Childrens Books Bucket List

Read the first book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which introduces the wizarding world.

Read the second book in the Harry Potter series, following Harry's adventures at Hogwarts.

Read the third book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling.

Read the classic novella The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Read J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Hobbit, along with the collection Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth.

A robot boy built by a grieving scientist; Tezuka, the god of manga, from 1952.

A gilded statue and a swallow give away his gold leaf and his sapphire eyes to the poor, and both are thrown out.

Tiffany goes to learn witchcraft and something invisible follows her.

A mermaid trades her voice for legs that hurt at every step, and does not get the prince; Andersen's ending is not the film's.

Tiffany as her village's witch, facing a rising hatred of witches.

A talking cat runs a Pied Piper con with talking rats; the first Discworld book for children, and a Carnegie Medal.

The last Discworld novel: Tiffany inherits a role she is not ready for, and the elves return.

Tiffany dances with winter and winter falls in love with her.

Tiffany Aching, a frying pan and the Nac Mac Feegle against the Queen of the Fairies.

A genius girl with telekinesis against Miss Trunchbull; Dahl's last great book.

A mouse invents a monster and then meets it; Donaldson and Scheffler's rhymes.

A spider saves a pig with words in her web; E. B. White's barnyard.

The Pevensies through the wardrobe.

Max in his wolf suit sails to the island of the wild things; ten sentences and every child knows them.

A bear of very little brain in the Hundred Acre Wood; Milne and Shepard.

Five golden tickets and Willy Wonka; Dahl's factory of sweets and punishment.

One apple, two pears and a lot of cake; the board book with holes.

Moomintroll and his mother search for father in the first Moomin book; Tove Jansson's valley begins.

A girl against the grey men who steal people's time; Ende's fable about hurry.

Bastian reads a book and ends up inside Fantastica; Ende in red and green ink.

The strongest girl in the world lives alone with a horse and a monkey; Lindgren's anarchist.

The Pevensies return a thousand Narnian years later to a usurped throne.

A boy and a talking horse flee Calormen across the desert; the Narnia book without the Pevensies.