Dana's Rec Room: 25 All-Time Favorites

Recommended titles from children's-book expert Dana Gaskin Wenig

Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum

The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle

The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett 

Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll

My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell

Birds, Beasts and Relatives, by Gerald Durrell

The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Graham

The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster

The Earthsea Trilogy, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling

The Chronicles of Narnia (series), by C.S. Lewis

Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren 

The Story of Doctor Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting

Winnie the Pooh (original), by A.A. Milne

Five Children and It, by E. Nesbit

Tales of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter

The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Mary Poppins, by P.L. Travers

Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White

Stuart Little, by E. B. White

The Trumpet of the Swan, by E.B. White

The Sword in the Stone, by  T.H. White

The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams