minz's list of children's books
- michelle magorian: good night, mister tom
- e.b. white: the trumpet of the swan; charlotte's web
- e. nesbit: the adventures of the treasure seekers (and then the wouldbegoods, followed by further adventures of the treasure-seekers); the phoenix and the carpet; the railway children
- madeleine l'engle: austin family series but in particular a ring of endless light, time quartet but particularly a wind in the door and many waters<
- norton juster: the phantom tollbooth
- patricia a. mckillip: the riddle master trilogy
- salman rushdie: haroun and the sea of stories
- edmondo di amicis: the heart of boyhood
- enid blyton: malory towers and st clare books, five findouters books, also the castle / island / river / valley / etc of adventure series,
- roald dahl: almost anything but especially danny the champion of the world and the witches, boy and going solo for the autobiographical
- margery williams: the velveteen rabbit
- hettie jones: forever young, forever free
- astrid lingren: emil and the soup tureen
- l.m. montgomery: the anne books especially anne of avonlea and anne of the island
- john d. fitzgerald's great brain series
- james thurber: the thirteen clocks
- laura ingalls wilder: little house series particularly on the banks of plum creek, little town on the prairie and these happy golden years.
- frances hodgson burnett: a little princess
- richard adams: watership down
- meindert de jong: the house of sixty fathers
- arthur ransome: swallows and amazons
- beverly cleary: henry huggins books; ralph s mouse books; ramona books; sister of the bride
- kenneth graham: the wind in the willows
- lois lowry's anastasia series
- hugh lofting's doctor dolittle books
- judy blume: starring sally j. freedman as herself; are you there god? it's me margaret; tales of a fourth grade nothing
- walten macken: flight of the doves
- forrest carter: the education of little tree
- noel streatfeild: ballet shoes; dancing shoes; theatre shoes
- j.k. rowling: harry potter series
- c.s. lewis: the narnia chronicles
i'll add to this if as i think of more books