Regardless of the time of year, having the good books accessible to your children is important. This list of the 100 Book to Read in a Lifetime was put together by Amazon. It is a list of classic books that every kid should read or have read to them. Some of the books are intended for the younger kids and others, like A Wrinkle in Time, are for the middle school/high school age reader. 
Use it as a guide for gift giving. Email this post to friends and family who aren’t sure what to get the kids for their birthday, holidays or other events. It’s a guaranteed useful gift.
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100 Books to Read in a Lifetime, Children’s Book Edition
Title
Author
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle
Aesop’s Fables
Don Daily
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Judith Viorst
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
Amelia Bedelia
Peggy Parish
And Tango Makes Three
Justin Richardson
Anne of Green Gables, Complete 8-Book Box Set: Anne of Green Gables; Anne of the Island; Anne of Avonlea; Anne of Windy Poplar; Anne’s House of … Ingleside; Rainbow Valley; Rilla of Ingleside
L.M. Montgomery
Are You My Mother?
P.D. Eastman
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Judy Blume
Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales (Peter Rabbit)
Beatrix Potter
Betsy-Tacy
Maud Hart Lovelace
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
Bread and Jam for Frances
Russell Hoban
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business
Esphyr Slobodkina
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web
E. B. White
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Bill Martin Jr.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Judi Barrett
Coraline
Neil Gaiman
Corduroy
Don Freeman
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths
Ingri d’Aulaire
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
Mo Willems
Dr. Seuss’s Beginner Book Collection (c, One Fish Two Fish, Green Eggs and Ham, Hop on Pop, Fox in Socks)
Dr. Seuss
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
Donald J. Sobol
Esperanza Rising
Pam Munoz Ryan
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E.L. Konigsburg
Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown
Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
Sherri Duskey Rinker
Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales
Jacob Grimm
Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Crockett Johnson
Harriet the Spy
Louise Fitzhugh
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
J.K. Rowling
Holes
Louis Sachar
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O’Dell
Jumanji
Chris Van Allsburg
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Llama Llama Red Pajama
Anna Dewdney
Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans
Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey
Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Virginia Lee Burton
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Richard Atwater
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert C. O’Brien
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Betty MacDonald
My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George
Olivia
Ian Falconer
Owen
Kevin Henkes
Paddle-to-the-Sea
Holling C. Holling
Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren
Press Here
Herve Tullet
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
William Steig
The Bad Beginning
Lemony Snicket
The Borrowers
Mary Norton
The Boxcar Children
Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Call Of The Wild
Jack London
The Complete Adventures of Curious George
H. A. Rey
The Cricket in Times Square
George Selden
The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
William Joyce
The Giver
Lois Lowry
The House at Pooh Corner
A. A. Milne
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis
The Little Engine That Could
Watty Piper
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Beverly Cleary
The New Way Things Work
David Macaulay
The Paper Bag Princess
Robert Munsch
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster
The Real Mother Goose
Blanche Fisher Wright
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew, Book 1)
Carolyn Keene
The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats
The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant
Jean De Brunhoff
The Story of Ferdinand
Munro Leaf
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread
Kate DiCamillo
The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys No. 1)
Franklin W. Dixon
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle
The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Wednesday Wars
Gary D. Schmidt
The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbit
Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Watership Down
Richard Adams
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Grace Lin
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls
Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
Wonder
R. J. Palacio
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