A list of classic children’s books Title Author The Swiss Family Robinson E. T. A. Hoffmann Ivanhoe Walter Scott The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving Grimm’s Fairy Tales Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm A Visit From St. Nicholas Clement Clarke Moore Tales of Peter Parley About America Peter Parley (pseudonym) Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickelby Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas, père Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen The Children of the New Forest Frederick Marryat Slovenly Peter Heinrich Hoffmann David Copperfield Charles Dickens The Wide, Wide World Elizabeth Wetherell (pseudonym) The King of the Golden River John Ruskin A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens The Coral Island R. M. Ballantyne Tom Brown’s Schooldays Thomas Hughes Great Expectations Charles Dickens The Water Babies Charles Kingsley A Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne Little Prudy Rebecca Sophia Clarke Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Max and Moritz Wilhelm Busch Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates Mary Mapes Dodge Little Women Louisa May Alcott Ragged Dick Horatio Alger, Jr. Lorna Doone R. D. Blackmore Mrs. Overtheway’s Remembrances Juliana Horatia Ewing Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne At the Back of the North Wind George MacDonald The Brownies and other Tales Juliana Horatia Ewing The Princess and the Goblin George MacDonald Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll A Dog of Flanders Ouida What Katy Did Susan Coolidge The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Black Beauty Anna Sewell The Adventures of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle Nights with Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Heidi Johanna Spyri King Solomon’s Mines H. Rider Haggard Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson Little Lord Fauntleroy Frances Hodgson Burnett The Happy Prince and Other Tales Oscar Wilde The Blue Fairy Book Andrew Lang The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling Seven Little Australians Ethel Turner The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling Moonfleet J. Meade Falkner The Black Corsair Emilio Salgari The Reluctant Dragon Kenneth Grahame The Story of the Treasure Seekers E. Nesbit