Classic Books for Kids
Today is 11/20/2008
*All books published before 1980
*Newbery winners are often considered classics as well, but are not included on this list. Please refer to the Newbery pamphlet for these titles.
Little Women (J ALC)
by Louisa May Alcott
Mr. Popper’s Penguins (J ATW, J CD ATW)
by Richard Atwater
Tuck Everlasting (J BAB, J LP BAB, J CD BAB)
by Natalie Babbitt
National Velvet (J BAG)
by Enid Bagnold
Peter Pan (J BAR, J CD BAR)
by J.M. Barrie
Betsy-Tacy (J BET V1)
First book in the Betsy-Tacy series
by Maud Hart Lovelace
Are You There God?: It’s Me, Margaret (J BLU, J CD BLU)
by Judy Blume
A Little Princess (J BUR)
The Secret Garden (J BUR)
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Midnight Fox (J BYA)
by Betsy Byars
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (J CAR, J CD CAR)
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (J CAR, J CD CAR)
by Lewis Carroll
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (J DAH, J CD DAH)
by Roald Dahl
Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (J DOD)
by Mary Mapes Dodge
The Four-Story Mistake (J ENR, J CD ENR)
by Elizabeth Enright
The Black Stallion (J FAR, J CD FAR)
by Walter Farley
Harriet the Spy (J FIT, J CD FIT)
by Louise Fitzhugh
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (J FLE, J CD FLE)
by Ian Fleming
One-Eyed Cat: A Novel (J FOX)
by Paula Fox
Three Tales of My Father’s Dragon (J GAN, J CD GAN)
by Ruth Stiles Gannett
My Side of the Mountain (J GEO, J CD GEO)
by Jean Craighead George
Old Yeller (J GIP)
by Fred Gipson
The Wind in the Willows (J GRA, J CD GRA)
by Kenneth Grahame
The Great Brain (J GRE V1)
First book in the Great Brain Adventures series
by John Dennis Fitzgerald
Misty of Chincoteague (J HEN, J CD HEN)
by Marguerite Henry
The Nutcracker (J HOF)
by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Across Five Aprils (J HUN, J CD HUN)
by Irene Hunt
The Phantom Tollbooth (J JUS, J CD JUS)
by Norton Juster
Emil and the Detectives (J KAS)
by Erich Kastner
The Jungle Book (J KIP)
by Rudyard Kipling
Big Red (J KJE)
by Jim Kjelgaard
Lassie Come Home (J KNI)
by Eric Knight
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (J LEW, J CD CEW)
by C.S. Lewis
Pippi Longstocking (J LIN, J CD LIN)
by Astrid Lindgren
The Littles (J LIT V1)
First book in the Littles series
by John Lawrence Peterson
The Call of the Wild (J LON, YA CD LON)
by Jack London
Homer Price (J MCC)
by Robert McCloskey
Anne of Green Gables (J MON)
by L.M. Montgomery
Gentle Ben (J MOR)
by Walt Morey
Five Children and It (J NES)
by E. Nesbit
The Borrowers (J NOR)
by Mary Norton
Tom’s Midnight Garden (J PEA)
by Philippa Pearce
Soup (J PEC)
by Robert Newton Peck
Figgs and Phantoms (J RAS)
by Ellen Raskin
The Yearling (J RAW)
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Where the Red Fern Grows (J RAW, J CD RAW)
by Wilson Rawls
Henry Reed, Inc. (J ROB)
by Keith Robertson
The Cricket in Times Square (J SEL, J CD SEL)
by George Seldon
Black Beauty (J SEW)
by Anna Sewell
Heidi (J SPY, J CD SPY)
by Johanna Spyri
Treasure Island (J STE, J CD STE)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
All-of-a-Kind Family (J TAY)
by Sydney Taylor
The Cay (J TAY, J CD TAY)
by Theodore Taylor
Lad: A Dog (J TER)
by Albert Payson Terhune
Banner in the Sky (J ULL)
by James Ramsey Ullman
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (J WIG)
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (J WIZ V1, J CD BAU)
by L. Frank Baum
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