Perseverance and come-uppance are tenderly portrayed

This follows Tom Sawyer, and becomes deeper and more poignant. It is iconic in its description of 19th C. American childhood and race relations

Such grand adventures keeps kids on the edge of their seat - a true page turner!

Such a funny book! It is mind-expanding, too, as cross-century problems get solved. Twain was on a roll!

Ursula K. Le Guin may well be the best living American children's story writer. They pull the reader in to a fantasy world like no other.

How wonderful! Rudyard Kipling knew India well and brings it alive for young readers. His characters are totally unforgettable!

What a rouser! Pirates, treasure, betrayals, great sailing ships, great adventures! Robert Louis Stevenson really knows what sets a child's imagination alight, and works his material to the utmost

These poems are simply wonderful. They appeal in rhythm, in rhyme and in subject matter to the younger end of readers. Perhaps a parent should read them aloud at first so that the young listeners get the full benefit of A. A. Milne's fine work.

It is hard to know which is the premier feature of this book - the storyline, the facts about the Great Lakes, or the gorgeous, gorgeous illustrations which engross children's attention. A true classic, it deserves to be in every child's bookcase!

I read a book once that listed the books that famous authors loved best. This book came up time and time again!. Halliburton wrote about the world's most magic places to visit, (like the Taj Mahal), bringing them to life for children without being at all condescending. Children will LOVE geography after reading this book. It will probably make them world-travelers as adults!

Powerful stuff in here! Yet another Brit who can create a fascinating, often dark ancientworld that draws readers in. Merlin and the Chalice Quest are told here in vivid language that bounces from a sunlit, modern world into a very old one run by very different rules and studded with wonderful, dreamily fearsome chase scenes. Addictive!

Antoine de Saint-Exupery was a famed French flier, lost in WWII. His tale of a little prince in space is charming, witty and sad, in turn, as most true children's classic are. A book a child will turn to, again and again!

I reread these two books throughout my youth. A super Quest story with an impatient young princess, a stalwart miner boy who crosses class lines, and a gorgeous fairy grandmother who appears only in the light of a full moon. They confront angry, powerful goblins wreaking destruction. MacDonald's imagination soars in both books - well worth the read.

Howard Pyles' classic illustrations are spectacular! The story and the illustrations combine seamlessly to create an utterly enchanting world of knights in shining armor, jousts, quests, damsels in distress, castles and the entire universe of Chivalry! This is IT for kids who love losing themselves in a magic realm that still calls us today.

Everyone knows Winnie the Pooh. I think he is so beloved because while some characters are slow, some are not quite bright, and some are mournful, in this child-friendly world, adventures come out fine. It's quite reassuring. Milne knew how a child's mind works, and used his expertise well. It's slyly funny, appealing to children's perception of their place in the universe.

This book answers questions about the importance of personal ingenuity as a tool in life. Young people pit themselves against adversity to see if they can succeed against odds. They can test themselves as they read this book. Would they make the same efforts that Robinson Crusoe did, or would they try something else? This stretches the mind, and that's what Robinson Crusoe does best!