Top 100 Children’s Books (BBC)

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1. Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak, 1963)✔✔
2. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)✔
3. Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren, 1945)✔
4. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943)✔
5. The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien, 1937)✔✔
6. Northern Lights (AKA The Golden Compass) Philip Pullman, 1995)✔✔
7. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (CS Lewis, 1950)✔✔✔
8. Winnie-the-Pooh (AA Milne and EH Shepard, 1926)✔
9. Charlotte’s Web (EB White and Garth Williams, 1952)✔✔
10. Matilda (Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake, 1988)✔✔✔
11. Anne of Green Gables (LM Montgomery, 1908)✔
12. Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Andersen, 1827)
13. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (JK Rowling, 1997)✔✔✔
14. The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle, 1969)✔✔✔✔
15. The Dark is Rising (Susan Cooper, 1973)✔
16. The Arrival (Shaun Tan, 2006)
17. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott, 1868)✔
18. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl, 1964)✔
19. Heidi (Johanna Spyri, 1880)✔
20. Goodnight Moon (Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd, 1947)✔
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21. The Adventures of Pinocchio (Carlo Collodi, 1883)
22. A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula K Le Guin, 1968)✔
23. Moominland Midwinter (Tove Jansson, 1957)
24. I Want My Hat Back (Jon Klassen, 2011)✔✔✔✔
25. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1911)✔
26. Duck, Death and the Tulip (Wolf Erlbruch, 2007)
27. The Brothers Lionheart (Astrid Lindgren, 1973)
28. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (JK Rowling, 1999)✔ø✔✔
29. Brown Girl Dreaming (Jacqueline Woodson, 2014)
30. The Three Robbers (Tomi Ungerer, 1961)✔
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31. The Snowy Day (Ezra Jack Keats, 1962)✔
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32. The Tiger Who Came to Tea (Judith Kerr, 1968)✔
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33. Howl’s Moving Castle (Diana Wynne Jones, 1986)
34. A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L’Engle, 1962)✔✔
35. Watership Down (Richard Adams, 1972)✔✔
36. Tom’s Midnight Garden (Philippa Pearce, 1958)✔
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37. Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Brothers Grimm, 1812)✔
38. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter, 1902)✔
39. The Railway Children (Edith Nesbit, 1906)
40. Noughts and Crosses (Malorie Blackman, 2001)✔
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41. The BFG (Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake, 1982)✔✔
42. Rules of Summer (Shaun Tan, 2013)
43. Momo (Michael Ende, 1973)✔
44. The Story of Ferdinand (Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson, 1936)✔✔
45. The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien, 1954)✔✔
46. The Owl Service (Alan Garner, 1967)
47. Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter (Astrid Lindgren, 1981)
48. The Neverending Story (Michael Ende, 1979)✔
49. The Panchatantra (Anonymous / folk, -200)
50. Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883)✔
51. Mary Poppins (PL Travers, 1934)✔
52. Ballet Shoes (Noel Streafield, 1936)✔
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53. So Much (Trish Cooke and Helen Oxenbury, 1994)✔
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54. We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury, 1989)✔✔✔✔
55. The Adventures of Cipollino (Gianni Rodari, 1951)
56. The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein, 1964)✔
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57. The Gruffalo (Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, 1999)✔
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58. Julián Is a Mermaid (Jessica Love, 2018)✔
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59. Comet in Moominland (Tove Jansson, 1946)✔
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60. Finn Family Moomintroll (Tove Jansson, 1948)
61. The Witches (Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake, 1983)✔✔
62. A Bear Called Paddington (Michael Bond, 1958)✔
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63. The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame, 1908)✔
64. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Mildred D Taylor, 1977)✔
65. Karlsson-on-the-Roof (Astrid Lindgren, 1955)
66. The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer, 1961)✔
67. The Cat in the Hat (Dr Seuss, 1957)✔✔✔
68. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Kate DiCamillo and Bagram Ibatoulline, 2006)✔
69. Peter and Wendy (JM Barrie, 1911)
70. One Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous / folk)
71. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler (EL Konigsburg, 1967)✔✔
72. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Judith Kerr, 1971)
73. Shum bola (G’afur G’ul?m, 1936)
74. Ernest and Celestine (Gabrielle Vincent, 1981)
75. A Kind of Spark (Elle McNicoll, 2020)
76. Little Nicholas (René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé, 1959)
77. Black Beauty (Anna Sewell, 1877)
78. Daddy-Long-Legs (Jean Webster, 1912) ✔
79. No Kiss for Mother (Tomi Ungerer, 1973)✔
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80. My Family and Other Animals (Gerald Durrell, 1956)
81. Jacob Have I Loved (Katherine Paterson, 1980)
82. The Lorax (Dr Seuss, 1971)✔
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83. Fairy Tales / The Tales of Mother Goose (Charles Perrault, 1697)
84. The Moomins and the Great Flood (Tove Jansson, 1945)
85. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L Frank Baum, 1900)✔✔
86. Just William (Richmal Crompton, 1922)
87. The Twits (Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake, 1980)✔
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88. The Mouse and His Child (Russell Hoban, 1967)
89. Out of My Mind (Sharon M Draper, 2010)
90. Moominvalley in November (Tove Jansson, 1970)✔
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91. Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1932)
92. Danny the Champion of the World (Roald Dahl, 1975)✔
93. The Snowman (Raymond Briggs, 1978)✔
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94. Wave (Suzy Lee, 2008)✔
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95. The Black Brothers (Lisa Tetzner, 1940)
96. The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams, 1921)✔
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97. The Bad Beginning (Lemony Snicket, 1999)✔
98. The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman, 2008)✔
99. American Born Chinese (Gene Luen Yang and Lark Pien, 2006)✔
100. Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie, 1990)✔
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