This is the list of must-reads for Children's Fiction, taken from 501 Must-Read Books.
You're sure to go oooh and aaah at the childhood favourites. I read a lot of condensed versions when I was a kid though, so after getting this list I went out and got the full versions and had a go. Fun!
How many have you read from the list?
1) Little Women Louisa May Alcott*
2) Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen
3) Peter Pan J.M.Barrie*
4) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum*
5) The Last Unicorn Peter S. Beagle
6) The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett*
7) Alice's Adventure in Wonderland Lewis Carroll*
8) Pinocchio Carlo Collodi*
9) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl*
10) Sophie's World Jostein Gaardner*
11) The Weirdstone of Brisingamen Alan Garner*
12) The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame*
13) Children's and Household Tales Jacob Grimm*
14) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon*
15) Emil and the Detectives Erich Kastner*
16) Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling*
17) The Complete Nonsense Books Edward Lear
18) A Wrinkle in Time Madeline L'Engle*
19) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis*
20) Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren*
21) Dr Dolittle Hugh Lofting*
22) At the Back of the North Wind George MacDonald
23) Nobody's Boy Hector Malot
24) Winnie-the-Pooh A. A. Milne*
25) Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery*
26) Five Children and It E. Nesbit*
27) Tom's Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce*
28) The War of the Buttons Louis Pergaud
29) Fairy Tales Charles Perrault
30) The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter*
31) The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett*
32) Northern Lights Philip Pullman
33) Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
34) Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang Mordecai Richler
35) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling*
36) The King of the Golden River John Ruskin
37) The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery*
38) The Human Comedy William Saroyan*
39) The Misfortunes of Sophie Comtesse de Segur
40) Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak*
41) And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street Dr Seuss*
42) Black Beauty Anna Sewell*
43) The Golem Isaac Bashevis Singer
44) Heidi Johanna Spyri*
45) Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
46) The Fellowship of the Ring J. R. R. Tolkien
47) Mary Poppins P. L. Travers*
48) Charlotte's Web E. B. White*
49) The Sword in the Stone T. H. White
50) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Kate Douglas Wiggin
51) The Happy Prince and Other Tales Oscar Wilde*
* read