I’m trying to build up a good collection of old and new classic children’s books for our daughter.
- Arabian Nights or One Thousand and One Nights (9th century)
- Robin Hood (14th century)
- Cinderella (17th century)
- Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe (1719)
- Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift (1726)
- Tales of Mother Goose – Charles Perrault (1729)
- The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales / by Hans Christian Andersen (19th century)
- Little Red Riding Hood (19th century)
- Hansel and Gretel (19th century)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (19th century)
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1812)
- The Swiss Family Robinson – Johann Rudolf Wyss (1812-3)
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1823)
- The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas, père (1844)
- Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen (1846)
- A Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne (1864)
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (1865)
- Max and Moritz and Other Bad Boy Tales / by Wilhelm Busch (1865)
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (1868)
- Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea – Jules Verne (1870)
- Through the Looking-Glass – Lewis Carroll (1871)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain (1876)
- Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
- The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Howard Pyle (1883)
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain (1884)
Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi (1891)- The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling (1894)
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum (1900)
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter (1902)
- The Wonderful Adventures of Nils / by Selma Lagerlöf (1906)
- Anne of Green Gables – Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908)
- The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame (1908)
Peter Pan And Wendy / J. M. Barrie (1911)- Winnie-the-Pooh / A. A. Milne (1926)
- The Lord of the Rings / by J.R.R. Tolkien (1937–1949)
- The Little Prince / by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1943)
- Do You Know Pippi Longstocking? / by Astrid Lindgren (1945)
- Karius and Baktus / by Thorbjorn Egner (1949)
- The Chronicles of Narnia / by C. S. Lewis (1950–1956)
- Karlsson-on-the-Roof / by Astrid Lindgren (1955)
- People and Robbers of Cardemon Town / by Thorbjorn Egner (1955)
- Mrs Pepperpot Learns to Swim / by Alf Proysen (1956)
- The Cat in the Hat / by Dr. Seuss (1957)
Where the Wild Things Are / Maurice Sendak (1963)- The Giving Tree / Shel Silverstein (1964)
- Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip – Book One / by Tove Jansson (1970s)
- Emil in the Soup Tureen / by Astrid Lindgren (1970s)
- Emil and Bad Tooth Lindgren / by Astrid Lindgren (1970s)
- The Brothers Lionheart / by Astrid Lindgren (1973)
- The Neverending Story / Michael Ende (1974)
- Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter / by Astrid Lindgren (1981)
- Where’s Waldo / by Martin Hanford (1987)

