On where the list of 1001 Children’s Books I Must Read Before I Grow Up (Too Much) comes from

In the last few days, a couple of people have asked me where the list of 1001 Children’s Books that I am attempting to read comes from. It comes from a book called 1001 Children’s Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up, published by Harper Collins, and it is part of the 1001 […] You Must Do Before You Die (‘before you die’ when talking about children’s books, is a bit morbid, so I understand why they altered the title for this book a bit). You can read about me finding the book and deciding to start reading them all here.However, through the wonders of the internet, someone has painstakingly written out the list, which I can copy and paste for you all to peruse at your leisure.

How many have you read? Which books have you always wanted to read but never gotten around to?

(The books are ordered in this list by date of publication, the most recently published first)

The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
Finding Violet Park – Jenny Valentine
The Silver Jaguar – Hermann Schulz
The Invention Of Hugo Cabret – Brian Selznick
Winter Song – Jean-Claude Mourlevat
Monster Blood Tattoo: Foundling – D M Cornish
Toby Alone – Timothee De Fombelle
The Red Shoe – Ursula Dubosarsky
My Big Birkett – Lisa Shanahan
The Arrival – Shaun Tan
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas – John Boyne
The Cat Or How I Lost Eternity – Jutta Richter
The Adventures Of The Dish And The Spoon – Mini Grey
In Mr Thunder’s House – Guido Quarzo
Flotsam – David Wiesner
New Policeman – Kate Thompson
Grimpow – Rafael Abalos
Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
Rabbit And Coyote – Beatriz Donnet
Ark Angel – Anthony Horowitz
The Night Pirates – Peter Harris
Snip Snap – Mara Bergman
The Boy Who Grew Flowers – Jen Wojtowicz
Wolves – Emily Gravett
Llama, Llama, Red Pajama – Anna Dewdney
Leonardo The Terrible Monster – Mo Willems
Zen Shorts – Jon J Muth
The Sea Monster – Christopher Wormell
Lost And Found – Oliver Jeffers
Memories of Idhun: The Resistance – Laura Gallego
How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff
A Boat In The Forest – Paolo Mastrocola
By The River – Steven Herrick
The Running Man – Michael Gerard Bauer
Wolf Brother – Michelle Paver
Millions – Frank Cottrell Boyce
Are We There Yet? – Alison Lester
You’re All My Favourites – Sam McBratney
The Girl And The Jackdaw Tree – Riitta Jalonen
The Secret Lives Of Princesses – Philippe Lechermeier
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale – Mo Willems
The Amulet Of Samarkand – Jonathan Stroud
Keeper – Mal Peet
Private Peaceful – Michael Morpurgo
The Fire-Eaters – David Almond
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time – Mark Haddon
The Keys To The Kingdom: Mister Monday – Garth Nix
Slaves Of Quentaris – Paul Collins
Four Sisters – Malika Ferdjoukh
Dragonkeeper – Carole Wilkinson
The Tale Of Despereaux – Kate DiCamillo
Three Fairy Tales – Gustavo Martin Garzo
Inkheart – Cornelia Funke
The Naming Of Tishkin Silk – Glenda Millard
The Field Guide – Holly Black
Wolves In The Walls – Neil Gaiman
Constable Sniffler And The Sausage Factory – Asko Sirkia
Skippyjon Jones – Judy Schachner
I Hate School – Jeanne Willis
The Biggest Kiss In The World – R Chavez Castaneda
The Day The Babies Crawled Away – Peggy Rathmann
Bridget And The Moose Brothers – Pija Lindenbaum
Beegu – Alexis Deacon
Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus! – Mo Willems
Tatu And Patu In Helsinki – Aino Havukainen & Sami Toivonen
Crispin – Avi (Edward Irving Wartis)
The Messenger – Markus Zusak
Parvana’s Journey – Deborah Ellis
Across The Nightingale Floor – Lian Hearn
The Slightly True Story Of Cedar B Hartley – Martine Murray
Walking Naked – Alyssa Brugman
Utterly Me, Clarice Bean – Lauren Child
Barrumbi Kids – Leonie Norrington
That Pesky Rat – Lauren Child
I Am Polleke – Guus Kuijer
Naughts And Crosses – Malorie Blackman
Refugee Boy – Benjamin Zephaniah
City Of Beasts – Isabel Allende
Aldabra – Silvana Gandolfi
Journey To The River Sea – Eva Ibbotson
Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
Mortal Engines – Philip Reeve
Rupert Rapper And Aunt Deep Freeze – Sinikka & Tina Nopola
The Vile Village – Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
The Love Book – Pernilla Stalfelt
Ug: Boy Genius Of The Stone Age – Raymond Briggs
Dodo Gets Married – Petra Mathers
The Three Pigs – David Wiesner
Marc Just Couldn’t Sleep – Gabriela Keselman
The Widemouthed Frog – Francine Vidal
Julian the Rabbitt – Nicoletta Costa
Coram Boy – Jamila Gavin
Arthur – Kevin Crossley-Holland
Oh Boy! – Marie-Aude Murail
Witch Child – Celia Rees
Troy – Adele Geras
The Wind Singer – William Nicholson
Thursday’s Child – Sonya Hartnett
The Papunya School Book – Nadia Wheatley
Alex Rider: Stormbreaker – Anthony Horowitz
Father Grew Wings In Spring – Tomi Kontio
Because Of Winn-Dixie – Kate DiCamillo
Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare – Darren Shan
The Day I Learned To Tame Spiders – Jutta Richter
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire – J K Rowling
Something’s Fishy, Hazel Green – Odo Hirsh
Fox – Margaret Wild
I Will Not Ever Never Eat A Tomato – Lauren Child
Madlenka – Peter Sis
Olivia – Ian Faloner
Max – Bob Graham
Crispin: The Pig Who Had It All – Ted Dewan
Postcards From No Man’s Land – Aidan Chambers
Not Chicago, Not Here – Kirsten Boie
The Illustrated Mum – Jacqueline Wilson
Stony Heart Country – David Metzenthen
Bud, Not Buddy – Christopher Paul Curtis
Hitler’s Daughter – Jackie French
Kensuke’s Kingdom – Michael Morpurgo
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban – J K Rowling
