| Chinua Achebe |
Nigerian (1930-) |
| Chike and the River (1966) |
|
| Harriet Stratemeyer Adams |
American (1892-1982) |
| the Nancy Drew books |
the Hardy Boys books |
| the Dana Girls books |
the Bobbsey Twins books |
| the Honey Bunch books |
the Tom Swift Jr. books |
| Aesop |
Greek (6th Cent BC) |
| Aesop’s Fables |
|
| Allan Ahlberg |
English (1938-) |
| Please Mrs Butler (1983) |
Woof! (1986) |
| The Bear Nobody Wanted (1993) |
|
| Joan Aiken |
English (1924-) |
| The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962) |
The Stolen Lake (1991) |
| Eliza’s Daughter (1994) |
|
| Louisa May Alcott |
American (1832-1888) |
| Little Women (1868) |
An Old- Fashioned Girl (1869) |
| Little Men (1871) |
Eight Cousins (1874) |
| Under the Lilacs (1878) |
Jo’s Boys (1886) |
| Good Wives |
A Garland for Girls |
| Lloyd Alexander |
American (1924-) |
| The High King (1968) |
The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian (1970) |
| Horatio Alger |
American (1832-1899) |
| Ragged Dick (1867) |
From Farm Boy to Senator (1882) |
| Victor Ambrus |
Hungarian/British (1935-) |
| Three Poor Tailors (1965) |
Brave Soldier Janus |
| The Little Cockerel |
|
| Hans Christian Andersen |
Danish (1805-1875) |
| The Ugly Duckling |
The Tin Soldier |
| The Little Mermaid |
The Snow Queen |
| Thumbelina |
The Emperor's New Clothes |
| The Little Match Girl |
The Nightingale |
| The Red Shoes |
The Tinderbox |
| Mitsumasa Anno |
Japanese |
| Anno's Alphabet (1975) |
Topsy Turvies: Pictures to Stretch the Imagination (1970) |
| William H Armstong |
American (1914-) |
| Sounder (1969) |
The Macleod Place (1972) |
| Joanna's Miracle (1977) |
The Tale of Tawny and Dingo (1979) |
| Claude Aubry |
Canadian (1914-1984) |
| The Islands of King Maha Maha II (1962) |
Christmas Wolf |
| Marius Barbean |
Canadian (1883-1969) |
| The Golden Phoenix (1958) |
Tales of Grandfather Seven O'Clock |
| JM Barrie |
Scottish (1860-1937) |
| Peter Pan (1904) (play) |
|
| Giambattista Basile |
Italian |
| The Tale of Tales |
|
| L Frank Baum |
American (1856-1919) |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) |
and other Oz books |
| Nina Bawden |
English (1925-) |
| Carrie's War (1973) |
The Peppermint Pig (1975) |
| Keeping Henry (1988) |
|
| Off the Road (1998) |
|
| Hilaire Belloc |
French/British (1870-1953) |
| The Bad Child's Book of Beasts |
Cautionary Tales for Children |
| Margot Benery-Isbert |
German/American (1889-1979) |
| The Ark |
Rowan Farm |
| The Wicked Enchantment |
Castle on the Border |
| Dangerous Spring |
A Time to Love |
| Elsa Beskow |
Swedish (1874-1953) |
| Pelle's New Suit |
The Tale of the Wee Little Old Woman (1897) |
| Aunt Green, Aunt Brown, and Aunt Lavender |
|
| Marjorie Blackman |
English (1962-) |
| Girl Wonder (1991) |
Hacker (1992) |
| Operation Gadgetman (1993) |
|
| Quentin Blake |
English (1932-) |
| Patrick (1968) |
Mr Magnolia (1981) |
| All Join In (1990) |
|
| Joan Blos |
American |
| A Gathering of Days (1979) |
|
| Judy Blume |
American (1938-) |
| Are You There, God? It's Me Margaret (1970) |
Then Again, Maybe I Won't (1971) |
| It's not the End of the World (1972) |
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (1972) |
| Blubber (1974) |
Forever…. (1975) |
| Superfudge (1980) |
Tiger Eyes (1981) |
| Summer Sisters (1998) |
|
| Enid Blyton |
