Books-For-Young

This page has a list of authors and books from children’s literature.

As is the case with my other page, Books-For-Young-At-Heart, this is in no way an exhaustive list of each of the authors’ works – these are just what I (or someone in my family whose taste in children’s books I trust) read over time and liked; and the entries are in no particular order.

Please visit this page occasionally — I’ll be sure to add more gems to it, as and when I come across them.

Also, I do not distinguish between the various categories of children’s literature: picture books, easy-reader books, early chapter books, middle grade and young adult fiction– they are all here, presented in a higgledy-piggledy manner.

Still not sure which books to pick for your kids? Look for those that have won awards such as: Newbery, Bluebonnet, Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Scott O’Dell, among others, and you couldn’t go wrong!

Classics/Vintage Books:

• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D. Wyss
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Books by C.S. Lewis:

• The Chronicles of Narnia Collection

Books by Louisa May Alcott:

• Little Women
• Little Men
• Jo’s Boys

Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder:

• The Little House Collection

Books by Robert Louis Stevenson:

• Kidnapped
• Treasure island

Books by Charles Dickens:

• Oliver Twist
• David Copperfield
• Great Expectations
• Nicholas Nickleby

Books by Jack London:

• The Call of the Wild
• White Fang

Books by Mark Twain:

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Tom Sawyer Abroad

Books by Beatrix Potter:

• The Tale of Peter Rabbit
• The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
• The Tailor of Gloucester
• The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
• The Tale of Two Bad Mice
• The Tale of Mrs. Twiggy-Winkle
• The Tale of Jeremy Fisher
• The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit
• The Story of Miss Moppet
• The Tale of Tom Kitten
• The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
• The Roly-Poly Pudding
• The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
• The Tale of Mr. Tod

Books by Frances Hodgson Burnett:

• The Secret Garden
• A Little Princess
• Little Lord Fauntleroy

Books by Lucy Maud Montgomery:

• Anne of Green Gables Collection

Books by R.K.Narayanan:

• Swami and his Friends

Books by Rudyard Kipling:

• The Jungle Book
• The Second Jungle Book
• All the Mowgli Stories
• Kim

Books by Hugh Lofting:

• The Story of Dr. Dolittle
• The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle

Books by Lloyd Alexander:

• The Chronicles of Prydain
• Adventures of Vesper Holly
• The Westmarl Trilogy
• The Iron Ring

Books by Shashi Deshpande:

• A Summer Adventure
• The Hidden Treasure
• The Only Witness
• The Narayanpur Incident

Books by Enid Blyton:

• The Secret Seven Series
• The Famous Five Series
• Six Cousins Series
• The Malory Towers Series
• The Five Find-Outers Series
• The Wishing Chair
• Brer Rabbit Stories
• The O’Clock Tales Collection

Books by James Herriot:

• James Herriot’s Cat Stories
• James Herriot’s Treasury for Children

Contemporary Literature:

Books by Roald Dahl:

• Matilda
• The BFG
• James and the Giant Peach
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Books by J.K.Rowling:

• The Harry Potter Series

Books by Kate DiCamillo:

• Because of Winn-Dixie
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
• The Tiger Rising

Books by Maurice Sendak:

• Where the Wild Things Are
• Little Bear Books

Books by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni:

• Neela: Victory Song
• The Conch Bearer Trilogy

Books by Linda Sue Park:

• A Single Shard
• When My Name was Keoko
• The Kite Fighters
• Seesaw Girl
• Project Mulberry

Books by Will Hobbs:

• Far North
• Kokopelli’s Flute
• Bearstone

Books by Jerry Spinelli:

• Stargirl
• Maniac Magee
• Smiles to go

Books by Lois Lowry:

• Autumn Street
• Number the Stars
• The Giver

Books by Richard Peck:

• A Year Down Yonder
• A Long Way from Chicago
• The Ghost Belonged to Me
• Blossom Culp Series
• Voices After Midnight

Books by Rick Riordan:

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series
• The 39 Clues Book 1

Books by Jan Karon:

• Jeremy: The Tale of an Honest Bunny
• Violet Comes To Stay
• Violet Goes to the Country
• Miss Fannie’s Hat
• The Trellis and the Seed

Books by Shannon Hale:

• The Princess Academy
• The Goose Girl
• Book of a Thousand Days

Books by Grace Lin:

• The Year of the Dog
• The Year of the Rat
• Bringing in the New Year
• Dim Sum for Everyone!

Books by Bill Wallace:

• Beauty
• A Dog Called Kitty

Books by Zilpha Keatley Snyder:

• The Egypt Game
• The Gypsy Game

Other Series:

• A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
• Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi
• The Breadwinner Trilogy by Deborah Ellis
• Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind Trilogy by Suzanne Fisher Staples
• Gemma Doyle Books by Libba Bray
• The Samurai Series by Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler
• Dorrie the Little Witch by Patricia Coombs
• The Magic School Bus
• The Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne
• The Boxcar Children Series by Gertrude Chandler Warner
• A-Z Mysteries by Ron Roy
• Nancy Drew Mysteries
• Hardy Boys Series by Franklin W. Dixon
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series by Jeff Kinney
• Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
• Arthur Series by Marc Brown
• My Weird Schools Series by Dan Gutman
• I Wonder Why Series (Non-Fiction)
• Angelina Ballerina Series by Katharine Holabird 
• The Kronos Chronicles by Mary Rutkoski
• The Healing War Series by Janice Hardy
• The Nightshade Series by Andrea Cremer
• Infernal Devices Series by Cassandra Clare

Authors and their Books:

• Ruskin Bond: Grandfather’s Private Zoo
• Susan Fletcher:  Shadow Spinner
• Jane Kurtz: The Storyteller’s Beads
• Patricia Polacco: Thunder Cake, Thank You Mr. Falker, Welcome Comfort
• Wendy Mass: Every Soul a Star, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
• Eileen Spinelli: Where I live
• Ingrid Law: Savvy
• Anna Levine: Running on Eggs
• Karen Hesse: Out of the Dust
• Anjali Banerjee: Maya Running
• Mary Downing Hahn: Promises to the Dead
• Witi Ihimaera: The Whale Rider
• Carl Hiaasen: Hoot
• Elizabeth Coatsworth: The Cat Who Went to Heaven
• Evan Kuhlman: The Last Invisible Boy
• Margaret Peterson Haddix: Among the Hidden, Palace of Mirrors
• E.L.Konigsburg: The View from Saturday, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• Madeleine L’Engle: A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door
• Ellen Raskin: The Westing Game
• Gennifer Choldenko: Al Capone Does My Shirts; Al Capone Shines My Shoes, Notes from a Liar and Her Dog
• Kate Klise: Deliver Us from Normal
• Kristin Cashore: Graceling, Fire, Bitterblue
• Sarwat Chadda: Devil’s Kiss, Dark Goddess