Some notes on this list, if you will:
- there is no age limit (in either direction)
- not all books by each author are listed - which only means that I either
- a) don't remember them all
- b) didn't read them all
- or c) got tired of typing and wanted to move on.
- please note - I am a firm believer in reading ALL books by a great author
- author links are usually to sites about the author or their books
- book links are usually to the book on amazon.com
A great site for more book recommendations, from James Patterson: Read Kiddo Read
Also, although this is by no means a complete list (not universally nor even personally)... it's a good list nonetheless...
- Joan Aiken (the sister of another (in my opintion) great writer, Jane Aiken Hodge)
- Lloyd Alexander - The Prydain Chronicles
- Louisa May Alcott
- Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
- Enid Blyton: The Famous Five series
- Five on a Treasure Island
- Five Go Adventuring Again
- Five Run Away Together
- Five Go Off to Smuggler's Top
- Five Go Off in a Caravan
- she wrote many many books - if you like her, read them all
- Elizabeth Borton de Trevino - I, Juan de Pareja
- L.M. Boston – The Green Knowe Series
- Caddie Woodlawn - Carol Ryrie Brink
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Ruth Chew
- Roald Dahl
- Danny, the Champion of the World
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- James and the Giant Peach
- George's Marvelous Medicine
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
- Edward Eager -
- Half Magic
- Magic or Not
- Seven Day Magic
- Knight's Castle
- The Well-Wishers
- and many more... all well worth reading
- Julie Edwards (aka Julie Andrews) - The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
- Louise Fitzhugh - Harriet the Spy
- Ian Fleming (yes, that Ian Fleming)
- Robert Heinlein (he wrote ten or twelve children's books, these are only 3)
- Diana Wynne Jones
- The Chronicles of Crestomanci: Charmed Life, The Lives of Christopher Chant
- Witch's Business
- Power of Three
- she wrote many, many, I mean a whole lot of!, books - if you like her, read them all
- Brian Jacques
- Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth
- E. L. Konigsburg - From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basile E. Frankweiler
- Madeleine L'Engle: Wrinkle in Time
- see the rest of the series: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet and Many Waters
- and I loved the Austin books: Meet the Austins, Moon by Night, A Ring of Endless Light, The Young Unicorns and Troubling a Star
- anything by ML is great
- Mercedes Lackey (not technically a kid's writer, but the writer of some of my favorite, as in I've read them 10, 15, 20 times, books - all from the Valdemar series)
- Arrows of the Queen (The Heralds of Valdemar trilogy)
- Magic's Pawn (The Last Herald-Mage trilogy)
- Brightly Burning (Lavan Firestorm's story)
- Take A Thief (Skif's story)
- so many more...
- C.S. Lewis
- Chronicles of Narnia (boxed set includes The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, The Magician's Nephew, The Horse and The Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, The Last Battle)
- Betty MacDonald
- Anne McCaffrey (a small, very small, smattering of her books)
- about Menolly: Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, Dragondrums
- about Lessa: Dragonflight, Dragonquest, The White Dragon
- she wrote so many books, for which I am so thankful
- Edith Nesbit - Five Children and It
- Peggy Parish - all the Amelia Bedelia books
- Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia
- Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- Anne Sewell
- Donald J. Sobol
- Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
- if you like one - you'll like them all, and there are lots
- Noel Streatfeild
- E. B. White
- Christopher Paolini
From my Serious Series Obsession Phase:
- L. Frank Baum (and my sister has this entire series!)
- Queen Zixi of Ix (not part of a series)
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- The Marvelous Land of Oz
- Ozma of Oz
- Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
- The Road to Oz
- The Emerald City of Oz
- Michael Bond - cool official site from UK
- A Bear Called Paddington
- More About Paddington
- Paddington Helps Out
- Paddington Abroad
- Paddington At Large
- Paddington Goes to Town
- Julie Campbell - the Trixie Belden series (I don't know how many there are, but at one point I owned 15 or 20... I think there are over 30 now, written under the Kathryn Kenny nom de plume)
- The Secret of the Mansion
- The Red Trailer Mystery
- The Gatehouse Mystery
- The Mysterious Visitor
- The Mystery off Glen Road
- The Mystery in Arizona
- The Mysterious Code
- The Black Jacket Mystery
- Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising series
- Walter Farley (and yes, I still have this entire series)
- The Black Stallion
- The Black Stallion Returns
- Son of the Black Stallion
- The Island Stallion
- The Black Stallion and Satan
- The Black Stallion's Blood Bay Colt
- Hugh Lofting
- The Story of Doctor Dolittle
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
- Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
- Doctor Dolittle's Circus
- Doctor Dolittle's Zoo
- Doctor Dolittle's Caravan
- L.M. Montgomery
- Tedd Arnold
- Ruth Stiles Gannett
- Tove Jannson
- Finn Family Moomintroll
- Comet in Moominland
- the rest of the Moomin books
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