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rabidsamfan ([personal profile] rabidsamfan) wrote2005-07-24 10:28 pm
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Just wondering

[livejournal.com profile] allisona asked about children's classics and it got me to thinking. What are the books that we think of as "classics" for children? I know they vary from country to country, of course, but there must be some overlap.

Mind you, I'm a children's librarian, so I've got a few ideas. Add some of yours:



Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak
Winnie the Pooh, by A.A. Milne
The Hardy Boys series
Follow My Leader, by James Garfield
The Secret Garden, by F.H. Burnett
A Little Princess, ditto
Call It Courage, by Armstrong Sperry
The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss
Go Dog Go, by P.D. Eastman
Goodnight, Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter
Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, by Mary Mapes Dodge
The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann Wyss
The Children of Green Knowe, by L.M. Boston
Ragged Dick, by Horatio Alger Jr.
Pollyanna, by Elanor H. Porter
Little Women, by Louise May Alcott
Daddy-Long-Legs, by Jean Webster
Understood Betsy, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
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[identity profile] grimnir1.livejournal.com 2005-07-25 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
Momo - Michael Ende
The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
Jim Knopf - Michael Ende
The Robber Hotzenplotz - Ottfried Preussler
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
Michel of Lönneberga - Astrid Lindgren
Children of Bullerbü - Astrid Lindgren
Emil and the Detectives - Erich Kästner
Das doppelte Lottchen - Erich Kästner (didn't find an English title)
Petit Nicolas - Sempé / Goscinny
Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
Andersen Fairy Tales
Brother Grimm Fairy Tales

[identity profile] rabidsamfan.livejournal.com 2005-07-25 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooooh, lots of titles for me to go looking for! (even though I recognize most of the authors!) Thanks!

[identity profile] grimnir1.livejournal.com 2005-07-26 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
It's fun to remember all those lovely books :)

Here are some more:
Nils Holgersson - Selma Lagerlöf
Eine Woche voller Samstage - Paul Maar (A week full of Saturdays)
Robby, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt - Boy Lornsen (Robby, Tobbi and the Fliewatüüt)
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear - Walter Moers
Till Eulenspiegel
Urmel aus dem Eis - Max Kruse (Urmel from the ice)
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
The little witch - Ottfried Preussler

At the moment the children seem to be crazy about:
The Magic Tree House series - Mary Pope

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