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The Little Prince
novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1865 children's novel by Lewis Carroll
The Hobbit
1937 fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien
Treasure Island
1883 novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1883 novel by Carlo Collodi
Oliver Twist
1837–1839 novel by Charles Dickens
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's fantasy novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a cyclone. Upon her arrival in the magical world of Oz, she learns she cannot return home until she has destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West.
Pippi Longstocking
fictional character created by Astrid Lindgren
Moomins
The Moomins (, ) are the central characters in a series of novels, short stories, picture books, and a comic strip by the Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by the Finnish publisher Schildts. They are a family of white, round fairy-tale characters with large snouts that make them resemble the hippopotamus. However, despite this resemblance, the Moomin family are trolls who live in a house in Moominvalley.
Heidi
thumb|upright|1880 first edition title page
Anne of Green Gables
novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery; first in a series
The Lightning Thief
2005 novel by Rick Riordan
Watership Down
1972 novel by Richard Adams
Goosebumps
Goosebumps is a series of children's horror novels written by American author R. L. Stine. The protagonists in these stories are tweens or young teens who find themselves in frightening scenarios, often involving the supernatural, the paranormal or the occult. Between 1992 and 1997, sixty-two books were published under the Goosebumps umbrella title. R. L. Stine also wrote various spin-off series, including, Goosebumps Series 2000, Give Yourself Goosebumps, Tales to Give You Goosebumps, Goosebumps Triple Header, Goosebumps HorrorLand, Goosebumps Most Wanted and Goosebumps SlappyWorld. Additiona
Coraline
Coraline () is a 2002 British fantasy horror children's novella by author Neil Gaiman. Gaiman started writing Coraline in 1990, and it was published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and HarperCollins. It was awarded the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers. The Guardian ranked Coraline #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. It was adapted as a 2009 stop-motion animated film, directed by Henry Selick under the same name.
The Sea of Monsters
2006 novel by Rick Riordan
Barbapapa
Barbapapa is a 1970 children's picture book by the French-American couple Annette Tison and Talus Taylor, who lived in Paris, France. Barbapapa is both the title character and the name of his "species". The book was the first of a series of children's books originally written in French and later translated into over 30 languages.
The BFG
1982 British children's book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
1888 collection of fairytales by Oscar Wilde
The Swiss Family Robinson
book by Johann David Wyss
Artemis Fowl
novel by Eoin Colfer
The Graveyard Book
2008 novel by Neil Gaiman
A Wrinkle in Time
1962 science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle
A Dog of Flanders
1872 novel by Ouida
The Adventures of Maya the Bee
1912 narration by Waldemar Bonsels
Biggles
James Charles Bigglesworth, nicknamed "Biggles", is a fictional pilot and adventurer, the title character and hero of the Biggles series of adventure books, written for young readers by W. E. Johns (1893–1968). Biggles made his first appearance in the story "The White Fokker", published in the first issue of Popular Flying magazine and again as part of the first collection of Biggles stories, The Camels Are Coming (both 1932). Johns continued to write "Biggles books" until his death in 1968. The series eventually included nearly a hundred volumes – novels as well as short story collections – m
Redwall
1986 novel by Brian Jacques
The Tripods
British young adult novel series
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
1965 novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui
The Spook's Apprentice
novel by Joseph Delaney
Space Cadet
1948 novel by Robert A. Heinlein
Peter-No-Tail
fictional cat created by Gösta Knutsson
Billy Bunter
fictional character created by Charles Hamilton (using the nom de plume of Frank Richards)
Blinky Bill
children's book by Dorothy Wall
One Day at HorrorLand
1994 novel by R. L. Stine
Erik of het klein insectenboek
book by Godfried Bomans
Junie B. Jones
novel by Barbara Park