Classics

CHILDREN'S CLASSICS

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

Caddie Woodlawn
by Carol Ryrie Brink

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates
by Mary Mapes Dodge

Heidi
by Johanna Spyri
ill. by Jessie Willcox Smith

Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
ill. by Jessie Willcox Smith

Pollyanna
by Eleanor Porter

Jungle Tales of Tarzan
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling

Peter Pan , the story retold
by Daniel O’Connor

Peter Pan and Wendy
by James Barrie

Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
by Kate Douglas Wiggin

Rip Van Winkle
by Washington Irving

Robinson Crusoe Told to the Children
by John Lang

Robinson Crusoe Written Anew For Children
by James Baldwin

The Prince and the Pauper
by Mark Twain

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
by Mark Twain

Stories of Don Quixote Written Anew for Children
by James Baldwin

Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann Wyss
simplified by G.E. Mitton

Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann Wyss

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain

The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling

The Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Story of Don Quixote
retold by Clayton Edwards

The Story of Don Quixote and His Squire Sancho Panchez
retold by Charles Jarvis

The Three Musketeers, Retold

The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame

Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, simply retold
by Mary Blain

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Young Folks’ Edition
by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Anne of Green Gable Series
by Lucy Maud Montgomery

REDISCOVERED CLASSICS

A Girl of the Limberlost
by Gene-Porter Stratton

Daddy Long-Legs
by Jean Webster

Eight Cousins
by Louisa May Alcott

Fables and Stories for Children
by Leo Tolstoy

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Book 1)
by Margaret Sidney
ill. by Barbara Cooney

Five Little Peppers Midway (Book 2)
by Margaret Sidney

Five Little Peppers Grown Up (Book 3)
by Margaret Sidney

Five Little Peppers at School
by Margaret Sidney

Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House
by Margaret Sidney

Phronsie Pepper: The Youngest of the Five Little Peppers
by Margaret Sidney

The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House

In My Youth
by Robert Dudley (James Baldwin)

Jack and Jill: A Village Story
by Louisa May Alcott

Jo’s Boys
by Louisa May Alcott

Laddie: A True Blue Story
by Gene-Porter Stratton

Little Men
by Louisa May Alcott

Men of Iron
by Howard Pyle

Mother Carey’s Chickens
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
(Disney’s Summer Magic based on this book)

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
by Alice Rice

Nights With Uncle Remus
by Joel Chandler Harris

Otto of the Silver Hand
by Howard Pyle

Pollyanna Grows Up
by Eleanor Porter

Just David
by Eleanor Porter

Red Cap Adventures
S. R. Crockett
Simplified telling of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, Fortunes of Nigel, and other Waverly Tales

Rose in Bloom
by Louisa May Alcott

The Black Arrow
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Ill by N.C. Wyeth

The Peterkin Papers
by Lucretia P. Hale

The Princess and the Goblin
by George MacDonald

Ill. by Jessie Willcox Smith

The Princess and Curdie (sequel)
by George MacDonald

The Story of Evangeline retold
by Clayton Edwards
(Includes Longfellow’s original poem)

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
by Selma Lagerlof

Told by Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation
by Joel Chandler Harris

Uncle Remus and the Little Boy
by Joel Chandler Harris

Under the Lilacs
by Louisa May Alcott

Understood Betsy
by Dorothy Canfield

Young People’s Pilgrim’s Progress
by John Bunyan

What Katy Did Series by Susan Coolidge

Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling

A Lantern in Her Hand
by Bess Streeter Aldrich

The Lost Prince
by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart
by Opal Whiteley

Freckles
by Gene Stratton-Porter

Our Home
by Charles Sargent

CLASSICS

A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens

Beau Geste
by Percival Wren

Ben-Hur
by Lew Wallace

Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley

Crime and Punishment
by Dostoevsky

David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens

Don Quixote
by Cervantes
ill. by Gustav Dore

Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell

Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens

Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift

Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte

Les Miserables
by Victor Hugo

Lorna Doone
by R.D. Blackmore

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass

Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
by Mark Twain

Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

Quo Vadis
by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
Ill. by N.C. Wyeth

Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Doyle

Silas Marner
by George Eliot

The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas

The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
Ill. by N. C. Wyeth

The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliott

The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux

The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Orczy

The Three Musketeers
by Alexander Dumas

The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells

The Virginian
by Owen Wister

Twelve Years a Slave
by Solomon Northup (1855)
Definitely not for young children

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Up From Slavery
by Booker T. Washington

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy