The 50 Greatest Children's Books of All Time

The following is an aggregate list sourced from over 480 "Greatest Books of All Time" lists curated by TheGreatestBooks. The full list can be found here. (updated as of 2/14/25)

1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (1865)
2. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
3. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (1868)
4. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White (1952)
5. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
6. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (1908)
7. Fairy Tales and Stories - Hans Christian Andersen (1835)
8. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling (1997)
9. Winnie the Pooh - A. A. Milne (1926)
10. Watership Down - Richard Adams (1972)
11. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)
12. A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L'Engle (1962)
13. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin (1968)
14. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis (1950)
15. Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery (1908)
16. The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis (1950)
17. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren (1945)
18. Peter And Wendy - J. M. Barrie (1911)
19. Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak (1963)
20. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (1995)
21. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
22. The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster (1961)
23. Household Tales - Brothers Grimm (1812)
24. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain (1876)
25. Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown (1947)
26. Harriet the Spy - Louise Fitzhugh (1964)
27. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum (1900)
28. Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll (1871)
29. The Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss (1957)
30. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell (1877)
31. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (1964)
32. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor (1976)
33. The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter (1902)
34. Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder (1935)
35. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling (1999)
36. The Snowy Day - Ezra Jack Keats (1962)
37. Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild (1936)
38. The BFG - Roald Dahl (1982)
39. Aesop's Fables - Aesop (-560)
40. The Dark Is Rising - Susan Cooper (1973)
41. The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman (1995)
42. Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein (1974)
43. Danny The Champion Of The World - Roald Dahl (1975)
44. Heidi - Johanna Spyri (1881)
45. Mary Poppins - P. L. Travers (1934)
46. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling (2005)
47. The Twits - Roald Dahl (1980)
48. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis (1952)
49. Matilda - Roald Dahl (1988)
50. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle (1969)