Morning!
It is me, your friend ThursTAG. (If anyone still doesn’t get this pun, please let me know!) How are you all today? I hope you are all staying safe indoors and looking after yourselves – mental health and physical health alike! Remember to do something every day that is just purely for your own good.
Today I am here to share with you the list of Amazon 100 Children’s Books To Read in a Lifetime. I did the “adult” tag a few weeks ago, but when I discovered there was a kids list, I got very excited. I expect I will have read A LOT MORE of the children’s books than the adult ones… go figure! (I’ve also just spotted that there’s a 100 YA books to read in a lifetime too… SO PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THAT TOO!)
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- A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L’Engle)
- Aesops Fables
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Judith Viorst)
- Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) – YES
- Amelia Bedelia (Peggy Parish)
- And Tango Makes Three (Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell) – YES
- Anne of Green Gables (L.M.Montgomery)
- Are You My Mother? (P.D.Eastman)
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (Judy Blume)
- The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter (Beatrix Potter) – YES
- Betsy-Tacy Books (Maud Hart Lovelace)
- Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) – YES
- Bread and Jam for Francis (Russell Hoban)
- Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)
- Caps for Sale (Esphyr Slobodkina)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl) – YES (obv)
- Charlotte’s Web (E.B.White) – YES
- Chicka Chicka BOOM BOOM! (Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault)
- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Judi Barrett)
- Coraline (Neil Gaiman)
- Corduroy (Don Freeman)
- D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney)
- Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Mo Willems)
- Dr. Seuss’s ABC – YES
- Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective (Donald J. Sobol)
- Esperanza Rising (Pam Muñoz Ryan)
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E. L. Konigsburg)
- Goodnight Moon (Margaret Wise Brown) – YES
- Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site (Sherri Duskey Rinker)
- The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales – YES
- Guess How Much I Love You (Sam McBratney) – YES
- Harold and the Purple Crayon (Crockett Johnson)
- Harriet the Spy (Louise Fitzhugh)
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (J.K.Rowling) – YES
- Holes (Louis Sachar) – YES
- Island of the Blue Dolphins (Scott O’Dell)
- Jumanji (Chris Van Allsburg)
- Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingles Wilder) – YES
- Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) – YES
- Llama Llama Red Pajama (Anna Dewdney)
- Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans)
- Make Way for Ducklings (Robert McCloskey)
- Maniac Magee (Jerry Spinelli)
- Mike Mulligan (Virginia Lee Burton)
- Mr Popper’s Penguins (Richard and Florence Atwater)
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Robert C. O’Brien)
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Betty Macdonald)
- My Side of the Mountain (Jean Craighead George)
- Olivia (Ian Falconer)
- Owen (Kevin Henkes)
- Paddle-To-The-Sea (Holling C. Holling)
- Pat the Bunny (Dorothy Kunhardt)
- Peter Pan (J.M.Barrie)
- Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren) – YES
- Press Here (Hervé Tullet) – YES
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (William Steig)
- The Bad Beginning (Daniel Handler)
- The Borrowers (Mary Norton) – YES
- The Boxcar Children (Gertrude Chandler Warner)
- The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
- The Complete Adventures of Curious George (H. A. Rey)
- The Cricket in Times Square (George Selden)
- The Day the Crayons Quit (Drew Daywalt) – YES
- The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (William Joyce)
- The Giver (Lois Lowry)
- The House at Pooh Corner (A.A.Milne) – YES
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick) – YES
- The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling) – YES
- The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan)
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis) – YES
- The Little Engine That Could (Watty Piper)
- The Little Prince (Antoine de Sant-Exupery)
- The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Beverly Cleary)
- The New Way Things Work (David Macauly)
- The Paper Bag Princess (Robert Munsch) – YES
- Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
- Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright)
- The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) – YES
- The Secret of the Old Clock (Carolyn Keene)
- The Snowy Day (Ezra Jack Keats)
- The Story of Babar (Jean De Brunhoff)
- The Story of Ferdinand (Munro Leaf)
- The Tale of Despereaux (Kate Dicamillo)
- The Tower Treasure (Franklin W. Dixon)
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle) – YES (duh)
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 (Christopher Paul Curtis)
- The Wednesday Wars (Gary D. Schmidt)
- The Westing Game (Ellen Raskin)
- The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) – YES
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum) – YES
- Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) – YES
- Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbit)
- Walk Two Moons (Sharon Creech)
- Watership Down (Richard Adams) – YES
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Grace Lin)
- Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls)
- Where the Sidewalk Ends (Shel Silverstein)
- Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak) – YES
- Wonder (R.J.Palacio) – YES
(Man, that took a LONG TIME TO TYPE OUT)
This list has what I’m guessing a LOT of American books on it! I’d love to see a version for us Brits! However, my total was…
31 BOOKS
I don’t think the ones I’ve chosen will surprise many people… but I think some people will be shocked by some of the ones I’ve not read. There’s a few on that list that I’d still like to read, but we all know my TBR is a mile long already haha!
Please feel free to just copy this post (it will genuinely take you FOREVER to type it all out!) if you fancy counting up how many you’ve read!
S x
I have to admit that I don’t know most of those books. But I definitely have to check out if they have that list around here too. That would be so much fun. 🙂 And 31 books out of a 100 is actually really quite good. Well done, you! 🙂
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I’ve read 33 apparently
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Ooooh this looks like fun! I think I’m going to do it on my blog!
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