Classics for Children
To read to young children:
Aesop’s Fables
Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Beauty and the Beast
The Bible
The Blind Men and the Elephant
“Casey at Bat”
Charlotte’s Web
Chicken Little
A Christmas Carol
Cinderella
Dinotopia series
Dr. Seuss series
The Emperor’s New Clothes
The Fourth Wise Man
The Gift of the Magi
The Giving Tree
“God Save the Flag”
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
“The Highwayman”
Hansel and Gretel
Jack and the Beanstock
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
“Lincoln, The Man of the People”
“Little Boy Blue”
The Little Engine that Could
The Little House on the Prairie Series
The Little Red Hen
Little Red Riding Hood
McGuffey’s Readers
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes
“Paul Revere’s Ride”
Peter Pan
Peter Rabbit
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Pinocchio
Pollyanna
The Princess and the Pea
Puss-in-Boots
Rapunzel
Riki Tiki Tavi
Rip Van Winkle
Robin Hood
Rumpelstiltskin
Rudyard Kipling “Just So” stories
Sleeping Beauty
The Song of Hiawatha
Snow White
Tales of the Arabian Nights
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Three Little Pigs
The Ugly Duckling
Tom Thumb
“Twas the Night Before Christmas”
The Wind in the Willows
Winnie-the-Pooh series
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Children’s Literature – For Beginning
Readers Classic Starts Series available from
Barnes and Noble has been adapted for
children)
Alcott, Little Men (Classic Starts Series)
Alcott, Little Women (Classic Starts Series)
Angeli, The Door in the Wall
Barrie, Peter Pan (Classic Starts Series)
Brink, Caddie Woodlawn
Burnett, A Little Princess (Classic Starts
Series)
Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy (Classic
Starts series)
Burnett, The Secret Garden (Classic Starts
Series)
Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and through
the Looking Glass (Classic Starts Series)
Cheney, When Washington Crossed the
Delaware
Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (Classic
Starts Series)
Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (Classic
Starts Series)
Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dalgliesh, The Courage of Sarah Noble
Dalgliesh, The 4th of July Story
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (Classic Starts
Series)
Dickens, Oliver Twist (Classic Starts Series)
Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
(Classic Starts Series)
Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask (Classic
Starts Series)
Dumas, The Three Musketeers (Classic
Starts series)
Field, Calico Bush
Forbes, Johnny Tremain
George, My Side of the Mountain
Giblin, George Washington
Gipson, Old Yeller
Grahame, Wind in the Willows
Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
(Classic Starts Series)
Jordan, Winter of Fire
Kalashnikoff, The Defender
Kelly, The trumpeter of Krakow
Kipling, The Jungle Book (Classic Starts
Series)
Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare
Latham, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Lawson, Ben and Me
L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera (Classic
Starts Series)
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
Lindbergh, Johnny Appleseed
Lofting, The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle (Classic
Starts Series)
London, The Call of the Wild (Junior Classics
for Young Readers – adapted, or Classic
Starts)
London, White Fang (Classic Starts Series)
Lowry, The Giver
Mac Donald, At the Back of the North Wind
MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin
MacDonald, The Princess and Curdie
Melville, Mody Dick (Junior Classics for
Young Readers – Adapted)
McGraw, Moccasin Trail
McGraw, The Golden Goblet
Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (Classic
Starts Series)
Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea (Classic
Starts series)
Moody, Little Britches
O’Dell, Sarah Bishop
O’Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
Osborne, Magic Treehouse Series
Otis, Toby Tyler
Porter, Pollyanna
Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up
Pyle, The Adventures of Robin Hood (Classic
Starts Series)
Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His
Knights (Classic Starts Series)
Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
Sewell, Black Beauty
Shelley, Frankenstein (Classic Starts Series)
Sidney, Five Little Peppers and How they
Grew (Classic Starts Series)
Smith, Aladdin and Other Favorite Arabian
Night Stories
Spyri, Heidi (Classic Starts Series)
Speare, The Bronze Bow
Speare, The Sign of the Beaver
Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde (Classic Starts Series)
Stevenson, Treasure Island (Classic Starts
Series)
Stoker, Dracula (Classic Starts Series)
Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (Classic Starts
Series)
Taylor, Little Pilgrims Progress
Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
(Classic Starts Series)
Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(Classic Starts Series)
Twain, The Prince and the Pauper (Classic
Starts Series)
Verne, Around the World in 80 Days (Classic
Starts Series)
Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
(Classic Starts Series)
Wells, The Time Machine (Classic Starts
series)
Wells, The War of the Worlds (Classic Starts
series)
Whelan, Impossible Journey
White, Charlotte’s Web
White, The Trumpet of the Swan
White, Stuart Little
Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
(Classic Starts series)
Wilder, The Little House on the Prairie
Series
Woodside, Arabian Nights Classic Starts
series)
Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson (Classic Starts
Series)