children’s

Little Bear

Little Bear is a series of children’s books, primarily involving the interaction of Little Bear (an anthropomorphic cub) and Mother Bear (his mother), written by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Originally, the stories were simple, but eventually became more sophisticated in subsequent books as the plot and characters expanded. The first four …

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Betsy-Tacy

Series of semi-autobiographical novels by American novelist and short-story writer Maud Hart Lovelace , which were originally published between 1940 and 1955 by the Thomas Y. Crowell Co

A Wizard of Earthsea

Fantasy novel written by American author Ursula K. Le Guin and first published by the small press Parnassus in 1968. It is regarded as a classic of children’s literature and of fantasy, within which it is widely influential

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1950. It is the first published and best known of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia . Among all the author’s books, it is also the most widely held in libraries

The Phantom Tollbooth

Children’s fantasy adventure novel written by Norton Juster, with illustrations by Jules Feiffer, first published in 1961. The story follows a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth that transports him to the once prosperous, but now troubled, Kingdom of Wisdom