501 Must-Read Books (Emma Beare, 2006)Children's Fiction

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From the introduction to "501 Must-Read Books": "The recommendations for inclusion in this comprehensive book were made by a bibliophile and writer with a peerless reputation, but the reviews show more themselves were compiled by lecturers, writers and book lovers, sharing their pleasure or surprise or even indignation with the rest of us." show less
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Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott
The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales (1835) by Hans Christian Andersen
Peter Pan (1934) by J. M. Barrie
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum
The Last Unicorn (1968) by Peter S. Beagle
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
The Secret Garden (1910) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
Pinocchio (1883) by Carlo Collodi
Sophie's World (1991) by Jostein Gaarder
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) by Alan Garner
The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales (1812) by Jacob Grimm
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon
Just So Stories (1902) by Rudyard Kipling
Emil and the Detectives (1929) by Erich Kästner
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (1947) by Edward Lear
A Wrinkle in Time (1962) by Madeleine L'Engle
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) by C. S. Lewis
Pippi Longstocking (1945) by Astrid Lindgren
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920) by Hugh Lofting
At the Back of the North Wind (1871) by George MacDonald
Nobody's Boy (1878) by Hector Malot
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) by A. A. Milne
Anne of Green Gables (1908) by L. M. Montgomery
Five Children and It (1902) by E. Nesbit
Tom's Midnight Garden (1958) by Philippa Pearce
The War of the Buttons (1912) by Louis Pergaud
Perrault's Complete Fairy Tales (1697) by Charles Perrault
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) by Beatrix Potter
The Colour of Magic (1983) by Terry Pratchett
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) (1995) by Philip Pullman
Swallows and Amazons (1930) by Arthur Ransome
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1975) by Mordecai Richler
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) by J. K. Rowling
The King of the Golden River (1850) by John Ruskin
The Human Comedy (1943) by William Saroyan
Where the Wild Things Are (1963) by Maurice Sendak
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937) by Dr. Seuss
Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse (1877) by Anna Sewell
Sophie's Misfortunes (1859) by Comtesse de Ségur
The Golem (1969) by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Heidi (1880) by Johanna Spyri
Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien
Mary Poppins (1934) by P. L. Travers
Charlotte's Web (1952) by E. B. White
The Sword in the Stone (1938) by T. H. White
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903) by Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) by Oscar Wilde

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