We are often asked to recommend books that are popular with children and have a good literary content. Here are some suggestions but we would welcome your views and any others that you think should be added to the list.
Aesop | Fables |
Allan Ahlberg | * The Giant Baby * Woof! |
Allan & Janet Ahlberg | The Clothes Horse and Other Stories |
Joan Aiken | * A Necklace of Raindrops * Fog Hounds, Wind Cat, Sea Mice |
Nicholas Allan | Stories from Hilltop Hospital |
Jonathan Allen | Fowl Play |
Laurence Anholt | * Daft Jack and the Bean Stack * Shampoozel * The Emperor’s Underwear |
Phyllis Arkle | The Railway Cat |
Chris Ashley | Wasim in the Deep End |
Richard & Florence Atwater | Mr Popper’s Penguins |
Jeannie Baker | Where the Forest Meets the Sea |
Nina Bawden | Keeping Henry |
Terence Blacker | Ms Wiz Series |
Malorie Blackman | Whizziwig |
Quentin Blake | Mrs Armitage and the Big Wave |
Judy Blume | * Freckle Juice * Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing |
Enid Blyton | * Island of Adventure * Malory Towers * St Clare’s Series * The Famous Five * The Magic Faraway Tree |
Michael Bond | A Bear called Paddington |
Tony Bradman | Sam the Girl Detective |
Henrietta Branford | * Dimarche Diller Series * Spacebaby |
Jeff Brown | Flat Stanley |
Marc Brown | Arthur Baby-Sits |
Anthony Browne | * Changes * Zoo * Gorilla |
Melvin Burgess | The Earth Giant |
Betsy Byars | The Midnight Fox |
Ann Cameron | The Julian Stories |
Humphrey Carpenter | Mr Majeika |
Ann & Reg Cartwright | The Winter Hedgehog |
Lauren Child | * Clarice Bean That’s Me * Utterly Me, Clarice Bean |
Beverley Cleary | Ramona Series |
Sharon Creech | Love that Dog |
Helen Cresswell | The Sea Piper |
Kevin Crossley-Holland | Storm |
Jennifer Curry | Hands Off Our Hens |
Roald Dahl | * Charlie and the Chocolate Factory * Fantastic Mr Fox * George’s Marvellous Medicine * The BFG * The Magic Finger |
Niki Daly | Jamela’s Dress |
Colin Dann | Animals of Farthing Wood series |
Paula Danziger | The Cat Ate My Gymsuit |
Meindert De Jong | Hurry Home Candy |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | The Little Prince |
Berlie Doherty | Willa and Old Miss Annie |
Helen Dunmore | Amina’s Blanket |
Dorothy Edwards | My Naughty Little Sister Stories |
Jan Fearnley | Mr Wolf’s Pancakes |
Anne Fine | How to Write Really Badly |
Louise Fitzhugh | Harriet the Spy |
Michael Foreman | * Grandfather’s Pencil and the Room of Stories * Jack’s Fantastic Voyage |
Sarah Garland | Tex the Cowboy |
Paul Geraghty | Solo |
Adele Geras | My Grandmother’s Stories |
Mike Gibbie | Small Brown Dog’s Bad Remembering Day |
Rumer Godden | The Story of Holly and Ivy |
Nigel Gray | Running Away From Home |
Mairi Hedderwick | Katie Morag and the Wedding |
Stuart Henson | Who Can Tell? (with Wayne Anderson) |
Nigel Hinton | Beaver Towers |
Mary Hooper | * Spook Summer * The Great Twin Trick |
Anthony Horowitz | The Falcon’s Malteser |
Harry Horse | The Last Cowboys |
Ted Hughes | * How the Whale Became * The Iron Man |
Norman Hunter | * Incrediblania stories * Professor Branestawm |
Tove Jansson | The Moomins |
Paul Jennings | The Cabbage Patch Fib |
Terry Jones | Fantastic Stories |
Ann Jungman | Vlad the Drac |
Gene Kemp | Dog’s Journey |
Dick King-Smith | * Dragon Boy * The Golden Goose * The Hodgeheg * The Sheep-Pig |
Jenny Koralek | The Boy and the Cloth of Dreams |
Roger Lancelyn Green | * Myths of the Norsemen * King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table |
Joyce Lankster | Milly Molly Mandy series |
Michael Lawrence | Jiggy McCue series |
Robert Leeson | The Dog who changed the World |
Rob Lewis | Lazy Daisy |
Astrid Lindgren | Pippi Longstocking |
Jonathan Long | * The Cat that Scratched (with Korky Paul) * The Wonky Donkey |
Margaret Mahy | * The Great Piratical Rumbustification and the Librarian and the Robbers * Tingleberries, Tuckertubs and Telephones |
Jan Mark | Long Lost |
André Maurois | Fattypuffs and Thinifers |
Kara May | Cat’s Witch |
William Mayne | Lady Muck |
Sam McBratney | Jimmy Zest |
Alexander McCall Smith | The Perfect Hamburger |
Roger McGough | The Great Smile Robbery |
Hilary McKay | The Treasure in the Garden! |
David McKee | Charlotte’s Piggy Bank |
Colin McNaughton | Have You Seen Who’s Just Moved in Next Door to Us? |
Ursula Moray Williams | The Adventure of the Little Wooden Horse |
Michael Morpurgo | * Black Queen * Farm Boy * Muck and Magic Stories from the Countryside * The Butterfly Lion * The Dancing Bear * The Marble Crusher * Toro! Toro! |
Jill Murphy | The Worst Witch |
Magdalen Nabb | The Enchanted Horse |
Linda Newberry | * Whistling Jack * Ice Cat |
Jenny Nimmo | The Owl Tree |
Robert O’Brien | Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh |
Hiawyn Oram | Little Brother and the Cough |
Florence Parry Heide | The Shrinking of Treehorn |
Phillippa Pearce | * A Dog So Small * The Battle of Bubble and Squeak |
K M Peyon | The Pony that Went to Sea |
Ann Pilling | Henry’s Leg |
Alf Proysen | Mrs Pepperpot |
Gwynedd Rae | Mary Plain series |
Mary Rayner | The Small Good Wolf |
Shoo Rayner | Dark Claw Series |
Lynne Reid Banks | * Harry the Poisonous Centipede * I Houdini |
Thomas Rockwell | How to Eat Fried Worms |
Mary Rodgers | Freaky Friday |
J K Rowling | Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone |
Jon Scieszka |
The Stinky Cheeseman and other Fairly Stupid Tales |
Martina Selway |
Wish You Were Here |
Catherine Storr |
Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf |
Jeremy Strong |
* Krazy Kow Saves the World – Well Almost |
Rosemart Sutcliffe |
The High Deeds of Finn McCool |
Robert Swindells |
* Dracula’s Castle |
Ruth Thomas |
The Class That Went Wild |
Colin Thompson |
Attila the Bluebottle |
Jill Tomlinson |
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark |
Jean Ure |
* Becky Bananas |
Alison Uttley |
Sam Pig |
Nina Warner Hooke |
The Snow Kitten |
Robert Westall |
* Blitz |
E.B. White |
Charlotte’s Web |
Ian Whybrow |
Little Wolf series |
Marcia Williams |
No Worries! |
Sophy Williams |
Nana’s Garden |
Bob Wilson |
Bing, Bang, Boogie, It’s a Boy Scent |
Jacqueline Wilson |
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