100 Children's Book Everyone Should Read In Their Lifetime

The books we read as children shape the way we view the world.

From cartoon books to coming-of age-stories, Amazon's editors have put together a list of the 100* children's books that everyone must read in their lifetime.

"We looked at the books for a reader age 12 and under that we personally loved then and now, and also at children's books that have come out in recent years that we think are in the new crop of lifetime favorites," explained Seira Wilson, Amazon's books editor, in an email to Business Insider.

The books range from standard classics that everyone has read to new children's books that the team thinks are influencing the next generation. Keep reading to see the complete list below.

1. "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle

2. "Aesop's Fables" by Don Daily

3. "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" by Judith Viorst

4. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll

5. "Amelia Bedelia" by Peggy Parish

6. "And Tango Makes Three" by Justin Richardson

7. "Anne of Green Gables Series (8-box set)" by L.M. Montgomery

8. "Are You My Mother?" by P.D. Eastman

9. "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret." by Judy Blume

10. "Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales (Peter Rabbit)" by Beatrix Potter

11. "Betsy-Tacy" by Maud Hart Lovelace

12. "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell

13. "Bread and Jam for Frances" by Russell Hoban

14. "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

15. "Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business" by Esphyr Slobodkina

16. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl

17. "Charlotte's Web" by E. B. White

18. "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" by Bill Martin Jr.

19. "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" by Judi Barrett

20. "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

21. "Corduroy" by Don Freeman

22. "D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths" by Ingri d'Aulaire

23. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney

24. "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" by Mo Willems

25. "Dr. Seuss's Beginner Book Collection (Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish, Green Eggs and Ham, Hop on Pop, Fox in Socks)" by Dr. Seuss

26. "Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective" by Donald J. Sobol

27. "Esperanza Rising" by Pam Munoz Ryan

28. "From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

29. "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown

30. "Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site" by Sherri Duskey Rinker

31. "Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales" by Jacob Grimm

32. "Guess How Much I Love You" by Sam McBratney

33. "Harold and the Purple Crayon" by Crockett Johnson

34. "Harriet the Spy" by Louise Fitzhugh

35. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

36. "Holes" by Louis Sachar

37. "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell

38. "Jumanji" by Chris Van Allsburg

39. "Little House on the Prairie" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

40. "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

41. "Llama Llama Red Pajama" by Anna Dewdney

42. "Madeline" by Ludwig Bemelmans

43. "Make Way for Ducklings" by Robert McCloskey

44. "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

45. "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" by Virginia Lee Burton

46. "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Richard Atwater

47. "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

48. "Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle" by Betty MacDonald

49. "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

50. "Olivia" by Ian Falconer

51. "Owen" by Kevin Henkes

52. "Paddle-to-the-Sea" by Holling C. Holling

53. "Pat the Bunny" by Dorothy Kunhardt

54. "Peter Pan" by J.M. Barrie

55. "Pippi Longstocking" by Astrid Lindgren

56. "Press Here" by Herve Tullet

57. "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble" by William Steig

58. "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

59. "The Borrowers" by Mary Norton

60. "The Boxcar Children" by Gertrude Chandler

61. "The Call Of The Wild" by Jack London

62. "The Complete Adventures of Curious George" by H. A. Rey

63. "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden

64. "The Day the Crayons Quit" by Drew Daywalt

65. "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" by William Joyce

66. "The Giver" by Lois Lowry

67. "The House at Pooh Corner" by A. A. Milne

68. "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick

69. "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling

70. "The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)" by Rick Riordan

71. "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C. S. Lewis

72. "The Little Engine That Could" by Watty Piper

73. "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

74. "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" by Beverly Cleary

75. "The New Way Things Work" by David Macaulay

76. "The Paper Bag Princess" by Robert Munsch

77. "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

78. "The Real Mother Goose" by Blanche Fisher Wright

79. "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett

80. "The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew, Book 1)" by Carolyn Keene

81. "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats

82. "The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant" by Jean De Brunhoff

83. "The Story of Ferdinand" by Munro Leaf

84. "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo

85. "The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys No. 1)" by Franklin W. Dixon

86. "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle

87. "The Watsons Go to Birmingham -1963" by Christopher Paul Curtis

88. "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

89. "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

90. "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame

91. "The Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum

92. "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson

93. "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit

94. "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech

95. "Watership Down" by Richard Adams

96. "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin

97. "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

98. "Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein" by Shel Silverstein

99. "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak

100. "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio

*Editorial Note: we recognize that the Amazon team stretched the list by including two boxed sets - including the Anne of Green Gables series and a Dr. Seuss beginner book collection - but we'll excuse them for trying to get as many titles on the list as possible.

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