Rambles: children's books

Books are listed alphabetically by author or editor. Click on a title to read the review.

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The children's section is for young, developing readers. The books listed here are appropriate for parents to read to their children and are suitable for beginning readers up through age 10 or so. Some are illustrated.

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Joan Aiken
• Black Hearts in Battersea
• The Cuckoo Tree
• The Felix Brooke Trilogy #1: Go Saddle the Sea
• The Felix Brooke Trilogy #2: Bridle the Wind
• The Felix Brooke Trilogy #3: The Teeth of the Gale
• Nightbirds on Nantucket
• The Stolen Lake
• The Whispering Mountain
• The Wolves of Willoughby

Lloyd Alexander
• The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio
• Gypsy Rizka
• The House Gobbaleen, illustrated by Diane Goode

David Almond
• Skellig

Lynne Reid Banks
• The Adventures of King Midas

L. Frank Baum
• The Magical Monarch of Mo

Jody Bergsma
• Faerie

Ludwig Bemelmans
• Madeline's Rescue (audiobook)

Franny Billingsley
• The Folk Keeper

Judy Blume, editor
• Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers

Bodil Bredsdorff
• The Crow Girl

Herbie Brennan
• Fairy Nuff: A Tale of Bluebell Wood

Clyde Robert Bulla
• Viking Adventure

Eve Bunting
• Ballywhinney Girl, illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully

Robert Byrd
• Finn MacCoul & His Fearless Wife

Roy Campbell
• Song of the Jackalope

Andrea Cheng
• Anna the Bookbinder, illustrated by Ted Rand

James C. Christensen, with Renwick St. James & Alan Dean Foster
• Voyage of the Basset

Douglas Glenn Clark
• The Lake That Stole Children

Wim Coleman & Pat Perrin
• The Taker & the Keeper

Pat Lowery Collins
• Schooner

Susan Cooper
• King Of Shadows

Sandra Jones Cropsey
• Tinker's Christmas

Sheila A. Dane
• Fairy Hunters, Ink.

Joseph Delaney
• The Last Apprentice #1: Revenge of the Witch

Charles de Lint
• A Circle of Cats, illustrated by Charles Vess
• What the Mouse Found & Other Stories

Antoine de Saint-Exepury
• Le Petit Prince

Baba Wague Diakite
• The Hatseller & the Monkeys

Peter Dickinson
• The Ropemaker

Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
• The Spiderwick Chronicles #1: The Field Guide
• The Spiderwick Chronicles #2: The Seeing Stone
• The Spiderwick Chronicles #3: Lucinda's Secret
• The Spiderwick Chronicles #4: The Ironwood Tree
• The Spiderwick Chronicles #5: The Wrath of Mulgarath

Tony DiTerlizzi & Mary Howitt
• The Spider & the Fly

Mary Engelbreit
• Queen of Halloween

Wesley Eure
• The Red Wings of Christmas

Matthew S. Field
• Father Like a Tree

Charles Coleman Finlay
• The Prodigal Troll

Brian James Freeman
• The Girl Who Builds Monsters, illustrated by Vincent Chong

Amy Friedman, Jillian Gilliland & Laura Hall
• Tell Me a Story
• Tell Me a Story 2: Animal Magic

Neil Gaiman
• Blueberry Girl, illustrated by Charles Vess
• Chu's Day, illustrated by Adam Rex
• Chu's First Day of School, illustrated by Adam Rex
• The Wolves in the Walls, illustrated by Dave McKean

K.L. Going
• The Garden of Eve

Maggie Grinnell
• Isabella & Penelope

Richard Hamilton
• Violet & the Mean & Rotten Pirates

Holly Hardin
• Aurora of the Northern Lights

Bill Harley
• Bear's All-Night Party

Janet Ruth Heller
• How The Moon Regained Her Shape

Mary Howitt
• The Spider & the Fly, illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi

Susan Hughes
• The Island Horse

Eva Ibbotson
• Journey to the River Sea, with Kevin Hawkes
• The Secret of Platform 13

Randall Jarrell
• The Animal Family

Diana Wynne Jones
• Charmed Life
• The Magicians of Caprona

William Joyce
• Santa Calls