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| Children's Books |
| Little Women (1868), Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), Jo's Boys (1888), Good Wives |
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Louisa May Alcott |
| The Red Shoes, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Match Girl (active 1835–72) |
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Hans Christian Anderson |
| The Young Visiters (1919) |
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Daisy Ashford |
| The railway stories (26 books, 1945–72; a further 16 were published by his son Christopher; televised as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends) |
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Rev. W. Awdry |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) |
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L. Frank Baum |
| A Moral Alphabet (1899), Cautionary Tales for Children (1907) – verse collections |
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Hilaire Belloc |
| Father Christmas (1973), Fungus the Bogeyman (1977), The Snowman (1978), When the Wind Blows (1982) | |
Raymond Briggs |
| The Jennings stories (25 books, starting with Jennings Goes to School 1950, original series ending with Jennings at Large 1977, then Jennings Again! 1991, That's Jennings 1994) |
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Anthony Buckeridge |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885–6), The Little Princess (1905), The Secret Garden (1911) |
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969): designed, written and illustrated by
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Eric Carle |
| Artemis Fowl (8 books, 2001–12) |
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Eoin Colfer |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) |
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Carlo Collodi |
| What Katy Did (1872 – a.k.a. What Katy Did At Home), What Katy Did at School (1873), What Katy Did Next (1886), Clover (1888), In the High Valley (1880) |
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Susan Coolidge |
| How to Train Your Dragon (series – 16 books, 2003–15); That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown (2006, and 3 sequels); The Wizards of Once (2017, and 3 sequels); Children's Laureate 2019–21 |
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Cressida Cowell |
| The 'William' stories (39 books, 1929–70) |
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Richmal Crompton |
| James and the Giant Peach (1961), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), Fantastic Mr. Fox (1970), Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972), Danny the Champion of the World (1975), The Enormous Crocodile (1978), The Twits (1980), George's Marvellous Medicine (1981), The BFG (1982), The Witches (1983), Matilda (1988), Esio Trot (1989) |
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Roald Dahl |
| The Animals of Farthing Wood (1979 novel) |
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Colin Dann |
| Horrible Histories (23 books – see separate page) |
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Terry Deary |
| Songs of Childhood (1902 poetry collection), The Three Royal Monkeys (1910 children's novel), Come Hither (1923 anthology – editor) |
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Walter de la Mare |
| The Gruffalo (1999), Room on the Broom (2002), The Snail and the Whale (2003), Stick Man (2008), Zog (2010), The Highway Rat (2011) |
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Julia Donaldson |
| Chitty–Chitty–Bang–Bang: the Magical Car (1964) |
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Ian Fleming |
| The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: a Tale of Alderley (1960), The Moon of Gomrath (1963), Elidor (1965), The Owl Service (1967), Red Shift (1973), The Stone Book Quartet (1979 – "four very short novels which hang together as one work"), Strandloper (1996), Thursbitch (2003), Boneland (2012 – "[the] third book in the Weirdstone trilogy") |
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Alan Garner |
| The Wind in the Willows (1908) |
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Kenneth Grahame |
| 43 Mr. Men and 30 Little Misses books – starting with Mr. Tickle (1971); Little Miss Bossy (1981) was the first Little Miss book; after his death in 1988 the series was continued by his son Adam. Click here for more details |
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Roger Hargreaves |
| A Wonder–Book for Girls and Boys (1851), Tanglewood Tales (1853) – classic Greek legends retold for children |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 122 historical adventure stories, starting with A Search for a Secret (1867) and including Out on the Pampas (1868), The Young Franc–Tireurs and Their Adventure in the Franco–Prussian War (1871), Under Drake's Flag (1883), In Freedom's Cause (1885), The Dragon and The Raven (1886), For The Temple (1888), The Lion of St. Mark (1889), The Tiger of Mysore (1896), To Herat and Cabul (1902) |
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G. A. Henty |
| The Willows in Winter (1993 sequel to The Wind in the Willows) |
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William Horwood |
| Dogger (1977), Ella's Big Chance (2003) – both winners of the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration; Alfie (series) – writer and illustrator (b. 1927) |
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Shirley Hughes |
| Find the Feathered Serpent (1952), The Remarkable Harry (1959), The Wonderful Button (1961); also Danger: Dinosaurs and Rocket to Luna (both 1953), as Richard Marsten |
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Evan Hunter |
| The Tiger who Came to Tea (1968), When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (1971); German–born, died in 2019 aged 95 |
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Judith Kerr |
| The Water Babies (1863) |
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Charles Kingsley |
| The Sheep–Pig (1983)
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Dick King–Smith |
| Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2007, and a sequel every year until 2020 and counting – two in 2009; 15 books altogether, up to and including 2020) | |
Jeff Kinney |
| The Jungle Book (1894, and 1895 sequel), Puck of Pook's Hill (historical fantasy short stories for children, 1906), Kim (1901), The Just So Stories (1902) |
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Rudyard Kipling |
| Tales from Shakespeare (1807 – brother and sister) |
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Charles and Mary Lamb |
| The Chronicles of Narnia (7 books, 1950–56) |
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C. S. Lewis |
| Doctor Dolittle stories (8 books, 1920–33, plus two posthumous collections of short unpublished pieces) |
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Hugh Lofting |
| The English Roses (2003) |
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Madonna |
| Masterman Ready, or The Wreck of the Pacific (1841); The Children of the New Forest (1847) |
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Captain (Frederick) Marryat |
| The Midnight Folk (1927), The Box of Delights (1930) |
