Anne of Green Gables Five Little Peppers and How They Grew By Lucy Maud Montgomery (+ MONTGOMERY, L. M.) By Margaret Sidney (+ SIDNEY, MARGARET) Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live In New England in the late nineteenth-century, a fatherless with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince family, happy in spite of its impoverished condition, is Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible befriended by a very rich gentleman and his young son. Older Classics impression on everyone around her. Heidi Five Children and It By Johanna Spyri (+ SPYRI, JOHANNA) for Children By E. Nesbit (+ NESBIT, E.) A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her When four brothers and sisters discover a Psammead, or beloved grandfather and their happy home in the moun- A list of books written before 1950 that sand-fairy, in the gravel pit near the country house where tains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the have become classics they are staying, they have no way of knowing all the ad- city. ventures its wish-granting will bring them. Mary Poppins
By P.L. Travers (+ TRAVERS, P.L.) Pollyanna Two English children's new nanny arrives on the East By Eleanor H. Porter (+ PORTER, ELEANOR H.) Wind, slides up the bannister, carries an empty carpet bag When orphaned eleven-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with all kinds of things in it, and introduces Jane and Mi- with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, her philosophy of chael to some delightful people and experiences. gladness brings happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm By Kate Douglas Wiggin (+ WIGGIN, KATE) Black Beauty The tale of Rebecca's adventures after she leaves her home By Anna Sewell (+ SEWELL, ANNA) at Sunnybrook Farm to go live in town with her spinster A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experi- aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and senti- ences with both good and bad masters. mental.
Treasure Island The Swiss Family Robinson By Robert Louis Stevenson (+ STEVENSON, ROBERT) By Johann Wyss (+ WYSS, JOHANN) While going through the possessions of a deceased guest When a Swiss couple and their four sons are shipwrecked who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son on an isolated island, they adapt to their "New Switzer- Forest Grove City Library find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as land" using many imaginative methods of farming and great danger. animal taming. Little Women Secret Garden Misty of Chincoteague By Louisa May Alcott (+ ALCOTT, LOUISA) By Frances Hodgson Burnett (+ BURNETT, FRANCES) By Marguerite Henry (+ HENRY, MARGUERITE) Chronicles the humorous and sentimental four March sis- Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the The determination of two youngsters to win a Chincoteague pony ters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among New England. mysteries of a locked garden. those rounded up for the yearly auction.
The Adventures of Pinocchio The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Mr. Popper’s Penguins By C. Collodi (+ COLLODI, CARLO) By Washington Irving (+ IRVING, WASHINGTON) By Richard Atwater (+ ATWATER, RICHARD) In Geppetto's hands a piece of wood that talks becomes a A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an living, mischievous marionette and eventually, after many farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a head- Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. trials and errors, a real little boy. less horseman. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the Polar
regions. Oliver Twist Lassie Come-Home By Charles Dickens (+ DICKENS, CHARLES) By Eric Knight (+ KNIGHT, ERIC) National Velvet Born in a workhouse, Oliver Twist, an orphan, runs away A collie undertakes a 1000-mile journey to once again By Enid Bagnold (+ BAGNOLD, ENID) from a cruel shopowner, and in London becomes involved meet her former master at the school gate.
In mid-twentieth-century England, fourteen-year-old Vel- with Fagin and his gang of young thieves The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle vet Brown, determined to turn the unruly horse she wins in a raffle into a champion, learns that she needs more than The Moffats By Hugh Lofting (+ LOFTING, HUGH) hard work and dedication to achieve her goal of riding her By Eleanor Estes (+ ESTES, ELEANOR) When his colleague Long Arrow disappears, Dr. Dolittle sets off with his assistant, Tommy Stubbins, his dog, Jip, and Polynesia horse in the Grand National steeplechase. Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat the parrot on an adventurous voyage over tropical seas to floating children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on Peter Pan New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut. Spidermonkey Island.
By J.M. Barrie (+ BARRIE, J. M.) My Father’s Dragon The Princess and the Goblin The adventures of the three Darling children in Neverland By Ruth Stiles Gannett (+ GANNETT, RUTH) By George MacDonald (+ MACDONALD, GEORGE) with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. A young boy determines to rescue a poor baby dragon who A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie and her
is being used by a group of lazy wild animals to ferry them newly-discovered great-great-grandmother from the goblin The Wizard of Oz across the river on Wild Island. miners who live in caves beneath the royal castle. By L. Frank Baum (+ BAUM, L. FRANK)
After being transported by a cyclone to the land of Oz, The Wind in the Willows Homer Price Dorothy and her dog are befriended by a scarecrow, a tin By Kenneth Grahame (+ GRAHAME, KENNETH) By Robert McCloskey (+ MCCLOSKEY, ROBERT) man, and a cowardly lion, who accompany her to the Em- The escapades of four animal friends who live along a Six episodes in the life of Homer Price including one in erald City to look for a wizard who can help Dorothy re- river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and anoth- turn home to Kansas. Badger. er about a donut machine on the rampage.