A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning – Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
Clarice Bean, That’s Me – Lauren Child
The Death Book – Pernilla Stalfelt
Rumplestiltskin and Other Grimm Tales – Carol Ann Duffy
The Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson
Harry And The Bucket Full Of Dinosaurs – Ian Whybrow
Jamela’s Dress – Niki Daly
Rosa Goes To Daycare – Barbro Lindgren
Humphrey’s Corner – Sally Hunter
The Bear Went Over The Mountain – John Prater
I Am Not Esther – Fieur Beale
The Crowstarver – Dick King-Smith
Holes – Louis Sachar
The Dog With The Yellow Heart – Jutta Richter
The Sterkarm Handshake – Susan Price
My Girragundji – Meme McDonald and Boori Pryor
Just Annoying! – Andy Griffiths
Skellig – David Almond
The Composition – Antonio Skarmeta
A Bad Case Of Stripes – David Shannon
Henry And Amy – Stephen Michael King
The Magic Pocket – Michio Mado
Molly Goes Shopping – Eva Eriksson
Pumpkin Soup – Helen Cooper
Bad Habits! – Babette Cole
Pig-Heart Boy – Malorie Blackman
River Boy – Tim Bowler
Deadly Unna – Phillip Gwynne
Out Of The Dust – Karen Hesse
Toby – Graciela Beatriz Cabal
Matthias And Grandpa – Roberto Piumini
Fire, Bed And Bone – Henrietta Branford
Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone – J K Rowling
The Great Escape From City Zoo – Tohby Riddle
My Kingdom For A Horse – Ana M Machado
The Sea At The End Of The Forest – Pinin Carpi
The Gifting – Sophie Masson
Peeling The Onion – Wendy Orr
When The Snow Fell – Henning Mankell
The Story Of A Seagull – Luis Sepulveda
Johnny And The Bomb – Terry Pratchett
The View From Saturday – E L Konigsburg
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse – Kevin Henkes
Alvin Says Good Night – Ulf Lofgren
Northern Lights – Philip Pullman
When The World Was Still Young – Jurg Schubiger
Clockwork – Philip Pullman
Tashi – Anna & Barbara Fienberg
45 & 47 Stella Street And Everything That Happened – Elizabeth Honey
Poordog The Starved – Graciela Montes
Watch Out For The Cat – Silvana Gandolfi
Moka The Cow – Agostino Traini
Math Curse – Jon Scieszka
Jennifer Jones Won’t Leave Me Alone – Frieda Wishinsky
Runaway Train – Benedict Blathwayt
Clown – Quentin Blake
A Jump Into The Other World – Bruno Tognolini
See How They Run – David McRobbie
Whispers In The Graveyard – Theresa Breslin
Switchers – Kate Thompson
Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech
Foxspell – Gillian Rubinstein
Halinka – Mirjam Pressler
Stories Of Fernando – Ema Wolf
Way Home – Libby Hathorn
The Bed And Breakfast Star – Jacqueline Wilson
A Mole Always Turns Up On It’s Own – Hanna Johansen
Old Tom – Leigh Hobbs
Horrid Henry – Francesca Simon
Garden Of Little Creatures – Antoon Krings
The Story Of The Little Mole – Werner Holzwarth
Guess How Much I Love You – Sam McBratney
Handa’s Surprise – Eileen Browne
Stone Cold – Robert Swindells
Dougy – James Moloney
Gold Dust – Geraldine McCaughrean
The Gathering – Isobelle Carmody
Rowan Of Rin – Emily Rodda
Some Of The Kinder Planets – Tim Wynne-Jones
Tomorrow, When The War Began – John Marsden
Manolito Gafotas – Elvira Liindo
The Giver – Lois Lowry
Almost Everyone Could Topple – Toon Tellegen
Stellaluna – Janell Cannon
Friends From The Other Side – Gloria Anzaldua
The Little Bird – Paro Anand
Poems For The Very Young – Michael Rosen
Sleep Well, Little Bear – Quint Buchholz
Okilele – Claude Ponti
Heart’s Delight – Per Nilsson
See Ya, Simon – David Hill
Titeuf – Zep (Philippe Chappuis)
Flour Babies – Anne Fine
Pagan’s Crusade – Catherine Jinks
There Will Be Wolves – Karleen Bradford
Looking For Alibrandi – Melina Marchetta
The Last Giants – Francois Place
Only You Can Save Mankind – Terry Pratchett
The Stinky Cheese Man And Other Fairly Stupid Tales – Jon Scieszka
Where’s My Teddy? – Jez Alborough
Frog In Winter – Max Velthuijs
T’Choupi – Thierry Courtin
Owl Babies – Martin Waddell
Maisy Goes To Playschool – Lucy Cousins
Memoirs Of A Basque Cow – Bernardo Atxaga
Listen To My Heart – Bianca Pitzorno
Dear Nobody – Berlie Doherty
The Visits – Silvia Schujer
The Story Of Tracy Beaker – Jacqueline Wilson
Shiloh – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Tar Beach – Faith Ringgold
My Friend Percy’s Magical Gym Shoes – Ulf Stark
Slinky Malinki – Lynley Dodd
Window – Jeannie Baker
Amazing Grace – Mary Hoffman
Kipper – Mick Inkpen
Rocco – Sherryl Jordan
Redwork – Michael Bedard
Strange Objects – Gary Crew
Maniac Magee – Jerry Spinelli
The Painted House – Monserrat Del Amo
Haroun And The Sea Of Stories – Salman Rushdie
Else-Marie And Her Seven Little Daddies – Pija Lindenbaum
Oh, The Places You’ll Go! – Dr Seuss
Mousehole Cat – Antonia Barber
Bunny Bath – Lena Anderson
Thunderwith – Libby Hathorn
Number the Stars – Lois Lowry
Caperucita In Manhattan – Carmen Martin Gaite
Truckers – Terry Pratchett
Bill’s New Frock – Anne Fine
Merryll Of The Stones – Brian Caswell
Hayflower And Quiltshoe – Sinikka & Tina Nopola
Two Weeks With The Queen – Morris Gleitzman
Pit Pony – Joyce Barkhouse
The True Story Of The Three Little Pigs – Jon Scieszka
Lon Po Po – Ed Young
One Snowy Night – Nick Butterworth
Fire-Engine Lil – Janet McLean
We’re Going On A Bear Hunt – Helen Oxenbury
Elmer The Patchwork Elephant – David McKee
A Pack Of Lies – Geraldine McCaughrean
The Devil’s Arithmetic – Jane Yolen
Joyful Noise – Paul Fleischman
Loulou – Gregoire Solotareff
The Keeping Quilt – Patricia Polacco
Matilda – Roald Dahl
Drac And The Gremlin – Allan Baillie
Anancy Spiderman – James Berry
A Balloon For Grandad – Nigel Gray
Stina – Lena Anderson
Crocodile Beat – Gail Jorgensen
Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear? – Martin Waddell
Alex – Tessa Duder
The Cloud – Gudrun Pausewang
Strollers – Lesley Beake
Madame Doubtfire – Anne Fine
