Book Series
Here are the top 140 book series from the whole heritage of children’s literature.
The Adventures of Tim
Edward Ardizzone both wrote and illustrated this series of pictures books about a boy named Tim who wants to go to sea.
Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin is a series of comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Rémi (1907–1983), who wrote under the pen name Herg&eacu...
Al Capp’s Li’l Abner
Running from 1934 to 1977, Li’l Abner was immensely popular, carried in over 900 American papers and 100 foreign papers. While he employed many assistants...
Alexander Botts: Earthworm Tractors
Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books
Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books, also known as ‘Christmas Books,’ are a series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children...
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Set in the late 19th century, the novel recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, a...
Asterix the Gaul
Asterix is a series of French comics. The series first appeared in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine “Pilote” on 29 October 1959. It was written by...
Away Goes Sally
A series of five novels about Sally, growing up in America around the time of the Revolution.
Babar
Babar the Elephant is a fictional character who first appeared in 1931 in the French children’s book Histoire de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff.
Barnaby
Barnaby was a newspaper comic strip which began April 20, 1942 in the newspaper PM. It entered syndication and was published in 64 papers. It ran until February...
Baum’s Snuggle Tales or Oz-Man Tales
A set of six books containing selections from L. Frank Baum's writings. The Snuggle Tales have a color frontis; the Oz-Man reprints have four-color illustration...
The Beacon Hill Bookshelf
Beacon Readers
Bed-Knobs and Broom Sticks
Originally two books, The Magic Bed-Knob and Bonfires and Broomsticks, they were revised and combined, with new illustrations by Erik Blegvad in 1957.
Bertie Wooster and Jeeves
Bertie Wooster is a not too bright young man-about-town who is constantly rescued from the scrapes he can’t help falling into by Jeeves his ‘gentlem...
Best in Children’s Books
This was a hard-bound anthology of about 160 pages issued monthly by the Doubleday Book Clubs. There were a total of forty-two volumes from 1957 to 1961. A usef...
Betsy-Tacy
The Betsy-Tacy books are a series of semi-autobiographical novels by American novelist and short-story writer Maud Hart Lovelace (1892-1980). They follow the ad...
Big Bear’s Treasury: A Children’s Anthology
Black Stallion
This is author Walter Farley’s best-selling series about the stallion and his young owner, Alec Ramsay. The series chronicles the story of an Arab sheikh&...
Bland tomtar och troll
A Swedish annual compilation of fairy tales first published in 1907. It featured illustrators such as John Bauer and Gustaf Tenggren.
Blandings Castle
Eleven novels and nine short stories that take place in and around Blandings Castle in England.
The Borrowers
A series of books chronicling the lives of the Clock family. The series includes these works:
The Borrowers (1952)
The Borrowers Afield (1955)
The Borrowers Af...
The Bounty Trilogy
The Bounty Trilogy is a book comprising three novels by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. It relates events prior to, during and subsequent to the Mutiny ...
Boy Mechanic
These vintage craftwork projects date from a simpler time when people were more likely to make their own amusements rather than buy them. Drawn from Popular Mec...
The Brownies
Begun as an occasional feature in St. Nicholas magazine for the issue of February 1883, the humorous adventures of the Scots sprites, all told in verse, were ev...
The Callendar Family Chronicles
The adventures of the seven Callendar children. Their father is named Augustus, so they really could have expected their names to be unusual.
Calvin and Hobbes
Running for ten years, from 1985 to 1995, the adventures of Calvin and his tiger friend Hobbes was one of the most popular comic strips of all time.
Carl Barks Library
Carl Barks’s Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics are considered among the greatest artistic and storytelling achievements in the history of the medium.
The Carl Barks Library in Color
Following their successful publication of the Carl Barks Library in thirty volumes, Another Rainbow issued the complete Barks catalog in full color in monthly s...
Catwings
The Chalet School
The Chalet School is a series of approximately sixty school story novels by Elinor Brent-Dyer, initially published between 1925 and 1970. The school was initial...
The Children's Own Books
A series of small format illustrated books, each containing two stories published by Reilly & Lee.
The Children’s Hour
The Children’s Hour
Originally issued in ten volumes in 1907, a further five volumes were added in 1916. The series was edited by Eva March Tappan. There was also a five volume Kin...
A Child’s History of England
A Child’s History of England is a work by Charles Dickens. It first appeared in a magazine called Household Words. Later he published it in three volumes.
Christmas Nutshell Library
Chronicles of Barsetshire
This series of six novels by Anthony Trollope revolves around the Diocese of Barset and the cathedral close of Barchester.
The Warden (1855) 1952, 1980
Barches...
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven high fantasy novels by author C. S. Lewis. It is considered a classic of children’s literature and is the au...
Chronicles of Pantouflia
The Church Mice
Collier’s Junior Classics, The Young Folks’ Shelf of Books
This new edition was published on the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication. It is more fully illustrated and includes material from the intervening ...
The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library
The Cricket in Times Square
This series of books follows the adventures of a cricket and his friends, from New York to The Countryside:
The Cricket in Times Square (1960)
Tucker’s C...
Curious George
A series of eight pictures books about a fun loving monkey written and illustrated by H. A. Rey.
Daisychains
The Dark Is Rising
The Dark Is Rising is a series of five contemporary fantasy novels for older children and young adults, written by the English author Susan Cooper and published...
Doctor Dolittle
Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of twelve children’s books by Hugh Lofting starting with The Story of Doctor Dolittle in 1920. T...
The Don Rosa Library
The Don Rosa Library is a series of books published by Fantagraphics Books, collecting all of the Scrooge McDuck and Donald Duck comic book stories written and ...
Drovers Road
Eloise
Eloise is a series of children’s books written in the 1950s by Kay Thompson (1909–1998) and illustrated by Hilary Knight (born 1926).