English (1897-1968) |
| The Famous Five series |
The Secret Seven series |
| The Noddy books |
|
| Elizabeth Borton de Trevino |
|
| I, Juan de Pareja (1966) |
|
| Raymond Briggs |
English (1934-) |
| Fungus the Bogeyman |
Father Christmas (1973) |
| The Snowman (1978) |
Unlucky Wally (1987) |
| The Bear (1994) |
|
| Carol Ryrie Brink |
American (1895-1981) |
| Caddie Woodlawn (1935) |
Magical Melons |
| The Highly Trained Dogs of Professor Petit |
|
| Leslie Brooke |
English (1862-1940) |
| Johnny Crow's Garden (1903) |
Johnny Crow's New Garden (1903) |
| The Golden Goose Book (1905) |
Johnny Crow's Party (1907) |
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
American (1917-) |
| A Street in Bronzeville (poems) (1945) |
Bronzeville Boys and Girls (poems) (1956) |
| In the Mecca (poems) (1968) |
|
| The Bean Eaters (1960) |
|
| Mary Grant Bruce |
Australian |
| A Little Bush Maid (1910) |
|
| Karl Bruckner |
Austrian |
| The Golden Pharoah |
|
| Anthony Buckeridge |
English |
| The Jennings books |
|
| John Bunyan |
English |
| Pilgrims' Progress* (1678) |
|
| Frances Hodgson Burnett |
English/American (1849-1924) |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) |
The Little Princess (1905) |
| The Secret Garden (1911) |
|
| Sheila Burnford |
Scottish/Canadian (1918-) |
| The Incredible Journey (1960) |
|
| Edgar Rice Burroughs |
American (1875-1950) |
| Tarzan of the Apes (1914) |
numerous other Tarzan books |
| Wilhelm Busch |
German |
| Max and Moritz (1865) |
|
| Betsy Byars |
American (1928-) |
| Clementine (1962) |
Rama the Gypsy Cat (1966) |
| The Summer of the Swans (1970) |
The House of Wings (1972) |
| The 18th Emergency (1973) |
The Lace Snail (1975) |
| Cartoons (1978) |
Bingo Brown and the Language of Love (1989) |
| Eric Carle |
American (1929-) |
| The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
Have You Seen My Cat |
| The Very Lonely Firefly |
|
| Carl Lamson Carmer |
American (1893-1976) |
| America Sings (1942) (compiler) |
Windfall Fiddle |
| A Flag for the Fort |
|
| Lewis Carroll |
English (1832-1898) |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) |
Phantasmagora (1869) |
| Through the Looking Glass (1871) |
The Hunting of the Snark (1876) |
| Richard Church |
English (1893-1972) |
| A Squirrel Called Rufus |
|
| Beverly Cleary |
American (1916-) |
| Henry Higgins (1950) |
Ellen Tebbits (1951) |
| Otis Spofford (1953) |
Beezus and Ramona (1955) |
| Henry and the Paper Route (1957) |
The Luckiest Girl (1958) |
| The Mouse and the Motorcycle (1965) |
Ramona the Pest (1968) |
| Runaway Ralph (1970) |
Ramona and Her Father (1977) |
| Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1981) |
Dear Mr Henshaw (1983) |
| Elizabeth Cleaver |
Canadian |
| The Miraculous Hind (1973) |
|
| Carlo Collodi |
Italian (1826-1890) |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio (1880) |
|
| Susan Coolidge |
American (1835-1905) |
| What Katy Did |
What Katy Did Next |
| and other "Katy" books |
|
| Susan Cooper |
English/American (1935-) |
| Dawn of Fear (1970) |
The Grey King (1975) |
| Seaward (1983) |
The Boggart (1994) |
| The Dark is Rising |
Over the Sea, Under Stone |
| Greenwitch |
Mandrake |
| Robert Cormier |
American (1925-) |
| The Chocolate War (1974) |
After the First Death (1979) |
| In the Middle of the Night |
