I am putting together a list of classic books which we have available in the Library which many of our children might be interested in.
I know I have a number of children, in Year 4 especially, who are always looking for classics to read, and so I have decided to compile a list which will help them when they are looking for a new book.
What is great is that some of the books we have in a number of different formats, so the story can be reached by a larger number of children.
This is what I have put together so far...
Classics to try
F = General Fiction
FUN = Fun Read
POP = Popular Paperback
FUP = Popular Paperback / Fun Read
PIC = Picture Book
SOP = Sophisticated Picture Book
398.2 = Non Fiction
2000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
F/VER
FUN/VER
GRPH/V
Aesop’s Fables
Aesop
SOP/F
SOP/W
398.2
398.2 FUN
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
FUN/CAR
SOP/C
GRPH/P
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
F/BUR
Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery
F/MON
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
F/SEW
PIC/S
The Borrowers
Mary Norton
F/NOR
Call of the Wild
Jack London
F/LON
FUP/FRA
Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White
F/WHI
PIC/E
PIC/L
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
FUP/FRA
SOP/D
Daddy-Long-Legs
Jean Webster
F/WEB
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
F/FRA
Fairy Tales (including Grimm)
398.2
F/GRI
The Famous Five (series)
Enid Blyton
F/BLY
Finn Family Moonintroll
Tove Jansson
POP/JAN
Five Children and It
E. Nesbit
F/NES
POP/N
SOP/N
Goodnight Mr Tom
Michelle Magorian
F/MAG
Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift
F/SWI
POP/SWI
FUN/STI
The Hatchet (series)
Gary Paulsen
F/PAU
Heidi
Johanna Spyri
F/SPY
FUN/HEI
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
F/TOL
GRPH/T
The House at Pooh Corner
A.A. Milne
F/MIL
Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
POP/TWA
FUP/TWA
I Am David
Anne Holm
F/HOL
The Incredible Journey
Sheila Burnford
ARCH/BUR
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
F/VER
FUP/VER
Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
GRPH/B
Just So Stories
Rudyard Kipling
F/KIP
King Solomon’s Mines
Sir H. Rider Haggard
FUP/HAG
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
GRPH/H
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (series)
CS Lewis
F/LEW
SOP/O
SOP/L
The Little House on the Prairie
Laura Inglis Wilder
F/WIL
Little Women
Louisa M. Alcott
F/ALC
POP/ALC
FUN/ALC
The Lost World
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
FUP/DOY
Moonfleet
J. Meade Falkner
F/FAL
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
F/LOW
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie
F/BAR
FUN/TRI
PIC/B
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster
F/JUS
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren
F/LIN
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit
PIC/D
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
F/DEF
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
F/BUR
FUN/BUR
FUP/BUR
PIC/D
The Secret Seven (series)
Enid Blyton
F/BLY
The Silver Sword
Ian Serrailier
F/SER
POP/SER
Swallows and Amazons
Arthur Ransome
F/RAN
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
FUP/FRA
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
F/DUM
Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll
F/CAR
Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
POP/TWA
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
F/STE
FUN/STE
FUP/STE
The Velveteen Rabbit
Margery Williams
SOP/W
The Water Babies
Charles Kingsley
F/KIN
What Katy Did (series)
Susan Coolidge
F/COO
White Fang
Jack London
F/LON
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Graham
F/GRA
FUN/GRA
GRPH/G
PIC/G
The Wizard of Oz
Frank Baum
F/BAU
FUN/BAU
GRPH/B
SOP/B
