- 1 Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak, 1963)
- 2 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)
- 3 Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren, 1945)
- 4 The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943)
- 5 The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien, 1937)
- 6 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (CS Lewis, 1950)
- 7 A Bear Called Paddington (Michael Bond, 1958)
- 8 Winnie-the-Pooh (AA Milne and EH Shepard, 1926)
- 9 Charlotte’s Web (EB White and Garth Williams, 1952)
- 10 Matilda (Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake, 1988)
- 11 Anne of Green Gables (LM Montgomery, 1908)
- 12 Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Andersen, 1827)
- 13 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (JK Rowling, 1997)
- 14 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle, 1969)
- 15 Jade (Sally Watson, 1969)
- 16 The Cat in the Hat (Dr Seuss, 1957)
- 17 Little Women (Louisa May Alcott, 1868)
- 18 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl, 1964)
- 19 Heidi (Johanna Spyri, 1880)
- 20 Goodnight Moon (Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd, 1947)
- 21 The Adventures of Pinocchio (Carlo Collodi, 1883)
- 22 Mary Poppins (PL Travers, 1934)
- 23 Up a Road Slowly (Irene Hunt, 1966)
- 24 I Want My Hat Back (Jon Klassen, 2011)
- 25 The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1911)
- 26 Little Bear (Else Holmelund Minarik, 1657)
- 27 The Brothers Lionheart (Astrid Lindgren, 1973)
- 28 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (JK Rowling, 1999)
- 29 The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams, 1921)
- 30 Daddy-Long-Legs (Jean Webster, 1912)
- 31 The Snowy Day (Ezra Jack Keats, 1962)
- 32 The Tiger Who Came to Tea (Judith Kerr, 1968)
- 33 The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein, 1964)
- 34 A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L’Engle, 1962)
- 35 Watership Down (Richard Adams, 1972)
- 36 The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame, 1908)
- 37 Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Brothers Grimm, 1812)
- 38 The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter, 1902)
- 39 The Railway Children (Edith Nesbit, 1906)
- 40 Black Beauty (Anna Sewell, 1877)
- 41 The BFG (Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake, 1982)
- 42 Fairy Tales / The Tales of Mother Goose (Charles Perrault, 1697)
- 43 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L Frank Baum, 1900)
- 44 The Story of Ferdinand (Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson, 1936)
- 45 The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien, 1954)
- 46 The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer, 1961)
- 47 Ballet Shoes (Noel Streafield, 1936)
- 48 The Neverending Story (Michael Ende, 1979)
- 49 Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1932)
- 50 Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883)
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