Non-Fantasy Children's Books

Non-Fantasy Children's Books

TOP NON-FANTASY BOOK
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) by Harper Lee

CLASSIC Animal Drama
Tarka the Otter (1927) Henry Williamson
The Yearling Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan (1938)
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater  (1938)

Rascal by Sterling North (1963)
Where the Red Fern Grows (1961)
Gentle Ben (1965) Walt Morey

Summer of the Monkeys (1976)

Classic Children Authors

Judy Blume
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret (1970)

Fudge
1. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (1972)
2. Superfudge (1980)

3. Fudge-a-mania (1990)
4. Double Fudge (2002)
A Box of Fudge! (1992)

Robert McCloskey
Homer Price (1943)
Centerburg Tales (1951)

Robert Newton Peck

A Day No Pigs Would Die, (1973)
Clunie, (1979)
Extra Innings (2001)

Soup
Soup (1974)
Soup and Me (1975)
Soup for President (1978)
Soup's Drum (1980)

Soup on Wheels (1981)
Soup in the Saddle (1983)

Soup's Goat (1984)

Soup on Ice (1985)
Soup on Fire (1987)
Soup's Uncle (1988)
Soup's Hoop (1990)

Soup for the President (1991) by Richard Peck

Soup in Love (1992)
Soup Ahoy (1994)
Soup 1776 (1995)

Little Soup series
A series for younger readers.
Little Soup's Birthday (Dell, 1991)
Little Soup's Turkey (Dell, 1992)
Little Soup's Bunny (Dell, 1993)

Thomas Rockwell
How to....

How to Eat Fried Worms (1973)
How to Fight a Girl (1987)
How to Get Fabulously Rich (1990)

Classic Coming of Age/Tough Issues
The Bridge of San Luis Rey   (1927) Thornton Wilder

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)
The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill (1964)
I Capture the Castle (1948) Dodie Smith

A Child's Christmas in Wales   (1954) Dylan Thomas

Doris Burn

Andrew Henry's Meadow (1965) Kindle

The Summerfolk (1968)

Christina Katerina & the box (1998)

The Goalkeeper's Revenge (1967) Bill Naughton HARD TO FIND

CLASSIC DOG TALES
Lassie come home by Eric Knight (1940)
Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard (1945)
Old Yeller- by Frederick Benjamin Gipson (1956) ,
The Incredible Journey Sheila Burnford (1961)
The Fox and the Hound by Daniel Pratt Mannix IV (1967

Dodie Smith
The Hundred and One Dalmatians, or the Great Dog Robbery (1956)
The Starlight Barking (1967)

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Shiloh (1991)
Shiloh Season (1996)
Saving Shiloh (1997)

Classical Families

Eve Garnett

One End Street

1. The Family from One End Street (1937)

2. Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street (1956)

3. Holiday At the Dew Drop Inn (1962)

Sydney Taylor (1904 - 1978)

All-of-a-kind Family
1. All-of-a-Kind Family (1951)

2. More All-of-a-kind Family (1954)

3. All-of-a-kind Family Uptown (1958)

4. All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown (1972)

5. Ella of All-of-a-kind Family (1978)

A Papa Like Everyone Else (1966)

Classic Girl Tales
Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories (1928) Series (1928 -1967) Joyce Lankester Brisley

Ballet Shoes (1936) Noel Streatfeild

The Circus is Coming (1938) aka Circus Shoes Noel Streatfeild

Rosanna of the Amish (1940) Joseph Yoder
Rosanna's Boys: A Sequel to Rosanna of the Amish (1948)
Betsy-Tacy series (1940 -1955) Maud Hart Lovelace

Christy by Catherine Marshall (1967)

Classical History Tales

Cue For Treason (1940) Geoffrey Trease

We Couldn't leave Dinah  (1941) Mary Treadgold HARD TO FIND

Snow Treasure (1942) Marie McSwigan

The Otterbury Incident (1948) Cecil Day-Lewis

The Light in the Forest (1953) Conrad Richter

The silver sword (1956) Ian Serraillier

 The Warden’s Niece (1957)  Gillian Avery

China Court: The Hours of a Country House (1961) Rumer Godden

The Winged Watchman (1962) Hilda van Stockum  HARD TO FIND

The White Stone (1964) Gunnel Linde HARD TO FIND

The Cay (1969) Theodore Taylor

Gypsy Girl (2002) Rumer Godden

CLASSIC HORSE TALES
Black Beauty-- by Anna Sewell (1877)
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold, (1935)
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck (1937)
The Black Stallion,, Walter Farley (1941 - 1983)
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara (1941)

Justin Morgan Had a Horse (1945) Marguerite Henry, Rand McNally
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (1949)

Classic HUMOROUS

Frank Richards

Billy Bunter (1947 -1980's) Available on Audio Book

Ronald Searle

Hurrah for St Trinian's (1948) HARD TO FIND

 The Female Approach (1950)

 Back to the Slaughterhouse (1952)

 The Terror of St Trinians or Angela's Prince Charming (1952 - text by Timothy Shy, pen-name for D. B. Wyndham-Lewis)

 Souls in Torment (1953)

Anthony Buckeridge

Jennings (1950 -1994) ON AUDIO

Jennings & Darbishire by Anthony Buckeridge (

Spike Milligan

The Little Pot Boiler: A Book Based Freely On His Seasonal Overdraft (1963)

A Children's Treasury of Milligan: Classic Stories And Poems (1999)

The Magical World of Milligan (2009)

Robert Kimmel Smith

Chocolate Fever (1972)

Barbara Robinson  (1927 - )

Best.......

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (1972)

Best School Year Ever: The Worst Kids in the World (1994)

The Best Halloween Ever (2004)

My Brother Louis Measures Worms: And Other Louis Stories (1988)

Paula Danziger

Marcy Lewis books

The Cat Ate My Gymsuit (1974)

There's a Bat in Bunk Five (1980)

Kendra Kaye books

Remember Me to Harold Square (1987)

Thames Doesn't Rhyme With James (1994)

Classic Mystery and Adventure

Erich Kästner (1899–1974)

 Emil and the Detectives

1. Emil and the Detectives (1929)

2. Emil and the Three Twins (1935)

Novels

The Flying Classroom (1934)

Lisa and Lottie (1950) In English

Little Man (1966) In English

The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, book 1) (1930) Carolyn Keene

The Black Riders (1939) Violet Needham HARD TO FIND

The Woods of Windri (1944) Violet Needham

The Lion's Paw (1946) Robb White

Eilís Dillon

The Lost Island  (1952)

The Island of Horses (1956)

The Fort of Gold (1961)

Paul Berna

A Hundred Million Francs  aka The horse without a head (1955) HARD TO FIND

Stig of the Dump (1962) Clive King

 Jexium Island     (1957) ) Grattan, Madeleine HARD TO FIND

John Verney

Fridays Tunnel (1959) HARD TO FIND

February's Road (1961)

Bertrand R. Brinley (1917 – 1994)

Mad Scientists' Club Kindle

1. The Mad Scientists' Club (1965)

2. The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club (1968)

3. The Big Kerplop! (1974)

4. The Big Chunk of Ice: The Last Known Adventure of the Mad Scientists' Club (2005)

The Mad Scientists' Club Complete Collection (omnibus) (2010)

Joan Aiken (1924 - 2004)

Wolves of Willoughby Chase

The Whispering Mountain (1968) a prequel to the series

1. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962) Series 1 of 12 including a prequal

Alan Garner

The Owl Services (1967)

Leon Garfield

Smith    (1967)