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960. ISBN. 978-0-7333-2562-5. Dewey Decimal. 011.62 22. LC Class. Z1037 .A255 2009. 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up is a literary reference book compiled by Julia Eccleshare, children's book editor at Britain's Guardian newspaper. [1] It was published in 2009 by Universe/Rizzoli International.
This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language. [1] [2] [3] Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children.
Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide,[13] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [14] making it one of the best-selling books of all time.
In 1927, it placed in the top fifteen favorite books of female Youth Companion readers, and in the 1960s, the readers of The New York Times ranked The Secret Garden as one of the best children's books. Surveys of adult readers in the 1970s and 1980s show that the novel was a frequent childhood favorite, especially for women.
The best known incarnation of the story "The Little Engine That Could" was written by "Watty Piper" in 1930, a pen name of Arnold Munk, who was the owner of the publishing firm Platt & Munk. [3] Munk used the name Watty Piper as both an author of children's books and as the editor of many of the books that Platt & Munk published.
[2] The book won a 1968 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in the Picture Book category. [3] In 1997, The New York Times selected it as one of the 59 children's books of the previous 50 years. [4] In a 1999–2000 National Education Association online survey of children, the book was one of the "Kids' Top 100 Books". [5]
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