Children's Literature

Children's fiction (and, more rarely, nonfiction) is a publishing term for books aimed at readers under about 14. It is often divided into categories / formats for different ages: Picture Books for the preliterate, early reader books for children starting to read, and chapter books for those with independent reading skills. The vocabulary and content will typically be restricted to match the intended readership.

Children's literature will often include Slice of Life (most commonly everyday problems normal to a child), anthropomorphic animals (most often Funny Animals wearing clothing or Partially Civilized Animals), and a bit of humor. They can also include drama, historical fiction, loss, grief, and other subjects.

Also see Young Adult Literature, for the next age-group up.

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Abel's Island
Across the Universe trilogy
The Adventures of Archie Reynolds
The Adventures of Caterpillar Jones
The Adventures of Dunno (or The Adventures of Neznayka) series
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Afternoon of the Elves
Agent Angel series - The series was originally Angels Unlimited
The AI Gang series
Airman
Alfie Atkins series
Alfie's Home
Alice, Girl from the Future series
The All American Pups series
The Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls series
All the Troubles of the World: published in 1989 as a 32 page children's book with illustrations by David Shannon.
All-of-a-Kind Family series
The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes series
The Amber Brown series
The Amelia Bedelia series
Amelia's Notebook series
American Girls Collection
Amy's Eyes
Anastasia Krupnik series
Angelina Ballerina series
Animal Antics A to Z series
The Animals of Farthing Wood series
Anne of Green Gables series
Aquila
Archer's Goon
The Artemis Fowl series
The Arthur series
The Art Of Racing In The Rain
Art The Gecko Makes A Friend
The Ashleys series
At the Back of the North Wind
A-to-Z Mysteries series
Avalon: Web of Magic series

Babar series
The Baby-Sitters Club series
The Bad Guys series
The Bad Unicorn Trilogy
The Bailey Game
The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids
Ballet Shoes
Barnaby Grimes series
Basil of Baker Street series - Children's "mystery" series written by Eve Titus about the Sherlock Holmes of the Mouse World.
Be An Interplanetary Spy
Bearhead
Beast Quest series
Because of Winn-Dixie
Bedknob and Broomstick
The Belfry Witches
The Berenstain Bears series - Morals are delivered to children with this classic book series about a family of anthropomorphic bears.
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The Betsy-Tacy series
The BFG
The Big Wave
Biggles series
The Black Stallion and its sequels and spinoffs
The Bliss Bakery trilogy
Blubber
The Bobbsey Twins series
The Book of Heroes
The Book of the Dun Cow
The Books of Elsewhere series - Magic paintings in a mysterious house lead to other worlds.
The Borrowers series
Bottersnikes And Gumbles
A Boy Named Queen
The Boxcar Children series - Four orphans survive in an abandoned boxcar in the middle of the woods in the first book, then solve mysteries with their grandpa.
The Box Of Delights
The Boy Who Ate Around
The Boy who was as hard as Stone
Bravelands series
Breadcrumbs
The Breadwinner - Set in Afghanistan, back when the Taliban was still in power.
Bridge to Terabithia
Bright Lights series - An ordinary young girl who has always dreamed of becoming an actress lands a main part in a film, then a main role in a Christmas stage performance.
The Brothers Lionheart
The Bully Book
Bumface
The Bum Trilogy: Rear ends are autonomous and sentient. Hilarity ensues.
Bunnicula series
Burgess Bedtime Stories
The Butter Battle Book

Caillou series
Cairo Jim series
Cam Jansen series
Came Back to Show You I Could Fly
The Camp Half-Blood Series
Camp Zombie series
The Candy Shop War - A group of fifth graders gets magic powers from candy, and ends up having to deal with evil forces in their hometown.
Captain Underpants series
Cars Origins - A series of novels relating to the Cars franchise, which tells about the characters' origins.
Casson Family series
Castle Hangnail
The Castle in the Attic
The Catastrophe of the Emerald Queen - The adventures of Jared Miller in the magical world of Alegria.
The Cat in the Hat - Classic rhyming story about a cat who shows up at the house of some unsupervised children and proceeds to make a huge mess, then humorously clean it up!
Cat Pack series
Cat Royal series
The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Celia And The Fairies
Chalet School series
Chance Fortune and the Outlaws
Charlie and Lola series
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Charlotte Sometimes
Charlotte's Web - Spider helps pig to avoid becoming dinner by spinning messages in her web.
The Cheetah Girls series
Children of the Red King series
The Chocolate Touch
The Choose Your Own Adventure series
Chrestomanci series
The Chronicles of Narnia
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- Prince Caspian
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- The Silver Chair
- The Horse and His Boy
- The Magician's Nephew
- The Last Battle
The Chronicles of Prydain
Circle of Magic (first quartet)
Clémentine
Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf
Clifford the Big Red Dog series
The Cloak Society
Cold Cereal
Cookie
Coraline: A young girl finds an escape from a boring life with inattentive parents in a magical world, only to discover that a life there comes with a price.
Corduroy
Creepe Hall
The Cricket in Times Square
Cuckoo Song
Cupcake Diaries series
Curious George series - Humorous series of stories about an adorable monkey and his antics.
Crusade

