Looking for books to read to your kids? Amazon editors have put together a children’s book edition of its series of 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime lists.
The list includes classics such as Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon, Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs & Ham and Crockett Johnson’s Harold and the Purple Crayon. The list also includes modern favorites such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
We’ve embedded the entire list after the jump for you to explore.
| Amazon’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime, Children’s Book Edition | ||
| Title | Author | Publication Date |
| A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L’Engle | 05/01/2007 |
| Aesop’s Fables | Don Daily | 10/02/2007 |
| Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day | Judith Viorst | 07/15/1987 |
| Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll | 06/01/1984 |
| Amelia Bedelia | Peggy Parish | 01/29/2013 |
| And Tango Makes Three | Justin Richardson | 06/01/2005 |
| Anne of Green Gables, Complete 8-Book Box Set: Anne of Green Gables; Anne of the Island; Anne of Avonlea; Anne of Windy Poplar; Anne’s House of … Ingleside; Rainbow Valley; Rilla of Ingleside | L.M. Montgomery | 10/06/1998 |
| Are You My Mother? | P.D. Eastman | 06/12/1960 |
| Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. | Judy Blume | 04/13/2010 |
| Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales (Peter Rabbit) | Beatrix Potter | 10/19/2006 |
| Betsy-Tacy | Maud Hart Lovelace | 08/14/2007 |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | 06/23/1999 |
| Bread and Jam for Frances | Russell Hoban | 09/09/2008 |
| Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | 07/01/2008 |
| Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business | Esphyr Slobodkina | 09/01/1987 |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | 09/11/2001 |
| Charlotte’s Web | E. B. White | 04/10/2012 |
| Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | Bill Martin Jr. | 08/28/2012 |
| Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs | Judi Barrett | 08/01/1978 |
| Coraline | Neil Gaiman | 04/24/2012 |
| Corduroy | Don Freeman | 09/30/1976 |
| D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths | Ingri d’Aulaire | 03/01/1992 |
| Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Jeff Kinney | 04/01/2007 |
| Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! | Mo Willems | 04/01/2003 |
| Dr. Seuss’s Beginner Book Collection (c, One Fish Two Fish, Green Eggs and Ham, Hop on Pop, Fox in Socks) | Dr. Seuss | 09/22/2009 |
| Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective | Donald J. Sobol | 09/06/2007 |
| Esperanza Rising | Pam Munoz Ryan | 05/01/2002 |
| From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E.L. Konigsburg | 09/25/2007 |
| Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown | 01/23/2007 |
| Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site | Sherri Duskey Rinker | 05/04/2011 |
| Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales | Jacob Grimm | 11/24/2011 |
| Guess How Much I Love You | Sam McBratney | 10/14/2008 |
| Harold and the Purple Crayon | Crockett Johnson | 02/01/2005 |
| Harriet the Spy | Louise Fitzhugh | 05/08/2001 |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | J.K. Rowling | 10/01/1999 |
| Holes | Louis Sachar | 05/09/2000 |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O’Dell | 02/08/2010 |
| Jumanji | Chris Van Allsburg | 10/04/2011 |
| Little House on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 09/28/2010 |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | 05/01/1983 |
| Llama Llama Red Pajama | Anna Dewdney | 05/05/2005 |
| Madeline | Ludwig Bemelmans | 05/15/2014 |
| Make Way for Ducklings | Robert McCloskey | 01/01/1941 |
| Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli | 11/01/1999 |
| Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel | Virginia Lee Burton | 09/09/1939 |
| Mr. Popper’s Penguins | Richard Atwater | 11/02/1992 |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O’Brien | 11/03/1997 |
| Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | Betty MacDonald | 08/14/2007 |
| My Side of the Mountain | Jean Craighead George | 04/12/2004 |
| Olivia | Ian Falconer | 10/01/2000 |
| Owen | Kevin Henkes | 09/15/1993 |
| Paddle-to-the-Sea | Holling C. Holling | 02/19/1980 |
| Pat the Bunny | Dorothy Kunhardt | 08/09/2011 |
| Peter Pan | J.M. Barrie | 09/30/2010 |
| Pippi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren | 04/21/2005 |
| Press Here | Herve Tullet | 03/30/2011 |
| Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | William Steig | 03/06/2012 |
| The Bad Beginning | Lemony Snicket | 05/08/2007 |
| The Borrowers | Mary Norton | 04/01/2003 |
| The Boxcar Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner | 06/01/1989 |
| The Call Of The Wild | Jack London | 01/01/2001 |
| The Complete Adventures of Curious George | H. A. Rey | 08/28/2010 |
| The Cricket in Times Square | George Selden | 04/01/2008 |
| The Day the Crayons Quit | Drew Daywalt | 06/27/2013 |
| The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore | William Joyce | 06/19/2012 |
| The Giver | Lois Lowry | 01/24/2006 |
| The House at Pooh Corner | A. A. Milne | 08/01/1992 |
| The Invention of Hugo Cabret | Brian Selznick | 01/30/2007 |
| The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | 11/01/2007 |
| The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) | Rick Riordan | 03/21/2006 |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | C. S. Lewis | 08/22/2000 |
| The Little Engine That Could | Watty Piper | 12/27/2012 |
| The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 03/05/2013 |
| The Mouse and the Motorcycle | Beverly Cleary | 03/18/2014 |
| The New Way Things Work | David Macaulay | 10/26/1998 |
| The Paper Bag Princess | Robert Munsch | 2/1/1992 |
| The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster | 10/25/2011 |
| The Real Mother Goose | Blanche Fisher Wright | 10/01/1994 |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 11/14/2013 |
| The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew, Book 1) | Carolyn Keene | 05/01/1930 |
| The Snowy Day | Ezra Jack Keats | 10/28/1976 |
| The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant | Jean De Brunhoff | 09/12/1937 |
| The Story of Ferdinand | Munro Leaf | 03/31/2011 |
| The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread | Kate DiCamillo | 04/11/2006 |
| The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys No. 1) | Franklin W. Dixon | 06/01/1959 |
| The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Eric Carle | 03/23/1994 |
| The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963 | Christopher Paul Curtis | 12/12/2000 |
| The Wednesday Wars | Gary D. Schmidt | 05/18/2009 |
| The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin | 04/12/2004 |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | 09/15/2003 |
| The Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum | 03/27/2008 |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 04/19/1993 |
| Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbit | 8/21/2007 |
| Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech | 12/27/2011 |
| Watership Down | Richard Adams | 10/23/2012 |
| Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | Grace Lin | 04/12/2011 |
| Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls | 09/01/1996 |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein | Shel Silverstein | 02/18/2014 |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | 12/26/2012 |
| Wonder | R. J. Palacio | 02/14/2012 |
