Raise your hand if you grew up reading books from the 1980s! It’s like, a totally awesome decade, dude. I’m really happy with this list of classic children’s books from the 1980s even though using the term “classic” is becoming more and more suspect as we close in on the 21st century. As always, my…
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Classic Books for Kids
Here you will find all of my favorite old-fashioned and new classic books for kids. Included is my series of book lists featuring 10 titles from each decade in the 20th century. Happy Reading.
Classic Children’s Books By The Decade: 1970s
Welcome to the 1970s! Compiling a list of classic children’s books from the 1970s was unexpectedly challenging! Most of the books I had previously read from this decade were already quite popular so I had to do a fair bit of research to decide which titles to read during my precious off-hours. I think I’ve…
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Classic Children’s Books By The Decade: 1960s
Welcome to the 1960s! Here we are back with some more classic children’s books. This time with kid books from the 1960s. I think a lot of these titles will be familiar to you. There are many “top 10” books from the 1960s, like A Wrinkle in Time or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. But…
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Classic Children’s Books By The Decade: 1950s
These classic children’s books from the 1950s will lead us into the second half of the twentieth century. As with my other classic book lists, I bumped a few famous titles (Charlotte’s Web, anyone?) off the list to make room for a few new books that may be less well known, but just as worthy…
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Classic Children’s Books By The Decade: 1940s
The 1940s produced some wonderful classic children’s books that kids and parents can still enjoy today. Let’s take a look at a few, shall we? If you have been following my classic children’s books by the decades lists (I love you.) then you know I have been bumping off the big names in order to…
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Classic Children’s Books By The Decade: 1930s
This book list of classic kids books from the 1930s includes both whimsical and serious selections, as well as a few terrific books well-suited for read alouds. If you’ve been following my series, Classic Children’s Books by the Decade, you know that I try to include lesser-known titles, which is why Little House on the…
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Classic Children’s Books By The Decade: 1920s
In my last three posts in my Classic Children’s Books series I was able to link up to free online editions. Since 1923 marks the end of books no longer subject to copyright laws, I am not able to do that for every book on this list. Good news, though! The library is still free…
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Classic Children’s Books By The Decade: 1910s
Continuing on with my series on 20th Century Classic Children’s Books we move now to the 1910s. I’m happy to report that this list has a few well-known favorites as well as several books I think will be new to you. The selections include books from America, Europe and even Australia. Be sure to leave…
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Classic Children’s Books By The Decade: 1900s
Now that we have covered a few must read kid books from the 19th Century, let’s move on to classic books from the 20th Century and start off with children’s books from the early 1900s. I am showing my age a bit because I keep wanting to refer to the 20th century as “this century”….
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Classic Children’s Books: 19th Century
Many parents want to read what they consider to be “Classic Children’s Books.” In doing so, they turn to books from the nineteenth century. I’ve created a list of 10 books from that period which go beyond the more well-known names like Alice, Jo March or Tom Sawyer and Huck. It’s possible that some children…
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