Daddy's Roommate
Dancing Shoes
Danny And The Dinosaur
Danny, the Champion of the World
The Dark Is Rising series
The Day the Fifth Grade Disappeared
DC Super Hero Girls series
Dear America series
Dear Canada series
Dear Dumb Diary series
- Dear Dumb Diary: Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Deltora Quest series
Demigods & Magicians
The Demon Headmaster series
Devin And The Teacher
Detectives in Togas
Diamond Brothers series
The Diamond Girls
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
Dick and Jane books - Frequently parodied series of books intended to teach American children how to read.
Dirty Bertie
The Divide Trilogy
Doctor Dog
Doctor Dolittle series
- The Story of Doctor Dolittle
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Doc Wilde and the Frogs of Doom - Affectionate Parody of Doc Savage, except this pulp adventure hero brings his kids along.
Dogsbody
Dork Diaries series
Dorrie the Little Witch series
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (a.k.a. the Pigeon Series)
The Doubtful Guest
Dragonfly
Dragon In Distress
Dragon Keeper Trilogy
The Dragon of Trelian
The Dragon Series by Laurence Yep
- Dragon of the Lost Sea
- Dragon Steel
- Dragon Cauldron
- Dragon War
The Dragons Series by Chris d'Lacey
The Dragonslayers
Dragon Slayers' Academy series
DRAMA! series
The Dungeoneers
Dustbin Baby

The Eagle of the Ninth
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
"The Echo"
The Eddie Dickens Trilogy
Edgar & Ellen series
Edward Eager: author of many children's fantasy books.
The Egypt Game
Eight Days of Luke
Elephant & Piggie series (a.k.a. "Piggie & Gerald")
- We Are in a Book!
Elsie Dinsmore series
Emil and the Detectives
Emily's Runaway Imagination
Enchanted Glass
Encyclopedia Brown series - A fifth grader solves mysteries mostly in his local hometown. The reader is encouraged to try to figure out the solution before Brown does.
Endless Quest
The Entertainer And The Dybbuk
Erec Rex series
Eye of the Wolf

Fablehaven series
A Face Like Glass
Faeries of Dreamdark series
The Fairy Chronicles series
The Fairy Rebel
Falcon Quinn series
The Familiars series
The Famous Five series
The Fantastic Flying Journey
Fantastic Mr. Fox
A Fantasy Attraction
Farmer Giles of Ham
The Father Christmas Letters
Ferals
Fighting Fantasy series
The Firefly Code
The Five Brave Gummy Bears
Five Children and It and sequels
Five Find-Outers series
Flanimals
Flat Stanley series
Flawed Dogs
Flight to the Lonesome Place
Fly By Night Series
Flying With Santa
Flower Fairies series
Follow My Leader
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
The Forgotten Door
Fortunately, the Milk
Fourth-Grade Celebrity
Fox in Socks
Foxcraft
Franchise: published in 1985 as a 33 page children's book with illustrations by David Shannon.
Franklin series
Franny K. Stein series
Freaky Friday
Freckles
The Freddy the Pig series
Frindle
Frog and Toad series
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess
Fudge series
"The Fun They Had"

Gameknight 999 Series
Gaspard and Lisa
George's Marvelous Medicine
Geronimo Stilton series
"The Gingerbread Man"
A Girl Named Disaster
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Girl Who Could Fly
The Girl Who Owned a City
Give Yourself Goosebumps series
The Giving Tree - Short story about a tree that sacrifices everything for a little boy that she loves.
Goddess Girls series - Greek Mythology as a High School A.U..
The Gods Of Manhattan series
Good Dog, Carl! series
Goodnight Goon
Goodnight Mister Tom
Goodnight Moon
The Goofus and Gallant feature in Highlights for Children
Goosebumps series - Classic horror stories by R. L. Stine.
Grandma Nells Secret An Appalachian Fairytale
Grandpa Gray by Cass Hollander.
Graveyard School series
The Great Brain series
The Great Gilly Hopkins
The Green Ember
The Green Glass Sea
The Green Knowe Chronicles
Grey Griffins series - Urban Fantasy about a group of kids who end up fighting, or often times surviving evil forces that wreak havoc on the world and their town.
Greystone Valley
Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids
Groosham Grange series
Grounded
The Gruffalo
The Guardians of Childhood
Guardians of Ga'Hoole series
Guess How Much I Love You

Half Magic
Half Moon Investigations
Half Upon a Time
Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left
Hank the Cowdog series
Hans Urian
"The Happy Prince"
The Hardy Boys - Classic Stratemeyer Syndicate series about two brothers who solve crimes.
Harold and the Purple Crayon series
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Harriet the Spy - A preteen girl learns the hard way that spying on people and writing down things about them doesn't endear her to people.
Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs series
Harry Potter series - The first two books. The later are Young Adult.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Hating Alison Ashley
The Haunting
Have I Got a Book for You!
Have You Seen My Potty
Heidi
Hello, Bumblebee Bat
Help! I'm Trapped... series
Here Be Monsters
The Hermux Tantamoq Adventures
Hero.com
The Hobbit
Holes
The Homeward Bounders
Horrible Harry series
Horton Hears a Who!
The Hounds of the Morrigan
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! - Classic rhyming story of a green creature called a Grinch, who tries to steal Christmas in an "inverted Santa" kind of way.
How to Train Your Dragon series
The Hundred and One Dalmatians

Ice Age: Chills, Thrills And Spills
The Ice-Cream Cone Coot and Other Rare Birds
The Ice Dragon
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and sequels
Iggie's House
The Incredible Worlds Of Wally Mc Doogle series
Infinity Ring
The Indian in the Cupboard and sequels
The Inkworld Trilogy
Insupu
In the Keep of Time
Island trilogy
Island of the Blue Dolphins
I Want My Hat Back
I Want to Go Home!

Jack Blank trilogy
Jacob Two-Two series
James and the Giant Peach
Jane of Lantern Hill
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
Jennifer the Jerk Is Missing - A suspense story that turns silly halfway through, then stays that way. A kidnapping comedy with a really bratty victim, and some rather incompetent kidnappers.
Jennings series
The Jewel Kingdom series
Jiggy Mccue series
Jill, a Pony Tale series
Jim Button series
Jim Springman and the Realm of Glory
Johnny Maxwell Trilogy
Johnny Tremain
Journey to the River Sea
Judy Moody series
Julie of the Wolves
Jumanji
Junie B. Jones series
The Jungle Books
Just So Stories
Just William series

Kaiketsu Zorori series
The Kane Chronicles
Karlsson on the Roof series
Kat, Incorrigible series
The Katurran Odyssey
The Keepers series
Keys to the Kingdom series
Die Kinder aus Nr. 67 series
The Kingdom Keepers series
The King of the Copper Mountains
Kira-Kira
Kir Bulychev, author of science fiction
Klutz
The Knights Of The Silver Dragon series
Koziołek Matołek series
Kuromajo-san ga Toru!! series

Land Of The Lawn Weenies
Land of Oz series
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - The classic tale of a girl from Kansas who gets taken from her home by a tornado and ends up in a magical land.
- The Marvelous Land of Oz
- Ozma of Oz
The Land of Stories
The Landry News
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
Latawnya, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say "No" to Drugs - A non-anthropomorphic horse learns that Drugs Are Bad.
The Legend of Rah and the Muggles
Let's Start Drawing
Leven Thumps series
Leyla: The Black Tulip
The Light Princess
Lily Quench
The Listmaker
Little Bear series
A Little Bush Maid
Little Critter series
Little Darlings
The Little Engine That Could
Little Golden Books series
Little House on the Prairie series
- The Martha Years Little House prequel series
- The Charlotte Years Little House prequel series
Little Owl's Night
The Little Prince
A Little Princess
Little Sophie and Lanky Flop
The Little Vampire series
The Little White Horse
Llama Llama
Lola Rose
A Long Way from Chicago and sequels
The Lost Rainforest
Love the Beastie - the sequel to Pat the Beastie
Love You Forever
The Lorax
The Lost Thing - A boy tries to find a home for this lost-looking thing he finds on the beach one day.
Lottie and Lisa
Lucy and the Big Bad Wolf

Macdonald Hall series
Madeline series
Madicken series
The Magic Pudding
The Magic School Bus series
Magic Shop series
The Magic Thief trilogy
The Magic Treehouse series - Two siblings travel go on adventures as they travel through time, often learning historical facts sprinkled into the narrative along the way.
The Magisterium series
Magnus Chaseandthe Godsof Asgard
Main Street series
Maisy
Malice
Malory Towers series
The Marlow Series - ten books about the Marlow family mostly either at their ancestral home Trennels or at the boarding school where the six sisters are all students: Nicola Marlow is the central character/protagonist in all but one.
Mark Delewen and the Space Pirates
Mars Diaries series
Mary Poppins series
Masterminds series
Matilda - A super-intelligent girl with telekinetic powers takes on a cruel, bullying headmistress.
Max and Moritz
Max and Ruby series
Maxie, Rosie, and Earl—Partners in Grime
Meg And Mog series
The Melendy Quartet
Melvin Beederman: Superhero series
The Midnight Folk
The Midnight Gang
Miffy series
Millicent Min Girl Genius
Milly, Molly series
Minecraft The Island
Miss Bindergarten series
Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Library
Missing Since Monday
Mistress Masham's Repose
Mitch and Amy
Mog series.
molesworth series
Molly Moon series - An orphaned girl learns how to hypnotize people to do what she wants. Hilarity Ensues.
Momo
Monsters In My Mailbox
The Monsters Of Morley Manor
Monster Of The Year
The Moomins series
The Moon of Gomrath
The Moorchild
Moose Jaw Tunnels Series
The Monster at the End of This Book
Mousenet
Mr. Men series
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Mrs Pepperpot series
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Ms Wiz series - a witch acts as a Magical Nanny to various children in the same school.
My Father's Dragon series
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
The Mysterious Benedict Society series
''My Teacher Is an Alien series - A trio of sixth graders discover that their teacher has otherworldly plans for his class, and try to expose him.
Myth-O-Mania series

Nancy Drew series - Stratemeyer Syndicate classic series about a teen detective and the dangerous mysteries she solves.
National Velvet
Nelly the Monster Sitter
N.E.R.D.S.
Neversink
The Night of Wishes
Nightmare Hour
- The Haunting Hour
Nim's Island
Nintendo Adventure Books
Nomes Trilogy
Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade - Light-hearted Slice of Life story about fifth grade, with a plot following an overweight girl and the lead girl's attempts to help solve her problems and become her friend.
Not Quite Human series - An android goes to middle school, and ends up solving mysteries.
Nuddy Ned - A humorous Picture Book aimed at younger children about a boy who decides to take off his clothes and run naked in public, much to his parents' embarrassment.
Number the Stars
The Numberlys

Paddington Bear series
A Pack of Lies
Papelucho series
The Paper Bag Princess - A princess, wearing a paper bag for a costume, saves an ungrateful prince.
Pat the Beastie - A dark parody on the cult classic Pat the Bunny.
Pen Pals series - Series about four adolescent roommates at an all-girls boarding school who write to boy penpals
Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Series of books centering around a boy who discovers he's the son of Poseidon.
- The Heroes of Olympus - Its Sequel Series.
- The Trials of Apollo
Peter and the Starcatchers series
Peter Pan - Classic story of a flying boy who is eternally young, and his adventures with pirates, Native Americans, and other children who have earned the ability to fly.
Peter Pan in Scarlet
Le Petit Nicolas series
Pettson and Findus series
The Phantom Tollbooth
Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prolouge
The Pinballs
Pink And Say: a story about the friendship between two 15 year Union old soldiers—one white and one black—during The Civil War.
Pinkie Pie and the Rockin' Ponypalooza Party!
Pippi Longstocking series
The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks series
The Platinum Key series
Pollyanna
Power of Three
The Princess and the Goblin
Puck of Pook's Hill
Pugs Of The Frozen North
The Puppy Who Wanted A Boy
The Pushcart War
Pyrates series - A group of 11 year old kids discover part of a treasure map and end up dealing with secret tunnels, a gang of criminals, a tough homeless boy living underground, and other threats in a modern-day treasure hunt.