WORLD Magazine's Nifty 50

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Classic 20th-century children’s books from the July 1, 2000 edition of World Magazine. Picture books, then chapter books, in alphabetical order by author.

  1. 1.
    The Runaway Bunny
    by Margaret Wise Brown

  2. 2.
    ?
    Lost Sheep
    by Nick Butterworth

  3. 3.
    Freight Train/Tren de carga (Spanish Edition)
    by Donald Crews

  4. 4.
    The Knight and the Dragon
    by Tomie De Paola

  5. 5.
    Bearymore (Picture Puffin Books)
    by Don Freeman

  6. 6.
    Asterix the Gaul: Album #1
    by Rene Goscinny

  7. 7.
    Ox-Cart Man -(Book & Audio CD)
    by Donald Hall

  8. 8.
    The Tale of Three Trees
    by Angela Elwell Hunt

  9. 10.
    ?
    I, Mouse
    by Robert Kraus

  10. 11.
    ?
    Carrot Seed
    by Ruth Krauss

  11. 12.
    Story of Ferdinand, The
    by Munro Leaf

  12. 13.
    The Tale of Custard the Dragon
    by Ogden Nash

  13. 14.
    Cowardly Clyde
    by Bill Peet

  14. 15.
    ?
    The Bed Book
    by Sylvia Plath

  15. 16.
    ?
    Just Plain Fancy
    by Patricia Polacco

  16. 18.
    ?
    The Relatives Came
    by Cynthia Rylant

  17. 19.
    Cars, Trucks and Things That Go
    by Richard Scarry

  18. 20.
    ?
    Chicken Soup With Rice: A Book of Months
    by Maurice Sendak

  19. 21.
    Horton Hatches the Egg (Dr Seuss Yellow Back Book)
    by Dr Seuss

  20. 22.
    Oh What a Noise!
    by Uri Shulevitz

  21. 23.
    Yellow & Pink

  22. 25.
    Mr. Popper's Penguins
    by Richard Atwater

  23. 26.
    A Bear Called Paddington
    by Michael Bond

  24. 27.
    The BFG
    by Roald Dahl

  25. 28.
    Journey Through the Night
    by Anne De Vries

  26. 29.
    Halfback Tough (Puffin story books)
    by Thomas J. Dygard

  27. 30.
    Tintin in America (Adventures of Tintin)
    by Herge

  28. 31.
    All Creatures Great and Small
    by James Herriot

  29. 32.
    Redwall
    by Brian Jacques

  30. 33.
    ?
    Wild Trek
    by Jim Kjelgaard

  31. 35.
    Pippi Longstocking (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Astrid Lindgren

  32. 36.
    Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
    by Betty MacDonald

  33. 37.
    Anne of Green Gables (Sterling Classics)
    by Lucy Maud Montgomery

  34. 38.
    Rascal (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Sterling North

  35. 39.
    The Island of the Blue Dolphins
    by Scott O'Dell

  36. 40.
    Great Gilly Hopkins (New Windmill)
    by Katherine Paterson

  37. 41.
    ?
    Fat Men from Space
    by Daniel Manus Pinkwater

  38. 42.
    ?
    Wambu: In the Valley of Death
    by Piet Prins

  39. 43.
    Where the Red Fern Grows
    by Wilson Rawls

  40. 44.
    Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
    by Mildred D. Taylor

  41. 45.
    All-of-a-Kind Family
    by Sydney Taylor

  42. 46.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  43. 47.
    Homecoming (The Tillerman Series #1)
    by Cynthia Voigt

  44. 48.
    Charlotte's Web Read-Aloud Edition
    by E. B. White

  45. 49.
    Little House on the Prairie (Little House)
    by Laura Ingalls Wilder

  46. 50.
    Amos Fortune, Free Man (Newbery Library, Puffin)
    by Elizabeth Yates

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