books I hope to acquire

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A list of the most important children's books, which were published at least 90 years ago, and were written for children and/or are still enjoyed by children today.

Title, Author, Year Published

• Arabian Nights or One Thousand and One Nights
• Aesop's Fables - William Caxton (Translation) - 1484
• A Token for Children - James Janeway - 1675
• Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan - 1678
• Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe - 1719
• Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - 1726
• Tales of Mother Goose - Charles Perrault - 1729 (English)
• Little Pretty Pocket-book - John Newbery - 1744
• Little Goody Two Shoes - Oliver Goldsmith - 1765
• The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Rudolf Wyss - 1812-3
• Ivanhoe - Walter Scott - 1819
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving - 1819
• Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving - 1820
• Grimm's Fairy Tales - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - 1823 (English)
• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - 1843
• The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas, père - 1844
• Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen - 1846 (English)
• The Children of the New Forest - Frederick Marryat - 1847
• Slovenly Peter - Heinrich Hoffmann - 1848 (English)
• David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - 1850
• The Coral Island - R. M. Ballantyne - 1857
• Tom Brown's Schooldays - Thomas Hughes - 1857
• The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley - 1863
• A Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne - 1864
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - 1865
• Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates - Mary Mapes Dodge - 1865
• Little Women - Louisa May Alcott - 1868
• Lorna Doone - R. D. Blackmore - 1869
• Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne - 1870
• At the Back of the North Wind - George MacDonald - 1871
• The Princess and the Goblin - George MacDonald - 1871
• Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll - 1871
• What Katy Did - Susan Coolidge - 1873
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain - 1876
• Black Beauty - Anna Sewell - 1877
• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle - 1883
• Nights with Uncle Remus - Joel Chandler Harris - 1883
• Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - 1883
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - 1884
• Heidi - Johanna Spyri - 1884 (English)
• King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard - 1885
• Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson - 1886
• Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett - 1886
• The Happy Prince and Other Tales - Oscar Wilde - 1888
• The Blue Fairy Book - Andrew Lang - 1889
• Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi - 1891 (English)
• The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling - 1894
• Seven Little Australians - Ethel Turner - 1894
• Moonfleet - J. Meade Falkner - 1898
• The Story of the Treasure Seekers - E. Nesbit - 1899
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum - 1900
• Five Children and It - E. Nesbit - 1902
• Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling - 1902
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter - 1902
• King Arthur and His Knights - Howard Pyle - 1902-3
• The Call of the Wild - Jack London - 1903
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin - 1903
• Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie - 1904
• A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett - 1905
• The Railway Children - E. Nesbit - 1906
• White Fang - Jack London - 1906
• Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery - 1908
• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - 1908
• The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - 1909/1911
• The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - 1912
• Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter - 1913
• The Magic Pudding - Norman Lindsay - 1918

"1000 Good Books" from  here

everything from  Lamplighter Publishing

pretty much all the books from Vision Forum

and of course the Robinson Curriculum reading lists that we have on CDs (and wish I had in hardbacks)
*I know some of these lists may cross reference*

I see book lists being mailed out for gift ideas in our future ;)