How well-read I am in Children's Literature
I've read ...
- The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
- Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Where's Spot? by Eric Hill
- Good Dog, Carl by Alexandra Day
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
- Curious George by Margret Rey
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
- The Berenstain Bears by Stan and Jan Berenstain
- Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (I didn't actually read this until after I saw the movie.)
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
- The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
- Love You Forever by Robert Munsch (my mom always cried when she read this to us. Now as an adult, I cry, too.)
- The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen
- The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
- The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
- The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams ("Once You Are Real, You Cannot Become Unreal Again.")
- Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
- Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
- Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
- Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman (My husband's favorite book from childhood. Aww.)
- Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
- Miss Nelson is Missing! by Harry Allard
- The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by aura Joffe Numeroff
- The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
- Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
- Black Beauty by Anne Sewell
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (a disappointment)
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Lyman Frank Baum
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- The Secret Garden by F. Hodgson Burnett
- Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (read in my grandma's basement)
- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White (AND the rest of the book)
- The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
- Stuart Little by E.B. White
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
- The Hundred and One Dalmations (read this as an adult when I was recovering from surgery)
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- Superfudge by Judy Blume
- The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynn Reid Banks
- The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
- Hitler's Daughter by Jackie French (didn't impress me)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (also kind of a let-down)
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (um, children's book?)
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (twice!)
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- The Cay by Theodor Tayor
- Sounder by William H. Armstrong
- Julie of the Wolves by J. Craighead George
- The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
- Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
- Hatchet by Gary Paulson
- The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden (not as good as John Marsden's other books)
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- The Messenger by Markus Zusak
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Books I Own But Haven't Read
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
- King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
- A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
- Heidi's Wandering and Learning Years by Johanna Spyri
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (that I haven't read this yet is a stain upon my good name)
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
I'm gonna buy a copy of this book when I have kids so I can read him or her all of them and s/he can be smug from a young age about how well-read s/he is. ;)