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

Comments

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Others have posted most of the books I'd name. A few others:

The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
The Glass Slipper - Eleanor Farjeon
Bambi - Felix Salten
Edward Lear's nonsense books
The Good Master and The Singing Tree - Kate Seredy
The Oz books - Frank Baum
The Little Prince - Antoine de St. Exupery
The Gnu and the Guru Go Behind the Beyond - Peggy Clifford
One Hundred and One Dalmatians - Dodie Smith
Anything by the D'Aulaires, especially their Book of Greek Myths
Paddle-to-the-Sea - Holling C. Holling
Where the Sidewalk Ends and The ABZ Book - Shel Silverstein
Anything by Mercer Mayer or Leo & Diane Dillon
The Pied Piper of Hamlin

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I have to loof for the Gnu... My favorite Seredy book is "The Chestry Oak", have you read it?

[serai1.livejournal.com]

You'll love the Gnu, if you can find it. Strange surrealistic comedy - it bent my brain when I read it at 12! And no, I've not heard of that Seredy book. I'll have to look it up!