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best books
of the last
100 years
How many have you read?
#100bestbooks
Tick off the ones you’ve read
1920
Winnie the Pooh The Borrowers
A.A. Milne & Mary Norton & Diana
E.H Shepard, 1926 L Stanley/Beth & Joe
Emil and the Crush, 1952
Detectives The Diary of
Erich Kastner & A Young Girl
Walter Trier, 1928 Anne Frank, 1952
Beezus and Ramona
1930 Beverly Cleary &
Louis Darling, 1955
Ballet Shoes
Noel Streatfeild & The Silver Sword The Tiger Who
Ruth Gervis, 1936 Ian Serraillier, 1956 Came To Tea
Harry the Dirty Dog Judith Kerr, 1968
The Story of Ferdinand
Munro Leaf & Gene Zion & Margaret The Very Hungry
Robert Lawson, 1936 Bloy Graham, 1956 Caterpillar
A Bear Called Eric Carle, 1969
The Hobbit
J R R Tolkien, 1937 Paddington
The Family From
Michael Bond &
Peggy Fortnum, 1958
1970
One End Street Are you There, God?
Eve Garnett, 1937 It’s Me, Margaret
The Magic 1960 Judy Blume, 1970
Faraway Tree Green Eggs and Ham Dinosaurs And
Enid Blyton, 1939 Dr Seuss, 1960 All That Rubbish
The Snowy Day Michael Foreman, 1972
1940 Ezra Jack Keats, 1962 Carrie’s War
Nina Bawden, 1973
Pippi Longstocking Where the Wild
Astrid Lindgren, 1945 Things Are Roll of Thunder,
Maurice Sendak, 1963 Hear My Cry
Finn Family Mildred Taylor, 1976
Moomintroll The Owl Service
Tove Jansson, 1948 Alan Garner, 1967 Fungus the Bogeyman
A Wizard of Earthsea Raymond Briggs, 1977
Ursula Le Guin, 1968 Dogger
1950 Elmer Shirley Hughes, 1977
The Lion, the Witch David McKee, 1968 Through the
and the Wardrobe Magic Mirror
C.S. Lewis, 1950 Anthony Browne, 1977
Charlotte’s Web Would You Rather…
E.B White & Garth John Burningham, 1978
Williams, 1952
Haunted House
Jan Pienkowski, 1979
1980 2000
Jumanji Northern Lights I Will Not Ever Never
Chris Van Allsburg, 1981 Philip Pullman, 1995 Eat a Tomato
Goodnight Mr Tom Coming to England Lauren Child, 2000
Michelle Magorian, 1981 Floella Benjamin, 1995 Noughts and Crosses
Peepo! Funky Chickens Malorie Blackman,
Janet & Allan Ahlberg, Benjamin Zephaniah, 2001
1981 1996 How to Train
Dear Zoo Harry Potter and the Your Dragon
Rod Campbell, 1982 Philosopher’s Stone Cressida Cowell, 2003
The BFG J.K. Rowling, 1997 Once
Roald Dahl & Holes Morris Gleitzman,
Quentin Blake, 1982 Louis Sachar, 1998 2006
The Illustrated Mum Skellig The Arrival
Jacqueline Wilson & David Almond, 1998 Shaun Tan, 2006
Nick Sharratt, 1982 Kensuke’s Kingdom You’re a Bad Man,
The Sheep Pig Michael Morpurgo & Mr Gum!
Dick King Smith, 1983 Michael Foreman, 1999 Andy Stanton &
David Tazzyman, 2006
The Neverending Story Me and My Cat?
Michael Ende, 1983 Satoshi Kitamura, 1999 This Is Our House
Michael Rosen &
Hairy McLary from The Gruffalo Bob Graham, 2007
Donaldson’s Dairy Julia Donaldson &
Lynley Dodd, 1983 Axel Scheffler, 1999 Mr Big
Ed Vere, 2008
I Want My Potty!
Tony Ross, 1986
Princess Smartypants 2010
Babette Cole, 1986 Tall Story
Five Minutes’ Peace Candy Gourlay, 2010
Jill Murphy, 1986 A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness &
Jim Kay, 2011
1990 Artichoke Hearts
Flour Babies Sita Brahmachari, 2011
Anne Fine, 1992
Ten Little Fingers
The Wheel and Ten Little Toes
of Surya Mem Fox &
Jamila Gavin, Helen Oxenbury, 2011
1992
The Great Big Book
So Much of Families
Trish Cooke Mary Hoffman &
& Helen Ros Asquith, 2011
Oxenbury,
1994
2010
Under the Moon The Boy in the Tower Julian is a Mermaid
and Over the Sea: Polly Ho-Yen, 2015 Jessica Love, 2018
A Collection of Booked Planetarium: Welcome
Caribbean Poems Kwame Alexander, to the Museum
John Agard and Grace 2016 Raman Prinja &
Nichols, 2011 Chris Wormell, 2018
The Journey
I Want My Hat Back Francesca Sanna, 2016 The Boy at the
Jon Klassen, 2012 Back of the Class
The Wolves of
Millions Currumpaw Onjali Q. Rauf &
Frank Cottrell Boyce, William Grill, 2016 Pippa Curnick, 2018
2012 Africa,
Dog Man
Wonder Dav Pilkey, 2017 Amazing Africa
R.J Palacio, 2012 Atinuke &
Billy and the Beast Mouni Feddag, 2019
Hilda and the Troll Nadia Shireen, 2018
Luke Pearson, 2013 Planet Omar:
The Day the Accidental Trouble
Crayons Quit Magnet
Drew Daywalt & Zanib Mian & Nasaya
Oliver Jeffers, 2013 Mafaridik, 2019
Varjak Paw Uncle Bobby’s
S F Said & Dave Wedding
McKean, 2014 Sarah S Brannen &
Lucia Soto, 2020
George
Alex Gino, 2014 Clean Up!
Nathan Bryon &
Werewolf Club Rules! Dapo Adeola, 2020
Joseph Coelho &
John O’Leary, 2014 What Happened
To You?
A Great Big Cuddle: James Catchpole &
Poems for the Karen George, 2021
Very Young Cyril and Pat
Michael Rosen & Emily Gravett, 2018
Chris Riddell, 2015
Dave and the
Liccle Bit Tooth Fairy
Alex Wheatle, 2015 Verna Wilkins &
The 13 Storey Carl Pearce, 2018
Treehouse Freedom 1783
Andy Griffiths & Catherine Johnson,
Terry Denton, 2015 2018
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Illustration of Elmer © 1989 - 2021 David McKee. Published by Andersen Press.
The Tiger Who Came to Tea: Illustrations copyright © Kerr-Kneale Productions Ltd 1968.
So Much © 1994 Trish Cooke and Helen Oxenbury. Walker Books.
Clean Up!: Illustrations © Dapo Adeola, Puffin Books.
Billy and the Beast: Illustrations © Nadia Shireen, Puffin Books.
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