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1. 1.

   Richard Adams

   • Watership Down, 1972
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 Prince, 1943
5. 5.

   L. Frank Baum

   recommended
   • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900
6. 6.

   Michael Bond

   recommended
   • A Bear Called Paddington, 1958
   • More About Paddington, 1959
   • Paddington Helps Out, 1961
   • Paddington Abroad, 1961
   • Paddington at Large, 1962
   • Paddington Marches On, 1964
   • Paddington at Work, 1966
   • Paddington Goes to Town, 1968
   • Paddington Takes the Air, 1970
   • Paddington on Top, 1974
   • Paddington Takes the Test, 1979
   • Paddington Here and Now, 2008
   • Paddington Races Ahead, 2012
   • Love from Paddington, 2014
   • Paddington's Finest Hour, 2017
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 Fauntleroy, 1886
   • A Little Princess, 1905
   • The Secret Garden, 1911
10. 10.

    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    recommended
    • Tarzan series
11. 11.

    Roald Dahl

    recommended
    • The Gremlins, 1943
    • James and the Giant Peach, 1961
    • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 1964
    • The Magic Finger, 1966
    • Fantastic Mr Fox, 1970
    • Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, 1972
    • Danny the Champion of the World, 1975
    • The Enormous Crocodile, 1978
    • The Twits, 1980
    • George's Marvellous Medicine, 1981
    • The BFG, 1982
    • The Witches, 1983
    • The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, 1985
    • Matilda, 1988
12. 12.

    Dr Seuss

    recommended
    • And to Think That I Saw it On Mulberry Street, 1937
    • 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, 1938
    • King's Stilts, 1939
    • Horton Hatches the Egg, 1940
    • McElligot's Pool, 1947
    • Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose, 1948
    • Bartholomew and the Ooblek, 1949
    • If I Ran the Zoo, 1950
    • Gerald McBoing Boing, 1950
    • Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, 1950
    • Scrambled Eggs Super!, 1953
    • Horton Hears a Who!, 1954
    • On Beyond Zebra!, 1955
    • If I Ran the Circus, 1956
    • The Cat in the Hat, 1957
    • How the Grinch Stole Christmas, 1957
    • Happy Birthday to You!, 1959
    • The Sneetches and Other Stories, 1961
    • I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew, 1965
    • I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! And Other Stories, 1969
    • The Lorax, 1971
    • 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 Corner, 1928
    • When We Were Very Young, 1924
    • Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926
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 Nephew, 1955
    • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, 1950
    • The Horse and His Boy, 1954
    • Prince Caspian, 1951
    • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, 1952
    • The Silver Chair, 1953
    • The Last Battle, 1956
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 Garden, 1958
22. 22.

    Lemony Snicket

    • The Bad BeginningA Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1

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