1001 Children's Books

[Nociod]

No, it only covers fiction, not non-fiction.

Which means excellent books such as The Diary of Anne Frank are excluded.

Can anyone remember a book about lots of little goats. Their mother goes out and the wolf come and the kids try to hide. I remember one hiding in a grandfather clock. I can't think of the name of this book.

Your post reminded me of a musical that I enjoyed as a kid, Rock n roll wolf.

I wikipediaed it up
wikipedia

Rock'n'Roll Wolf (Romanian: Mama, Russian: Мама) is a musical film from 1977 and is a Romanian-Soviet-French co-production.
The storyline is loosely based on the famous plot about the Goat and her kids, published as "The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids" in Grimm's Fairy Tales and known to Romanian audience as Ion Creangă's "Capra cu trei iezi" ("The Goat and her three kids") and to Russian audience as a folk tale "Волк и семеро козлят" ("The Wolf and the Seven Kids").

So I guess the book you're after is "The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids"

 

[Miss Chicken]

Thank you. . I looked up The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids here here and it is the tale I was thinking of. I had a very nice picture book of the story when I was young. I didn't realise it was a Grimm's Fairy Tale.

Grimm's Fairy Tales appears on the list as a collection.

 

[Owain Taggart]

What about any of the Bearenstein books? Those were always a favourite of mine when I was young.

Goodnight Moon? I think nearly everyone on the planet has a copy of this. I remember being very charmed by this one.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Yes, The Big Honey Hunt is listed and 5 other Berenstain Bear books are mentioend in the box at the bottom of the page.

Goodnight Moon is listed.

 

[RevdKathy]

Couple of slightly less well known suggestions: The "Mary Plain" books (about a bear from Berne) and "The Winter of Enchantment".

And have I missed references to Alice (Wonderland and Looking Glass) and A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh?

 

[Kemaiku]

Has anyone mentioned the Puddle Lane series of books?

 

[Thestral]

How about Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" or "Coraline"?

Any more Madeleine L'Engle than A Wrinkle in Time?

 

[Miss Chicken]

Couple of slightly less well known suggestions: The "Mary Plain" books (about a bear from Berne) and "The Winter of Enchantment".

And have I missed references to Alice (Wonderland and Looking Glass) and A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh?

Both of the Alice books are mentioned, as is Winnie the Pooh, but the other books you mentioned aren't listed.

Has anyone mentioned the Puddle Lane series of books?

No, they aren't mention but that could be because they aren't a primay source, rather they are books based on a TV show.

How about Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" or "Coraline"?

Any more Madeleine L'Engle than A Wrinkle in Time?

The only Gaiman book on the list is "The Graveyard Book". "Coraline" is listed in a box of "more books to enjoy from Neil Gaiman". "Neverwhere" isn't mentioned but it could be for the same reason as I have given for Puddle Lane - it was a novel adapted from a TV series, and therefore the TV series was the primary source of the story.

"A Wrinkle in Time" makes the list.

 

[M'Sharak]

How about:

The Story About Ping - Marjorie Flack
Make Way for Ducklings - Robert McCloskey
Paddle to the Sea - Holling C. Holling
Minn of the Mississippi - Holling C. Holling
Seabird - Holling C. Holling
Homer Price / Centerburg Tales - Robert McCloskey
King of the Wind - Marguerite Henry
Brighty of the Grand Canyon - Marguerite Henry
By the Great Horn Spoon - Sid Fleischmann
Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

There must be dozens more I'm not thinking of, but some of these must appear on this mysterious list.

One which might be on the list, but which I didn't find until much later:

Stalky & Co. - Rudyard Kipling

 

[Miss Chicken]

The Story About Ping - Marjorie Flack YES - I mentioned it earlier in the thread as a personal favourite
Make Way for Ducklings - Robert McCloskey - YES
Paddle to the Sea - Holling C. Holling - NO
Minn of the Mississippi - Holling C. Holling - NO
Seabird - Holling C. Holling - NO
Homer Price / Centerburg Tales - Robert McCloskey - NO
King of the Wind - Marguerite Henry - NO
Brighty of the Grand Canyon - Marguerite Henry - NO
By the Great Horn Spoon - Sid Fleischmann - NO
Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling - YES
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling - YES

There must be dozens more I'm not thinking of, but some of these must appear on this mysterious list.

One which might be on the list, but which I didn't find until much later:

Stalky & Co. - Rudyard Kipling- NO

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton.

 

[Miss Chicken]

The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton.

Yes, that makes the list.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton.

Yes, that makes the list.

Awesome.

What about Little Toot by Hardie Gramatky?

 

[Miss Chicken]

The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton.

Yes, that makes the list.

Awesome.

What about Little Toot by Hardie Gramatky?

YES, it is included.

 

[Mary Ann]

Are the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder mentioned? I think they're classed as non-fiction, though Wilder did include some fictitious timelines and characters in the books.

 

[Miss Chicken]

YES, Little House in the Big Wood and Little House on the Prairie are both on the list which means some non-fiction has been included. Because these two books are included I think that the Diary of Anne Frank should be on the list as well, I wonder why it was omitted.

I have ordered 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. It is possible that The Diary of Anne Frank makes this adults' list.

 

[Miss Chicken]

A couple of books I want people's opinions on whether they should be in this list or not

1) Fahrenheit 451
2) The Hound of the Baskervilles

Older children are quite capable of reading these books but I wouldn't call them children's books

3) Twilight - Stepenie Meyer. I have never read it but it seems to be the book that has drawn the most criticism for being in the list.

 

[Thestral]

Wiki says the Little House books "are generally classified as fiction rather than as autobiography when categorized in libraries and bookstores," which fits with how they were introduced to me in elementary school; based on Laura Ingalls' childhood but still fiction.

"Fahrenheit" no, haven't read "Hound..." but I'd lean towards no from what I know, and Twilight... ugh.

"Neverwhere" isn't mentioned but it could be for the same reason as I have given for Puddle Lane - it was a novel adapted from a TV series, and therefore the TV series was the primary source of the story.

"A Wrinkle in Time" makes the list.

Weird logic, but meh I guess. And I knew about Wrinkle, you mentioned it before, was checking on others. All good.

 

[M'Sharak]

YES, Little House in the Big Wood and Little House on the Prairie are both on the list which means some non-fiction has been included. Because these two books are included I think that the Diary of Anne Frank should be on the list as well, I wonder why it was omitted.

The "Little House" books draw from events and situations in Wilder's life, but are pretty heavily fictionalized.

A couple of books I want people's opinions on whether they should be in this list or not

1) Fahrenheit 451
2) The Hound of the Baskervilles

The first one could fit in the YA category, maybe, but I wouldn't call it a children's book. I'm trying to remember when I first read "Hound" and I think it was around age 10 or 11 - certainly not much later than that.

The Story About Ping - Marjorie Flack YES - I mentioned it earlier in the thread as a personal favourite

Whoops, missed that.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I think there is a significant difference between adult books that children can read and actual children's books. I read Jean Plaidy and Agatha Christie when I was a child (around 13-14 years of age but I wouldn't classify either as a children's books. I am quite sure when Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the Sherlock stories he was targeting adults.