85 Classic Childrens Books

Can there ever be too many book lists? I don't think so. This one is from Listchallenges.

As always, the books I've read are in red.


1. A Bear Called Paddington - Michael Bond (see my review)

2. A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett

3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

4. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery

5. Bambi - Felix Salten

6. The Biggles Books - Captain W.E. Johns (see my review)

7. Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School - Frank Richards

8. Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson

9. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

10. Charlotte's Web - E.B White

11. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Ian Fleming (see my review)

12. Coraline - Neil Gaiman

13. The Complete Adventures of Curious George - Margaret and H.A Rey

14. Dear Zoo - Rod Campbell

15. Doctor Dolittle - Hugh Lofting

16. Each Peach Pear Plum - Janet and Alan Ahlberg

17. Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl

18. First Term at Malory Towers - Enid Blyton

19. Five Children and It - Edith Nesbit

20. Five on a Treasure Island - Enid Blyton

21. Goldilocks and the Three Bears

22. Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian

23. Green Eggs and Ham - Dr Seuss

24. Grimm's Fairy Tales

25. Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales

26. Heidi - Johanna Spyri (see my review)

27. How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Dr Seuss

28. Jack and the Beanstalk

29. James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl (see my review)

30. Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling

31. Just William - Richmal Crompton

32. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson (see my review)

33. Lassie Come Home - Eric Knight

34. Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett

35. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

36. Madeline - Ludwig Bemelmans

37. Mary Poppins - P.L Travers

38. Matilda - Roald Dahl

39. Nancy Drew - Carolyn Keene

40. Noddy - Enid Blyton

41. Old Bear - Jane Hissey

42. Perrault Fairy Tales

43. Peter Pan - J.M Barrie

44. Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi (see my review)

45. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren (see my review)

46. Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter (see my review)

47. Shiloh - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

48. Stuart Little - E.B White

49. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome (see my review)

50. The BFG - Roald Dahl

51. The Borrowers - Mary Norton

52. The Cat in the Hat - Dr Seuss

53. The Coral Island - R.M Ballantyne (see my review)

54. The Enchanted Wood - Enid Blyton

55. The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien (see my review)

56. The Hundred and One Dalmations - Dodie Smith

57. The Iron Man - Ted Hughes

58. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

59. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S Lewis

60. The Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge

61. The Pheonix and the Carpet - E. Nesbit

62. The Railway Children - E. Nesbit

63. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (see my review)

64. The Secret Seven - Enid Blyton

65. The Sheep-Pig - Dick King-Smith

66. The Snowman - Raymond Briggs

67. The Story of Tracy Beaker- Jacqueline Wilson

68. The St Clare's Books - Enid Blyton

69. The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck - Beatrix Potter

70. The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter

71. The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams

72. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle

73. The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley

74. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (see my review)

75. The Wombles - Elisabeth Beresford

76. The Wizard of Oz - Frank L. Baum

77. Tom Brown's School Days - Thomas Hughes

78. Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce (see my review)

79. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

80. The Night Before Christmas - Clement Moore

81. Watership Down - Richard Adams (see my review)

82. What Katy Did - Susan Coolidge

83. Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak

84. Where's Spot - Eric Hill

85. Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A Milne


51/85. Not a bad effort, but there's always much more reading to be done. Happily a number of these are already on my reading horizon.

Dec 2014 53/85

June 2018 56/85