Helping your friends’ children, or your own children if you are lucky enough to have them, to enjoy reading and develop their imagination is a fabulous thing…
Here are some of our top picks. Obviously you still need to do your research to ensure the book/s you pick are appropriate for the age of the child you are buying for.
- A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
- A Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
- A Little Princess, The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Aesop’s Fables by Jerry Pinkney
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery
- Arabian Nights or One Thousand and One Nights
- Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- Blinky Bill by Dorothy Wall
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits, The Witches, James and the Giant Peach and Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
- David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Dot and the Kangaroo by Ethel C. Pedley
- Famous Five series, The Wishing Chair and The Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
- Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Jan Brett
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Hans Christian Fairy Tales by H.C. Andersen
- Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
- Heidi by Johanna Spyri
- Hills End by Ivan Southall
- Just So Stories and The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
- Kidnapped and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- King Arthur and His Knights and The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
- King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
- Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, and Cinderella by Charles Perrault
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Madeline series by Ludwig Bemelmans
- Mary Poppins series by P.L. Travers
- Meg and Mog by Jan Pienkowski
- Miffy by Dick Bruna
- Mr Men series by Roger Hargreaves
- Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
- Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
- Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
- Silver Brumby series by Elyne Mitchell
- Snow White, Rapunzel, and Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm
- Snugglepot and Cuddlepie series by May Gibbs
- Storm Boy by Colin Thiele
- Ten Little Ladybirds by Melanie Gerth
- The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
- The Borrowers by Mary Norton
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss
- The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay
- The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
- The Snail and the Whale, Room on a Broom and The Gruffalo’s Child by Julia Donaldson
- The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Rudolf Wyss
- The Tales of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- Tom Brown’s Schooldays by Thomas Hughes
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- Wicked series by Paul Jennings and Morris Gleitzman
- Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
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Cheers, Natasha
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