The Ghost Drum – Susan Price
The Whale Rider – Witi Ihimaera
My Friend The Painter – Lygia Boujunga Nunes
A Thief In The Village – James Berry
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale – John Steptoe
Quirky Tails – Paul Jennings
I Am Susannah – Libby Gleeson
The Whipping Boy – Sid Fleischman
The Hodgeheg – Dick King-Smith
My Place – Nadia Wheatley
Henry And Mudge – Cynthia Rylant
Lend Me Your Wings – John Agard
Winnie The Witch – Valerie Thomas
Owl Moon – Jane Yolen
Tickle, Tickle – Helen Oxenbury
Taronga – Victor Kelleher
Hatchet – Gary Paulson
Snow Spider – Jenny Nimmo
Redwall – Brian Jacques
The Hound Of The Mound And The Frog Of The Bog – Ana M Machado
Hey, Al – Arthur Yorinks
Animalia – Graeme Base
The Jolly Postman – Allan Ahlberg
Old Bear – Jane Hissey
This Is The Bear – Sarah Hayes
Love You Forever – Robert Munsch
Johnny, My Friend – Peter Pohl
The Ruby In The Smoke – Philip Pullman
Hounds Of The Morrigan – Pat O’Shea
Gargling With Jelly – Brian Patten
Why The Whales Came – Michael Morpurgo
Valley Of The Fireflies – Gloria Cecilia Diaz
Journey To Jo’burg – Beverley Naidoo
Sarah, Plain And Tall – Patricia MacLachlan
Storm – Kevin Crossley-Holland
Pirate’s Heart – Benno Pludra
The Polar Express – Chris Van Allsburg
Linnea In Monet’s Garden – Christina Bjork
Not So Fast Songololo – Niki Daly
The People Could Fly – Virginia Hamilton
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie – Laura Joffe Numeroff
Pancakes For Findus – Sven Nordqvist
Felix And Alexander – Terry Denton
Bathwater’s Hot – Shirley Hughes
Good Dog, Carl – Alexandra Day
The Changeover – Margaret Mahy
Badger On The Barge – Janni Howker
Brother In The Land – Robert Swindells
Hating Alison Ashley – Robin Klein
Tomb Raiders – Odile Weulersse
Eye Of The Wolf – Daniel Pennac
Mouth Open, Story Jump Out – Grace Hallworth
Katie Morag Delivers The Mail – Mairi Hedderwick
The New Kid On The Block – Jack Prelutsky
Mr Majeika – Humphrey Carpenter
Dragon Ball – Akira Toriyama
The Big Sister – Siv Widerberg
Talking In Whispers – James Watson
A Parcel Of Patterns – Jill Paton Walsh
Handles – Jan Mark
Please Mrs Butler – Allan Ahlberg
Sunday’s Child – Gudrun Mebs
The Sheep-Pig – Dick King-Smith
Two Little Bears – Hanna Muschg
Possum Magic – Mem Fox
Hairy Maclary From Donaldson’s Dairy – Lynley Dodd
We Are The Triplets – Roser Capdevila
Dusty Wants To Help – Inger Sandberg
Angelina Ballerina – Katharine Holabird
Gorilla – Anthony Browne
Nausicaa – Hayao Miyazaki
The Village By The Sea – Anita Desai
The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole – Sue Townsend
War Horse – Michael Morpurgo
Max And Sally – Milos Macourek
The Demon Headmaster – Gillian Cross
Schoolboy Jia Li – Qin Wenjun
Me In The Middle – Ana M Machado
When The Wind Blows – Raymond Briggs
The Rattle Bag – Seamus Heany & Ted Hughes
The Haunting – Margaret Mahy
The BFG – Roald Dahl
Doctor De Soto – William Steig
A Chair For My Mother – Vera B Williams
Mr Fox – Gavin Bishop
Avocado Baby – John Burningham
One Woolly Wombat – Rod Trinca
Dear Zoo – Rod Campbell
The Baby’s Catalogue – Allan Ahlberg
The Island On Bird Street – Uri Orlev
Agnes Cecilia – Maria Gripe
The Scarecrows – Robert Westall
Homecoming – Cynthia Voight
Ronia, The Robber’s Daughter – Astrid Lindgren
Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian
Jule’s Rat – Klaus Ensikat
Jumanji – Chris Van Allsburg
Alfie Gets In First – Shirley Hughes
Ernest And Celestine Have Lost Simon – Gabrielle Vincent
Postman Pat’s Treasure Hunt – John A Cunliffe
The Sentinels – Peter Carter
Playing Beatie Bow – Ruth Park
My One-Legged Friend And Me – Anna-Lisa Haakana
Nothing To Be Afraid Of – Jan Mark
The Indian In The Cupboard – Lynne Reid Banks
Superfudge – Judy Blume
Night Swimmers – Betsy Byars
Jacob I Have Loved – Katherine Paterson
The Paper Bag Princess – Robert Munsch
Not Now, Bernard – David McKee
The Prince Of Motordu – Pef
Leo And Popi – Marie-Agnes Gaudrat
Mr Archimedes’ Bath – Pamela Allen
Peace At Last – Jill Murphy
Mister Magnolia – Quentin Blake
Where’s Spot? – Eric Hill
Neverending Story – Michael Ende
Tulku – Peter Dickinson
After The First Death – Robert Cormier
Anastasia Krupnik – Lois Lowry
Fray Perico And His Donkey – Juan Munoz
Under The Mountain – Maurice Gee
Haunted House – Jan Pienkowski
Ox-Cart Man – Donald Hall
Hey, Dollface – Deborah Hautzig
The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
The Kaziranga Trail – Arup Kumar Dutta
The Little Man Dressed In Gray – Fernando Alonso
The Enormous Crocodile – Roald Dahl
The Quinkins – Percy Trezise and Dick Roughsey
A Pocket For Corduroy – Don Freeman
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses – Paul Goble
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs – Judi Barrett
The Battle Of Bubble And Squeak – Philippa Pearce
Is That A Monster, Alfie Atkins? – Gunilla Bergstrom
Freight Train – Donald Crews
The Snowman – Raymond Briggs
Up In The Tree – Margaret Atwood
Each Peach Pear Plum – Allan Ahlberg
Underground To Canada – Barbara Smucker
First Of Midnight – Marjorie Darke
Charmed Life – Diana Wynne Jones
Storm Boy – Colin Thiele
The Turbulent Term Of Tyke Tiler – Gene Kemp
Bridge To Terebithia – Katherine Paterson
Ordinary Jack – Helen Cresswell
The Cat That Lived A Million Times – Yoko Sano
Anno’s Journey – Mistumasa Anno
Miss Nelson Is Missing! – Harry Allard
A Walk In The Park – Anthony Browne
Loon’s Necklace – Elizabeth Cleaver
Fungus The Bogeyman – Raymond Briggs
On The Antilles Sea In A Paper Boat – Nicolas Guillen
Teo Discovers The World – Violetta Denou
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch – Ronda Armitage
Come Away From The Water, Shirley – John Burningham
John Brown, Rose And The Midnight Cat – Jenny Wagner
Dogger – Shirley Hughes
