Childrens

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age 12. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses that sometimes exclude young-adult fiction, comic books, or other genres. Books specifically for children existed at least several hundred years ago.

Doll Bones
The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)
Loki's Wolves (The Blackwell Pages, #1)
Wednesdays in the Tower (Castle Glower #2)
The Neptune Project
The Planet Thieves
Odd Duck
Handbook for Dragon Slayers
P.S. Be Eleven
A Box of Gargoyles
A Girl Called Problem
If You Want to See a Whale
Sugar
Platypus Police Squad: The Frog Who Croaked
Penguin on Vacation

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  • Wonder
    Chasing the Prophecy (Beyonders, #3)
    Vader's Little Princess
    The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #1)
    The Reluctant Assassin (W.A.R.P., #1)
    Hold Fast
    House of Secrets (House of Secrets, #1)
    The Wishing Spell (The Land of Stories, #1)
    An Intrepid Trip to Love
    Ungifted
    The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
    Hattie Ever After (Hattie, #2)
    The Fire Chronicle (The Books of Beginning, #2)
    Dark Passage (Kingdom Keepers, #6)
    Mustache Baby

    Popular Childrens Books

    Charlotte's Web
    Green Eggs and Ham
    Where the Wild Things Are
    Where the Sidewalk Ends
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    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
    The Cat in the Hat
    The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
    Matilda
    The Secret Garden
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)

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    Jane Yolen
    Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.
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    Margaret Mead
    Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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