|
| Karen Cushman |
American |
| The Midwife's Apprentice (1996) |
|
| Ellis Credle |
American (1902-) |
| Down, Down the Mountain (1934) |
Across the Cotton Patch |
| Big Doin's on Razorback Ridge |
|
| Sharon Creech |
American |
| Walk Two Moons (1995) |
|
| Richmal Crompton |
English (1890-1969) |
| The William books |
|
| Gillian Cross |
English (1945-) |
| The Dark Behind the Curtain (1982) |
The Demon Headmaster (1982) |
| Wolf (1990) |
Tightrope(1999) |
| Robert Crowther |
|
| The Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek Alphabet Book |
|
| Roald Dahl |
Welsh (1916-1990) |
| James and the Giant Peach (1961) |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) |
| Fantastic Mr Fox (1970) |
The BFG (1982) |
| Matilda (1988) |
Danny, Champion of the World |
| James Daugherty |
American (1889-1974) |
| Daniel Boone (1939) |
Abraham Lincoln |
| Of Courage Undaunted |
|
| Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff |
French |
| The Story of Babar (1931) |
Babar the Elephant series |
| Daniel Defoe |
English (1660-1731) |
| The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe* (1719) |
|
| Meindert de Jong |
Dutch/American (1910-) |
| The Wheel on the School (1954) |
Mighty Ones |
| The Singing Hill |
Shadrach |
| The Little Cow and the Turtle |
Along Came a Dog |
| Smoke Above the Land |
|
| Jean de la Fontaine |
French |
| Fables (1668) |
|
| Walter de la Mare |
England (1873-1956) |
| Songs of Childhood (1902) |
Peacock Pie |
| James de Mille |
Canadian |
| Brethren of the White Cross (1869-1873) |
|
| Antoine de Saint Exupery |
French (1900-1944) |
| The Little Prince* (1943) |
|
| Charles Dickens |
English (1812-1870) |
| A Christmas Carol* (1843) |
|
| Mary Dodge |
American (1831-1905) |
| Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates (1865) |
Donald and Dorothy (1883) |
| The Land of Pluck (1894) |
|
| Berlie Doherty |
English (1943-) |
| Granny was a Buffer Girl (1986) |
Spellhorn (1989) |
| Dear Nobody (1991) |
|
| Bertha Mabel Dunham |
Canadian (1881-1957) |
| Kristli's Trees (1948) |
|
| Stephen Dunning |
|
| Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle (editor) (1967) |
|
| Maria Edgeworth |
Irish (1767-1849) |
| Moral Tales (1801) |
|
| TS Eliot |
American/British (1888-1965) |
| Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939) |
|
| Petr Ershov |
Russian |
| The Little Humbacked Horse (1834) |
|
| Eleanor Farjeon |
English (1881-1965) |
| Nursery Rhymes of London Town (1916) |
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1921) |
| The Old Nurse's Stocking Basket (1931) |
The Children’s Bells(1934) |
| The Glass Slipper (1946) |
The Silver Curlew (1953) |
| The Little Book-Room (1955) |
|
| Eugene Field |
American (1850-1895) |
| With Trumpet and Drum (1892) |
Love-Songs of Childhood |
| John Falkner |
English (1858-1932) |
| Moonfleet (1898) |
|
| Anne Fine |
English (1947-) |
| Madame Doubtfire (1987) |
Flour Babies (1992) |
| Tulip Touch (1996) |
|
| Marjorie Flack |
American (1897-1958) |
| The Story about Ping (1933) |
Ask Mr Bear |
| Boats on the River |
|
| Paul Fleischman |
American |
| Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices (1989) |
|
| Sid Fleischman |
American |
| The Whipping Boy (1987) |
|
| Ian Fleming |
English (1908-1964) |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964) |
