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Works separated by reading level.

Works by age

0–3

Tommy Thumb's Song Book by Nurse Lovechild
The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright (1916)
Nursery Rhymes

3+

The Quangle Wangle's Hat by Edward Lear (1876)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (1902)
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix Potter (1906)
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter (1908)
All other books by Beatrix Potter

5+

The Blue Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang (1889)
A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear (1846)
Czech Folk Tales, edited and translated by Josef Baudiš (1917)
Czechoslovak fairy tales retold by Parker Fillmore (1919)
The Disobedient Kids and other Czecho-Slovak fairy tales by Božena Němcová (1921)
The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen (1837)
Five Nursery Tales in The Shoemaker's Apron by Parker Hoysted Fillmore (1920)
The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales by Frank R. Stockton (1910)
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen (1837)
The Magic Fishbone by Charles Dickens (1868)
The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay (1918)
Susan and the Mermaid by Pamela Colman Smith (1912)
The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen (1843)
Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (1922)
A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore (1822)

8+

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (1883)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876)
Aesop's Fables by Aesop (c. 550 BC)
Air Service Boys over the Rhine (1919)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (1871)
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908)
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc (1907)
Betty Gordon in Washington (1920)
- Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil (1920)
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1877)
The Bobbsey Twins (1904)
- The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore (1907)
- The Bobbsey Twins at Home (1916)
- The Bobbsey Twins in Washington (1919)
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
The Boys of Columbia High on the River (1911)
Boys of the Fort (1901)
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm (1916)
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (1887)
Cautionary Tales for Children
A Christmas Carol
Dick Hamilton's Fortune (1909)
Emily of New Moon (1923)
Explorers of the Dawn (1922)
Five Children and It by E. Nesbit (1902)
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde (1888)
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886)
A Little Princess by Frances H. Burnett (1905)
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle (1912)
The Man Who Was Thursday by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1908)
Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner (1898)
Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Helen Leah Reed (1907; nonfiction)
Original Stories from Real Life by Mary Wollstonecraft (1788)
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1911)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (1881)
The Princess and the Goblin
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope Hawkins (1884)
- Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope Hawkins (1898)
Ralph of the Roundhouse (1906)
- Ralph in the Switch Tower (1907)
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (1903)
Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg (1936)
The Rover Boys at School (1899)
- The Rover Boys on the Ocean (1899)
- The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes (1901)
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1909)
The Shoemaker's Apron by Parker Hoysted Fillmore (1920)
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (1920)
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (1922)
The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit (1899)
Tales from Shakspeare by Charles and Mary Lamb (1807)
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
- The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1913)
- The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1914)
- The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1914)
- Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1916)
- Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1919)
- Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1919-20)
- Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1921)
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915)
- Greenmantle by John Buchan (1916)
- Mr Standfast by John Buchan (1919)
Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle (1910)
- Tom Swift and His Airship (1910)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin (n.d.) by anonymous
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1916)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900)

12+

20,000 Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne (1869)
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (1873)
The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
The Children of the New Forest by Captain Frederick Marryat (1847)
Christmas Stories by Georgene Faulkner (1916)
The Coral Island by Robert Michael Ballantyne (1857)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster (1912)
The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's by Talbot Baines Reed (1881)
The Grandmother by Božena Němcová (1891)
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1860)
Heidi by Johanna Spyri (1880)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (1864)
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux (1907)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1838)
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit (1906)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss (1812)
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes (1857)
Waverley by Walter Scott (1814)
White Fang by Jack London (1906)

About

"Literature for Children," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
"Children's Literature," by David A. Modell in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)

See also

References

Eccleshare, Julia (2009). 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up. ABC Books. ISBN 9780733325625.
Silvey, Anita (2005). 100 Best Books for Children. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9780618618774.
Kid's Reading List, 2011, <http://www.oprah.com/packages/kid-reading-list.html>.
Classic Reading Lists, The Book Report, Inc, 2011, <http://www.kidsreads.com/lists/classic-lists.asp>.