Burglar Bill – Allan Ahlberg
Uppo The Bear – Elina Karjalainen
Fly Little Bird – Francesco Tullio Altan
Little Spook’s Baby Sister – Inger Sandberg
Thunder And Lightnings – Jan Mark
Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D Taylor
Bilgewater – Jane Gardam
Dragonsong – Anne McCaffrey
The October Child – Eleanor Spence
The Stone Book – Alan Garner
Mr And Mrs Pig’s Evening Out – Mary Rayner
Crisis On Conshelf Ten – Monica Hughes
The Peppermint Pig – Nina Bawden
The Machine Gunners – Robert Westall
Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbitt
Twopence A Tub – Susan Price
Granny – Peter Hartling
Conrad: The Factory-Made Boy – Christine Nostlinger
The Fib And Other Stories – George Layton
Why Mosquitoes Buzz In People’s Ears – Verna Aardema
Strega Nona – Tomie DePaola
Morris’s Disappearing Bag – Rosemary Wells
Who’s Seen The Scissors? – Fernando Krahn
Little Brown Bear – Claude Lebrun
The Chocolate War – Robert Cormier
Who Does This Kid Take After? – Eva Janikovszky
The Trouble With Donovan Croft – Bernard Ashley
Nobody’s Family Is Going To Change – Louise Fitzhugh
M C Higgins – Virginia Hamilton
The Worst Witch – Jill Murphy
Where The Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
Mind Your Own Business – Michael Rosen
Carrie’s War – Nina Bawden
The Dark Is Rising – Susan Cooper
The Friends – Rosa Guy
The Slave Dancer – Paula Fox
The Nargun And The Stars – Patricia Wrightson
Fly Away Home – Christine Nostlinger
The Spirit Wind – Max Fatchen
Grinny – Nicholas Fisk
Crusade In Jeans – Thea Beckman
The Brothers Lionheart – Astrid Lindgren
Chlorophyll From The Blue Sky – Bianca Pitzorno
The Eighteenth Emergency – Betsy Byars
The Ghost Of Thomas Kempe – Penelope Lively
The Real Thief – William Steig
My Cat Likes To Hide In Boxes – Eve Sutton
Father Christmas – Raymond Briggs
Stories From The Year One Thousand – Tonino Guerra
Julie Of The Wolves – J Craighead George
The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
Across The Barricades – Joan Lingard
No Way Of Telling – Emma Smith
Winter In Wartime – Jan Terlouw
Stradbroke Dreamtime – Noonuccal Oodgeroo
Efrem The Knight – Milo Milani
Watership Down – Richard Adams
The Cucumber King – Christine Nostlinger
The Companions – Lygia Boujunga Nunes
Dinosaurs And All The Rubbish – Michael Foreman
The Giant Jam Sandwich – Janet Burroway
Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Judith Viorst
Balloon Cat – Keiko Sena
The Sea-Thing Child – Russell Hoban
The Church Mouse – Graham Oakley
Little I Am I – Mira Lobe
Good Night, Alfie Atkins – Gunilla Bergstrom
Meg And Mog – Helen Nicoll
A Long Way From Verona – Jane Gardam
Mrs Frisby And The Rats Of Nimh – Robert C O’Brien
The Carpet People – Terry Pratchett
The Shrinking Of Treehorn – Florence Parry Heide
Friday, Or The Savage Life – Michael Tournier
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit– Judith Kerr
Amos And Boris – William Steig
Leo The Late Bloomer – Robert Kraus
Tow Truck Pluck – Annie M G Schmidt
Lotta’s Bike – Astrid Lindgren
Mr Tickle – Roger Hargreaves
I’m The King Of The Castle – Susan Hill
Grover – Vera and Bill Cleaver
The Lark And The Laurel – Barbara Willard
The Summer Of The Swans – Betsy Byars
Oscar At The South Pole – Carmen Kurtz
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Judy Blume
The Little Captain – Paul Biegel
Hodja From Pjort – Ole Lund Kirkegaard
Figgie Hobbin – Charles Causley
Mog The Forgetful Cat – Judith Kerr
Frog And Toad Are Friends – Arnold Lobel
Barbapapa – Annette Tison & Talus Taylor
In The Night Kitchen – Maurice Sendak
Mr Grumpy’s Outing – John Burningham
The Edge Of The Cloud – K M Peyton
Where The Lilies Bloom – Vera & Bill Cleaver
Sounder – William H Armstrong
The Cay – Theodore Taylor
Charlotte Sometimes – Penelope Farmer
A Pair Of Jesus Boots – Sylvia Sherry
Joseph’s Yard – Charles Keeping
A Lion In The Meadow – Margaret Mahy
Sylvester And The Magic Pebble – William Steig
The Duck In The Gun – Joy Cowley
The Wonderful Tree – Ulf Lofgren
The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle
The Elephant And The Bad Baby – Elfrida Vipont
Chocky – John Wyndham
A Kestrel For A Knave – Barry Hines
The Pigman – Paul Zindel
Doraemon: Gadget Cat From The Future – Fujiko Fuijo
My Sweet-Orange Tree – Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos
The Iron Man: A Children’s Story In Five Nights – Ted Hughes
A Wizard Of Earthsea – Ursula Le Guin
A Necklace Of Raindrops – Joan Aiken
Ramona The Pest – Beverley Cleary
Kangaroo For All – Gloria Fuentes
The Best Nest – P D Eastman
The Tiger Who Came To Tea – Judith Kerr
Cion Cion Blue – Pinin Carpi
Corduroy – Don Freeman
What Do People Do All Day? – Richard Scarry
Rosie’s Walk – Pat Hutchins
Picnic At Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay
The Dolphin Crossing – Jill Paton Walsh
Smith – Leon Garfield
Flambards – K M Peyton
The Outsiders – S E Hinton
The Owl Service – Alan Garner
Tales Of The Rue Broca – Pierre Gripari
D’Aulaires’ Norse Gods And Giants – Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
The Goalkeeper’s Revenge – Bill Naughton
From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler – E L Konigsburg
The Mouse And His Child – Russell Hoban
Frederick – Leo Lionni
What Does The Mouse Think On Thursday? – Josef Guggenmos
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? – Bill Martin Jr
The Min-Min – Mavis Thorpe Clark
The Hedgehog Tree – Antonio Gramsci
Graveyard Kitaro – Shigeru Mizuki
The Magic Finger – Roald Dahl
Gumdrop – Val Biro
Dalian Kifki – Maria Elena Walsch
Gentle Ben – Walt Morey
The Stowaway Of The Ulysses – Ana Maria Matute
Ash Road – Ivan Southall
The King Of Copper Mountain – Paul Biegel
Telephone Tales – Gianni Rodari
