Just wondering

[rabidsamfan]

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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[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Blueberries for Sal, also by Robert McCloskey
Corduroy by Don Freeman
At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear, by Don and Audrey Wood (it's newer but judging by the reaction of every kid I've read it to, it will be a classic)
Anne of Green Gables and the rest of that series by L.M. Montgomery
Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
Old Mother West Wind and other books by Thornton Burgess

So many books, so little shelf space. *sigh*

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

LoL! When you run out of shelf space there's always the floor!