| One Hundred Books That Shaped The Century | |
| Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale | Aardema, Verna |
| The High King | Alexander, Lloyd |
| The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi |
| Truck Everlasting | Babbitt, Natalie |
| Madeline | Bemelmans, Ludwig |
| The Five Chinese Brothers | Bishop, Claire Huchet |
| Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret Bradbury | Blume, Judy |
| A Bear Called Paddington | Bond, Michael |
| Goodnight Moon | Brown, Margaret Wise |
| Smokey Night | Bunting, Eve |
| The Secret Garden | Burnett, Frances Hodgson |
| The Incredible Journey: A Tale of Three Animals | Burnford, Sheila |
| Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel | Burton, Virginia Lee |
| Summer of the Swans | Byars, Betsy |
| The Very Hungary Caterpillar | Carle, Eric |
| Ramona the Pest | Cleary, Beverly |
| The Goats | Cole, Brock |
| The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks | Cole, Joanna |
| The Dark is Rising | Cooper, Susan |
| The Chocolate War | Cormier, Robert |
| Ordinary Jack | Cresswell, Helen |
| Freight Train | Crews, Donald |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Dahl, Roald |
| Strega Nona | DePaola, Tomie |
| Harriet the Spy | Fitzhugh, Louise |
| Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | Fleishchman, Paul |
| The One-Eyed Cat | Fox, Paula |
| Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl | Frank, Anne |
| Lincoln: A Photo Biography | Freedman, Russell |
| And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? | Fritz, Jean |
| Millions of Cats | Gag, Wanda |
| Annie on My Mind | Garden, Nancy |
| Julie of the Wolves | George, Jean Craighead |
| The Wind in the Willows | Grahame, Kenneth |
| M.C. Higgins, the Great | Hamilton, Virginia |
| The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales | Hamilton, Virginia |
| Chester’s Way | Henkes, Kevin |
| Out of the Dust | Hesse, Karen |
| The Outsiders | Hinton, S.E. |
| Shapes and Things | Hoban, Tana |
| Paddle-to-the-Sea | Holing, Holing C. |
| The Snowy Day | Keats, Ezra Jack |
| Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack | Kerr, M. E. |
| Just So Stories | Kipling, Rudyard |
| From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | Konigsburg, E. L. |
| Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth | Konigsburg, E. L. |
| Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mt. St. Helens | Lauber, Patricia |
| Rabbit Hill | Lawson, Robert |
| A Wizard of Earthsea | LeGuin, Ursula |
| A Wrinkle in Time | L’Engle, Madeleine |
| The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | Lewis, C. S. |
| Pippi Longstocking | Lindgren, Astrid |
| Frog and Toad Are Friends | Lobel, Arnold |
| Anastasia Krupnik | Lowry, Lois |
| The Giver | Lowry, Lois |
| Cathedral | Macaulay, David |
| The Way Things Work | Macaulay, David |
| Sarah, Plain and Tall | MacLachlan, Patricia |
| George and Martha | Marshall, James |
| Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | Martin, Bill Jr. and Archimbault, John |
| Make Way for Ducklings | McCloskey, Robert |
| Far and Few | McCord, David |
| The Hero and the Crown | McKinley, Robin |
| Mirandy and Brother Wind | McKissack, Patricia |
| The Pushcart War | Merrill, Jean |
| Winnie-the-Pooh | Milne, A. A. |
| Little Bear | Minarik, Else |
| Anne of Green Gables | Montgomery, L. M. |
| Fallen Angels | Myers, Walter Dean |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | O’Dell, Scott |
| Bridge to Terabithia | Paterson, Katherine |
| Hatchet | Paulsen, Gary |
| Tom’s Midnight Garden | Pearce, Philippa |
| The Little Engine That Could | Piper, Watty |
| The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Potter, Beatrix |
| Yo! Yes? | Raschka, Chris |
| The Westing Game | Raskin, Ellen |
| Curious George | Rey, H. A. |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | Rowling, J. K. |
| The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales | Scieszka, John |
| True Story of the Three Little Pigs | Scieszka, John |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Sendak, Maurice |
| The Cat in the Hat | Suess, Dr. |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings | Silverstein, Shel |
| Zlateh the Goat | Singer, Isaac Bashevis |
| The Alfred Summer | Slepian, Jan |
| Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business | Slobodkina, Esphyr |
| Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | Steig, William |
| Stevie | Steptoe, John |
| The Lantern Bearers | Sutcliff, Rosemary |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Taylor, Mildred |
| The Hobbit | Tolkien, J. R. R. |
| Mary Poppins | Travers, P. L. |
| The Polar Express | Van Allsburg, Chris |
| Homecoming | Voigt, Cynthia |
| Max’s First Work | Wells, Rosemary |
| Charlotte’s Web | White, E. B. |
| Little House in the Big Woods | Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
| Seven Blind Mice | Young, Ed |
| Rumpelstiltskin | Zalinsky, Paul O. |
| The Pigman | Zindel, Paul |
| William’s Doll | Zolotow, Charlotte |