The Mouse And The Motorcycle – Beverley Cleary
The Little Fox – Istvan Fekete
Elidor – Alan Garner
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile – Bernard Waber
Pastures Of The Blue Crane – H F Brinsmead
Nurse Matilda – Christianna Brand
The Book Of Three – Lloyd Alexander
Shy Violet – Giana Anguissola
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
The Adventures Of Rupert The Toad – Roy Berocay
Harriet The Spy – Louise Fitzhugh
The White Stone – Gunnel Linde
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – Ian Fleming
Uncle – J P Martin
The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein
Flat Stanley – Jeff Brown
I Am David – Anne Holm
Time Of Trial – Hester Burton
Stig Of The Dump – Clive King
The Seasons In The City – Italo Calvino
How The Whale Became – Ted Hughes
The Little Pot Boiler – Spike Milligan
The Black Smurfs – Peyo (Pierre Culliford)
The Dreams Of The Toad – Javier Villafane
Amelia Bedelia – Peggy Parish
Swimmy – Leo Lionni
Borka – John Burningham
Where The Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
Clifford The Big Red Dog – Norman Bridwell
Miffy – Dick Bruna
The Twelve And The Genii – Pauline Clarke
The Letter To The King – Tonke Dragt
A Wrinkle In Time – Madeleine L’Engle
The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase – Joan Aiken
The Garden – Jiri Trnka
A Dog So Small – Philippa Pearce
The Winged Watchman – Hilda Van Stockum
D’Aulaires’ Book Of Greek Myths – Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
Mr Rabbitt And The Lovely Present – Charlotte Zolotow
The Snowy Day – Ezra Jack Keats
The Robber Hotzenplotz – Otfried Preusler
Old Master Q – Wong Chak
Ivor The Engine – Oliver Postgate
The Berenstain Bears – Stan & Jan Berenstain
Friedrich – Hans-Peter Richter
Tangara – Nan Chauncy
Where The Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls
The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
Six Companions – Paul-Jacques Bonzon
Fantomette – George Chaulet
James And The Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
The Incredible Journey – Sheila Burnford
Asterix The Gaul – Rene Goscinny
The Three Robbers – Tomi Ungerer
The Orange Cow Nathan Hale
Go, Dog, Go – P D Eastman
Island Of The Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen – Alan Garner
To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Jim Button And Luke The Engine Driver – Michael Ende
Knight’s Fee – Rosemary Sutcliff
The Bonny Pit Laddie – Frederick Grice
The Cricket In Times Square – George Selden
Are You My Mother? – P D Eastman
The Big Honey Hunt – Stan & Jan Berenstain
Green Eggs And Ham – Dr Seuss
Bedtime For Frances – Russell Hoban
The Non-Existent Knight – Italo Calvino
My Side Of The Mountain – Jean Craighead George
Zazie In The Metro – Raymond Queneau
Friday’s Tunnel – John Verney
My Great-Grandfather And I – James Kruss
The Boy, the Swallow And The Cat – Miguel Bunuel
Walkabout – James Vance Marshall
Little Nicholas – Rene Goscinny
Little Blue And Little Yellow – Leo Lionni
The Lion – Joseph Kessel
Marianne Dreams – Catherine Storr
The Silver Brumby – Elyne Mitchell
The Witch Of Blackbird Pond – Elizabeth George Speare
Mort And Phil – Francisco Ibanez
Warrior Scarlet – Rosemary Sutcliff
Tom’s Midnight Garden – Philippa Pearce
Little Old Mrs Pepperpot – Alf Proysen
Chanticleer And The Fox – Barbara Cooney
Crictor – Tomi Ungerer
A Bear Called Paddington – Michael Bond
The Baron In The Trees – Italo Calvino
Rifles For Watie – Harold Keith
Gaston – Andre Franquin
Thorn Castle – Istvan Fekete
The Warden’s Niece – Gillian Avery
Captain Pugwash – John Ryan
The Cow Who Fell In The Canal – Phyllis Krasilovsky
The Cat In The Hat – Dr Seuss
The Cherry Kids – Constantin Chirita
The Silver Sword – Ian Serraillier
Neitah: A Girl In The Far North – Edith Klatt
Captain Thunder – Victor Mora
The Hundred And One Dalmatians – Dodie Smith
Old Yeller – Fred Gipson
A Tree Is Nice – Janice May Udry
Italian Folktales – Italo Calvino
Harry The Dirty Dog – Gene Zion
Viking’s Dawn – Henry Treece
Carry On, Mr Bowditch – Jean Lee Latham
A Hundred Million Francs – Paul Berna
Minnow On The Say – Philippa Pearce
Little Bookroom – Eleanor Farjeon
Hobberdy Dick – Katharine M Briggs
The Toad Who Wanted To Be A Star – Oscar Alfaro
Clever Polly And The Stupid Wolf – Catherine Storr
Harold And The Purple Crayon – Crockett Johnson
Eloise – Kay Thompson
Lord Of The Flies – William Golding
Fellowship Of The Ring – J R R Tolkein
Eagle Of The Ninth – Rosemary Sutcliff
The Wheel On The School – Meindert DeJong
A Child’s Christmas In Wales – Dylan Thomas
The Children Of Green Knowe – Lucy Boston
Half Magic – Edward Eager
Martine – Gilbert Delahaye
Lavender’s Blue – Kathleen Lines
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
King Arthur And His Knights Of The Round Table – Roger Lancelyn Green
A Kid For Two Farthings – Wolf Mankowitz
Down With Skool! – Geoffrey Willans
Detectives In Togas – Henry Winterfeld
Teddy Robinson Stories – Joan G Robinson
Jip And Janneke – Annie M G Schmidt
The Cloven Viscount – Italo Calvino
Jennings And Darbishire – Anthony Buckeridge
Marcelino, Bread And Wine – Jose Maria Sanchez Silva
Astro Boy (Mighty Atom) – Osamu Tezuka
The Borrowers – Mary Norton
The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader – C S Lewis
Marlaguette – Marie Colmont
Charlotte’s Web – E B White
The Little Horse Bus – Graham Greene
The Biggest Bear – Lynd Ward
The Bears On Hemlock Mountain – Alice Dalgliesh
One Morning In Maine – Robert McCloskey
My Naughty Little Sister – Dorothy Edwards
Moomin, Mymble And Little My – Tove Jansson
Adventures Of The Ingenious Alfanhui – Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio
The Sons Of The Great Bear – Liselotte Wilskopf-Henrich
