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Hypothetical Bookshelf

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. The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, ... Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside)
by L.M. Montgomery
  
2.
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 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle
  
3. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
by Neil Gaiman
  
4. His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass
by Phillip Pullman
  
5.
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 I Want To Go Home! (Apple Paperbacks)
by Gordon Korman
  
6. Beware the Fish! (Bruno and Boots)
by Gordon Korman
  
7. Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
  
8.
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 Katy 3 -in- 1: What Katy Did, What Katy Did at School, What Katy Did Next
by Susan Coolidge
  
9. The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
10. The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit
by Beatrix Potter
  
11. When We Were Very Young (Pooh Original Edition)
by A. A. Milne
  
12. The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh/WTP
by A. A. Milne
  
13. The Giving Tree  
14.
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 the secret land of ogg by pierre berton  
15. Where Did I Come From?
by Peter Mayle
  
16.
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 The Roald Dahl Treasury
by Roald Dahl
  
17.
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 The Twits (Hardcover)
by Roald Dahl
  
18.
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 The Witches by Roald Dahl  
19.
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 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
  
20. Matilda
by Roald Dahl
  
21. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
  
22. Small Gods
by Terry Pratchett
  
23. The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
  
24. Where the Wild Things Are (Caldecott Collection)  
25. Goodnight Moon, 60th Anniversary Edition
by Margaret Wise Brown
  
26.
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 The Magic Faraway Tree
by Enid Blyton
  
27. My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics) (Puffin Modern Classics)
by Jean Craighead Craighead George
  
28. Bridge to Terabithia (Summer Reading Edition)
by Katherine Paterson
  
29.
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 The Poky Little Puppy (Golden Fuzzy Wuzzy Book)
by Jean Chandler
  
30. The Chronicles of Narnia
by C.S. Lewis
  
31. The Farthest-Away Mountain
by Lynne Reid Banks
  
32.
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 The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
by PATRICIA C WREDE
  
33.
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 The Silver Tree
by Ruth L. Williams
  
34.
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 Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
  
35. The Complete Screech Owls, Volume 1
by Roy MacGregor
  
36. The Sword in the Stone (Collins Modern Classics)
by T.H. White
  
37. Swallows and Amazons
by Arthur Ransome
  
38. The Little House Collection: Little House in the Big Woods/Little House on the Prairie/Farmer Boy/on Thebanks of Plum Creek/by the Shores of Silver Lake/the Long Winter/Little tow (Little House Books)
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  
39. Journey to the River Sea
by Eva Ibbotson
  
40. Owls in the Family
by Farley Mowat
  
41. The Dog Who Wouldn't Be
by Farley Mowat
  
42. Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen
  
43. The Story of Ferdinand
by Munro Leaf
  
44.
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 Complete Brothers Grimm Fairytales Coles  
45. Dancing Shoes
by Noel Streatfeild
  
46.
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 Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
  
47. Caddie Woodlawn
by Carol Ryrie Brink
  
48. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
49. Masterpieces in Miniature: The Detectives: Stories by Agatha Christie
by Agatha Christie
  
50.
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 ONE AND ONLY WACKY WORDBOOK :Words, and more words set in a comical format.
by Lippman's Peter
  
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Created by rhia on Apr 02, 2007.