 | The Ogre Downstairs by Diana Wynne Jones
Buy used from: $0.27 A sweet, funny, magical story for young fantasy fans.
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 | Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 One of the eeriest, most perfect books I have read in a long time.
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 | Five Children and It (Puffin Classics) by E. Nesbit
Buy used from: $0.01 Part of a delightful, classic fantasy trilogy for children.
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 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 100th Anniversary Edition (Books of Wonder) by L. Frank Baum
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $8.49 The first of 14 books by a great American myth-maker.
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 | Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
Buy used from: $0.01 An award-winning classic of children's fantasy.
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 | Half Magic: Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition by Edward Eager
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $4.32 Edward Eager was the American E. Nesbit. Also recommended: Mary Norton's "Bedknob and Broomstick"
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 | The Princess Bride: S Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman
Buy used from: $0.01 Laughter, tears, thrills, romance, miracles, monsters...
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 | The Princess and the Goblin (Puffin Classics) by George Macdonald
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.30 A funny, touching, weird, and cheerfully exciting adventure.
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 | The Once and Future King by Terence Hanbury White
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Best known for the first part, "The Sword in the Stone," but heartbreakingly beautiful to the end.
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 | The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles) by Joan Aiken
Buy new: $6.50 / Used from: $0.01 The start of a series of youthful, gothic adventures set in an alternative-history 19th century England.
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 | The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
Buy used from: $0.01 James Thurber was an author who made magic with words. Also recommended: John Masefield's "The Midnight Folk."
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 | The Book of Three (Prydain Chronicles) by Lloyd Alexander
Buy used from: $0.01 First book in the "Chronicles of Prydain," a magnificent series.
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 | Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Grab any book by Robin McKinley you can get your hands on.
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 | The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Very different, yet enjoyable adventures taking place at a yet another hidden platform at King's Cross station...
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 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: $0.01 Dahl's stories, like chocolate, can become an addiction.
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 | Watership Down by Richard Adams
Buy used from: $0.01 The classic example of the genre of "anthropomorphic fantasy." See also the works of David Clement-Davies.
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 | Perloo The Bold by Avi
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 A fantasy-drama-adventure featuring rabbit-like people and their coyote-like enemies.
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 | The Tears of the Salamander by Peter Dickinson
Buy used from: $0.01 A hauntingly beautiful, breathtakingly suspenseful tale of music, magic, and revenge.
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 | Rootabaga Stories (Harcourt Young Classics) by Carl Sandburg
Buy used from: $10.75 Bedtime stories magically woven from threads of sadness, humor, beauty, and love.
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 | The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Buy new: $14.94 / Used from: $11.99 A beloved story about a book that turns its reader into a character within its own, ongoing story.
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