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Here is the Top 101 list of childrens books that many parents agree are the best childrens books for kids
and teens, listed by age group:
Childrens Books for Infants 3 Years
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carie

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? by Bill Martin, Jr.
The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
The 20th-Century Childrens Book Treasury by Janet Shulman
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
Moo Baa La La La by Sandra Boynton
Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt
Clap Hands by Helen Oxenbury
Spots, Feathers, and Curly Tails by Nancy Tafuri
Whats Up, Duck? A Book of Opposites by Tad Hills
Go, Dog, Go! By P.D. Eastman
Fortunately by Remy Charlip
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
Up, Down, and Around by Katherine Ayres
Wheels on the Bus by Jerry Smith
Peek-A Who? By Nina Laden
The Going-To-Bed Book by Sandra Boynton

Childrens Books for Kids 4 8 Years

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The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
The Mitten by Jan Brett
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
Oh, The Places Youll Go by Dr. Seuss
Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by John Archambault
The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
Math Curse by Jon Scieszka
Are You My Mother? by Philip D. Eastman
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

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Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi and Ron Barrett
Corduroy by Don Freeman
101 Dalmations by Walt Disney

Childrens Books for Kids 9 12 Years

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Charlottes Web by E. B. White

Hatchett by Gary Paulsen
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine LEngle
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Warner
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott ODell
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Giver by Lois Lowry
James and the Giant Peach: A Childrens Story by Roald Dahl
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Jack and the Beanstalk by Steven Kellogg
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. OBrien
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Harry Potter Books by J. K. Rowling
Of Mice and Men by Ruth Coleman and Tony Buzan
The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis and Pauline Baynes

Childrens Books for Teens 13 and Up

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Agatha Christie books by Agatha Christie

Harry Potter Books by J. K. Rowling
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Chicken Soup For the Teenage Soul by Jack Canfield
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
White Fang by Jack London
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Modern Books For Children

1. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
2. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
3. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
4. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jacks Keats
5. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
6. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
7. Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
9. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
10. Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel
11. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
12. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
13. Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
14. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
15. The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
16. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
17. Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt
18. When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan
19. Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems
20. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
21. Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
22. Corduroy by Don Freeman
23. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
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24. The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

25. The Giver by Lois Lowry
26. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
27. Black on White by Tana Hoban
28. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
29. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume
30. My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother by Patricia Polacco
31. The Mitten by Jan Brett
32. The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
33. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
34. Swimmy by Leo Lionni
35. Freight Train by Donald Crews
36. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
37. The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don & Audrey Wood
38. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
39. Zen Shorts by John J. Muth
40. Moo, Baa, La La La! by Sandra Boynton
41. Matilda by Roald Dahl
42. What Do People Do All Day? by Richard Scarry
43. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
44. Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
45. The Composition by Antonio Skarmeta
46. Not a Box by Antoinette Portis
47. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
48. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
49. Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport
50. Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
51. Sylvia Long's Mother Goose by Sylvia Long
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52. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

53. The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
54. Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
55. Smile! by Roberta Grobel Intrater
56. Living Sunlight by Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm
57. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
58. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull
59. Dear Juno by Soyung Pak
60. Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes by Annie Kubler
61. The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
62. Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
63. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
64. My Truck Is Stuck! by Kevin Lewis
65. Birds by Kevin Henkes
66. The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan
67. Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
68. Counting Kisses: A Kiss & Read Book by Karen Katz
69. The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks by Joanna Cole
70. Blackout by John Rocco
71. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
72. Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
73. Tea With Milk by Allen Say
74. Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
75. Holes by Louis Sachar
76. Peek-a Who? by Nina Laden
77. Hi! Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold
78. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
79. Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
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80. What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page
81. Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
82. Ivy + Bean by Annie Barrows
83. Yoko by Rosemary Wells
84. No No Yes Yes by Leslie Patricelli
85. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
86. Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
87. Rules by Cynthia Lord
88. Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard
89. An Egg Is Quiet by Dianna Hutts Aston
90. Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault
91. Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh
92. What Shall We Do With the Boo Hoo Baby? by Cressida Cowell
93. We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States by David Catrow
94. I Took the Moon for a Walk by Carolyn Curtis
95. A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
96. Gossie by Olivier Dunrea
97. The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
98. First Words by Roger Priddy
99. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
100. Animalia by Graeme Base

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FAMOUS WRITERS OF CHILDRENS BOOKS (ENGLISH)

Joseph Addison
Aesop
Kinsley Amis
Mulk Raj Anand
Hans Christian Andersen
Isaac Asimov (Science Fiction)
Jane Austin
Francis Bacon
R. M. Ballantyne
J. M. Barrie
Chetan Bhagat
Enid Blyton (Noddy , The Famous Five series, The Secret Seven series)
Todd Bobby Brewster
James Boswell
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Anthony Buckeridge
Edmund Burke
Ruskin Bond
Robert Browning ( Poetry)
ER Braithwaite
Lord Byron
Lewis Carroll
James Hadley Chase
GK Chesterton
Agatha Christie
Arthur C Clarke ( Science Fiction)
Joseph Conrad
Jim Corbett
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 Roald Dahl
Daniel Defoe
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)
TS Eliot (Poetry)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Poetry)
Antoine de Saint-Exupry
William Faulkner
EM Forster
Robert Frost (Poetry)
AG Gardiner
Oliver Goldsmith
Maxim Gorky
John Grisham
Thomas Hardy
Ernest Hemingway
Aldous Huxley
Washington Irving
Paul Jennings
Samuel Johnson
John Keats
Carolyn Keene (Nancy Drew)
Charles Kingsley
Rudyard Kipling
Uma Krishnaswami
Charles Lamb
Edward Lear (Nonsense Poems)
CS Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia)
Sinclair Lewis
Abraham Lincoln
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 Jack London
HW Longfellow ( Poetry)
Alistair Maclean
Walter de la Mare
Somerset Maugham
A A Milne
HH Munro (Saki)
Sarojini Naidu (Poetry)
RK Narayan
Ogden Nash (Nonsense Poems )
George Orwell
Edgar Allan Poe
Christopher Pike (Spooksville series )
Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants series)
Satyajit Ray
Christina Rossetti (Poetry)
J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter)
Salman Rushdie
Anna Sewell
William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw (Plays)
Mary Shelley
P B Shelley (Poetry)
RB Sheridan
Khushwant Singh
Edmund Spencer
Sir Richard Steele
RL Stine (Goosebumps, Fear Street , Nightmare Room)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Edward Stratemeyer (The Rover Boys, Arthur M. Winfield, Nancy Drew)
Jonathan Swift
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 Rabindranath Tagore
Lord Alfred Tennyson (Poetry)
J.J.R Tolkien (The Hobbit)
Leo Tolstoy
PL Travers (Mary Poppins)
Mark Twain (Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer)
Shreekumar Varma
Jules Verne (Science Fiction)
Edgar Wallace
H G Wells (Science Fiction)
Oscar Wilde
Tennessee Williams
PG Wodehouse
William Wordsworth (Poetry)

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