Growing up I read Charlottes Web, The Chronicles of Narnia, Treasure Island and Little Women. But recently I wanted to find some other books that are considered classics, but are suitable for children. So I bought copies of Watership Down & The Jungle Book.
It has got me thinking though, what would others recommend as children’s classics?
by Tini_tot
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The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgkin Burnett.
I loved The Little Princess book and the movie!
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. A wonderful children’s book with generally so beautiful ideas and sentiments that even an adult can find them touching.
Anne of Green Gables
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It’s a very sweet sad book about a little girl in a boarding school while her father is away at war. It’s different from the movie adaptation but still just as good
The neverending story, Matilda (and aaaall the others by Roald Dahl), Pippi
Redwall
Anne of Green Gables
A Christmas Carol
Peter Pan
The Wind in the Willows
A Little Princess
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Velveteen Rabbit, Peter Pan, Winnie-the-Pooh, Mary Poppins, Heidi, The Phantom Tollbooth, Little House in the Big Woods.
Matilda
Treasure Island
Any roald Dahl book
The Phantom Tollbooth
*Misty of Chincoteague* by Marguerite Henry.
*Black Beauty* by Anna Sewell.
The Velveteen Rabbit.
The Hobbit
Swallows and Amazon
The Box of Delights
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Indians in the Cupboard
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge.
The Little House on the Prairie novels by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in The Door by Madeleine L’Engle
So many of my childhood favorites are listed here, want to add in Heidi