Classic Children's Literature

Find the perfect book as you browse our children’s literature collection. From beloved stories of childhood and award-winning picture books to essential classics for high school, our literature selection will inspire your child’s imagination and love of reading.

  1. The Bark of the Bog Owl, WilderKing  Trilogy #1
    Jonathan Rogers & Joe Hox
    Rabbit Room Press / 2024 / Hardcover
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  2. The Secret of the Swamp King,  Wilderking Trilogy #2
    Jonathan Rogers & Joe Hox
    Rabbit Room Press / 2024 / Hardcover
    Our Price$8.62 Retail Price$14.99 Save 42% ($6.37)
  3. The Way of the Wilderking,  Wilderking Trilogy #3
    Jonathan Rogers & Joe Hox
    Rabbit Room Press / 2024 / Hardcover
    Our Price$8.59 Retail Price$14.99 Save 43% ($6.40)
  1. The Big Snow and Other Stories: A  Treasury of Caldecott Award Winning Tales
    Berta Hader, Elmer Hader
    Dover Publications / 2015 / Trade Paperback
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  2. The Courage of Sarah Noble
    Alice Dalgliesh, Leonard Weisgard
    Aladdin / 1991 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Miss RumphiusThis product is part of our current Homeschool Sale promotion
    Barbara Cooney
    Puffin Books / Trade Paperback
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  4. Ox-Cart ManThis product is part of our current Homeschool Sale promotion
    Donald Hall
    Puffin Books / Trade Paperback
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  1. The Hundred Dresses
    Eleanor Estes
    Clarion Books / Trade Paperback
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  2. Owls in the FamilyThis product is part of our current Homeschool Sale promotion
    Farley Mowat
    Yearling / 1996 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Treasure Island in 20 Minutes a Day:  A Read-With-Me Book with Discussion Questions, Definitions, and More!
    Bushel & Peck Books / 2023 / Hardcover
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    Stock No: WW8191421
  4. Mississippi Morning
    Ruth Vander Zee
    Eerdmans Books for Young Readers / 2017 / Trade Paperback
    Our Price$5.77 Retail Price$10.00 Save 42% ($4.23)

Study Guides for Children's Literature

Finding the Best Books for Children

Humans have always connected through stories. And even in our busy, technology-driven lives, stories provide the chance to be fully present with our children and open up opportunities for deep conversations. Listening to read-aloud stories also increases our kids' academic success, inspires compassion, and fortifies them with the inner strength they need to face life's challenges. As homeschooler Sarah Mackenzie has found with her own six children, reading aloud long after kids are able to read to themselves can deepen relationships in a powerful way.

Founder of the immensely popular Read-Aloud Revival podcast, Sarah knows first-hand how reading can change a child's life. In The Read-Aloud Family, she offers the inspiration and age-appropriate book lists you need to start a read-aloud movement in your own home. From a toddler's wonder to a teenager's resistance, Sarah details practical strategies to make reading aloud a meaningful family ritual.

A modern classic with over 250,000 copies sold, Honey for a Child's Heart is a compelling, essential guide for parents who want to find the best books for their children ages 0-12. This updated and expanded edition includes completely updated book lists geared to your child's age and filled with nearly one thousand longtime favorites, timeless classics, and wonderful new books and audiobooks that will enrich your child's life. You'll discover the importance of being a read-aloud family and how great books can give your children a large view of the world, of truth, and of goodness. Thousands of parents have used this guide to furnish their children's inner spirit with the wonder and delight of good reading. 272 pages, softcover.

Sailing boats down the river, climbing majestic cherry trees, building cities out of blocks, reading picture books on snowy days. . . . Ready to charm a new generation of readers, this perennial classic celebrates all the timeless joys of childhood! Stevenson's poetry is complemented by breathtaking watercolor paintings by Caldecott Honor illustrator Tasha Tudor. 69 pages, hardcover from Simon & Schuster.