The Wool-Pack: A Tale of Adventure – Cynthia Harnett
Little Onion – Gianni Rodari
Prince Caspian – C S Lewis
The Path – Miguel Delibes
Kimba The White Lion – Osamu Tezuka
Tales Of Uncle Rabbit – Euclides Jaramillo
Adventurous Tales Of Machu Pichu – Ciro Alegria
The Princess Who Had Magic Fingers – Maria Luisa Gefaell
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe – C S Lewis
The Thirteen Clocks – James Thurber
Roule Galette – Natha Caputo
The Complete Peanuts – Charles M Schultz
Metropolis – Osamu Tezuka
I Capture The Castle – Dodie Smith
Children Of The Oregon Trail – A Rutgers Van Der Loeff
Amazon Adventure – Willard Price
Foxie – Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
The Otterbury Incident – Cecil Day-Lewis
Finn Family Moomintroll – Tove Jansson
Autumn Term – Antonia Forest
The Fantastic Antonita – Borita Casas
Hurrah For St Trinian’s – Ronald Searle
Apoutsiak – Paul-Emile Victor
Blueberries For Sal – Robert McCloskey
My Father’s Dragon – Ruth S Gannett
Twenty-One Balloons – William Pene Du Bois
Billy Bunter Of Greyfriars School – Charles Hamilton
Misty Of Chincoteague – Marguerite Henry
The School For Cats – Esther Averill
The Doll’s House – Rumer Godden
Stone Soup – Marcia Brown
Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
Comet In Moominland – Tove Jansson
Mistress Masham’s Repose – T H White
The Little White Horse – Elizabeth Goudge
Lucky Luke: Arizona 1880 – Maurice de Bevere
Thomas The Tank Engine – Reverend W Awdry
The Bears’ Famous Invasion Of Sicily – Dino Buzzati
Stuart Little – E B White
Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren
Tales And Legends – Javier Villafane
The Three Railway Engines – Reverend W Awdry
Woods Of Windri – Violet Needham
Wind On The Moon – Eric Linklater
Rabbit Hill – Robert Lawson
Brendan Chase – B B (Denys Watkins-Pitchford)
The Hundred Dresses – Eleanor Estes
Johnny Tremain – Esther Forbes
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Tweet Tweet – Ludmila Podjavorinska
Five On A Treasure Island – Enid Blyton
The Little Grey Men – B B (Denys Watkins-Pitchford)
The Little Red Engine Gets A Name – Diana Ross
The Little Red Lighthouse And The Great Gray Bridge – Hildegarde H Swift
The Little House – Virginia Lee Burton
The Runaway Bunny – Margaret Wise Brown
My Friend Flicka – Mary O’Hara
We Couldn’t Leave Dinah – Mary Treadgold
Red Zora – Kurt Held
The Swish Of The Curtain – Pamela Brown
The Black Stallion – Walter Farley
Michka – Marie Colmont
Make Way For Ducklings – Robert McCloskey
Curious George – Margaret Rey
Cue For Treason – Geoffrey Trease
Betsy-Tasy – Maud Hart Lovelace
Lassie Come Home – Eric Knight
Pat The Bunny – Dorothy Kunhardt
A Traveller In Time – Alison Uttley
The Ship That Flew – Hilda Lewis
Old Possum’s Book Of Practical Cats – T S Eliot
Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel – Virginia Lee Burton
Madeline – Ludwig Bemelmans
Little Toot – Hardie Gramatky
The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Sword In The Stone – T H White
The Circus Is Coming – Noel Streatfield
Caps For Sale – Esphyr Slobodkina
The Little Wooden Horse – Ursula M Williams
Mr Popper’s Penguins – Richard Atwater
Orlando – Kathleen Hale
The Happy Return – C S Forrester
My Friend Mr Leakey – J B S Haldane
The Red Pony – John Steinbeck
The Hobbit – J R R Tolkein
The Family From One End Street – Eve Garnett
The Far-Distant Oxus – Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitelock
The Adventures Of The Wishing Chair – Enid Blyton
Pigeon Post – Arthur Ransome
Else Skips In Her Sleep – Eleanor Farjeon
Worzel Gummidge – Barbara Euphan Todd
Ballet Shoes – Noel Streatfield
A Pony For Jean – Joanna Cannan
Little Tim And The Brave Sea Captain – Edward Ardizzone
The Story Of Ferdinand – Munro Leaf
Caddie Woodlawn – Carol Ryrie Brink
Missing From Saint-Agil – Pierre Very
The Box Of Delights – John Masefield
The Good Master – Kate Seredy
Little House On The Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mary Poppins – P L Travers
Night On The Galactic Railroad – Kenji Miyazawa
The Wonderful Farm – Marcel Ayme
The Children From Number 67 – Lisa Tetzner & Kurt Held
Professor Branestawm – Norman Hunter
Farmer Boy – Laura Ingalls Wilder
Blinky Bill – Dorothy Wall
The Story About Ping – Marjorie Flack
Biggles: The Camels Are Coming – Captain W E Johns
Little House In The Big Woods – Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Red U: A Story For Lads – Wilhelm Matthiessen
Ede And Unku – Alex Wedding
Kubula And Kuba Kubikula – Vladislav Vancura
The Story Of Babar – Jean De Brunhoff
The Secret Of The Old Clock – Carolyn Keene
Swallows And Amazons – Arthur Ransome
The Little Engine That Could – Watty Piper
What Celia Says – Elena Fortun
Emil And The Detectives – Erich Kastner
Tintin In The Land Of The Soviets – Herge (Georges Prosper Remi)
All About Doggie And Pussycat – Josef Capek
The Squirrel, The Hare And The Little Grey Rabbit – Alison Uttley
Millions Of Cats – Wanda Gag
Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories – Joyce Lankester Brisley
Tarka The Otter – Henry Williamson
The Hardy Boys 1: The Tower Treasure – Franklin W Dixon
Now We Are Six – A A Milne
Winnie the Pooh – A A Milne
Clever Bill – William Nicholson
Emily Climbs – Lucy Maud Montgomery
In Medeleni – Ionel Teodoreanu
The School At The Chalet – Elinor M Brent-Dyer
The Boxcar Children – Gertrude Chandler Warner
When We Were Very Young – A A Milne
The Dark Frigate – Charles B Hawes
Come Hither – Walter de la Mare
Just William – Richmal Crompton
The Velveteen Rabbit – Margery Williams
Rupert The Bear – Mary Tourtel
The Story Of Doctor Doolittle – Hugh Lofting
Ameliaranne And The Green Umbrella – Constance Heward
The Young Visiters – Daisy Ashford
