Scholastic's 100 Greatest Books for Kids"

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The 100 "Greatest Books for Kids," ranked by Scholastic Parent & Child magazine:

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

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

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

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

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

How fascinating - I'd only heard of 16 of them - we clearly have very different children's books. No Thomas the Tank Engine books, no Little Bear books, no Velveteen Rabbit... no Jacqueline Wilson!

Although I guess it's logical - we wouldn't use books with American spellings and words for children's books, and Americans wouldn't use ones with the British versions.

[chloris.livejournal.com]

I think we've read at least half of these but the list needs more Sandra Boynton (she is awesome for the toddler set) and it doesn't have my favorite children's book EVER. Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type. It's a story of a (male) farmer exploiting his (female) workers - the cows and hens and demanding their labor while not being willing to even consider their requests for better working conditions. It all comes out all right in the end but I love reading it to my daughter and talking about what it going on there.

[chloris.livejournal.com]

It depends! We have a pile of British children's books including many Thomas books. However, it is true most British books aren't likely to end up on an American top 100 list.

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I have to admit that I'm only familiar with 29 of them, but some of the ones I'm familiar with are relatively recent, so some that I'm unfamiliar with may be more recent than my childhood as well. (And I wasn't aware that "Sarah Plain and Tall" was a children's book. In fact, The Hunger Games, The Lightening Thief, and Holes all are classified as "Young Adult" here. "Sarah Plain and Tall" no doubt would be as well. And I assume that most of the "Anne of Green Gables" series would be too.

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Velveteen Rabbit is certainly a beloved and familiar book for American readers. Then again, so is "Little House on the Prairie" and it was left out as well.

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My favorie as a kid were the "Just So Stories" of Rudyard Kipling.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

I was a little surprised at how many I've read; much greater than 50%. And I'd at least heard of most of the others though some of the omissions surprise me. I'm curious what would be on a british list.

And I think most americans would know the Velveteen Rabbit & Thomas. I didn't know Thomas started as a book though; I've familiar with the show and would have assumed it was a "further commercialization" kind of thing like my nephew's Toy Story books.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thomas the Tank Engine is one of the books in The Railway Books of Rev W Awdry - the first one was published in 1945. The original books were all made for small children's hands - like this - all our daughter's ones are stored upstairs somewhere in case only the Ladybird version exists if we ever need them for grandchildren! They were set on the island of Sodor - whose name came from the bishopric in which I live.

Here is one version of a UK top 50 - but it doesn't have Rev Awdry, or Little Bear - or Michael Rosen's Bearhunt... all of which were favourites in our house!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Oh yes - I read a lot of the 'Little House' books when I was a child.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Favourites when my daughter was very small were all the small books by Beatrice Potter, Michel Rosen's 'We're going on a bear hunt' and Jane Hissey's Little Bear books - which are not the same as the little bear books I found when I first googled the name - I think they might have been American ones.