Books/Authors Recommended by the usenet newsgroup: rec.arts.books.childrens People, compiled by Ted Moen

• Alcott, Louise May: Little Women
• Alexander, Lloyd: Chronicles of Prydain
• Alexander, Lloyd: The Jedera Adventure
• Andersen, Hans Christian: The Snow Queen
• Andrews, Julie: The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

• Babbitt, Natalie: Tuck Everlasting
• Banks, Lynne: The Indian In The Cupboard (and others)
• Baum, L. Frank: The Wizard of Oz (and sequels)
• Barth, Edna: I'm Nobody; Who are You?
• Benary-Isbert, Margot Wicked Enchantment
• Brand, Christianna Brand: Nurse Matilda
• Brand, Christianna Brand: Nurse Matilda Goes to Town
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson: A Little Princess
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson: Rackety Packety House

• Cameron, Eleanor: Court of the Stone Children
• Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Carroll, Lewis: Through the Looking Glass
• Charles, N. N.: What Am I?, 1994 (Ages 2-5)
• Christopher, John: The City of Gold & Lead
• Christopher, John: The Pool of Fire
• Christopher, John: The White Mountains
• Cooper, Susan: The Dark is Rising

• Dahl, Roald: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Dahl, Roald: James and the Giant Peach
• Dahl, Roald: The BFG
• Danziger, Paula: Amber Brown is Not a Crayon, 1994 (Ages 6-10)
• de Sainte-Exupery, Antoine: The Little Prince
• Dickinson, Peter: Time and the Clockmice Etcetera, 1994 (Ages 7-10)
• Dr. Seuss: Yertle the Turtle
• Dr. Seuss: And to Think That I Saw It On Mullberry Street
• duBois, William Pene: The Twenty-One Balloons

• Eager, Edward: Half Magic and several sequels
• Ende, Michael: Momo
• Ende, Michael: The Never Ending Story
• Enright, Elizabeth: Tatsinda
• Enright, Elizabeth: The Four Story Mistake
• Enright, Elizabeth: The Saturdays
• Enright, Elizabeth: Spiderweb for Two

• Farmer, Nancy: The Ear, The Eye and the Arm, 1994 (Ages 14-up)
• Fitzhugh, Louise: Harriet the Spy

• George, Jean Craighead: My Side of the Mountain
• Glassman, Peter: My Working Mom, 1994 (Ages 3-7)
• Goldman, William: The Princess Bride
• Goudge, Elizabeth: Valley of Song
• Goudge, Elizabeth: The Little White Horse
• Graham, Kenneth: Wind in the Willows

• Harris, Rosemary The Moon in the Cloud (and sequels)
• Hoban, Russell: How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen

• Isaacs, Anne: Swamp Angel, 1994 (Ages 3-7)

• Jansson, Tove: Finn Family Moomintroll
• Jansson, Tove: Moominland Midwinter
• Jones, Terry: Erik the Viking
• Jones, Terry: Fairy Tales
• Jones, Terry: Nicobobinus
• Juster, Nortan: The Phantom Tollbooth

• Keats, Ezra Jack: Peter's Chair
• Kingsley, Charles: The Water Babies
• Kipling, Rudyard: Captains Courageous
• Kipling, Rudyard: Jungle Book
• Kipling, Rudyard: Just So Stories
• Kipling, Rudyard: Kim
• Konigsburg, E.L: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

• Lawson, Robert: Rabbit Hill
• Le Guin, Ursula K.: A Wizard of Earthsea
• Lester, Julius: John Henry by Julius Lester, 1994 (Ages 4-9)
• Lewis, C.S: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (and sequels)
• Lewis, Patrick J.: The Frog Princess, 1994 (Ages 4-9)
• Linklater, Eric: The Wind on the Moon
• Lofting, Hugh: The Dr. Dolittle series

• Martin, Ann M.: Sea City Here We Come!
• Martin, BIll Jr.: The Maestro Plays, 1994 (Ages 2-7)
• Mayer, Marianna: Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave, 1994 (Ages 4-up)
• Masefield, John: The Midnight Folk
• Masefield, John: The Box of Delights
• McCaffrey, Anne: Dragon Song
• McGuire, Richard: Night Becomes Day, 1994 (Ages 2-8)
• McKinley, Robin: Beauty
• Milne, A.A.: The House at Pooh Corner
• Milne, A.A.: Winnie the Pooh
• Montgomery, L.M.: Anne of Green Gables (and sequels)
• Montgomery, L.M.: Emily of New Moon
• Montgomery, L.M.: Jane of Lantern Hill
• Montgomery, L.M.: The Story Girl

