Classics
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Young Children / Older Children / Teens

Young Children
Aardema, Verna.  Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears.
Aesop.  Aesop's Fables.
Alborough, Jez.  Where's My Teddy?
Allard, Harry.  Miss Nelson Is Missing!
Anderson, Hans Christian.  The Ugly Duckling.
Ardizzone, Edward.  Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain.
Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen.  The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Asch, Frank.  Happy Birthday, Moon.
Aylesworth, Jim.  Old Black Fly.
Barrett, Judi.  Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing.
Barrett, Judi.  Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
Bemelmans, Ludwig.  Madeline.
Brett, Jan.  Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
Brett, Jan.  The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale.
Bridwell, Norman.  Clifford, the Big Red Dog.
Brown, Marcia.  Stone Soup.
Brown, Margaret Wise.  Goodnight Moon.
Brown, Margaret Wise.  The Runaway Bunny.
Brunhoff, Jean de.  The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant.
Burningham, John.  Mr. Gumpy’s Outing.
Burton, Virginia Lee.  Katy and the Big Snow.
Burton, Virginia Lee.  Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel.
Carle, Eric.  The Grouchy Ladybug.
Carle, Eric.  The Mixed-up Chameleon.
Carle, Eric.  The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Crews, Donald.  Freight Train.
dePaola, Tomie.  Strega Nona: An Old Tale.
dePaola, Tomie.  Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose.
de Regniers, Beatrice.  May I Bring a Friend?
Eastman, P. D.  Go, Dog, Go!
Ehlert, Lois.  Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf.
Fatio, Louise.  The Happy Lion.
Fox, Mem.  Hattie and the Fox.
Fox, Mem.  Time for Bed.
Freeman, Don.  Corduroy.
Gag, Wanda.  Millions of Cats.
Galdone, Paul.  Henny Penny.
Galdone, Paul.  Little Red Riding Hood.
Galdone, Paul.  Rumpelstiltskin.
Ginsburg, Mirra.  Mushroom in the Rain.
Guarino, Deborah.  Is Your Mama a Llama?
Henkes, Kevin.  Owen.
Hill, Eric.  Where’s Spot?
Hoban, Russell.  Bread and Jam for Frances.
Houston, Gloria.  My Great-Aunt Arizona.
Hutchins, Pat.  The Doorbell Rang.
Hutchins, Pat.  Rosie’s Walk.
Inkpen, Mick.  Kipper.
Johnson, Crockett.  Harold and the Purple Crayon.
Joosse, Barbara.  Mama, Do You Love Me?
Keats, Ezra Jack.  The Snowy Day.
Keats, Ezra Jack.  Whistle for Willie.
Kimmel, Eric.  The Gingerbread Man.
Kraus, Robert.  Leo, the Late Bloomer.
Kraus, Robert.  Whose Mouse Are You?
Krauss, Ruth.  The Carrot Seed.
Krauss, Ruth.  You're Just What I Need.
Langstaff, John.  Over in the Meadow.
Leaf, Munro.  The Story of Ferdinand.
Lionni, Leo.  Frederick.
Lionni, Leo.  Little Blue and Little Yellow.
Lionni, Leo.  Swimmy.
Lobel, Arnold.  Frog and Toad Are Friends.
Lobel, Arnold.  The Random House Book of Mother Goose.
London, Jonathan.  Froggy Gets Dressed.
Marshall, James.  Fox in Love.
Martin, Bill.  Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Martin, Bill.  Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
McCloskey, Robert. Blueberries for Sal.
McCloskey, Robert.  Make Way for Ducklings.
Minarik, Else Holmelund.  Little Bear.
Mosel, Arlene.  Tikki Tikki Tembo.
Murphy, Jill.  Peace at Last.
Noble, Trinka.  The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash.
Numeroff, Laura Joffe.  If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
Oxenbury, Helen.  Tom & Pippo Go for a Walk.
Palmer, Helen.  A Fish out of Water.
Parish, Peggy.  Amelia Bedelia.
Peet, Bill.  The Caboose Who Got Loose.
Piper, Watty.  The Little Engine That Could.
Polacco, Patricia.  Mrs. Katz and Tush.
Polacco, Patricia.  Thunder Cake.
Potter, Beatrix.  The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Rathmann, Peggy.  Good Night, Gorilla.
Rey, H. A.  Curious George.
Rosen, Michael.  We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
Rounds, Glen.  I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.
Rylant, Cynthia.  Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures.
Rylant, Cynthia.  The Relatives Came.
Rylant, Cynthia.  When I Was Young in the Mountains.
San Souci, Robert D.  The Talking Eggs.
Scieszka, Jon.  The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, as Told by A. Wolf.
