So when Ang over at Hanging Out The Wash posted a booklist of classic children's literature, I had to look it over. She got the list from Best Children's Literature.
I am going to italicize those that we have already read and bold those I have read. If it is bolded, I will probably read it to my kids, or have them read.
Classic children's literature - Kindergarten through Grade 6
* Recommended children's literature for K-3, either for reading by children or for reading to them.
- Adamson, Joy * Born Free
- Aesop * Fables*
- Alcott, Louisa May * Little Women
- Andersen, Hans Christian * Fairy tales
- Atwater, Richard and Florence * Mr. Popper's Penguins*
- Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin * Miss Hickory
- Barrie, J.M. * Peter Pan
- Baum, L. Frank * The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Bemelmans, Ludwig * Madeline series*
- Bond, Michael * A Bear Called Paddington
- Boston, L.M. * The Children of Green Knowe
- Brink, Carol Ryrie * Caddie Woodlawn
- Brown, Margaret Wise * Goodnight, Moon*
- Brunhoff, Jean de * The Story of Babar*
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson * The Secret Garden
- Burton, Virginia Lee * Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel*
- Butterworth, Oliver * The Enormous Egg
- Clark, Ann Nolan * Secret of the Andes
- Cleary, Beverly * Henry Huggins series
- Coatsworth, Elizabeth * The Cat Who Went to Heaven
- Dalgliesh, Alice * The Bears on Hemlock Mountain*
* The Courage of Sarah Noble* - De Angeli, Marguerite * The Door in the Wall
- De Jong, Meindert * The House of Sixty Fathers
* The Wheel on the School - Dodge, Mary Mapes * Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
- Du Bois, William Pene * The Twenty-One Balloons
- Edmonds, Walter D. * The Matchlock Gun
- Estes, Eleanor * Ginger Pye
* Moffats series - Farley, Walter * The Black Stallion
- Field, Rachel * Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
- Fritz, Jean * The Cabin Faced West
- Gilbreth, Frank B. and Ernestine G. Carey * Cheaper By the Dozen
- Gipson, Fred * Old Yeller
- Godden, Rumer * The Mousewife*
- Grahame, Kenneth * The Reluctant Dragon*
* The Wind in the Willows - Gray, Elizabeth Janet * Adam of the Road
- Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm * Grimm's Fairy Tales
- Hawes, Charles * The Dark Frigate
- Haywood, Carolyn * Betsy series*
- Henry, Marguerite * King of the Wind
* Misty of Chincoteague - Keith, Harold * Rifles for Watie
- Kelly, Eric * The Trumpeter of Krakow
- Kipling, Rudyard * Captains Courageous
* Just So Stories for Little Children*
* The Jungle Books - Kjelgaard, Jim * Big Red
- Knight, Eric * Lassie Come Home
- Krumgold, Joseph * ...and Now Miguel
* Onion John - LaFarge, Oliver * Laughing Boy
- Lamb, Charles and Mary * Tales from Shakespeare
- Latham, Jean Lee * Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
- Lawson, Robert * Ben & Me
* Rabbit Hill - Leaf, Munro * The Story of Ferdinand*
- Lear, Edward * Book of Nonsense*
- Lenski, Lois * Strawberry Girl
- Lewis, C.S. * Chronicles of Narnia series
- Lindgren, Astrid * Pippi Longstocking series
- Lofting, Hugh * Doctor Doolittle series (I remember reading one of these on a drive from Sydney to Melbourne, so it is hard for me to think of these without remembering the Aussie countryside)
- London, Jack * The Call of the Wild
* White Fang - MacDonald, Betty * Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
- MacGregor, Ellen * Miss Pickerell series
- McCloskey, Robert * Blueberries for Sal* every year when we go pick blueberries
* Homer Price
* Make Way for Ducklings* - McSwigan, Marie * Snow Treasure
- Meigs, Cornelia * Invincible Louisa
- Milne, A.A. * The House at Pooh Corner*
* Now We Are Six*
* When We Were Very Young*
* Winnie-the-Pooh* - Minarik, Else Holmelund * Little Bear
- Montgomery, L.M. * Anne of Green Gables
- Mukerji, Dhan Ghopal * Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
- Norton, Mary * The Borrowers series
- O'Hara, Mary * My Friend Flicka
- Pearce, Philippa * Tom's Midnight Garden
- Perrault, Charles * Cinderella*
- Potter, Beatrix * The Tale of Peter Rabbit*
- Pyle, Howard * The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
- Rey, H.A. * Curious George series*
- Richter, Conrad * The Light in the Forest
- Selden, George * The Cricket in Times Square*
- Seuss, Dr. * The Cat in the Hat*
- Sewell, Anna * Black Beauty
- Sorenson, Virginia * Miracles on Maple Hill
- Speare, Elizabeth George * The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- Sperry, Armstrong * Call It Courage
- Spyri, Johanna * Heidi
- Steinbeck, John * The Red Pony
- Stevenson, Robert Louis * A Child's Garden of Verses*
* Kidnapped
* Treasure Island - Travers, Pamela L. * Mary Poppins series
- Van Loon, Hendrik * The Story of Mankind
- White, E.B. * Charlotte's Web
* Stuart Little - Wilder, Laura Ingalls * Little House series
- Williams, Margery * The Velveteen Rabbit*
- Wyss, Johann * Swiss Family Robinson
- Zion, Gene * Harry the Dirty Dog*
You've done better than me! We read a lot of kids' books but I was surprised I hadn't been more thorough!
ReplyDeleteI loved Beverly Cleary as a child! I also loved Judy Blume... but I read one of her adult books and it really disturbed me...
ReplyDeleteCharlotte's Web was also one of my favorites...