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WORLD Magazine's Nifty 50

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. The Runaway Bunny
by Margaret Wise Brown
  
2.
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 Lost Sheep
by Nick Butterworth
  
3. Freight Train/Tren de carga  
4. The Knight and the Dragon
by Tomie De Paola
  
5. Bearymore (Picture Puffin Books)
by Don Freeman
  
6. Asterix the Gaul (Asterix)
by Rene Goscinny
  
7.
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 Ox-Cart Man
by Donald Hall
  
8. The Tale of Three Trees
by Angela Elwell Hunt
  
9. Harold and the Purple Crayon 50th Anniversary Edition (Purple Crayon Books)  
10.
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 I, Mouse
by Robert Kraus
  
11.
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 Carrot Seed
by Ruth Krauss
  
12. Story of Ferdinand, The
by Munro Leaf
  
13. The Tale of Custard the Dragon
by Ogden Nash
  
14. Cowardly Clyde
by Bill Peet
  
15.
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 The Bed Book
by Sylvia Plath
  
16.
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 Just Plain Fancy
by Patricia Polacco
  
17. MR. AND MRS. PIG'S EVENING OUT (Mr & Mrs Pigs Evening Out)
by Rayner
  
18.
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 The Relatives Came
by Cynthia Rylant
  
19. Cars, Trucks and Things That Go
by Richard Scarry
  
20.
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 Chicken Soup With Rice: A Book of Months
by Maurice Sendak
  
21. Horton Hatches the Egg
by Dr. Seuss
  
22.
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 Oh What a Noise!
by Uri Shulevitz
  
23. Yellow & Pink  
24.
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 Granfa' Grig Had a Pig and Other Rhymes Without Reason from Mother Goose
by Wallace Tripp
  
25. Mr. Popper's Penguins
by Richard Atwater
  
26. A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington Bear)
by Michael Bond
  
27. The BFG
by Roald Dahl
  
28.
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 Journey Through the Night
by Anne De Vries
  
29. Halfback Tough
by Thomas J. Dygard
  
30. Tintin in America (Adventures of Tintin)
by Herge
  
31. All Creatures Great and Small
by James Herriot
  
32. Redwall
by Brian Jacques
  
33.
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 Wild Trek
by Jim Kjelgaard
  
34. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
  
35. Pippi Longstocking (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics)
by Astrid Lindgren
  
36. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
by Betty MacDonald
  
37. Anne of Green Gables (Unabridged Classics)
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  
38. Rascal (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics)
by Sterling North
  
39. The Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
  
40. Great Gilly Hopkins (New Windmill)
by Katherine Paterson
  
41.
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 Fat Men from Space
by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
  
42.
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 Wambu: I the Valley of Death
by Piet Prins
  
43. Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls
  
44. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics) (Puffin Modern Classics)
by Mildred D. Taylor
  
45. All-of-a-Kind Family
by Sydney Taylor
  
46. The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
47. Homecoming
by Cynthia Voigt
  
48. Charlotte's Web Read-Aloud Edition
by E. B. White
  
49. Little House on the Prairie (Little House)
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  
50. Amos Fortune, Free Man (Newbery Library, Puffin)
by Elizabeth Yates
  
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