Kidlit
Below is a small list of my absolute favourite children's books. These are books I love with my whole heart, that inspire me, and that I believe possess a timeless, special sort of magic. These are the sort of books I want to write.
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I also support #LoveOzYA and #LoveOzMG and recommend everyone search these hashtags on social media to discover and support our truly great Australian literature for young people.
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber
The Mouse and his Child by Russell Hoban
The King Under the Copper Mountain by Paul Biegel
Monster Blood Tattoo (series) by D.M. Cornish
The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
Ship Kings (series) by Andrew McGahan
Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Ingo (series) by Helen Dunmore
A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge
Gullstruck Island by Frances Hardinge
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
How to Catch a Bogle (series) by Catherine Jinks
My Sister Sif by Ruth Park
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Little Grey Men by B.B.
A Most Magical Girl by Karen Foxlee
Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr
Taronga by Victor Kelleher
Scarecrows by Robert Westall
Siberia by Ann Halam
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Scarecrow and his Servant by Philip Pullman
The Toymaker by Jeremy de Quidt
The Midnight Folk by John Masefield