|
| Ester Forbes |
American (1891-1967) |
| Johnny Tremaine (1943) |
|
| Michael Foreman |
English (1938-) |
| War Boy (1989) |
Jack's Fantastic Voyage (1992) |
| War Game (1993) |
|
| CS Forester |
English 1899-1966 |
| Poo-Poo and the Dragons |
|
| Paula Fox |
American (1923-) |
| Maurice's Room (1966) |
How Many Miles to Babylon? (1967) |
| Portrait of Ivan (1969) |
Blowfish Live in the Sea (1970) |
| The Western Coast (1972) |
The Slave Dancer (1973) |
| The Little Swineherd (1978) |
|
| Janet Frame |
New Zealander (1924-) |
| Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun (1969) |
|
| Antonio Frasconi |
Uruguayan (1919-) |
| The Snow and the Sun (1961) |
|
| Babbis friis-Baastad |
Norwegian |
| Kristy's Courage |
Don't Tell Teddy |
| Wanda Gag |
American (1893-1946) |
| The ABC Bunny |
Gone is Gone |
| Snippy and Snappy |
Millions of Cats (1928) |
| Tales from Grimm |
|
| Alan Garner |
British (1934-) |
| The Weirdstone of Brisingham (1960) |
The Moon of Gomrath (1963) |
| The Owl Service (1967) |
Elidor (1967) |
| Red Shift (1973) |
The Stone Book Quartet (1976-1978) |
| Jamila Gavin |
Indian (1941-) |
| The Wheel of Sutya (1994) |
The Eye of the Horse (1994) |
| The Track of the Wind (1997) |
|
| Jean George |
American (1919-) |
| Julie of the Wolves (1972) |
My Side of the Mountain (1959) |
| The ‘Moon’ series |
|
| Esther Glen |
New Zealander |
| Six Little New Zealanders (1917) |
|
| Oliver Goldsmith |
Irish/British (1731-1774) |
| Goody Two-shoes (1765) |
|
| Kenneth Grahame |
Scottish (1859-1932) |
| The Golden Age (1895) |
Dream Days (1898) |
| The Wind in the Willows (1908) |
|
| Kate Greenaway |
English (1846-1901) |
| Kate Greenaway's Almanacs (1883-1897) |
|
| Jakob Ludwig Grimm |
German (1785-1863) |
| Wilhelm Karl Grimm |
German (1786-1859) |
| Grimms' Fairy Tales including: |
Hansel and Gretel |
| Rapunzel |
The Valiant Little Taylor |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarves |
|
| Roderick L Haig-Brown |
Canadian (1908-1976) |
| Starbuck Valley Winter (1943) |
Saltwater Summer (1948) |
| Mounted Police Patrol |
The Whale People |
| Silver: the Life of an Atlantic Salmon (1931) |
|
| Virginia Hamilton |
American (1936-) |
| M.C. Higgins the Great (1974) |
Zeely |
| Time-ago Tales of Jahdu |
|
| Planet of Junior Brown |
|
| Christie Harris |
Canadian (1907-) |
| Once Upon a Totem (1963) |
You Have to Draw the Line Somewhere |
| Raven's Cry (1966) |
Confessions of a Toe Hanger |
| Let X Be Excitement |
Mouse Woman and the Vanished Princesses (1976) |
| Joel Chandler Harris |
American (1848-1908) |
| The Wonderful Tar Baby Story (1879) |
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (1880) |
| Nights with Uncle Remus (1883) |
Uncle Remus and His Friends (1892) |
| Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit (1907) |
Little Mr Thumblefinger and His Queer Country |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
American (1804-1864) |
| A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (1851) |
Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys (1853) |
| Marguerite Henry |
American (1902-) |
| Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin |
Misty of Chincoteague (1947) |
| King of the Wind |
Brighty of the Grand Canyon |
| Cinnaber: the One O'Clock Fox |
Black Gold |
