Lewis Carroll

Alice follows a waistcoat-wearing white rabbit down a hole and tumbles into a world where she grows and shrinks, talks to a grinning cat, and goes to trial before a very cross queen.
L. Frank Baum

A cyclone sweeps Dorothy and her dog Toto to the magical land of Oz. To get home she follows the yellow brick road, making friends with a scarecrow, a tin man, and a cowardly lion.
J. M. Barrie

The boy who never grows up flies through the nursery window and whisks Wendy and her brothers off to Neverland — a place of fairies, mermaids, lost boys, and a pirate named Captain Hook.
Carlo Collodi

A kind woodcarver makes a puppet that comes to life — but Pinocchio would rather skip school and have fun. Every fib makes his nose grow as he learns how to become a real, good boy.
Mark Twain

Tom tricks his friends into whitewashing a fence, hunts for buried treasure, and gets lost in a cave — a summer of mischief along the Mississippi River with his pal Huckleberry Finn.
Rudyard Kipling

Raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, the boy Mowgli learns the law of the wild from Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther — while the fierce tiger Shere Khan hunts him.
Anna Sewell

Told by the horse himself, this is the gentle life story of Black Beauty — from a happy colt in green meadows through hard times and kind owners. A classic about treating animals with care.
Kenneth Grahame

Mole, Ratty, Badger, and the boastful Mr. Toad live a cozy life by the river — until Toad's wild love of motor-cars lands him in a heap of trouble. A warm tale of friendship.
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Rich, imaginative Sara Crewe is treated like a princess at her boarding school — until she loses everything and is sent to live in the cold attic. Her kindness and stories light up the dark.
L. M. Montgomery

A talkative, red-haired orphan named Anne is sent by mistake to a brother and sister who wanted a boy. Her big imagination and bigger heart soon turn the farm — and the whole town — upside down.
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sour, lonely Mary discovers a locked, forgotten garden on her uncle's gloomy estate. As she brings it back to life with a robin and two new friends, the magic heals more than just the flowers.