Hypothetical Bookshelf

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You’re stocking a bookshelf for a child – your own, someone else’s, doesn’t matter. Cost is no expense, and you want them to have books that will see them right through to adulthood. What are the must-have titles?

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  1. 2.
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    The Very Hungry Caterpillar
    by Eric Carle

  2. 5.
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    I Want To Go Home! (Apple Paperbacks)
    by Gordon Korman

  3. 6.
    Beware the Fish! (Bruno and Boots)
    by Gordon Korman

  4. 7.
    Alice in Wonderland
    by Lewis Carroll

  5. 9.
    The Secret Garden
    by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  6. 10.
    The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit
    by Beatrix Potter

  7. 11.
    When We Were Very Young (Pooh Original Edition)
    by A. A. Milne

  8. 12.
    The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh
    by A. A. Milne

  9. 13.
    The Giving Tree

  10. 14.
    ?

  11. 15.
    Where Did I Come From?
    by Peter Mayle

  12. 16.
    The Roald Dahl Treasury
    by Roald Dahl

  13. 17.
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    The Twits (Hardcover)
    by Roald Dahl

  14. 18.
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    The Witches by Roald Dahl

  15. 19.
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    by Roald Dahl

  16. 20.
    Matilda
    by Roald Dahl

  17. 21.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

  18. 22.
    Small Gods
    by Terry Pratchett

  19. 23.
    The Wind in the Willows
    by Kenneth Grahame

  20. 25.
    Goodnight Moon
    by Margaret Wise Brown

  21. 26.
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    The Magic Faraway Tree
    by Enid Blyton

  22. 27.
    My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Jean Craighead George

  23. 28.
    Bridge to Terabithia (Summer Reading Edition)
    by Katherine Paterson

  24. 29.
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    The Poky Little Puppy (A Golden Fuzzy-Wuzzy Book)
    by Janette Sebring Lowrey

  25. 30.
    The Chronicles of Narnia
    by C.S. Lewis

  26. 31.
    The Farthest-Away Mountain
    by Lynne Reid Banks

  27. 32.
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    The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
    by PATRICIA C WREDE

  28. 33.
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    The Silver Tree
    by Ruth L. Williams

  29. 34.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  30. 35.
    The Complete Screech Owls, Volume 1
    by Roy MacGregor

  31. 36.
    The Sword in the Stone (Collins Modern Classics)
    by T. H. White

  32. 37.
    Swallows and Amazons
    by Arthur Ransome

  33. 39.
    Journey to the River Sea
    by Eva Ibbotson

  34. 40.
    Owls in the Family
    by Farley Mowat

  35. 41.
    The Dog Who Wouldn't Be
    by Farley Mowat

  36. 42.
    Hoot
    by Carl Hiaasen

  37. 43.
    The Story of Ferdinand
    by Munro Leaf

  38. 44.
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  39. 45.
    Dancing Shoes (The Shoe Books)
    by Noel Streatfeild

  40. 46.
    Coraline
    by Neil Gaiman

  41. 47.
    Caddie Woodlawn
    by Carol Ryrie Brink

  42. 48.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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Created by rhia on Apr 02, 2007.
 

Comments

Added Tuck Everlasting — 1 year ago

Read it in third grade, and although I’ve read many books since then, it remains my favorite. I think every child should have access to it.


Untitled — 5 years ago

‘Cost is no expense.’

Giggle!


Heidi — 5 years ago

Heidi was actually written by Johanna Spyri. I don’t know who this Alan Dwan is, maybe the translator.

Anyway, when I was a child I hated the book, it’s incredible cheesy and dull.




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