Some older classics of juvenile fiction that I have enjoyed
(besides all the Fairy Tales of Anderson, Grimm, Perrault, d'Aulnoy, et
al.) and are still fun as an adult.
I also HIGHLY recommend the current "Tomorrow" series by John
Marsden, an Australian writer.
Dates are the original publication dates to the best of my knowledge,
amny have been reprinted at various times.
More about me in another posting ;-)
Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings (1880)
Jonathan Cott (ed). Beyond the Looking Glass. Extraordinary Works
of Fairy Tale and Fantasy (rpts 1851-1893)
Lester Del Rey/ Cecile The Year After Tomorrow (1954; early juvenile
Matschat, C. Carmer (eds.) SF)
R.M. Ballantine The Coral Island; The Gorilla Hunters (c. 1890)
J.M. Barrie Peter Pan and Wendie (1915)
L. Frank Baum Wizard of Oz series (1900-1920), Sky Island
(1912), The Sea Fairies (1911), The Master Key
(1903), American Fairy Tales (1901)
Peter Beagle The Last Unicorn (1972)
H.E. Bates Seven Tales and Alexander
Algernon Blackwood The Fruit Stoners (1935)
Alfred Assolant Aventures merveilleuses mais
authentiques du Capitaine Corcoran (c. 1860, in
French)
Marjorie Bowen The Viper of Milan (1906) [written when she was
16 yrs old!]
Walter R. Brooks Freddy the Pig series (1927-1956)
John Buchan The Magic Walking Stick (1932)
Thornton W. Burgess The Adventures of Bobby Coon/Chatterer the
Squirrel, etc... (c. 1910)
Edgar Rice Burroughs Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1916/1919)
Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
(1898)
Joy Chant Red Moon and Black Mountain (1971)
Carl H. Claudy The Blue Grotto Terror (1934); The Mystery Men
of Mars (1933); A Thousand Years a Minute
(1933); The Land of No Shadow (c. 1930)
Col. William F. Cody The Adventures of Buffalo Bill (1904)
Christopher Pease Cranch Three Children's Novels by C.P.Cranch (1994)
(includes The Last of the Huggermuggers
(1856), Kobboltozo (1857), The Legend of
Dr. Theophilus (1870))
S.R. Crockett Red Cap Tales Stolen From the Treasure Chest of
the Wizard of the North (1904)
Roald Dahl Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; James
and the Giant Peach, and many others.
Capitaine Danrit (in French) L'Invasion Jaune (1910); Robinsons
Sous-Marins (c. 1910); La Guerre de Demain (c.
1905) and many others
Walter de la Mare The Three Royal Monkey; or, The Three Mulla
Mulgars (1910)
August Derleth The Moon Tenders (1958)
Fenelon The Adventures of Telemachus (c. 1700)
Charles G. Finney Past the End of the Pavement (1939)
Ian Fleming Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (c. 1955)
Hugh Lofting Dr. Doolitle books
Oscar J. Friend The Kid From Mars (1949)
Paul Gallico Manxmouse (1968); The Abandoned (a.k.a. Jennie)
(1950); The Three Lives of Thomasina (1957)
??? Garis The "Uncle Wiggly" books
Mary Norton The Borrowers series
Geza Gardonyi Slave of the Huns (1901) [excellent bio of
Attila the Hun]
William Goldman The Princess Bride (1974)
Leon Gozlan Monkey Island (a.k.a. Les emotions de Polydore
Marasquin (1857)) [Tarzan precursor]
Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows (1908); Dream Days
(1902); The Golden Age (1895); First Whisper of
"The Wind in the Willows" (1944)
Roger Lancelyn Green Tellers of Tales [discusses many early
Childrens works] (1946)
H. Rider Haggard She (1887); King Solomon's Mines (1885); Allan
Quartermain (1887) and many others.
Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda (1894); Rupert of Hentzau
(1897)
William H. Hudson A Little Boy Lost (1905)
Jean Ingelow Mopsa the Fairy (1869)
Thomas Ingoldsby The Ingoldsby Legends (1840)
Richard Jefferies Bevis (1882); Wood Magic (1881)
Sir John de Mandeville The Travels of Sir John de Mandeville (late
mediaeval)
Annie & Eliza Keary The Heroes of Asgard (1870)
Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book (1893); The Second Jungle Book
(1893)
Andrew Lang The Chronicles of Pantouflia (1889) (includes
"Prince Prigio" and "Prince Ricardo")
C.S. Lewis Narnia Chronicles
Eric Linklater The Wind on the Moon (1944)
Harrap's Myths and Legends Series (1900-1920) (published by Harrap's
London, several reprint editions but not all have colour plates of
originals)
Hero- Myths and Legends of the British Race
Hero-Tales and Legends of the Rhine
Legends and Romances of Spain
Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt
Japan
the Celtic Race
Myths of Greece and Rome
Hindus and Buddhists
the Norsemen
the North American Indians
George Macdonals At the Back of the North Wind (1896); The
Princess and Curdie (1882); The Princess and the
Goblin (1872)
Captain Frederick Marryat The Pacha of Many Tales (c. 1830);
Midshipman's Easy; The Phantom Ship
Allan Campbell McLean The Hill of the Red Fox (1955); Ribbon of Fire
(1962); A Sound of Trumpets (1967)
A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh (1926); The House at Pooh
`Corner (1928); Once on a Time (1917)
Mrs. Molesworth The Cuckoo Clock (1877)
Dinah Maria Mulock The Little Lame Prince; The Adventures of a
Brownie (c. 1840)
Baron Munchausen The Adventures of... (1793-)
Edith Nesbit The Secret Garden (c. 1900) and several others.
Alfred Ollivant Bob, Son of Battle (1898)
Baroness Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel series (1905-)
Gene Stratton Porter The Girl of the Limberlost (c. 1910)
Harry Prentice Captured by Apes; or, How Philip Garland
became King of Apeland (1892) [Tarzan precursor]
T.W. Rolleston The High Deeds of Finn and Other Bardic
Romances of Ancient Ireland (1910)
J.H. Rosny Quest for Fire (1911)
John Ruskin The King of the Golden River or The Black
Brothers: A Legend of Stiria (1851)
Anna Sewell Black Beauty, The Autobiography of a Horse
(1895)
Arthur D. Howden Smith Grey Maiden. A Story of a Sword Through the Ages
(1929); Porto Bello Gold [(1924) prequel to
Stevenson's "Treasure Island" ]
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island; The Black Arrow; Kidnapped
Fyodor Sologub The Sweet Scented Name and Other Fairy Tales
(1915)
Robert Neilson Stephens An Enemy to the King (1897);The Bright Face of
Danger (1908) [2nd sequel to 1st]
Frank R. Stockton The Fairy Tales of... (1990, originally c. 1900)
Bram Stoker Under the Sunset (1881)
Jules Verne too many to mention...
Stanley J Weyman The House of the Wolf (1922); Man in Black
(1897) and many others.
A.C. Whitehead The Standard Bearer, a Story of Army Life in
the Time of Caesar (1915)
Opal Whiteley The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow (1994)
edited version of "The Story of Opal" (1920)
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