Children's Classics Worth Reading

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A reading list of classic children's literature.
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The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
42,069 members
612 reviews
4.1
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A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
45,457 members
1,039 reviews
4
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The Chronicles of Narnia
by C. S. Lewis
40,220 members
331 reviews
4.2
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Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
35,846 members
629 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
27,747 members
367 reviews
4.1
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
26,601 members
481 reviews
3.9
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The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
107,235 members
1,299 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
52,963 members
874 reviews
4.2
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
40,773 members
489 reviews
3.8
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
29,676 members
494 reviews
4.1
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
21,354 members
282 reviews
½ 3.7
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Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
18,074 members
240 reviews
4.1
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The Giver
by Lois Lowry
46,571 members
1,682 reviews
4.1
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Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
41,402 members
1,069 reviews
4.2
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
38,306 members
369 reviews
3.9
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
29,357 members
597 reviews
4.1
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James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
23,672 members
386 reviews
3.9
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The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
10,599 members
62 reviews
½ 4.6
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Jacob Grimm
1,873 members
19 reviews
4
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Northern Lights
by Philip Pullman
40,082 members
790 reviews
4.1
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The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
20,279 members
472 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
17,838 members
341 reviews
3.9
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
by Jules Verne
17,510 members
264 reviews
½ 3.7
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Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
15,915 members
223 reviews
½ 4.3
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Frog and Toad Are Friends
by Arnold Lobel
13,445 members
293 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
by Robert C. O'Brien
13,303 members
187 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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The Story of Ferdinand
by Munro Leaf
11,289 members
184 reviews
½ 4.3
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The House at Pooh Corner
by A. A. Milne
9,865 members
91 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Last Unicorn
by Peter S. Beagle
8,827 members
218 reviews
4.2
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
by T. S. Eliot
7,534 members
102 reviews
4
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Five Children and It
by E. Nesbit
5,355 members
83 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Fables of Aesop
by Aesop
4,259 members
58 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Little Women (Norton Critical Editions)
by Louisa May Alcott
177 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Giving Tree
by Shel Silverstein
22,275 members
1,093 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Witches
by Roald Dahl
17,718 members
215 reviews
4.1
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The Borrowers
by Mary Norton
10,223 members
133 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Cricket in Times Square
by George Selden
9,777 members
81 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Hundred Dresses
by Eleanor Estes
8,329 members
141 reviews
4
2 Members
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Harriet the Spy
by Louise Fitzhugh
8,072 members
129 reviews
4
2 Members
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The View from Saturday
by E. L. Konigsburg
7,200 members
136 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Marvelous Land of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
4,024 members
84 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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House of Many Ways
by Diana Wynne Jones
3,955 members
100 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Bedtime for Frances
by Russell Hoban
3,888 members
38 reviews
4
2 Members
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All-of-a-Kind Family
by Sydney Taylor
3,832 members
63 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Ozma of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
3,486 members
62 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Catwings
by Ursula K. Le Guin
2,880 members
50 reviews
4
2 Members
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The House with a Clock in Its Walls
by John Bellairs
2,877 members
90 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Enchanted Castle
by E. Nesbit
2,793 members
47 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth
by Lloyd Alexander
2,778 members
36 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Velvet Room
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
537 members
15 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
26,294 members
651 reviews
4
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Peter & Wendy
by J. M. Barrie
22,664 members
364 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
22,298 members
690 reviews
4.1
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Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
21,899 members
633 reviews
3.8
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Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
21,371 members
231 reviews
3.9
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My Side of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George
14,486 members
162 reviews
4
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The Boxcar Children
by Gertrude Chandler Warner
11,182 members
116 reviews
4
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The Incredible Journey
by Sheila Burnford
6,758 members
84 reviews
3.9
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Molly's Pilgrim
by Barbara Cohen
3,147 members
30 reviews
4.1
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The Fledgling
by Jane Langton
2,727 members
21 reviews
3.8
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Dogsbody
by Diana Wynne Jones
1,558 members
40 reviews
4.1
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The Mouse and His Child
by Russell Hoban
1,152 members
32 reviews
4.2
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Animals Do the Strangest Things
by Leonora Hornblow
662 members
6 reviews
½ 4.6
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
294 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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Big Susan
by Elizabeth Orton Jones
192 members
1 review
4.2
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The Cat in the Hat
by Dr. Seuss
25,217 members
561 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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