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John Masefield |
| Winnie–The–Pooh (1926), The House at Pooh Corner (1928); Now We Are Six (1927), When We were Very Young (1924) – poetry collections |
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A. A. Milne |
| Anne of Green Gables (1908) |
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L. M. Montgomery |
| War Horse (children's novel 1982; stage play 2007, film 2011) |
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Michael Morpurgo |
| The Story of the Treasureseekers (1899), The Wouldbegoods (1901), Five Children and It (1902), The Railway Children (1905) |
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E. Nesbit |
| Tom's Midnight Garden (1958), A Dog So Small (1962) |
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Philippa Pearce |
| The Tale of Kitty–in–Boots (discovered in the publisher's archive – not completed by the author – published in 2016, 67 years after her death) |
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Beatrix Potter |
| The Old Man of Lochnagar (1980 – illustrated by Sir Hugh Casson) |
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Prince Charles |
| The His Dark Materials trilogy: Northern Lights (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997), The Amber Spyglass (2000 – first children's book to win Whitbread Book of the Year) |
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Philip Pullman |
| Swallows and Amazons (1930), Swallowdale (1931), Peter Duck (1932), Winter Holiday (1932), Coot Club (1934), Pigeon Post (1936), We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (1937), Secret Water (1939), The Big Six (1940), Missee Lee (1941), The Picts and the Martyrs (1943), Great Northern? (1947), Coots in the North (1967 – posthumous unfinished sections) |
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Arthur Ransome |
| We're Going on a Bear Hunt (1989; illustrated by Helen Oxenbury) | | Michael Rosen |
| Where the Wild Things Are (1963): written and illustrated by |
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Maurice Sendak |
| Horton Hears a Who! (1954), The Cat in the Hat (1957), How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957), Green Eggs and Ham (1960), One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960), The Lorax (1971) |
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Dr. Seuss (Theodor S. Geisel) |
| Black Beauty (1877) |
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Anna Sewell |
| Horrid Henry (1994, and subsequent series) |
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Francesca Simon |
| The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956) |
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Dodie Smith |
| Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886), The Black Arrow (1888), The Master of Ballantrae (1889), Catriona (1893) |
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Ballet Shoes (1936) |
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Noel Streatfeild (sic) |
| The Hobbit (1937), Farmer Giles of Ham (1949), Tree and Leaf (1964), Smith of Wootton Major (short story, 1967), The Father Christmas Letters (written 1920–42, published posthumously in 1976), Mr. Bliss (published posthumously in 1982), Roverandom (published posthumously in 1998) |
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J. R. R. Tolkein |
| The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962 – a collection of poetry, including the title poem which was first published in 1934 in The Oxford Magazine) | ||
| The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13¾ (1982), The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1985), The True Confessions of Adrian Mole (1989), Adrian Mole: the Wilderness Years (1993), Adrian Mole: the Cappuccino Years (1999), Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004), The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole (2008), Adrian Mole: the Prostrate Years (2009) | | Sue Townsend |
| Mary Poppins (1934), Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935), Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943), Mary Poppins in the Park (1952), Mary Poppins from A to Z (1962), Mary Poppins in the Kitchen (1975), Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane (1982), Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1988) |
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P. L. Travers |
| The 'Little Grey Rabbit' stories: 37 books, starting with The Squirrel, The Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit (1929) and ending with Hare and the Rainbow (1975); also Sam Pig (13 books, 1939–65), Tim Rabbit (5 books, 1937–64), Little Brown Mouse (15 books, 1950–71), and Little Red Fox (4 books, 1954–68) |
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Alison Uttley |
| The Boy in the Dress (2008), Mr. Stink (2009), Billionaire Boy (2010), Gangsta Granny (2011), Ratburger (2012), Demon Dentist (2013), Awful Auntie (2014), Grandpa's Great Escape (2015), The World's Worst Children (2016, and 2017 sequel), The Midnight Gang (2016) |
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David Walliams |
| Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), The Trumpet of the Swan (1970) |
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E. B. White |
| The Sword in the Stone (1938), The Queen of Air and Darkness (1939), The Ill–Made Knight (1940); republished in 1958, along with The Candle in the Wind (1958), as a tetralogy entitled The Once and Future King; The Book of Merlyn (written in 1941, published in 1977) |
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T. H. White |
| The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888 – a collection of stories, comprising The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket); A House of Pomegranates (also 1888 – another collection, comprising The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and his Soul, The Star–Child) |
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Oscar Wilde |
| Creator of Tracy Beaker (6 books, 1991–2012); also Stevie Day (4 books, 1987–8), The Werepuppy (2 books, 1991 and 1995), Mark Spark (2 books, 1992 and 1993), Freddy's Teddy (4 books, 1994), Hetty Feather (4 books, 2009–13); also the 'Girls ... ' series (Girls in Love 1997, Girls Under Pressure 1998, Girls Out Late 1999, Girls in Tears 2002), and individual books including How to Survive Summer Camp (1985), Is There Anybody There (2 vols, 1989–90), Glubbslyme (1990), Take a Good Look (1990), The Suitcase Kid (1992), The Mum Minder (1993), The Bed and Breakfast Star (1994), Double Act (1995), Bad Girls (1996), The Lottie Project (1997), The Illustrated Mum (1999), Little Zipmouth (2000), Vicky Angel (2000), Sleepovers (2001), Dustbin Baby (2001), Secrets (2002), The Worry Website (2002), Lola Rose (2003), Midnight (2004), Best Friends (2004), The Diamond Girls (2004), Clean Break (2005), Love Lessons (2005), Candyfloss (2006), Kiss (2007), My Sister Jodie (2008), Cookie (2008), Little Darlings (2010), The Longest Whale Song (2010), Lily Alone (2011), The Worst Thing About My Sister (2012), Big Day Out (2012), Four Children and It (2012), Queenie (2013), Opal Plumstead (2014) |
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Jacqueline Wilson |
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