Elizabeth in MN Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 (edited) I just spent a rather long time putting this list together. I've seen people ask about a list of great books for kids, and I've found this series to be fairly good. If you know of a book I missed from the series please post here or let me know : D Please be aware that some of the books *are* abridged. • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Puffin Classics) by Mark Twain • Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics) by Roger Lancelyn Green • Adventures of Tom Sawyer(Puffin Classics) by Mark Twain • Aesop's Fables (Puffin Classics) by Aesop • Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights (Puffin Classics) by Anon and N. J. Dawood • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Puffin Classics) by Lewis Carroll • Anne of Green Gables (Puffin Classics) by L.M. Montgomery • Around the World in Eighty Days (Puffin Classics) by Jules Verne • Black Beauty (Puffin Classics) by Anna Sewell • Borrowers, The (Puffin Classics) by Judith Elkin • Call of the Wild (Puffin Classics) by Jack London • Canterbury Tales (Puffin Classics) by Geraldine McCaughrean • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin Classics) by Roald Dahl • Charlotte's Web (Puffin Classics) by E. B. White • Christmas Carol (Puffin Classics) by Charles Dickens • Coral Island (Puffin Classics) by R. M. Ballantyne • Count of Monte Cristo (Puffin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas • Daddy-Long-Legs (Puffin Classics) by Jean Webster • Dracula (Puffin Classics) by Bram Stoker • Eight Cousins (Puffin Classics) by Louisa May Alcott • Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes (Puffin Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle • Fairy Tales (Puffin Classics) by Hans Christian Andersen • Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories (Puffin Classics) by Edgar Allan Poe • Five Children and It (Puffin Classics) by E. Nesbit • Frankenstein (Puffin Classics) by Mary Shelley • Great Expectations (Puffin Classics) by Charles Dickens • Grimms' Fairy Tales (Puffin Classics) by Brothers Grimm • Gulliver's Travels (Puffin Classics) by Jonathan Swift • Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (Puffin Classics) by Hans Christian Andersen • Happy Prince and Other Stories (Puffin Classics) by Oscar Wilde • Heidi (Puffin Classics) by Johanna Spyri • Hound of the Baskervilles (Puffin Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle • Jane Eyre (Puffin Classics) by Charlotte Brontë • Jo's Boys(Puffin Classics) by Louisa May Alcott • Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Puffin Classics) by Jules Verne • Just So Stories (Puffin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling • Kidnapped (Puffin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson • Kim (Puffin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling • King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (Puffin Classics) by Roger Lancelyn Green • King Solomon's Mines (Puffin Classics) by H. Rider Haggard • Little Lord Fauntleroy (Puffin Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett • Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (Puffin Classics) by Louisa May Alcott • Little Princess (Puffin Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett • Little Women (Puffin Classics) by Louisa May Alcott • Lost World, The (Puffin Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle • Luck of Troy (Puffin Classics) by Roger Lancelyn Green • Matilda (Puffin Classics) by Roald Dahl • Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Puffin Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle • Myths of the Norsemen (Puffin Classics) by Roger Lancelyn Green • Odyssey (Puffin Classics) by Geraldine McCaughrean • Old-Fashioned Girl (Puffin Classics) by Louisa May Alcott • Oliver Twist (Puffin Classics) by Charles Dickens • Perrault's Complete Fairy Tales (Puffin Classics) by Charles Perrault • Peter Pan (Puffin Classics) by J.M. Barrie • Phantom of the Opera (Puffin Classics) by Gaston Leroux • Phoenix and the Carpet (Puffin Classics) by E. Nesbit • Pinocchio (Puffin Classics) by Carlo Collodi • Pollyanna (Puffin Classics) by Eleanor H. Porter • Pollyanna Grows Up (Puffin Classics) by Eleanor H. Porter • Pride and Prejudice (Puffin Classics) by Jane Austen • Princess and the Goblin (Puffin Classics) by George Macdonald • Railway Children, The (Puffin Classics) by E. Nesbit • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Puffin Classics) by Kate Douglas Wiggin • Red Badge of Courage (Puffin Classics) by Stephen Crane • Rip Van Winkle & Other Stories (Puffin Classics) by Washington Irving • Robinson Crusoe (Puffin Classics) by Daniel Defoe • Rose in Bloom (Puffin Classics) by Louisa May Alcott • Secret Garden (Puffin Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett • Sense and Sensibility (Puffin Classics) by Jane Austen • Story of the Amulet (Puffin Classics) by E. Nesbit • Story of the Treasure Seekers (Puffin Classics) by E. Nesbit • Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Suicide Club (Puffin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson • Swiss Family Robinson (Puffin Classics) by Johann D. Wyss • Tale of Troy (Puffin Classics) by Roger Lancelyn Green • Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens • Tales from Shakespeare (Puffin Classics) by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb • Tales of Ancient Egypt (Puffin Classics) by Roger Lancelyn Green • Tales of Mystery and Terror (Puffin Classics by Edgar Allan Poe • Tales of the Greek Heroes (Puffin Classics) by Roger Lancelyn Green • Three Musketeers (Puffin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas • Through the Looking-Glass (Puffin Classics) by Lewis Carroll • Treasure Island (Puffin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Puffin Classics) by Jules Verne • Water Babies (Puffin Classics) by Charles Kingsley • What Katy Did (Puffin Classics) by Susan Coolidge • White Fang (Puffin Classics) by Jack London • Wind in the Willows (Puffin Classics) by Kenneth Graham • Wizard of Oz, The (Puffin Classics) by L. Frank Baum • Wouldbegoods, The (Puffin Classics) by E. Nesbit • Wrinkle in Time (Puffin Classics) by Madeleine L'Engle • Wuthering Heights (Puffin Classics) by Emily Brontë Edited January 28, 2012 by Elizabeth in MN typos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 (edited) I worked through most of the unabridged Puffins with my boys - it's a good list. Oxford Children's Classics is another good imprint. Laura Edited January 28, 2012 by Laura Corin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth in MN Posted January 28, 2012 Author Share Posted January 28, 2012 The Oxford list is pretty good! Here are the ones that I know off the top of my head are *not* on the Puffin list Flambards by K.M. Peyton Party Shoes by Noel Streatfeild Jack Holborn by Leon Garfield A Study in Scarlet & Other Sherlock Holmes Adventures by Arthur Conan Doyle I'm strongly considering reading my way through these lists because I've never read many of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funnygirl Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 WOW. Thanks for the time you spent on this list. I have printed it and am looking forward to figuring out what we've done and what we should start! :thumbup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatholicMom Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Thanks everyone! And WOW, Elizabeth! Thanks for the awesome list! :hurray: These are exactly the type I was thinking... the Big Ones. I'm so clueless about publishers and stuff. Do some publishers (like apparently Puffin) just make it their business (hardy har har) to publish the classics? Is Puffin THE classics publisher, or something? Sorry I'm a doofus. :tongue_smilie: Anyway, I'm going to print these lists! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth in MN Posted February 26, 2012 Author Share Posted February 26, 2012 Do some publishers (like apparently Puffin) just make it their business (hardy har har) to publish the classics? Is Puffin THE classics publisher, or something? Sorry I'm a doofus. :tongue_smilie: Anyway, I'm going to print these lists! Yes, some publishers focus on reprinting with their own introductions books that are in the public domain (meaning copyright free because they are old). I'd say Puffin is the biggest re-publisher around for kids books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhatLight Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 What a great list! Thanks for sharing your hard work. I see many of my all-time favorites on that list, as well as quite a few that I intend to use as read-alouds this year. However, your list did jog my memory on quite a few books that I had forgotten about, so thanks so much for that! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Yes, some publishers focus on reprinting with their own introductions books that are in the public domain (meaning copyright free because they are old). I'd say Puffin is the biggest re-publisher around for kids books. I have not gone through and checked the translated books on the list, but often public domain translations are not the preferred ones. For example, some contemporary translations of Verne not only butchered his texts, but also invented scenes wholesale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kubiac Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Thanks for this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SewingMom2many Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Thanks for this great list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Great list. Just looking over it, I'd say that MOST of these are available for free on Kindle. I recently loaded about half of them for myself to read (and later for DD). ...Just FYI. Free is always nice. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.Balaban Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Thanks so much! This is great! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Yes, some publishers focus on reprinting with their own introductions books that are in the public domain (meaning copyright free because they are old). I'd say Puffin is the biggest re-publisher around for kids books. Penguin pioneered paperback books in the UK in the early 20th century. Puffin publishes in-copyright books as Puffins, and older books (mostly out of copyright, but not all) as Puffin Classics. There are also Penguin Classics, which are well-edited adult classic imprints. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 I have not gone through and checked the translated books on the list, but often public domain translations are not the preferred ones. For example, some contemporary translations of Verne not only butchered his texts, but also invented scenes wholesale. I definitely went for modern translations of Verne, when my boys were reading him. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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