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Hayao Miyazaki's 50 Recommended Children's Books

Description: Hayao Miyazaki, a Japanese film director of Studio Ghibli, created films such as Princes Mononoke, Spirited Away, Nausicaa and Castle in the Sky.

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

44,798 members

769 reviews

4.2

5 Members: amanda4242, merrystar, cej1027, kaleisnthere, ahef1963

2

by J. R. R. Tolkien

94,760 members

1,191 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: amanda4242, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E. L. Konigsburg

16,292 members

279 reviews

4.2

5 Members: amanda4242, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

23,842 members

330 reviews

4.1

5 Members: amanda4242, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Books of Wonder)

by Lewis Carroll

214 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: amanda4242, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

35,466 members

559 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Winnie-the-Pooh

13,524 members

207 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

33,048 members

328 reviews

3.9

4 Members: amanda4242, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

34,247 members

434 reviews

3.8

4 Members: amanda4242, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

8,500 members

126 reviews

3.9

4 Members: amanda4242, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin

16,030 members

376 reviews

4

4 Members: amanda4242, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,736 members

251 reviews

4.1

4 Members: amanda4242, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Long Winter

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

10,162 members

96 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963

14

by Johanna Spyri

10,361 members

148 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963

15

The Eagle of the Ninth

by Rosemary Sutcliff

3,196 members

62 reviews

4

3 Members: amanda4242, cej1027, ahef1963

16

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

18,500 members

254 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

Tom's Midnight Garden

by Philippa Pearce

2,483 members

41 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

18

The Children of Noisy Village

by Astrid Lindgren

1,291 members

13 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

19

Swallows and Amazons

by Arthur Ransome

3,891 members

83 reviews

4.1

2 Members: amanda4242, cej1027

20

Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]

by Daniel Defoe

739 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

21,394 members

251 reviews

4.1

2 Members: amanda4242, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Nine Fairy Tales: and One More Thrown in for Good Measure (European Classics)

by Karel Čapek

145 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Month-Brothers: A Slavic Tale

by Samuil Marshak

50 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cej1027

24

The Little White Horse

by Elizabeth Goudge

2,557 members

52 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

25

The She-Wolf of France

by Maurice Druon

572 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Rose & the Ring

by William Makepeace Thackeray

427 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: cej1027

27

Ivan the fool; or, The old devil and the three small devils, also A lost opportunity, and Polikushka

2 members

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

28

Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates

by Mary Mapes Dodge

4,059 members

32 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: merrystar

29

Die Nibelungensage

by Gustav Schalk

6 members

2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

30

A Norwegian Farm

by Marie Hamsun

12 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

31

23 members

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

32

City neighbor: The story of Jane Addams

by Clara Ingram Judson

41 members

3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Restaurant of Many Orders

by Kenji Miyazawa

9 members

5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

34

We Were a Handful

by Karel Polacek

46 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

35

The Radium Woman: A Life of Marie Curie

by Eleanor Doorly

60 members

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Little Humpbacked Horse

by P. P. Ershov

98 members

1 review

½ 4.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

37

by Gianni Rodari

139 members

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Ship That Flew

180 members

5 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

39

When Marnie Was There

by Joan G. Robinson

234 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

40

The Otterbury Incident

by C. Day Lewis

216 members

1 review

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

Fabre's Book of Insects

by Jean-Henri Fabre

287 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

42

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio

246 members

5 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Flying Classroom

by Erich Kästner

501 members

8 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

44

by K. M. Peyton

465 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

45

Journey to the West (complete)

584 members

7 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

46

The Little Bookroom

by Eleanor Farjeon

582 members

9 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

by Hugh Lofting

2,054 members

40 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

Little Lord Fauntleroy

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

3,263 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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Started: cej1027
February 2014
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