  1. Favorite Poems, Old and New
    Helen Ferris
    Doubleday / 1957 / Hardcover
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  2. I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of  American Slavery
    Cynthia Grady
    Eerdmans Books for Young Readers / 2012 / Hardcover
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  3. The 20th Century Children's Poetry  Treasury
    Jack Prelutsky
    Random House Inc / 1999 / Hardcover
    Our Price$19.79 Retail Price$21.99 Save 10% ($2.20)
  4. Stories and Poems for Extremely  Intelligent Children of All Ages
    Harold Bloom
    Simon & Schuster / 2002 / Trade Paperback
    Our Price$15.15 Retail Price$22.00 Save 31% ($6.85)
Stories from Around the World

Add engaging stories, folk tales, myths, and legends to your child's history, geography or language arts programs. Learning about other countries and cultures can increase awareness and deepen respect toward the lives and experiences of others.

Shop for stories from around the world in picture books, chapter books, and anthologies in the Stories, Folk Tales & Myths Shop.

Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales and folklore tales are found across the world from antiquity onward, in both oral and literary form. Often featuring fantastical creatures or settings, this unique genre of literature has been read to children generation after generation and makes up a unique aspect of our shared childhood experiences.

Shop fairy tale anthologies, classics such as the Arabian Nights, as well as works by the Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Anderson, Andrew Lang, and others in the Fairy Tale & Folklore Shop.

The Real Mother Goose

Nursery Rhymes, like Fairy and Folk tales, have been handed down orally from generation to generation. While they might not be as old (the first collections arrive in the mid-1700s), they still speak to years of history and years of family play with young children.

Shop Mother Goose & Nursery Rhyme anthologies, as well as picture books based on popular rhymes, in the Nursery Rhyme Shop.

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  1. The Penderwicks Paperback 5-Book  Boxed Set: The Penderwicks; The Penderwicks on Gardam Street; The Penderwicks at Point Mouette; The Penderwicks in Spring; The Penderwicks at Last
    Jeanne Birdsall
    Yearling / 2021 / Other, N/A
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  2. #1: The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale  of Four Sisters,  Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
    Jeanne Birdsall
    Yearling / 2007 / Trade Paperback
    Our Price$8.09 Retail Price$8.99 Save 10% ($0.90)
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    Stock No: WW0420477
  3. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street #2
    Jeanne Birdsall
    Yearling / 2010 / Trade Paperback
    Our Price$8.09 Retail Price$8.99 Save 10% ($0.90)
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    Stock No: WW422037
  4. The Penderwicks at Point Mouette #3
    Jeanne Birdsall
    Yearling / 2012 / Trade Paperback
    Our Price$8.09 Retail Price$8.99 Save 10% ($0.90)
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    Stock No: WW851352

Discover the classic story of Anne of Green Gables in a graphic novel format. The classic story is adapted by Mariah Marsden and illustrated by Brenna Thummler, this new edition breathes new life into the (mis)adventures of Anne Shirley. Perfect for newcomers and kindred spirits alike. Recommended for ages 7 to 12 years.

  1. Redwall: The Graphic Novel
    Brian Jacques
    Penguin Random House / Trade Paperback
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  2. The Iliad, softcover
    Gareth Hinds
    Candlewick Press / 2019 / Trade Paperback
    Our Price$10.29 Retail Price$18.99 Save 46% ($8.70)
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  3. El Diario de Anne Frank (The Diary  of Anne Frank Graphic Novel Edition)
    Anne Frank
    Vintage Espanol / 2018 / Hardcover
    Our Price$22.46 Retail Price$24.95 Save 10% ($2.49)
  4. Drawing From Memory
    Allen Say
    Scholastic Trade / 2011 / Trade Paperback
    Our Price$22.49 Retail Price$24.99 Save 10% ($2.50)

Beautiful Bindings

Here are beautiful collections of must-have classics -- some of the most beloved stories, now handsomely bound in style and design with endearing covers by acclaimed artists like Laci Fowle and Anna Bond of Rifle Paper Co. Luxurious production details like decorative interior pages in the Pretty Books Painted Editions; vibrantly designed hardcovers of Puffin in Bloom; deckle edges and French flaps for Puffin Chalk; and delicate laser-cut dustjackets, foil stamped covers, and decorative interior pages for the Seasons Collection make these editions treasured collectible gifts.

