It's Time to Read!

I came across this list here and thought it would be fun to read through these books (although there will be no time limit).

*Rackham: Aesop’s Fables

*Alcott: Little Women

*Anderson: Anderson’s Fairy Tales

*Ballantyne: The Coral Island

*Barrie: Peter Pan (read 2009)

*Baum: The Wizard of Oz (read 2010)

*Burnett: The Little Princess (read 2010)

*Burnett: The Secret Garden (read 2010)

*Carroll: Alice in Wonderland (read 2010)

*Collodi: Pinocchio

*Coolidge: What Katy Did (read 2010)

*Coolidge: What Katy Did Next and What Katy Did at School

*Dickens: A Christmas Carol (read 2008)

*Gilbert: Robin Hood

*Grahame: The Wind in the Willows

*Grimm: Grimm Fairytales (read 2010)

*Haggard: King Solomon’s Mines

*Hughes: Tom Brown’s Schooldays

*Jacobs: Irish Fairy Tales

*Kingsly: The Water Babies

*Kipling: The Jungle Book

*Lamb: Tales of Shakespeare

*Lang: Tales From King Arthur

*Lang: Tales from Troy and Greece

*Lear: Complete Nonsense

*Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables

*Nesbit: The Enchanted Castle

*Nesbit: Five Children and It

*Nesbit: The Railway Children

*Porter: Pollyanna (read 2010)

*Rackham: Mother Goose

*Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince

*Sewell: Black Beauty

*Spyri: Heidi

*Stevenson: A Child’s Garden of Verses

*Stevenson: Kidnapped

*Stevenson: Treasure Island

*Wiggin: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

*Wilde: The Happy Prince and Other Stories

*Wyss: The Swiss Family Robinson

*English Fairy Tales

I recently came across a new and longer list of Children’s Classics, which I thought I would add to this page as well as it still seems like a fun challenge to undertake over the next few years. Here is the list I found from Children’s Classic Books:

*Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain – 1884

*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain – 1876 (read 2010)

*Aesop’s Fables – (Translation) – 1484

*Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll – 1865 (read 2010)

*Anne of Green Gables – Lucy Maud Montgomery – 1908

*Arabian Nights or One Thousand and One Nights

*At the Back of the North Wind – George MacDonald – 1871

*Black Beauty – Anna Sewell – 1877

*The Blue Fairy Book – Andrew Lang – 1889

*The Call of the Wild – Jack London – 1903

*The Children of the New Forest – Frederick Marryat – 1847

*The Coral Island – R. M. Ballantyne – 1857

*David Copperfield – Charles Dickens – 1850

*Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen – 1846

*Five Children and It – E. Nesbit – 1902

*Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm – 1823 (read 2010)

*Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift – 1726

*Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates – Mary Mapes Dodge – 1865

*The Happy Prince and Other Tales – Oscar Wilde – 1888

*Heidi – Johanna Spyri – 1884

*Ivanhoe – Walter Scott – 1819

*A Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne – 1864

*Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson – 1886

*Little Women – Louisa May Alcott – 1868

*The Lost World – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – 1912

*The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Howard Pyle – 1883

*Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie – 1904 (read 2009)

*Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi – 1891

*The Princess and the Goblin – George MacDonald – 1871

*The Railway Children – E. Nesbit – 1906

*Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe – 1719

*The Story of the Treasure Seekers – E. Nesbit – 1899

*The Tale of Peter Rabbit and other tales – Beatrix Potter – 1902

*The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas, père – 1844

*Through the Looking-Glass – Lewis Carroll – 1871

*Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson – 1883

*Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea – Jules Verne – 1870

*White Fang – Jack London – 1906