking children's book (Grades 4–6) concerning a child's first grief experience. HarperCollins. 19th edition published 2005.[37][38]
The Worst Witch Jill Murphy 1974
Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson 1977
Each Peach Pear Plum Janet and Allan Ahlberg 1978
The Snowman Raymond Briggs 1978
The Neverending Story Michael Ende 1979
The Indian in the Cupboard Lynne Reid Banks 1980
The Paper Bag Princess Robert Munsch 1980
Jumanji Chris Van Allsburg 1981
Goodnight Mister Tom Michelle Magorian 1981
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ Sue Townsend 1982
War Horse Michael Morpurgo 1982
The Sheep-Pig Dick King-Smith 1983 Filmed as Babe in 1995. Known as Babe, the Gallant Pig in the US.
The Castle in the Attic Elizabeth Winthrop 1985
Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones 1986 Made famous because of the Studio Ghibli movie.
Franklin Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark 1986
The Little Polar Bear Hans de Beer 1987
Madame Doubtfire Anne Fine 1987 Published as Alias Madame Doubtfire in the US. Made famous because of the film adaptation (Mrs Doubtfire) starring Robin Williams.
Matilda Roald Dahl 1988
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