The Cave Children – Alois Theodor Sonnleitner
Tales Of The Jungle – Horacio Quiroga
Tales Of Sungglepot And Cuddlepie – May Gibbs
The Magic Pudding – Norman Lindsay
Josephine And Her Dolls – H C Cradock
Platero And I – Juan Ramon Jimenez
Pollyanna – Eleanor H Porter
Nesthakchen And Her Dolls – Else Ury
The War Of The Buttons – Louis Pergaud
The Adventures Of Maya The Bee – Waldemar Bonsels
The Adventures Of Gian Burrasca – Vamba
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Dutch Twins – Lucy Fitch Perkins
The Extraordinary Adventures Of Massagran – Josep Maria Folch I Camarasa
The Children Of The Forest – Elsa Beskow
A Girl Of The Limberlost – Gene Stratton-Porter
Anne Of Green Gables – Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Wind In The Willows – Kenneth Graham
The Tale Of Jemima Puddle-Duck – Beatrix Potter
The Mystery Of The Yellow Room – Gaston Leroux
Jock Of The Bushveld – Percy Fitzpatrick
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils – Selma Lagerlof
Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar – Maurice Leblanc
Cautionary Tales For Children – Hilaire Belloc
The Fortunes Of Philippa – Angela Brazil
The Railway Children – E Nesbitt
White Fang – Jack London
Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens – J M Barrie
Paul Street Boys – Ferenc Molnar
The Story Of The Root Children – Sibylle Olfers
The Tale Of Mr Jeremy Fisher – Beatrix Potter
Jolanda, Daughter Of The Black Corsair – Emilio Salgari
Becassine – Jacqueline Riviere
Captain Storm – Emilio Salgari
A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Bobbsey Twins – Laura Lee Hope
The Call Of The Wild – Jack London
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm – Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Hound Of The Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Five Children And It – E Nesbitt
Sussi And Biribissi – Collodi Nipote
Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling
The Tale Of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter
Queen Of The Caribbean – Emilio Salgari
Peter In Blueberry Land – Elsa Beskow
The Tigers Of The Mompracem – Emilio Salgari
The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz – L Frank Baum
Eclipse Of The Crescent Moon – Geza Gardonyi
The Story Of The Treasure Seekers – E Nesbitt
The Black Corsair – Emilio Salgari
Moonfleet – J Meade Falkner
The Treasure Of Silver Lake – Karl May
The Prisoner Of Zenda – Anthony Hope
Seven Little Australians – Ethel Turner
Carrot Top – Jules Renard
Perez The Mouse – Luis Coloma
The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
The Jolly Aunt – Lothar Meggendorfer
The Blue Fairy Book – Andrew Lang
The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde
The Canterville Ghost – Oscar Wilde
Heart – Edmondo De Amicis
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
Little Lord Fauntleroy – Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Child’s Garden Of Verses – Robert Louis Stevenson
Marigold Garden – Kate Greenaway
With Clive Of India – George Alfred Henty
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi
Bevis – Richard Jefferies
Fifth Form At St Dominic’s – Talbot Baines Reed
The Prince And The Pauper – Mark Twain
Uncle Remus Stories – Joel Chandler Harris
Mother Goose – Kate Greenaway
Heidi’s Wandering And Learning Years – Johanna Spryi
Simple National Slovak Tales – Pavol Dopsinsky
Cole’s Funny Picture Book – Edward William Cole
Nobody’s Boy – Hector Malot
The Princess And The Goblin – George MacDonald
The House That Jack Built – Caldecott
The Cuckoo Clock – Mrs Molesworth
Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
The Quangle Wangle’s Hat – Edward Lear
Around The World In 80 Days – Jules Verne
What Katy Did – Susan Coolidge
At The Back Of The North Wind – George MacDonald
Through The Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea – Jules Verne
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
The Magic Fishbone – Charles Dickens
The Good Little Devil – Sophie Rostopchine, Countess Of Segur
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Max And Moritz – Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch
Journey To The Centre Of The Earth – Jules Verne
Sophie’s Misfortunes – Sophie Rostopchine, Countess Of Segur
Captain Fracasse – Theophile Gautier
The Water-Babies – Charles L Kingsley
Eric, Or Little By Little – Frederic W Farrar
The Coral Island – Robert Michael Ballantyne
Tom Brown’s School Days – Thomas Hughes
The Rose And The Ring – William Makepeace Thackery
Morality Tales – Rafael Pombo
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Children Of The New Forest – Captain Frederick Marryat
Book Of Nonsense – Edward Lear
Der Struwwelpeter – Heinrich Hoffmann
The Three Muskateers – Alexandre Dumas
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
The Ugly Duckling – Hans Christian Andersen
The Pied Piper Of Hamelin – Robert Browning
The Little Mermaid – Hans Christian Andersen
The Emperor’s New Clothes – Hans Christian Andersen
Fifty Fables For Children – Wilhelm Hey
The Night Before Christmas – Clement Clarke Moore
The Nutcracker And Other Tales – E T A Hoffmann
The Swiss Family Robinson – Johann D Wyss
Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
Tales From Shakespeare – Charles & Mary Lamb
The Adventures Of Baron Munchhausen – Gottfried August Burger
Robinson The Younger – Johann Heinrich Campe
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Fairy Tales – Marie Catherine Baronne D’Aulnoy
Fairy Tales From The Past – Charles Perrault
Bertoldo, Bertoldino, And Cacasenno – Giulio Cesare Croce & A Banchieri
The Adventures Of Peach Boy – Anon
Arabian Nights – Anon
Tales Of Otogizoshi – Anon
Traditional Chinese Folktales – Anon
Aesop’s Fables – Aesop

