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Children's Classics Worth Reading

Description: A reading list of classic children's literature.

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

35,465 members

559 reviews

4.1

6 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, Diane-bpcb, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

2

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

39,612 members

961 reviews

4

5 Members: dara85, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Chronicles of Narnia

35,947 members

322 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

23,841 members

330 reviews

4.1

5 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

22,078 members

424 reviews

3.9

5 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by J. R. R. Tolkien

94,761 members

1,191 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears

7

Charlotte's Web

36,247 members

1,025 reviews

4.2

4 Members: dara85, cej1027, Diane-bpcb, mspixieears

8

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

34,247 members

434 reviews

3.8

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, Diane-bpcb, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

33,047 members

328 reviews

3.9

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, Diane-bpcb, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Anne of Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery

29,572 members

562 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears

11

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

25,596 members

293 reviews

4.1

4 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

25,109 members

452 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

13

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

18,500 members

254 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, Diane-bpcb, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Little House on the Prairie

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

15,657 members

229 reviews

4.1

4 Members: dara85, merrystar, cej1027, Diane-bpcb

15

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

44,798 members

769 reviews

4.2

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears

16

40,261 members

1,587 reviews

4.2

3 Members: dara85, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

17

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

24,808 members

527 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963

18

James and the Giant Peach

19,801 members

363 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

14,922 members

229 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: cej1027, Diane-bpcb, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

9,088 members

57 reviews

½ 4.6

3 Members: cej1027, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

6,722 members

90 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, mspixieears

22

Five Children and It

4,692 members

74 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Grimm's Fairy Tales

1,632 members

17 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Diane-bpcb, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

36,296 members

742 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Giving Tree

by Shel Silverstein

18,849 members

1,013 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: dara85, cej1027

26

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

17,534 members

425 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,391 members

302 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, mspixieears,

28

15,021 members

198 reviews

4.1

2 Members: mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

by Kate DiCamillo

14,411 members

549 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

30

Winnie-the-Pooh

13,523 members

207 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

31

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

by Robert C. O'Brien

11,218 members

170 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Frog and Toad are Friends

by Arnold Lobel

10,557 members

263 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Story of Ferdinand

9,098 members

171 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

34

8,500 members

126 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

35

The House at Pooh Corner

8,489 members

78 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Cricket in Times Square

by George Selden

8,269 members

76 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Last Unicorn

by Peter S. Beagle

7,563 members

191 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Hundred Dresses

by Eleanor Estes

6,823 members

139 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, cej1027

39

The View from Saturday

by E. L. Konigsburg

6,150 members

125 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

40

The Complete Fables

3,618 members

50 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, mspixieears

41

All-of-a-Kind Family

by Sydney Taylor

3,241 members

59 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The House with a Clock in Its Walls

by John Bellairs

2,496 members

74 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Enchanted Castle

2,451 members

36 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

44

Little Women (Norton Critical Editions)

by Louisa May Alcott

173 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Diane-bpcb, mspixieears

45

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

21,868 members

609 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

46

Number the Stars

18,682 members

644 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse

18,134 members

208 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

48

by Gary Paulsen

17,684 members

580 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George

11,896 members

148 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, No. 1)

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

8,942 members

103 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

Harriet the Spy

by Louise Fitzhugh

7,022 members

121 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

The Incredible Journey

by Sheila Burnford

5,754 members

72 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

The Marvelous Land of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

3,528 members

75 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

Bedtime for Frances

by Russell Hoban

3,215 members

35 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

House of Many Ways

by Diana Wynne Jones

3,136 members

88 reviews

3.9

Member: cej1027

56

by L. Frank Baum

3,124 members

53 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

Molly's Pilgrim

by Barbara Cohen

2,462 members

29 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,443 members

41 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

59

Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth

by Lloyd Alexander

2,443 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

by Jane Langton

2,258 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

by Diana Wynne Jones

1,470 members

36 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

62

The Mouse and His Child

by Russell Hoban

1,059 members

30 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

Animals Do the Strangest Things

by Leonora Hornblow

566 members

6 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: cej1027

64

The Velvet Room

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

499 members

11 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

by Elizabeth Orton Jones

165 members

1 review

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

by J. M. Barrie

19,022 members

326 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963,cej1027

67

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

161 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: cej1027,ManWithAnAgenda

68

The Cat in the Hat

20,539 members

530 reviews

4.2

Member: cej1027,Diane-bpcb ,ManWithAnAgenda

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July 2013
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