It’s usually easy to find something to read on your own, but when it comes to children’s literature, sometimes you have to stop for a moment and carefully consider the right book.

Make sure they are good enough to stimulate your child’s mind and expand their knowledge

Making a list of the most fascinating and instructive children’s books was not an easy task to accomplish; however, we managed to choose 50 classic and modern children’s books to please every reader up to age 15.

  • The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
  • Winnie-The-Pooh and All, All, All  by Alan Alexander Milne
  • Charlotte’s Web  by Elwyn Brooks White
  • Black Beauty  by Anna Sewell
  • The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
  • Bambi by Felix Salten
  • The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
  • Mr. Popper’s Penguins  by Richard and Florence Atwater
  • A Bear Called Paddington  by Michael Bond
  • The Seventh Princess by  Eleanor Farjeon
  • Beatrix Potter the Complete Tales by Beatrix Potter
  • Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • The Borrowers by Mary Norton
  • A Little Princess  by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
  • The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen
  • The Ugly Duckling, Hans Christian Andersen
  • The Ice Dragon by Edith Nesbit
  • Cipollino, the Little Onion by Gianni Rodari.
  • Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
  • Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling 
  • Cricket in Times Square by George Selden 
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Sword in the Stone by Terence Hanbury White
  • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  • The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • The Railway Children  by Edith Nesbit
  • The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  • Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter
  • Peter Pan by James Matthew Barrie
  • Heidi or Magic Valley by Johanna Spyri
  • “The Chronicles of Narnia” series by C. S Lewis
  • The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
  • Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  • Old Yeller by Fred Gypson
  • Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
  • The Little House Collection by  Laura Ingalls Wilder 
  • Thornton Burgess Animal Stories by  Thornton W. Burgess
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
  • Treasure Island byRobert Louis Stevenson
  • Mary Poppins by Pamela Lyndon Travers
  • Very Little Red Riding Hood by Beate Teresa Hanika
  • Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
  • “Harry Potter” series by J.K. Rowling
  • Children of Captain Grant by Jules Verne
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers by Ralph Moody

Based on materials from teachbesideme