I list here some great children’s authors and various titles to check out. There are links to book review posts as I write them. I hope you find some treasures.
These books are aimed at children up to the age of about 12, though many are an enjoyable read at any age.
- Jackie French: Waltzing Matilda,
- Jack Lazenby: Aunt Effie series,
- Margaret Mahy: The Man whose Mother was a Pirate, A Summery Saturday Morning, Perdita and Maddy, A busy day for a Good Grandmother
- H F Brinsmead: Who calls from afar, Season of the Briar, Pastures of the Blue Crane
- Colin Thiele: Storm Boy,
- Rosemary Sutcliffe:
- EL Konigsberg: The Mixed up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler, My Father’s daughter
- Alexander McCall Smith:
- C S Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia
- E B White: Stuart Little, Trumpet of the Swan, Charlotte’s Web
- Laura Ingals Wilder: The Little House on the Prairie series.
- Dick King Smith: Sophie books,
- Michael Bond: The Paddington books
- Eleanor Estes: The Middle Moffat, Ginger Pye, Pinky Pye, The Alley, The Tunnel of Hugsy Goode
- Francis Hodgens Burnett: The Secret Garden, A Little Princess
- L.M Montogomery: Anne of Green Gables series, Pat of Silver Bush series, Emily of New Moon series…
- George McDonald: Sir Gibbie, The Princess and Curdie, The Princess and the Goblin
- E B White: Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, Trumpet of the Swan
- A & B Fienberg: Tashi books
- May Gibbs: Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
- Norman Hunter: Professor Branestawm books
- Kate Seredy: The Open Gate, The Good Master, The Singing Tree
- Joan Aiken: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Black Hearts in Battersea, The Kingdom and the Cave
- E Nesbit: The Railway Children, The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Enchanted Castle
- Elizabeth Marie Pope: The Sherwood Ring, The Perilous Guard
