You’ve Seen the Movies, Now Read These 80+ Children’s Classics
Like Rebecca, I had no idea that Mary Poppins was a book for a very long time. In fact, it was only while I was putting together one of these lists a couple of months ago that was made aware that it was, in fact, a whole series of books! That’s four more titles to add to the ever-growing To Be Read list!.
In this giveaway sponsored by Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers, we wanted to know: what classic children’s stories have you watched but never read? If the length of this list is any indication, Rebecca and I are not the only ones who have a little-catch up reading to do!
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, Matilda, and James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
Robin Hood (English Folklore)
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car by Ian Fleming
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Nurse Matilda (Nanny McPhee) by Christianna Brand
Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Various Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Tale of Despereaux and Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Magic Bed Knob; or How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons and Bonfires and Broomsticks by Mary Norton
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little by E.B. White
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones
The Fox and the Hound by Daniel P. Mannix
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby by Charles Kingsley
Escape to Witch Mountain by Alexander Key
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
Eloise series by Kay Thompson
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
The Rescuers by Margery Sharp
Various Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Shrek! by William Steig
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