The Independent's 50 books every child should read

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1-10: Philip Pullman

11-20: Michael Morpurgo

21-30: Katy Guest

31-40: John Walsh

41-50: Michael Rosen

  1. 2.
    Pinocchio (Puffin Classics)
    by Carlo Collodi

  2. 3.
    Emil and the Detectives
    by Erich Kästner

  3. 4.
    Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller)
    by Arthur Ransome

  4. 5.
    Black Hearts in Battersea
    by Joan Aiken

  5. 6.
    The Owl Service
    by Alan Garner

  6. 7.
    The Phantom Tollbooth
    by Norton Juster

  7. 8.
    Moominsummer Madness (Moomintrolls)
    by Tove Jansson

  8. 9.
    A hundred million francs (Puffin books.no.143)
    by Paul Berna

  9. 10.

  10. 11.
    The Star of Kazan
    by Eva Ibbotson

  11. 12.
    Penguin Classics: A Christmas Carol
    by Charles Dickens

  12. 13.
    Just William
    by Richmal Crompton

  13. 14.
    The Happy Prince: And Other Tales
    by Oscar Wilde

  14. 15.
    The Elephant's Child
    by Rudyard Kipling

  15. 16.
    Treasure Island (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  16. 17.
    THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
    by Ernest Hemingway

  17. 18.
    The Man Who Planted Trees
    by Jean Giono

  18. 19.
    The Singing Tree (Newbery Library, Puffin)
    by Kate Seredy

  19. 20.
    The Secret Garden (Puffin Classics)
    by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  20. 21.
    Refugee Boy
    by Benjamin Zephaniah

  21. 22.
    Finn Family Moomintroll (Moomintrolls)
    by Tove Jansson

  22. 23.
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    by Jeff Kinney

  23. 24.
    I Capture the Castle
    by Dodie Smith

  24. 25.

  25. 26.
    The Tygrine Cat
    by Inbali Iserles

  26. 27.
    Carry On, Jeeves (A Jeeves and Bertie Novel)
    by P. G. Wodehouse

  27. 28.
    When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
    by Judith Kerr

  28. 29.
    Moving Pictures (Discworld Novel S.)
    by Terry Pratchett

  29. 30.
    Story Of Tracy Beaker
    by Jacqueline Wilson

  30. 31.
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    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  31. 32.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon

  32. 33.
    Mistress Masham's Repose
    by T. H. White

  33. 34.
    Little Women (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

  34. 35.
    How to Be Topp
    by Geoffrey Villans

  35. 36.
    Stormbreaker (Alex Rider)
    by Anthony Horowitz

  36. 37.
    Private Peaceful
    by Michael Morpurgo

  37. 38.
    ARTEMIS FOWL (ARTEMIS FOWL, NO 1)
    by EOIN COLFER

  38. 39.
    The Silver Sword
    by Ian Serraillier

  39. 40.
    ?
    ANIMAL FARM ( Penguin Modern Classics )
    by George Orwell

  40. 41.
    Skellig
    by David Almond

  41. 42.
    Red, Cherry Red (Book & CD)
    by Jackie Kay

  42. 43.
    Talking Turkeys (Puffin Teenage Poetry)
    by Zephaniah

  43. 44.
    Orchard Book of Greek Myths
    by Geraldine McCaughrean

  44. 45.
    People Might Hear You
    by Robin Klein

  45. 46.
    Noughts And Crosses

  46. 48.
    After the First Death
    by Robert Cormier

  47. 49.
    The London Eye Mystery
    by Siobhan Dowd

  48. 50.
    The Beano Annual (Annuals)

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Created by edith on Mar 27, 2011.
 

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