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One Hundred Books That
Shaped the Century |
| AUTHOR |
TITLE |
DATE |
| Aardema, Verna |
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears:
A West African Tale |
1975 |
| Alexander, Lloyd |
The High King |
1968 |
| Avi |
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle |
1990 |
| Babbitt, Natalie |
Tuck Everlasting |
1975 |
| Bemelmans, Ludwig |
Madeline |
1939 |
| Bishop, Claire Huchet |
The Five Chinese Brothers |
1938 |
| Blume, Judy |
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret |
1970 |
| Bond, Michael |
A Bear Called Paddington |
1958 |
| Brown, Margaret Wise |
Goodnight Moon |
1947 |
| Bunting, Eve |
Smoky Night |
1994 |
| Burnett, Frances Hodgson |
The Secret Garden |
1911 |
| Burnford, Sheila |
The Incredible Journey: A Tale of Three
Animals |
1961 |
| Burton, Virginia Lee |
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel |
1939 |
| Byars, Betsy |
Summer of the Swans |
1970 |
| Carle, Eric |
The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
1969 |
| Cleary, Beverly |
Ramona the Pest |
1968 |
| Cole, Brock |
The Goats |
1987 |
| Cole, Joanna |
The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks |
1986 |
| Cooper, Susan |
The Dark Is Rising |
1973 |
| Cormier, Robert |
The Chocolate War |
1974 |
| Cresswell, Helen |
Ordinary Jack |
1977 |
| Crews, Donald |
Freight Train |
1978 |
| Dahl, Roald |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
1964 |
| dePaola, Tomie |
Strega Nona |
1975 |
| Fitzhugh, Louise |
Harriet the Spy |
1964 |
| Fleischman, Paul |
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices |
1988 |
| Fox, Paula |
The One-Eyed Cat |
1984 |
| Frank, Anne |
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl |
1952 |
| Freedman, Russell |
Lincoln: A Photobiography |
1987 |
| Fritz, Jean |
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? |
1973 |
| Gág, Wanda |
Millions of Cats |
1928 |
| Garden, Nancy |
Annie on My Mind |
1982 |
| George, Jean Craighead |
Julie of the Wolves |
1972 |
| Grahame, Kenneth |
The Wind in the Willows |
1933 |
| Hamilton, Virginia |
M. C. Higgins, the Great |
1974 |
| Hamilton, Virginia |
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales |
1985 |
| Henkes, Kevin |
Chester's Way |
1988 |
| Hesse, Karen |
Out of the Dust |
1997 |
| Hinton, S. E. |
The Outsiders |
1967 |
| Hoban, Tana |
Shapes and Things |
1970 |
| Holling, Holling C. |
Paddle-to-the-Sea |
1941 |
| Keats, Ezra Jack |
The Snowy Day |
1962 |
| Kerr, M. E. |
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack |
1972 |
| Kipling, Rudyard |
Just So Stories |
1902 |
| Konigsburg, E. L. |
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
1967 |
| Lauber, Patricia |
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mt. St. Helens |
1986 |
| Lawson, Robert |
Rabbit Hill |
1944 |
| LeGuin, Ursula |
A Wizard of Earthsea |
1968 |
| L'Engle, Madeleine |
A Wrinkle in Time |
1962 |
| Lewis, C. S. |
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe |
1950 |
| Lindgren, Astrid |
Pippi Longstocking |
1950 |
| Lobel, Arnold |
Frog and Toad Are Friends |
1970 |
| Lowry, Lois |
Anastasia Krupnik |
1979 |
| Lowry, Lois |
The Giver |
1993 |
| Macaulay, David |
Cathedral |
1973 |
| Macaulay, David |
The Way Things Work |
1988 |
| MacLachlan, Patricia |
Sarah, Plain and Tall |
1985 |
| Marshall, James |
George and Martha |
1972 |
Martin, Bill Jr. &
John Archimbault |
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom |
1989 |
| McCloskey, Robert |
Make Way for Ducklings |
1941 |
| McCord, David |
Far and Few |
1962 |
| McKinley, Robin |
The Hero and the Crown |
1984 |
| McKissack, Patricia |
Mirandy and Brother Wind |
1988 |
| Merrill, Jean |
The Pushcart War |
1964 |
| Milne, A. A. |
Winnie-the-Pooh |
1926 |
| Minarik, Else |
Little Bear |
1957 |
| Montgomery, L. M. |
Anne of Green Gables |
1908 |
| Myers, Walter Dean |
Fallen Angels |
1988 |
| O'Dell, Scott |
Island of the Blue Dolphins |
1960 |
| Paterson, Katherine |
Bridge to Terabithia |
1977 |
| Paulsen, Gary |
Hatchet |
1987 |
| Pearce, Philippa |
Tom's Midnight Garden |
1959 |
| Piper, Watty |
The Little Engine That Could |
1930 |
| Potter, Beatrix |
The Tale of Peter Rabbit |
1902 |
| Raschka, Chris |
Yo! Yes? |
1993 |
| Raskin, Ellen |
The Westing Game |
1978 |
| Rey, H. A. |
Curious George |
1941 |
| Rowling, J. K. |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
1998 |
| Scieszka, John |
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales |
1992 |
| Sendak, Maurice |
Where the Wild Things Are |
1963 |
| Seuss, Dr. |
The Cat in the Hat |
1957 |
| Silverstein, Shel |
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings |
1974 |
| Singer, Isaac Bashevis |
Zlateh the Goat |
1966 |
| Slepian, Jan |
The Alfred Summer |
1980 |
| Slobodkina, Esphyr |
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys,
and Their Monkey Business |
1940 |
| Steig, William |
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble |
1969 |
| Steptoe, John |
Stevie |
1969 |
| Sutcliff, Rosemary |
The Lantern Bearers |
1959 |
| Taylor, Mildred |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
1976 |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. |
The Hobbit |
1938 |
| Travers, P. L. |
Mary Poppins |
1934 |
| Van Allsburg, Chris |
The Polar Express |
1985 |
| Voigt, Cynthia |
Homecoming |
1981 |
| Wells, Rosemary |
Max's First World |
1979 |
| White, E. B. |
Charlotte's Web |
1952 |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
Little House in the Big Woods |
1932 |
| Young, Ed |
Seven Blind Mice |
1992 |
| Zelinsky, Paul O. |
Rumpelstiltskin |
1986 |
| Zindel, Paul |
The Pigman |
1968 |
| Zolotow, Charlotte |
William's Doll |
1972 |
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