RC: Amazon 100 Children's Books (birth to age 12) to read in a Lifetime

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.

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List of Books

1. Aesop's Fables
2. Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
4. Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
5. Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
6. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
7. The Bad Begining: Or, Orphans! by Lemony Snicket
8. Beatrix Potter, the Complete Tales by Beatrix Potter
9. Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
10. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
11. The Borrowers by Mary Norton
12. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
13. Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina
14. * Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
15. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
16. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin
17. * Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
18. The Complete Adventures of Curious George by Margret and H. A. Rey
19. Corduroy by Don Freeman
20. The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
21. The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
22. D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths by Edgar and Ingri D'Aulaire
23. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, book 1 by Jeff Kinney
24. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Buss by Mo Willems
25. Dr. Seuss's Beginner Book Collection by Dr. Seuss
26. * The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce
27. * From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
28. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
29. Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker
30. * Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
31. Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
32. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
33. * Holes by Louis Sachar
34. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by  Brian Selznick
35. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
36. Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
37. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
38. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
39. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
40. The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
41. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
42. Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
43. Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
44. Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
45. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
46. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
47. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
48. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
49. The New Way Things Work by David MacAulay
50. Olivia by Ian Falconer
51. Owen by Kevin Henkes
52. Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling C. Holling
53. The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
54. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
55. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
56. Press Here by Herve Tullet
57. The Real Mother Goose by Blanche F. Wright
58. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
59. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
60. The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant by Jean de Brunhoff
61. The Story of Ferdinard by Munro Leaf
62. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
63. The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo
64. The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon
65. * Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
66. Watership Down by Richard Adams
67. The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
68. The Westling Game by Ellen Raskin
69. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
70. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
71. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
72. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
73. * The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
74. * The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
75. 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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