100 Great Books To Read To Your Children
100 Great Books to Read to Your Children
The National Education Association surveyed its members and compiled a list of the top 100 children's books as part of its annual Read Across America celebration.
Infant to Preschool
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.
- The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
- The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
- Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
4-8 Years
- The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch
- The Mitten by Jan Brett
- Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
- Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss
- Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
- The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
- The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by John Archambault
- The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
- The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
- Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
- Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
- Math Curse by Jon Scieszka
- Are You My Mother by Phillip D. Eastman
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
- The Napping House by Audrey Wood
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
- Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss
- Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus
- The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
- Curious George by Hans Augusto Rey
- Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox
- Arthur series by Marc Brown
- Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
- The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
- Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
- The Art Lesson by Tomie De Paola
- Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
- Clifford, the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell
- Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
- The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch
9-12 Years
- Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L 'Engle
- Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
- Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
- Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
- Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
- The BFG by Roald Dahl
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
- Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats fo Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
- Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
- The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
- Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Lois Sachar
- Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
- A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
- Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
- My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
- Stuart Little by E. B. White
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Chirstopher Paul Curtis
Young Adult
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
- The Cay by Theodore Taylor
- The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
All Ages
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- Heidi by Johanna Spyri