School Days

Tick what you would like to read with your children, or what you would like to pass on. Your list waits for you on every page.

1. 1.

   Richard Adams

   • Watership Down1972
2. 2.

   Chris Van Allsburg

   • The Polar Express
3. 3.

   Louisa May Alcott

   recommended
   • Little Women; Little Men; others
4. 4.

   Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

   recommended
   • The Little Prince1943
5. 5.

   L. Frank Baum

   recommended
   • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz1900
6. 6.

   Michael Bond

   recommended
   • A Bear Called Paddington1958
   • More About Paddington1959
   • Paddington Helps Out1961
   • Paddington Abroad1961
   • Paddington at Large1962
   • Paddington Marches On1964
   • Paddington at Work1966
   • Paddington Goes to Town1968
   • Paddington Takes the Air1970
   • Paddington on Top1974
   • Paddington Takes the Test1979
   • Paddington Here and Now2008
   • Paddington Races Ahead2012
   • Love from Paddington2014
   • Paddington's Finest Hour2017
7. 7.

   Enid Blyton

   recommended
   • Five on a Treasure Island and others in the collection
   • The Five Find-Outers
   • The Naughtiest Girl
   • The Adventure Series
   • Malory Towers
8. 8.

   Robert Browning

   • The Pied Piper of HamelinIllustrated by Kate Greenaway; Warne
9. 9.

   Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett

   recommended
   • Little Lord Fauntleroy1886
   • A Little Princess1905
   • The Secret Garden1911
10. 10.

    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    recommended
    • Tarzan series
11. 11.

    Roald Dahl

    recommended
    • The Gremlins1943
    • James and the Giant Peach1961
    • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory1964
    • The Magic Finger1966
    • Fantastic Mr Fox1970
    • Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator1972
    • Danny the Champion of the World1975
    • The Enormous Crocodile1978
    • The Twits1980
    • George's Marvellous Medicine1981
    • The BFG1982
    • The Witches1983
    • The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me1985
    • Matilda1988
12. 12.

    Dr Seuss

    recommended
    • And to Think That I Saw it On Mulberry Street1937
    • 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins1938
    • King's Stilts1939
    • Horton Hatches the Egg1940
    • McElligot's Pool1947
    • Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose1948
    • Bartholomew and the Ooblek1949
    • If I Ran the Zoo1950
    • Gerald McBoing Boing1950
    • Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories1950
    • Scrambled Eggs Super!1953
    • Horton Hears a Who!1954
    • On Beyond Zebra!1955
    • If I Ran the Circus1956
    • The Cat in the Hat1957
    • How the Grinch Stole Christmas1957
    • Happy Birthday to You!1959
    • The Sneetches and Other Stories1961
    • I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew1965
    • I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! And Other Stories1969
    • The Lorax1971
    • Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now?1972
    • Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?1973
13. 13.

    Fred Gipson

    • Old Yeller
14. 14.

    A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard

    recommended
    • The House at Pooh Corner1928
    • When We Were Very Young1924
    • Winnie-the-Pooh1926
15. 15.

    Helen Nde

    • The Watkins Book of African FolkloreHardcover
16. 16.

    Johanna Spyri

    recommended
    • Heidi
17. 17.

    C.S. Lewis

    recommended
    • The Magician's Nephew1955
    • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe1950
    • The Horse and His Boy1954
    • Prince Caspian1951
    • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader1952
    • The Silver Chair1953
    • The Last Battle1956
18. 18.

    Astrid Lindgren

    recommended
    • Pippi Longstocking
19. 19.

    The Panchatantra

    recommended
    • The PanchatantraAnonymous / folk
20. 20.

    Jules Verne

    recommended
    • Around the World in Eighty Days; and many others
21. 21.

    Philippa Pearce

    recommended
    • Tom's Midnight Garden1958
22. 22.

    Lemony Snicket

    • The Bad BeginningA Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1

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