27 comments

gargoylebruce

November 20, 2012 at 12:59 am


My fleshling owner claims to have read 144 of these titles, give or take a few for miscounting during reading the list…..
- georgipaech
  
  November 20, 2012 at 1:22 am
  
  
  Good work! Which one do you reckon is your favourite?
readingwithrhythm

November 20, 2012 at 3:26 am


Wow! Someone was very ambitious to type that out for all of us! And thank you for posting it for us to ponder. And since I am new to your blog, how many have you read since you started this quest? And how many still to go? Do you have a favorite? Have you encountered any that you didn’t care for?
- georgipaech
  
  November 20, 2012 at 7:48 am
  
  
  I am currently at the 40 book mark (I know pitiful)… saying that, I’ve probably read between 250-300 titles over my lifetime, but I’m planning on revisiting each and every one of them so I can officially tick them off the list! You can see which books I’ve read from the list so far on the ‘Books I’ve read so far’ tab located in the top left hand corner of the blog, under the title.
  
  It’s hard to pick a favourite, there are so many good ones! I loved ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’, ‘The Secret Garden’, ‘The Iron Man’ and ‘One Hundred and One Dalmations’, but probably my favourite book that I only just discovered is ‘The Little White Horse’.
  
  I must say I haven’t disliked that may books, most of them I thoroughly enjoyed, although I struggled a bit with ‘Redwall’ and ‘The Wizard of Earthsea’. However, I think my problem with ‘The Wizard of Earthsea’ was that I tried to read it too young, and didn’t understand it, and this sense of confusion and boredom tainted my reading of it as an adult.
  
  How about you? What are some of your favourites from the list?
StetotheJ

November 20, 2012 at 6:23 pm


crikey I haven’t heard of that many of these. In fact I need to get my read on as once again I start to try and valiently (yet futilely) read everything that has ever been printed.
- georgipaech
  
  November 21, 2012 at 2:29 am
  
  
  It’s a bit like that, isn’t it! If only people would stop publishing new books, and let us catch up! A lot of the books are unknown to me too, but I’ve enjoyed essentially all the books I’ve read so far, so there are sure to be a few gems that we have never heard of before hidden in the list!
  - StetotheJ
    
    November 21, 2012 at 4:41 pm
    
    I started to read a book once, the name escapes me which seemed to just be an angry guy ranting. He claimed there were no need for new books whilst there were so many great ones out there. Somehow he failed to see the irony of his own book. Still the fun is in the finding and i can’t wait to see what we each discover in the coming months.
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Gypsy

January 23, 2013 at 3:35 pm


So excited to find your blog and the list! I can claim to have read 170 of the books on the list- and would have read more but as a rebellious child refused to read ‘the classics’. Some of these books I have also read over 170 times each as they have been read many times and still are being read to my four children- Hairy Maclary, Slinky Malinki, Bear Hunt, Dear Zoo, Spot, Bath water’s hot, Hungry Caterpillar, Wild Things, and everything Pamela Allen amongst those.
Favourites: Shaun Tan’s The Arrival and Jennie Baker’s Window are ‘must own’ books for me. I love Oliver Jeffers and don’t own Lost and Found but just brought the sequel Up and Down on the weekend from Crow Books in Perth- my home away from home. I read and enjoyed all of Philip Pullman’s books a couple of years ago and just discovered Jackie French last year and working my way through those.
Other faves: Number the Stars, Winnie the Witch, The Changeover, The Haunting (anything Margaret Mahy in fact), Homecoming, Goodnight Mister Tom, Playing Beatie Bow, Under the Mountain (not my fave Maurice Gee book but he along with Mahy would be in my top ten YA authors). Neverending story- a million times better than the movie at least! I enjoyed The Dark is Rising sequence as a child. My Cat likes to Hide in boxes, The Giant Jam Sandwich, and all The Church Mouse books. Anything Roald Dahl. Marianne Dreams has stuck with me since childhood and I still vividly remember the exact location of the Rumer Godden’s books in my primary school library 28 years later- total fantasy for me to have such an amazing Doll’s House and dolls! Oh and the week I read The Little White Horse- staying with friends I created my own little cavern in a big cupboard over the wardrobe and devoured that book in particular- I think I was 12.
If I could add to the list I’d add: Take The Long Path by Joan DeHamel, The Runaway Settler’s By Elsie Locke (both New Zealanders) and Borgel by Daniel Manus Pinkwater (an American I was lucky to discover as I read my way through the children’s novels at the Dunedin Public Library one year long ago).
I’ve written a little about Children’s books here: http://www.seeshareremember.blogspot.com.au/search/label/childrens%20books and here: http://downtherightofway.blogspot.com.au/search/label/childrens%20books
I’ve printed the list off and will take it with me next week when we go to story time- in the meantime my 15 and 12 year old inform me that we already own a few on the list that I haven’t yet read… will be a welcome break for all the raising teenager stuff on my bedside table lately!
You’ve just reminded me how much I love children’s books and just how elated and excited they make me feel. I kind of take that for granted as I read them every day!
Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!
- georgipaech
  
  January 24, 2013 at 7:33 am
  
  
  Thank you so much gypsy for your lovely comment! I’m always interested in other people’s experiences with children’s books, especially ones that I am going to read as part of my list.
  You’ve made me excited to read some of the books you mentioned, as your taste seems similar to mine – I love Philip Pullman, Goodnight Mister Tom and many of the picture books you mentioned. I hope that the list helps you discover some previously unknown gems – It sure did for me! Let me know how you go – which ones you love and which ones you love a bit less.
  I’m interested in reading the books you would add to the list – there are a few on the list that I reckon are missing too!
  Happy reading!
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