| Gaudenzia: Pride of the Palio |
Stormy: Misty's Foal |
| S E Hinton |
American (1948-) |
| The Outsiders (1967) |
Rumble Fish (1975) |
| The Puppy Sister (1995) |
|
| Heinrich Hoffman |
German (1798-1874) |
| Strawhead Peter (Slovenly Peter) |
|
| James Houston |
Canadian (1921-) |
| Tikta'liktak (1965) |
The White Archer: an Eskimo Legend (1968) |
| River Runners (1980) |
|
| Langston Hughes |
American (1902-1967) |
| The Dream Keepers and Other Poems (1932) |
|
| Shirley Hughes |
English (1929-) |
| Dogger (1977) |
Alfie Gets in First (1982) |
| The Lion and the Unicorn (1998) |
|
| Ted Hughes |
English (1930-1998) |
| The Iron Man (1968) |
The Iron Woman (1993) |
| The Coming of the King (1970) |
|
| Thomas Hughes |
English (1822-1896) |
| Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857) |
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861) |
| Irene Hunt |
American (1907-) |
| Across Five Aprils (1963) |
Up a Road Slowly (1966) |
| Trail of Apple Blossom (1968) |
|
| No Promises in the Wind (1970) |
|
| Mick Inkpen |
English (1952-) |
| The Blue Balloon (1989) |
Threadbear (1992) |
| Nothing (1995) |
|
| Washington Irving |
American (1783-1859) |
| The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent*. (1819) |
(includes:) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| and Rip van Winkle |
|
| Helen Hunt Jackson |
American (1830-1885) |
| Saxe Holm’s Stories (1874) |
Nelly’s Silver Mine (1878) |
| Tove Jansson |
Finnish (1914-) |
| Comet in Moominland |
Other Moomin Stories |
| Juan Jimenez |
Spanish (1881-1958) |
| Platero and I (1914) |
|
| Capt W E Johns |
English (1893-1968) |
| The Biggles Books |
The Worrals Books |
| June Jordan |
American (1936-) |
| Who Looked at Me (1969) (poems) |
His Own Where (poems) |
| Some Changes (poems) |
|
| Erich Kastner |
German (1899-1974) |
| Emil and the Detectives |
Lisa and Lottie |
| Little Man |
|
| Ezra Jack Keats |
American (1916-1983) |
| The Snowy Day (1962) |
My Dog is Lost (1960) |
| Apt. 13 (1971) |
|
| Harold Keith |
American (1903-) |
| Rifles for Watie (1957) |
Boys Life of Will Rogers |
| A Pair of Captains |
|
| M E Kerr |
American (1927-) |
| Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! |
Gentlehands (1978) |
| Charles Kingsley |
English (1819-1875) |
| The Water Babies |
Hereward the Wake |
| Dick King-Smith |
English (1923-) |
| The Sheep-Pig (1983) |
The Hedgehog (1987) |
| The Crowstarver (1998) |
|
| Charles Kingsley |
English (1819-1875) |
| The Water Babies (1863) |
|
| Rudyard Kipling |
English (1865-1936) |
| Wee Willie Winkie (1890) |
The Jungle Book (1894) |
| The Second Jungle Book (1895) |
Captains Courageous (1897) |
| Stalky and Co (1899) |
Kim (1901) |
| Just So Stories for Little Children (1902) |
|
| Elaine L Konigsburg |
American (1930-) |
| From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler (1967) |
The View from Saturday (1997) |
| Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth |
|
| Marja Konopnicka |
Polish (1842-1910) |
| The Golden Seed (1962) |
|
| Ruth Krauss |
American (1911-1993) |
| A Hole is to Dig (1952) |
|
| Joseph Krumgold |
American (1908-1980) |
| … and Now Miguel (1953) |
Onion John (1959) |
| Ivan Krylov |
Russian (1768-1844) |
| Fables (1825) |
|
| William Kuralek |
|
| A Prairie Boy's Winter (1973) |
A Prairie Boy's Summer (1975) |
