Amazon's List of 100 Children's Books
to Read in a Lifetime
Personal Challenge
Book list a amazon can be found here
So many children's books remain close to our hearts long after we first read them. But which ones are the can't-miss favorites, those that will last a lifetime? The Amazon Book editors set out to compile a list of 100 Children's Books to Read in a Lifetime that included classics from years gone by, classics in the making, the serious, the silly, the surreal--children's literature has it all. We chose the books based on the idea of selecting the 100 that cover the years from birth (those first well-worn titles) up to age 12. Of course, the age at which people read these may vary wildly, but we tried to pick books that would feel significant in the years leading up to becoming a teenager, and be warmly remembered all their lives. And, naturally, we didn't want the list to feel like homework. We talked and argued and reminisced about the books we read when we were kids, the ones we've read to our own children, and the ones we've discovered since. The result is our list of 100 favorites.There is a GoodReads Listopia
List of Books
- Aesop's Fables
Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
Are You My Mother? by P.D. EastmanAre You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy BlumeThe Bad Begining: Or, Orphans! by Lemony Snicket- Beatrix Potter, the Complete Tales by Beatrix Potter
- Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell- The Borrowers by Mary Norton
The Call of the Wild by Jack London- Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina
- * Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web by E. B. WhiteChicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin- * Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
- The Complete Adventures of Curious George by Margret and H. A. Rey
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt- D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths by Edgar and Ingri D'Aulaire
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid, book 1 by Jeff Kinney
- Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Buss by Mo Willems
- Dr. Seuss's Beginner Book Collection by Dr. Seuss
- * The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce
- * From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
- Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker
- * Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
- Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling- * Holes by Louis Sachar
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell- Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
- The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis- The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder- Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
- Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
- Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
- Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
- Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
- The New Way Things Work by David MacAulay
- Olivia by Ian Falconer
- Owen by Kevin Henkes
- Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling C. Holling
- The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
- Press Here by Herve Tullet
The Real Mother Goose by Blanche F. WrightThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats- The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant by Jean de Brunhoff
The Story of Ferdinard by Munro Leaf- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
- The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo
- The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon
- * Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Watership Down by Richard Adams- The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
- The Westling Game by Ellen Raskin
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson RawlsWhere the Sidewalk Ends by Shel SilversteinWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak- * The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
- * The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
I have no idea why there are only 75 titles on the list!
~ I've crossed off the ones I remember reading although I may re-read some of them.
* I do own a few more, this doesn't include the ones on order ;-)
List of Books Read
from September 1, 2016 to . . .
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