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Children's Books by Adult Authors

Description: It's surprising how many well known authors have written a children's book or two. Add more examples, if you know of them.

Rank Title Author Added

1

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

6,730 members

90 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

2

A Child's Calendar

1,002 members

43 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

3

How the Leopard Got His Claws

by Chinua Achebe

86 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: cej1027

4

by Carl Hiaasen

8,686 members

262 reviews

3.8

5

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

by Salman Rushdie

4,901 members

84 reviews

4

6

by Michael Chabon

3,237 members

69 reviews

½ 3.6

7

Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang

2,176 members

42 reviews

½ 3.7

8

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

1,319 members

28 reviews

4

9

Rootabaga Stories

by Carl Sandburg

447 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

10

The Crows of Pearblossom

by Aldous Huxley

349 members

11 reviews

½ 3.3

11

by E. E. Cummings

251 members

7 reviews

4.1

12

The World Is Round

by Gertrude Stein

246 members

3 reviews

3.8

13

The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man

by Michael Chabon

227 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

14

by Margaret Atwood

149 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

15

Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot: A Long-Lost Tale

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

128 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

16

The Book of Mean People

by Toni Morrison

118 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

17

Advice to Little Girls

112 members

4 reviews

4

18

Little man, little man: A story of childhood

by James Baldwin

108 members

1 review

4.2

19

The First Book of Jazz

by Langston Hughes

105 members

1 review

4.2

20

The Cat and the Devil

103 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

21

The Widow and the Parrot

by Virginia Woolf

77 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

22

Classic Tales and Fables for Children (Literary Classics)

53 members

4

23

The Little Steamroller

by Graham Greene

44 members

1 review

½ 3.3

24

The Gnomes of Gnu

18 members

3

25

by Peter Matthiessen

7 members

26

The Rabbit's Umbrella

by George Plimpton

6 members

1 review

½ 4.5

About This List

Started: sturlington
July 2014
Type: Unnumbered

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