Top 10 Children’s Book Lists Compared
A Top 10 list of any kind is for the most part subjective. There can be many criteria used to judge which item is better than another. The same holds true for children’s books. Let’s compare a few Top 10 Children’s book lists.
Good Reads Top 10 Children’s books:
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
- Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
Top Selling Children’s Books at Amazon include the following:
- Goodnight Moon
- The Wonderful Things You Will Be by Emily Winfield Martin
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst and Ray Cruz
- I Love You to the Moon and Back (3 books)
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
- I Wish You More by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr and Eric Carle
Top 10 Children’s Books of All Time by Book Trust
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Author: Eric Carle. …
- Northern Lights. Author: Philip Pullman. …
- The Hunger Games. Author: Suzanne Colins. …
- The BFG. Author: Roald Dahl Illustrator: Quentin Blake. …
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Author: J K Rowling. …
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
- Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring and the Hunger Games are for much more advanced readers into the teens and adults, dealing with complex themes of survival and war, Harry Potter would be appreciated more by 3rd graders and above.