Sendak, Maurice.  Where the Wild Things Are.
Seuss, Dr.  And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.
Seuss, Dr.  The Cat in the Hat.
Seuss, Dr.  Horton Hatches the Egg.
Shaw, Charles.  It Looked Like Spilt Milk.
Shaw, Nancy.  Sheep in a Jeep.
Slobodkina, Esphyr.  Caps for Sale.
Steig, William.  Doctor de Soto.
Steig, William.  Sylvester and the Magic Pebble.
Steptoe, John.  Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters.
Tafuri, Nancy.  Have You Seen My Duckling?
Thompson, Kay.  Eloise.
Van Allsburg, Chris.  The Polar Express.
Viorst, Judith.  Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
Waber, Bernard.  Ira Sleeps Over.
Waber, Bernard.  Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile.
Walsh, Ellen Stoll.  Mouse Count.
Wells, Rosemary.  Noisy Nora.
Wells, Rosemary.  Timothy Goes to School.
Wiesner, David.  Tuesday.
Williams, Linda.  The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything.
Williams, Vera B.  A Chair for My Mother.
Williams, Vera B.  More, More, More, Said the Baby: Three Love Stories.
Wood, Audrey.  The Napping House.
Young, Ed.  Seven Blind Mice.
Zemach, Margot.  It Could Always Be Worse.
Zion, Gene.  Harry, the Dirty Dog.
Zolotow, Charlotte.  This Quiet Lady.
 

Older Children
Alexander, Lloyd.  The Book of Three.
Atwater, Richard.  Mr. Popper's Penguins.
Babbitt, Natalie.  Tuck Everlasting.
Barrie, J.M.  Peter Pan.
Baum, L. Frank.  The Wizard of Oz.
Blume, Judy.  Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Brink, Carol Ryrie.  Caddie Woodlawn.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson.  The Secret Garden.
Burnford, Sheila.  The Incredible Journey.
Butterworth, Oliver.  The Enormous Egg.
Cameron, Ann.  The Stories Julian Tells.
Cameron, Eleanor.  The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet.
Carroll, Lewis.  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Catling, Patrick Skene. The Chocolate Touch.
Christopher, John.  The White Mountains.
Clarke, Pauline.  Return of the Twelves.
Cleary, Beverly.  Henry Huggins.
Cleary, Beverly.  The Mouse and the Motorcycle.
Cleary, Beverly.  Ramona the Pest.
Dahl, Roald.  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Dahl, Roald.  James and the Giant Peach: A Children’s Story.
Eager, Edward.  Half Magic.
Eckert, Allan.  Incident at Hawk's Hill.
Estes, Eleanor.  The Moffats.
Farley, Steven.  The Black Stallion.
Fitzgerald, John Dennis.  The Great Brain.
Fitzhugh, Louise.  Harriet, the Spy.
Fleischman, Paul.  Bull Run.
Gannett, Ruth Stiles.  My Father's Dragon.
Gardiner, John Reynolds.  Stone Fox.
George, Jean Craighead.  My Side of the Mountain.
Gilbreth, Frank B.  Cheaper by the Dozen.
Gipson, Frank.  Old Yeller.
Grahame, Kenneth.  The Wind in the Willows.
Haywood, Carolyn.  B Is for Betsy.
Henry, Marguerite.  Misty of Chincoteague.
Hesse, Karen.  Letters from Rifka.
Howe, Deborah.  Bunnicula.
Howe, James.  Pinky & Rex.
Hurwitz, Johanna.  Aldo Applesauce.
Juster, Norton.  The Phantom Tollbooth.
Keller, Helen.  The Story of My Life.
King-Smith, Dick.  Babe: The Gallant Pig.
Kipling, Rudyard.  The Jungle Book.
Konigsburg, E. L.  From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
Lewis, C. S.  The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: A Story for Children.
Lindgren, Astrid.  Pippi Longstocking.
Lofting, Hugh.  The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle.
Lovelace, Maud Hart.  Betsy-Tacy.
Lowry, Lois.  Anastasia Krupnik.
MacDonald, Betty.  Mrs. Piggle Wiggle.
MacDonald, George.  At the Back of the North Wind.
MacLachlan, Patricia.  Sarah, Plain and Tall.
McCloskey, Robert.  Homer Price.
Merrill, Jean.  The Pushcart War.
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.  Shiloh.
Norton, Mary.  The Borrowers.
O'Brien, Robert C.   Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
O'Hara, Mary.  My Friend Flicka.
Paton Walsh, Jill.  The Green Book.
Pearce, Philippa.  Tom's Midnight Garden.
Pyle, Howard.  The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.
Raskin, Ellen.  The Westing Game.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan.