Fiction
Books to Read With Your Kids
Children's books that adults enjoy reading aloud as much as children enjoy hearing.
14 books · ranked
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1
Charlotte's Web
A pig, a clever spider and a barnyard friendship that beats death; the gentle classic about loyalty.
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The Little Prince
A pilot meets a small prince from another planet; a deceptively simple fable for all ages.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
An orphan learns he is a wizard and finds a home at a school of magic; the book that made a generation read.
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Winnie-the-Pooh
A bear of very little brain and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood; timeless and quietly wise.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
A girl swept to a magical land seeks the way home; the founding American fairy tale.
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The Wind in the Willows
Mole, Rat, Badger and the incorrigible Toad on the riverbank; a cosy, lyrical classic.
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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
A boy discovers he's the son of a Greek god; funny, fast modern myth for middle-grade readers.
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A Wrinkle in Time
Children travel across the universe to rescue a father; a strange, brave science-fantasy classic.
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The Secret Garden
A sour orphan brings a hidden garden, and herself, back to life; a quietly healing classic.
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A Final Reckoning
A young English lad, after rather a stormy boyhood, emigrates to Australia and gets employment as an officer in the mounted police. A few years of active work on the frontier, where he has many a brus
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American notes
Description of a trip by the famous British novelist Charles Dickens to the U.S. in the early 1840s, which included travel through the Great Lakes states. The first and last portions of the book are a
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12
Anne of Ingleside
Anne is the mother of five and happy with her life in Ingleside until she worries her husband may not love her anymore, so she's ready to make him fall in love with her all over again.
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Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of
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Anne's House of Dreams
Anne and her new husband Gilbert move into their first home and start a family.