1900s

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900)
• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (1902)
• Five Children and It by E. Nesbit (1902)
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Wiggin (1903)
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
• Peter Pan by James Barrie (1904)
• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908)
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)

• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
• Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter (1912)
• Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1917)
• Raggedy Ann Stories by Johnny Gruelle (1918)

• The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (1920)
• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (1922)
• The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner (1924)
• Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne (1926)
• Bambi by Felix Salten (1928)
• Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag (1928)

• The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene (1930)
• The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper (1930)
• Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1932)
• The Story of Babar by Jean De Brunhoff (1933)
• Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers (1934)
• Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (1935)
• The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf (1936)
• Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater (1938)
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (1938)
• Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans (1939)
• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton (1939)
• Ben and Me by Robert Lawson (1939)

• Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (1941)
• Curious George by H.A. Rey (1941)
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (1943)
• Many Moons by James Thurber (1943)
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1943)
• The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes (1944)
• The Black Stallion by Walter Farley (1944)
• Stuart Little by E.B. White (1945)
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (1947)
• The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene DuBois (1947)
• Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina (1947)
• My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett (1948)

• Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary (1950)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (1950)
• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (1950)
• Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (1952)
• The Borrowers by Mary Norton (1953)
• How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell (1953)
• The Children of Green Knowe by L.M. Boston (1954)
• Eloise by Kay Thompson (1955)
• The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth (1956)
• Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik (1957)
• The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss (1957)
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (1958)

• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (1960)
• A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond (1960)
• Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban (1960)
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (1961)
• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (1962)
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1962)
• Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish (1963)
• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (1963)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (1964)
• From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (1967)
• Corduroy by Don Freeman (1968)
• Elmer by David McKee (1968)
• Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary (1968)
• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (1969)
• Sounder by William Armstrong (1969)

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (1970)
• Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret? by Judy Blume (1970)
• Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel (1970)
• Mr. Gumpy's Outing by John Burningham (1970)
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (1971)
• George and Martha by James Marshall (1972)
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (1972)
• M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (1974)
• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (1974)
• Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola (1975)
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor (1976)
• The Snowman by Raymond Briggs (1978)
• Bunnicula by James Howe (1979)

• Superfudge by Judy Blume (1980)
• Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt (1981)
• Moo, Baa, La La La by Sandra Boynton (1982)
• A Chair for My Mother by Vera Williams (1982)
• The Napping House by Audrey Wood (1984)
• The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord (1984)
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff (1985)
• The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (1985)
• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (1985)
• Jesse Bear, Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? By Nancy Carlstrom (1986)
• Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures by Cynthia Rylant (1987)
• Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe (1987)
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (1987)
• Koala Lou by Mem Fox (1988)
• Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman (1988)
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. (1989)
• Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers (1989)

• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (1990)
• Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes (1991)
• Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1991)
• The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka (1992)
• Dinotopia by James Gurney (1992)
• Time for Bed by Mem Fox (1993)
• The Giver by Lois Lowry (1993)
• Smoky Night by Eve Bunting (1994)
• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (1994)
• Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann (1995)
• Frindle by Andrew Clements (1996)
• The Adventures of Captain Underpants: an Epic Novel by Dav Pilkey (1997)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (1998)
• Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)
• Weslandia by Paul Fleischman (1999)
• The Ashwater Experiment by Amy Goldman Koss (1999)
• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (1999)