We did our research and here’s what we came up with.
Topping the list is Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice Found There, is the most powerful and unusual example of children’s literature.
What other books are on the list?
- Kinder- und Hausmarchen (‘Nursery and Household Tales’) by The Brothers Grimm;
- The One Thousand and One Nights by Anon;
- The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling;
- The Mouse and His Child by Russell HobanThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter;
- Peter and Wendy by J M Barri;
- The Narnia series by CS Lewis;
- The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling;
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter;
- Matilda by Roald Dahl;
- The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come by John Bunyan;
- The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien;
- The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf;
- Five Children and It by E Nesbit;
- The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin.
Read! Enjoy and spend time together!