• Norton, Mary: Are All The Giants Dead?
• Nelson, Theresa: Earthshine, 1994 (Ages 10-14)
• Nesbit, E.: Harding's Luck

• O'Brien, Richard: Mrs. Frisby & Rats of NIMH
• Ormondroyd, Edward: David and the Phoenix

• Paterson, Katherine: Bridge to Terabithia
• Paterson, Katherine: Great GillyHopkins
• Paterson, Katherine: Jacob Have I Loved
• Paterson, Katherine: Lyddie
• Paterson, Katherine: The Master Puppeteer
• Pinkwater, Daniel: Snarkout Boys & Baconburg Horror
• Pinkwater, Daniel: Snarkout Boys & The Avocado of Death
• Pinkwater, Daniel: Alan Mendohlsson, the Boy From Mars
• Polacco, Patricia: Pink and Say, 1994 (Ages 4-9)
• Pope, Elizabeth: Perilous Gard

• Raskin, Ellen: The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I mean Noel)
• Raskin, Ellen: The Westing Game
• Ransome, Arthur: Swallows and Amazons series
• Rathmann, Peggy: Good Night, Gorilla, 1994 (Ages 3-7)
• Richler, Mordechi: Jacob Two-Two meets the Hooded Fang

• Sendak, Maurice: Where The Wild Things Are
• Salinger, J.D: Catcher In the Rye
• Say, Allan: The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice
• Scieszka, Jon: The Stinky Cheese Man
• Sharp, Margery: Rescuers
• Silverstein, Shel: The Giving Tree
• Sis, Peter: The Three Golden Keys, 1994 (Ages 4-9)
• Smith, Dodie: The Hundred and One Dalmatians
• Smith, Dodie: I Capture the Castle
• Smith, Lane: Glasses, Who Needs 'em
• Snyder, Zilpha Keatley: The Egypt Game
• Spence, Eleanor: The Summer in Between
• Steig, William: Sylvester And The Magic Pebble
• Stolz, Mary: Cezanne Pinto, A Memoir, 1994 (Ages 9-up)
• Streatfeild, Noel: White Boots
• Streatfeild, Noel: Apple Bough
• Streatfeild, Noel: Ballet Shoes
• Sutcliff, Rosemary: Warrior Scarlet

• Teague, Mark: Pigsty, 1994 (Ages 3-7)
• Taylor, Theodore: The Cay
• Thurber, James: The Great Quillow
• Thurber, James: Many Moons
• Thurber, James: The Thirteen Clocks
• Thurber, James: The White Deer
• Thurber, James: The Wonderful O
• Tolkien, J.R.R: Lord Of The Rings
• Tolkien, J.R.R: The Hobbit

• Van Allsburh, Chris: Jumanji
• Van Allsburh, Chris: The Polar Express

• Watterson, Bill: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
• Waugh, Sylvia: The Mennyms, 1994 (Ages 9-up)
• Wilder, Laura Ingalls: Little House Books
• Willians, Feoffrey: How to be Topp
• White, E.B.: Charlotte's Web
• White, E.B.: The Trumpet of the Swan
• White, T.H.: Mistress Masham's Repose

• Young, Ella: Unicorn with Silver Shoes
• Yolen, Jane: Owl Moon

• The Emporer's New Clothes
• Peter And The Wolf
• Seven Chinese Brothers
• Stone Soup

• Baum, L. Frank: The Oz books
• Brooks, Walter R.: The Freddy the Pig series
• Burman, Ben Lucien: The Catfish Bend books
• Cameron, Eleanor: Mushroom Planet books
• Enright, Elizabeth: The Melendy books
• Harris, Rosemary: The Moon in the X book
• Farley, Walter: The Black Stallion books
• Herge: The Tintin books
• Hoban, Russell: The Francis books
• Jansson, Tove: The Moomim books
• Kelly, Walt: The Pogo series
• Konigsburg, E.L.: other books
• Le Guin, Ursula: The Earthsea tetralogy
• Henry, Marguerite: Misty of Chincoteague and sequels
• Lewis, C.S: Narnia books
• Lovelace, Maud: Betsy/Tacy
• Montgomery, L.M.: Anne Books
• Nesbit, E.: The Psammead trilogy
• Taylor, Sydney: All of a Kind family series

• Alexander, Loyd
• Brown, Margaret Wise
• Byars, Betsy
• Carle, Eric
• Cooper, Susan
• Dr. Seuss
• Jordan, Sherryl
• Jones, Dianne Wynne
• Keats, Ezra Jack
• Lionni, Leo
• Lobel, Arnold
• Lowry, Lois
• Silverstein, Shel
• Thurber, James
• Voigt, Cynthia