1900 – 1919

Winner

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

Top Twenty

J.M. Barrie

Peter Pan & Wendy

L. Frank Baum

The Wizard of Oz

Hilaire Belloc

Cautionary Tales for Children

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Little Princess

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

Rudyard Kipling

Kim

Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories

Andrew Lang

The Lilac Fairy Book

Jack London

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

White Fang

L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables

E. Nesbit

Five Children and It

E. Nesbit

The Railway Children

Eleanor Porter

Pollyanna

Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter

The Tailor of Gloucester

Arthur Rackham

Mother Goose

Jean Webster

Daddy Long Legs

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

1920 –1939

Winner

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit

Top Twenty

Eleanor Brent Dyer

The School at the Chalet

Joyce L Brisley

Milly Molly Mandy

Richmal Crompton

Just William

Jean De Brunhoff

The story of Barbar, the little elephant

T.S. Eliot

Old Possum’s book of practical cats

Eve Garnett

The Family from One End Street

Kathleen Hale

Orlando, the Marmalade Cat

Herge

Tintin

Erich Kastner

Emil and the detectives

Hugh Lofting

The story of Doctor Dolittle

John Masefield

The Box of Delights

Arthur Mee

Children’s Encyclopedia

A.A. Milne

When we were very young

A.A. Milne

Winnie the Pooh

A.A. Milne

The House at Pooh Corner

Arthur Ransome

Swallows and Amazons

Noel Streatfeild

Ballet Shoes

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit

P.L. Travers

Mary Poppins

Henry Williamson

Tarka the Otter

1940 –1959

Winner

C.S. Lewis

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Also Voted Personal Choice of the Century

Top Twenty

Rev. W. Awdrey

Thomas the Tank Engine

Enid Blyton

Five on a Treasure Island

Michael Bond

A Bear called Paddington

Lucy M Boston

The Children of Green Knowe

Pamela Brown

The Swish of the Curtain

Anthony Buckeridge

Jennings goes to School

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Little Prince

Dorothy Edwards

My Naughty Little Sister

Cynthia Harnett

The Wool Pack

C.S.Lewis

The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

James Vance Marshall

Walkabout

Mary Norton

The Borrowers

Philippa Pearce

Tom’s Midnight Garden

Ian Serrailier, Ian

The Silver Sword

Dr Seuss

The Cat in the Hat

Dodie Smith

The One Hundred and One Dalmations

Rosemary Sutcliff

The Eagle of the Ninth

E.B.White

Charlotte’s Web

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Little House in the Big Woods

Gene Zion

Harry the Dirty Dog

1960 –1979

Winner

Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Top Twenty

Richard Adams

Watership Down

Janet & Allan Ahlberg

Each Peach, Pear, Plum

Nina Bawden

Carrie’s War

Judy Blume

Forever

Raymond Briggs

The Snowman

Eric Carle

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Susan Cooper

The Dark is Rising

Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Alan Garner

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

Alan Garner

The Owl Service

Anne Holm

I am David

Shirley Hughes

Dogger

Ted Hughes

The Iron Man

Pat Hutchins

Rosie’s Walk

Gene Kemp

The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler

Clive King

Stig of the Dump

Ursula Le Guin

A Wizard of Earthsea

Maurice Sendak

Where the Wild Things Are

Mildred Taylor

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Robert Westall

The Machine Gunners

1980 –1999

Winner

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Top Twenty

Allan Ahlberg

Please Mrs Butler

Janet and Allan Ahlberg

The Jolly Postman

David Almond

Skellig

Quentin Blake

Mr Magnolia

Melvyn Burgess

Junk

Gillian Cross

The Demon Headmaster

Roald Dahl

The BFG

Berlie Doherty

Dear Nobody

Anne Fine

Flour Babies

Eric Hill

Where’s Spot

Shirley Hughes

Alfie gets in first

Dick King Smith

The Sheep Pig

David McKee

Elmer

Michelle Magorian

Goodnight Mr Tom

Jill Murphy

Peace at Last

Philip Pullman

Northern Lights

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Robert Swindells

Stone Cold

Sue Townsend

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾

Jacqueline Wilson

The Suitcase Kid