Here you can find 100 different children books I personally recommend, these are great options for students to read over the summer or just for fun.
Charlotte’s Web (E. B. White)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Goodnight Moon (Margaret Wise Brown)
A Wrinkle In Time (Madeleine L’Engle)
A Snowy Day (Ezra Jack Keats)
Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (J.K. Rowling)
Green Eggs and Ham (Dr. Seuss)
The Diary of A Young Girl (Anne Frank)
The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein)
Frog and Toad are Friends (Arnold Lobel)
Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle)
Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans)
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
The Dot (Peter H. Reynolds)
Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt)
Pat the Bunny (Dorothy Kunhardt)
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson (Pam Muñoz Ryan)
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Mo Williams)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Shel Silverstein)
Bud, Not Buddy (Christopher Paul Curtis)
Corduroy (Don Freeman)
The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
The Little Engine That Could (Watty Piper)
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Grace Lin)
Black On White (Tana Hoban)
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Mo Williams)
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Judy Blume)
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother (Patricia Polacco)
The Mitten (Jan Brett)
The Runaway Bunny (Margaret Wise Brown)
The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
Swimmy (Leo Lionni)
Freight Train (Donald Crews)
The Secret Garden (Francis Hodgson Burnett)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney)
Zen Shorts (Jon J. Muth)
Moo, Baa, La La La (Sandra Boynton)
Matilda (Roald Dahl)
What Do People Do All Day? (Richard Scarry)
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
Good Night Gorilla (Peggy Rathmann)
The Composition (Antonio Skármeta)
Not a Box (Antoinette Portis)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Bill Martin Jr.)
Hatchet (Gary Paulsen)
Martin’s Big Words (Doreen Rappaport)
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Patricia MacLachlan)
Sylvia Long’s Mother Goose (Sylvia Long)
The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan)
The House at Pooh Corner (A. A. Milne)
Through My Eyes (Ruby Bridges)
Smile! (Roberta Grobel)
Living Sunlight (Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm)
The Bad Beginning (Lemony Snicket)
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez (Kathleen Krull)
Dear Juno (Soyung Pak)
Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes (Annie Kubler)
The Lion and The Mouse (Jerry Pinkney)
Diary of a Worm (Doreen Cronin)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick)
My Truck is Struck (Kevin Lewis)
Birds (Kevin Henkes)
The Maze of Bones (Rick Riordan)
Esperanza Rising (Pam Muñoz Ryan)
Counting Kisses: A Kiss and Read Book (Karen Kats)
The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks (Joanna Cole)
Blackout (John Rocco)
Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Peterson)
Are You My Mother? (P.D. Eastman)
Tea With Milk (Allen Say)
Owl Moon (Jane Yolen)
Holes (Louis Sachar)
Peek-a Who? (Nine Laden)
Hi! Fly Guy (Tedd Arnold)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Robert C. O’Brien)
Llama Llama Red Pajama (Anne Dewdney)
What Do You Do With A Tail Like This? (Steven Jenkins)
Lincoln: A Photobiography (Russell Freedman)
Ivy & Bean (Annie Barrows)
Yoko (Rosemary Wells)
No No Yes Yes (Leslie Patricelli)
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Judy Blume)
Interrupting Chicken (David Ezra Stein)
Rules (Cynthia Lord)
Grumpy Bird (Jeremy Tankard)
An Egg is Quiet (Dianna Hutts Aston)
Puss in Boots (Charles Perrault)
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon (Catherine Thimmesh)
What Shall We Do With A Boo Hoo Baby? (Cressida Cowe)
We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States (David Catrow)
I Took the Moon for a Walk (Carolyn Curtis)
A Single Shard (Linda Sue Park)
Gossie (Olivier Dunrea)
The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Dav Pilkey)
Bright Baby: First Words (Roger Priddy)
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices (Paul Fleischman)
Animalia (Graeme Base)