Portal:Children's literature

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Children's literature

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The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling   Peter Rabbit and his Ma Louise A. Field   The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle   The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams   The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum

Works by age

0-3

• The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright (1916)

3+

• The Quangle Wangle's Hat by Edward Lear (1876)
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (1902)
• The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix Potter (1906)
• The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter (1908)

5+

• The Blue Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang (1889)
• A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear (1846)
• The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen (1837)
• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)
• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
• The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen (1837)
• The Magic Fishbone by Charles Dickens (1868)
• The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay (1918)
• The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen (1843)
• Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (1922)
• A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore (1822)

8+

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
• The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (1883)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876)
• Aesop's Fables by Aesop (c. 550 BC)
• Air Service Boys over the Rhine (1919)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
  • Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (1871)
• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908)
• Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc (1907)
• Betty Gordon in Washington (1920)
  • Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil (1920)
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1877)
• The Bobbsey Twins (1904)
  • The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore (1907)
  • The Bobbsey Twins at Home (1916)
• The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
• The Boys of Columbia High on the River (1911)
• Boys of the Fort (1901)
• Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm (1916)
• The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (1887)
• Cautionary Tales for Children
• A Christmas Carol
• Dick Hamilton's Fortune (1909)
• Five Children and It by E. Nesbit (1902)
• The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde (1888)
• Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
• Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886)
• A Little Princess by Frances H. Burnett (1905)
• The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle (1912)
• The Man Who Was Thursday by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1908)
• Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner (1898)
• Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1911)
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (1881)
• The Princess and the Goblin
• The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope Hawkins (1884)
• Ralph of the Roundhouse (1906)
  • Ralph in the Switch Tower (1907)
• The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (1903)
• Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg (1936) ?
• The Rover Boys at School (1899)
  • The Rover Boys on the Ocean (1899)
  • The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes (1901)
• Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope Hawkins (1898)
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1909)
• The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (1920)
  • The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (1922)
• The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit (1899)
• Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb (1807)
• Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
  • The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1913)
  • The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1914)
  • The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1914)
  • Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1916)
  • Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1919)
  • Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1919-20)
  • Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1921)
• The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915)
  • Greenmantle by John Buchan (1916)
  • Mr Standfast by John Buchan (1919)
• Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle (1910)
  • Tom Swift and His Airship (1910)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1916)
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900)

12+

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne (1869)
• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (1873)
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
• The Children of the New Forest by Captain Frederick Marryat (1847)
• The Coral Island by Robert Michael Ballantyne (1857)
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
• Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster (1912)
• The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's by Talbot Baines Reed (1881)
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1860)
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri (1880)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (1864)
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
• The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux (1907)
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1838)
• The Railway Children by E. Nesbit (1906)
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
• The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss (1812)
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
• Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes (1857)
• Waverley by Walter Scott (1814)
• White Fang by Jack London (1906)

About

• “Children's Literature” by David A. Modell  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

See also

• Portal:Children
• Portal:Children's education
• Portal:Children's fairy tales
• Portal:Children's poetry
• Portal:Stratemeyer Syndicate

References

• Eccleshare, Julia (2009). 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up. ABC Books. ISBN 9780733325625. 
• Silvey, Anita (2005). 100 Best Books for Children. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9780618618774. 
• Kid's Reading List, 2011, <http://www.oprah.com/packages/kid-reading-list.html> 
• Classic Reading Lists, The Book Report, Inc, 2011, <http://www.kidsreads.com/lists/classic-lists.asp>