Reading List - Classic Literature for Children

Bill’s New Frock by Anne Fine

The Iron Man by Ted Hughes

The Iron Woman by Ted Hughes

Lizzie Dripping by Helen Cresswell

Stig of the Dump by Clive King

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

The Great Elephant Chase by Gillian Cross

The Sheep Pig by Dick King Smith

The Peppermint Pig by Nina Bawden

Woof by Allan Ahlberg

Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden

The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

The Naughtiest Girl in the School by Enid Blyton

Famous Five series by Enid Blyton

The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Theseus and The Minotaur by Leonard Everett Fisher

Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo

Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

The 101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe The Adventures of Hucklberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodges Burnett

Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

What Katy Did Next by Susan Coolidge

The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graeme

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

The Weirstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner