Can’t Miss Treasures for Children

Cheri Fuller, www.cherifuller.com

(Note: Although this is not an exhaustive list, it includes some of the most wonderful children’s classics. It will keep you and your grandchildren busy reading marvelous books!)

Preschool:

Madeline--Ludwig Bemelmens

Good Night, Moon—Margaret Wise Brown

Don Freeman--Corduroy

Robert McCloskey—Make Way for Ducklings, Blueberries for Sal

A.A. Milne—When We Were Very Young books

Beatrix Potter—The Tales of Peter Rabbit series

Robert Louis Stevenson—A Child’s Garden of Verses

Lynd Ward—Biggest Bear

Watty Piper—Little Engine that Could, Mother Goose, A Treasury of Rhymes

Elementary:

Florence and Richard Atwater—Mr. Poppers’ Penguins

James M. Barrie—Peter Pan

L. Frank Baum—The Wizard of Oz

Michael Bond—Paddington

Carole Ryrie Brink—Caddie Woodlawn

Frances Hodgson Burnett—The Secret Garden, A Little Princess

Mary Mapes Dodge—Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates

Walter Farley—The Black Stallion series

Esther Forbes—Johnny Tremain

Kenneth Grahame—Wind in the Willows

Norma Green—The Hole in the Dike, retold

Irene Hunt—Across Five Aprils

Rudyard Kipling—Just So Stories, The Jungle Books

Jim Kjelgard—Big Red

Madeline L’Engle—Wrinkle in Time

Robert Lawson—Pilgrim’s Progress adaptation

C.S. Lewis—Chronicles of Narnia series

Carlo Lorenzini—Pinocchio

George MacDonald—The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and the Curie,

Fairy Tales and Stories for the Childlike

Wilson Rawls—Where the Red Fern Grows

Carl Sandburg—Abe Lincoln Grows Up

Anna Sewell—Black Beauty

Johanna Spyri—Heidi

Robert Louis—A Child’s Garden of Verses, Treasure Island

E. B. White—Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little

Kate Douglas Wiggin—Rebecca of Sunnbrook Farm

Laura Ingles Wilder—Little House series

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Margery Williams—Velveteen Rabbit