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The 100 Most Influential Children's Novels

1.     Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/ Lewis Carroll (1865)
2.     Little Women/ Louisa May Alcott (1868)
3.     Northern Lights/ Philip Pullman (1995)
4.     Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone/ JK Rowling (1997)
5.     The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe/ CS Lewis (1950)
6.     The Wind in the Willows/ Kenneth Grahame (1908)
7.     The Tale of Peter Rabbit/ Beatrix Potter (1902)
8.     Winnie the Pooh/ AA Milne (1926)
9.     Where the Wild Things Are/ Maurice Sendak (1963)
10.   Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/ Roald Dahl (1964)
11.   Peter Pan/ JM Barrie (1911)
12.   The Hobbit/ JRR Tolkien (1937)
13.   Charlotte's Web/ EB White (1952)
14.   The Secret Garden/ Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
15.   Treasure Island/ Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
16.   Anne of Green Gables/ Lucy M Montgomery (1908)
17.   Black Beauty/ Anna Sewell (1877)
18.   Tom's Midnight Garden/ Philippa Pearce (1958)
19.   The Railway Children/ E Nesbit (1906)
20.   Swallows and Amazons/ Arthur Ransome (1930)
21.   The Jungle Book/ Rudyard Kipling (1894)
22.   Watership Down/ Richard Adams (1972)
23.   Just William/ Richmal Crompton (1922)
24.   A Wrinkle in Time/ Madeleine L'Engle (1962)
25.   The Secret of the Unicorn/ Herge (1943)
26.   The Very Hungry Caterpillar/ Eric Carle (1969)
27.   Green Eggs and Ham/ Dr. Seuss (1960)
28.   The Borrowers/ Mary Norton (1952)
29.   Emil and the Detectives/ Erich Kastner (1929)
30.   Five on Treasure Island/ Enid Blyton (1942)
31.   The Story of Babar/ Jean de Brunhoff (1931)
32.   Madeline/ Ludwig Bemelmans (1939)
33.   Pinocchio/ Carlo Collodi (1883)
34.   The Gruffalo/ Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (1999)
35.   The Wonderful Wizard of Oz/ L Frank Baum (1900)
36.   Comet in Moominland/ Tove Jansson (1946)
37.   Little House in the Big Woods/ Laura Ingalls Wilder (1932)
38.   Pippi Longstocking/ Astrid Lindgren (1945)
39.   The Little Prince/ Antoine de Saint Exupery (1943)
40.   The Mouse and His Child/ Russell Hoban (1967)
41.   Goodnight Mr. Tom/ Michelle Magorian (1981)
42.   A Bear Called Paddington/ Michael Bond (1958)
43.   The Owl Service/ Alan Garner (1967)
44.   Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret/ Judy Blume (1970)
45.   The Phantom Tollbooth/ Norton Juster (1961)
46.   The Tiger Who Came to Tea/ Judith Kerr (1968)
47.   The Dark is Rising/ Susan Cooper (1973)
48.   The Three Railway Engines/ Rev. W. Awdry (1945)
49.   The Wolves of Willoughby Chase/ Joan Aiken (1962)
50.   The Outsiders/ SE Hinton (1967)
51.   The Sword in the Stone/ TH White (1938)
52.   Mary Poppins/ PL Travers (1934)
53.   The Eagle of the Ninth/ Rosemary Sutcliff (1954)
54.   Heidi/ Johanna Spyri (1881)
55.   Dogger/ Shirley Hughes (1977)
56.   Harriet the Spy/ Louise Fitzhugh (1964)
57.   The Midnight Folk/ John Masefield (1927)
58.   The Water Babies/ Charles Kingsley (1863)
59.   The Family at One End Street/ Eve Garnett (1937)
60.   Goodnight Moon/ Margaret Wise Brown (1947)
61.   The Silver Sword/ Ian Seraillier (1956)
62.   Curious George/ HA and Margret Rey (1941)
63.   Ballet Shoes/ Noel Streatfeild (1936)
64.   Frog and Toad Are Friends/ Arnold Lobel (1970)
65.   The Iron Man/ Ted Hughes (1968)
66.   Harold and the Purple Crayon/ Crockett Johnson (1955)
67.   Holes/ Louis Sachar (1998)
68.   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/ Mark Twain (1876)
69.   A Wizard of Earthsea/ Ursula K Le Guin (1968)
70.   The Machine Gunners/ Robert Westall (1975)
71.   From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler/ EL Konigsburg (1967)
72.   Tarka the Otter/ Henry Williamson (1927)
73.   The Children of Green Knowe/ Lucy M Boston (1954)
74.   Charmed Life/ Diana Wynne Jones (1977)
75.   We're Going on a Bear Hunt/ Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury (1989)
76.   War Horse/ Michael Morpurgo (1982)
77.   The Story of Tracy Beaker/ Jacqueline Wilson (1991)
78.   The Little Grey Men/ BB (1942)
79.   The Story of Doctor Dolittle/ Hugh Lofting (1920)
80.   Stig of the Dump/ Clive King (1963)
81.   Gorilla/ Anthony Browne (1983)
82.   Carrie's War/ Nina Bawden (1973)
83.   My Naughty Little Sister/ Dorothy Edwards (1952)
84.   Tom Brown's Schooldays/ Thomas Hughes (1857)
85.   The Polar Express/ Chris van Allsburg (1985)
86.   The Snowy Day/ Ezra Jack Keats (1962)
87.   What Katy Did/ Susan Coolidge (1872)
88.   Flat Stanley/ Jeff Brown (1964)
89.   The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm/ Norman Hunter (1933)
90.   The Sheep Pig/ Dick King Smith (1983)
91.   The Princess and the Goblin/ George MacDonald (1872)
92.   Not Now, Bernard/ David McKee (1980)
93.   Amazon Adventure/ Willard Price (1949)
94.   Goggle Eyes/ Anne Fine (1989)
95.   The Worst Witch/ Jill Murphy (1974)
96.   The Swiss Family Robinson/ Johann Wyss (1812)
97.   Each Peach Pear Plum/ Allan and Janet Ahlberg (1978)
98.   Pollyanna/ Eleanor H Porter (1913)
99.   The Camels are Coming/ WE Johns (1932)
100. Mr. Tickle/ Roger Hargreaves (1971)















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