Pretty Books Painted Editions

  1. Winnie the Pooh and Other Delightful  Stories (Painted Edition)
    A.A. Milne
    Thomas Nelson / 2023 / Hardcover
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  2. Anne of Green Gables (Painted  Edition)
    L.M. Montgomery
    Thomas Nelson / 2023 / Hardcover
    Our Price$28.85 Retail Price$34.99 Save 18% ($6.14)
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  3. Jane Eyre, Pretty Books Painted  Edition
    Charlotte Bronte
    Thomas Nelson / 2022 / Hardcover
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  4. Little Women, Pretty Books Painted  Edition
    Louisa May Alcott
    Thomas Nelson / 2022 / Hardcover
    Our Price$25.70 Retail Price$34.99 Save 27% ($9.29)

Penguin Threads Series

  1. The Wizard of Oz: And Other  Wonderful Books of Oz, Deluxe Classics Edition
    L. Frank Baum
    Penguin Classics / 2012 / Trade Paperback
    Our Price$16.20 Retail Price$18.00 Save 10% ($1.80)
  2. The Wind in the Willows, Penguin  Classics Deluxe Edition
    Kenneth Grahame
    Penguin Classics / 2012 / Trade Paperback
    Our Price$16.20 Retail Price$18.00 Save 10% ($1.80)
  3. The Secret Garden, Penguin Classics  Deluxe Edition
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    Penguin Classics / 2012 / Trade Paperback
    Our Price$17.10 Retail Price$19.00 Save 10% ($1.90)
  4. Black Beauty
    Anna Sewell
    Penguin Classics / 2011 / Trade Paperback
    Our Price$16.20 Retail Price$18.00 Save 10% ($1.80)
  1. Little WomenThis product is part of our current Homeschool Sale promotion
    Louisa May Alcott
    Puffin Books / 2014 / Hardcover
    Our Price$10.80 Retail Price$18.00 Save 40% ($7.20)
  2. Anne of Green GablesThis product is part of our current Homeschool Sale promotion
    L.M. Montgomery
    Puffin Books / 2014 / Hardcover
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  3. HeidiThis product is part of our current Homeschool Sale promotion
    Johanna Spyri
    Puffin Books / 2014 / Hardcover
    Our Price$10.20 Retail Price$17.00 Save 40% ($6.80)
  4. A Little PrincessThis product is part of our current Homeschool Sale promotion
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    Puffin Books / 2014 / Hardcover
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  1. Alice's Adventures in WonderlandThis product is part of our current Homeschool Sale promotion
    Lewis Carroll
    Puffin Books / 2014 / Trade Paperback
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  2. A Christmas CarolThis product is part of our current Homeschool Sale promotion
    Charles Dickens
    Puffin Books / 2014 / Trade Paperback
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  3. The Wizard of Oz
    L. Frank Baum, Dana Tanamachi
    Puffin Books / 2013 / Trade Paperback
    Our Price$8.09 Retail Price$8.99 Save 10% ($0.90)
  4. Peter Pan
    J.M. Barrie, Dana Tanamachi
    Puffin Books / 2013 / Trade Paperback
    Our Price$8.09 Retail Price$8.99 Save 10% ($0.90)

Seasons Limited Editions

  1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  (Seasons Edition - Summer)
    Mark Twain
    Thomas Nelson / 2020 / Hardcover
    Our Price$28.99 Retail Price$34.99 Save 17% ($6.00)