I am working on reading each of Amazon’s 100 Children’s Books to Read in a Lifetime! See my post about my challenge and my plan.
On this page I will keep a full list of the challenge books. I will update the page each Monday with what I have read. You can see my full reviews by looking at the It’s Monday tag on the main site.
The Books
Books I Have Read This Semester
- Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, by Mo Willems
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, by William Steig
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznic
- Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak
- Jumangi, by Chris Van Allsburg
- Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson
- Wonder, by R.J. Palacio
- Press Here, by Herve Tullet
- Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site, by Sherri Duskey Rinker
- Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Dr. Seuss’s Beginner Book Collection, by Dr. Seuss
- The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Bloom
- The Mouse and the Motorcycle, by Beverly Cleary
- Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, by Judi Barett
- The Little Prince, by Antoine de Sait-Exupery
- The Day the Crayons Quit, by Drew Daywalt
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling
- The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, by William Joyce
- Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli
- Olivia, by Ian Falconer
- A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
- Llama Llama Red Pajama, by Anna Dewdney
- Mr. Popper’s Penguins, by Richard Atwater
- Pat the Bunny, by Dorothy Kunhardt
- The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
- Corduroy, by Don Freeman
- Caps for Sale, by Esphyr Slobodkina
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg
- The Complete Adventures of Curious George, by H.A. Rey
Books New to Me
- The Classic Treasury of Aesop’s Fables, by Don Daily
- And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson
- Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery
- The Complete Tales (Pet Rabbit), by Beatrix Potter
- Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell
- Bread and Jam for Frances, by Russell Hoban
- Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
- Betsy-Tacy, by Maud Hart Lovelace
- Book of Greek Myths, by Ingri d”Aulaire
- Esperanza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan
- Harriett the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh
- Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
- Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Guess How Much I Love You, by Sam McBratney
- Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans
- Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey
- My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George
- Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton
- Paddle-to-the-Sea, by Holling C. Colling
- The Borrowers, by Mary Norton
- Owen, by Kevin Henkes
- The Call of the Wild, Jack London
- The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden
- The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling
- The New Way Things Work, by David Macaluay
- The Real Mother Goose, by Blanche Fisher Wright
- The Little Engine that Could, by Watty Piper
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
- The Paper Bag Princess, by Robert Munsch
- The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats
- The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant, by Jean De Brunhoff
- The Story of Ferdinand the Bull, by Munro Leaf
- The Wednesday Wars, by Gary D. Schmidt
- The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin
- The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo
- The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys #1), Franklin W. Dixon
- The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
- Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbit
- Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin
Old Favorites
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney
- Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, by Donald J. Sobol
- Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown
- Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales, by Jacob Grimm
- Holes, by Louis Sachar
- Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O’Dell
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O’Brien
- Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, by Betty MacDonald
- Pippy Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren
- Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie
- The Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner
- The Bad Beginning, by Lemony Snickett
- The Giver, by Lois Lowry
- The House at Pooh Corner, by A.A. Milne
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1: The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan
- The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew #1), by Carolyn Keene
- The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
- Watership Down, by Richard Adams
- Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls
- Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein
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