Father Brown Detective Stories
’If there is one character in detective fiction who possesses the innocence and wisdom to sit beside the immortal Holmes, it is that apotheosis of incredu...
The First Book Library
A series of omnibus volumes published by Franklin Watts combining separately published nonfiction works.
Five Children and It
A trilogy that tells the adventures of five children: Cyril, Anthea, Rober, Jane and the Lamb with magic.
Five Children and It (1902)
The Phoenix and the Carpe...
Flicka, Ricka and Dicka
Following the success of the Snipp, Snapp and Snurr series, Maj Lindman added a series about triplet girls which found equal favor with her readers:
Flicka, Ri...
The Foxbury Force
The Foxbury Police Force, is of course composed of foxes. They may be confused at first, but they always get their fox.
Freddy the Pig
The series details the adventures of the Bean farm animals and their wild friends, usually instigated by Freddy the pig poet and entrepreneur.
Gall & Inglis Nursery Toy Books
A series of illustrated fairy tales with four pages of print and six full-page illustrations. Most were illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Gasoline Alley: Walt and Skeezix
Gasoline Alley is a comic strip created by Frank King that debuted in 1918.
In 2005, the first of a series of reprint books, called Walt and Skeezix, was publis...
Golden Tales Series
A collection of volumes of short stories selected on the basis of regional interest. They were edited by May Lamberton Becker.
Gone-Away Lake
Two cousins explore at the site of an abandoned summer colony. Books include Gone-Away Lake and Return to Gone-Away.
Green Knowe
A series of six novels and one short story centered around an old manor house in Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire. The children living there in the present meet...
Half Magic
A series of seven novels by Edward Eager in the style of E. Nesbit:
Half Magic (1954)
Knight’s Castle (1956)
Magic by the Lake (1957)
The Time Garden (19...
The Hall Family Chronicles
The Happy Lion
The Happy Lion is a 1954 children’s picture book by Louise Fatio and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin. The book was so popular that it spawned several sequel...
Hardy Boys
The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional characters who appear in various mystery series for children and teens.
The characters were created by Edward...
Hatchet
Haverards
A series of novels about an extended English family of Quakers who are entrepreneurs, artists, and performers. The first two center on Kit Haverard and her dete...
Henry Reed
Henry Reed and his partner Midge Glass set up in business in Grover’s Corner. The series documents their adventures.
Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Verses
Five collections of verse in the tradition of Struwwelpeter for English-speaking children.
The Home Treasury
A series of children's books initiated by Sir Henry Cole in 1843. In addition to nursery rhymes, there were traditional and new fairy tales, bible stories and t...
Horatio Hornblower
Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Napoleonic Wars era Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester. The series began with t...
Invisible Island
The Island Stallion
Steve Duncan visits a deserted island in the Caribbean and discovers a band of horses, left by the Spaniards.
Jules Verne: Voyages Extraordinaires
The Voyages extraordinaires (literally Extraordinary Voyages or Extraordinary Journeys) is a sequence of fifty-four novels by the French writer Jules Verne, ori...
Junior Classics: The Young Folks Shelf of Books
A companion set to the Harvard Classics. Some sets have more color plates than others, e.g. seven rather than four.
Kate Greenaway’s Almanacks
These small books measured only 3-7/8 by 2-13/16 inches. They were published annually from 1883 to 1895. A similar volume for 1897 was published in diary format...
Landmark Books
The Landmark Books are a series of non-fiction books published by Random House in the fifties and early sixties. The books were by good writers about appealing ...
The Lawrenceville Stories
A series of novels about an American boys’ boarding school written in the early twentieth century by Owen McMahon Johnson. The Lawrenceville School was fo...
Leatherstocking Tales
Five novels make up James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. The chronology of the series is roughly:
1740-1755: The Deerslayer (1841)
1757: The La...
A Lemon and a Star
Autobiographical chronicles of a family of children growing up just after the turn of the twentieth century.
Leslie Brooke’s Little Books
Literature: A Series of Anthologies
Little Bible Storybooks
Three titles, each a fold-out story with pictures on the back and a diorama at the rear of the box, all in a slipcase.
Little Golden Books
Little Golden Books is a popular series of children’s books. The first titles were published in 1942. Many popular authors and illustrators have worked on...
Little House on the Prairie
Series of books about a pioneer family which follows Laura Ingalls from age six to until she marries and has kids.
Little Lulu Dark Horse Reprints
Little Lulu was a comic strip about Lulu and Tubby. It was created in 1935 by Marjorie Henderson Buell, with work by John Stanley. It had 145 consecutive issues...
The Little Lulu Library
Little Lulu was a comic strip about Lulu and Tubby. It was created in 1935 by Marjorie Henderson Buell, with work by John Stanley. It had 145 consecutive issues...
Little Orphan Annie
Little Orphan Annie was a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray. The plot follows the wide-ranging adventures of Annie, her dog Sandy and her benefa...
The Little World of Don Camillo
Don Camillo is a fictional hotheaded priest who is constantly at odds with the communist mayor Peppone in a rural Italian village. The Camillo character was cre...
Lois Lenski’s American Regional Series
Lois Lenski’s Davy Books
Lois Lenski’s Debbie Books
Lois Lenski’s Roundabout America Series
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. It was written in stages between 1937 and 1949.
Lowly Worm’s Schoolbag
Madeline
The little orphan was first seen in Bruges, Belgium, but changed her name and moved to Paris where she had many adventures.
The Golden Basket (1936) (Here call...
Mapp and Lucia
A series of British comic novels, described by the critic Gilbert Seldes as “the most enchantingly malicious works written by the hand of man.”
The Marlows
A series of novels about the British Marlow family at their girls boarding school and at home.
Mary Poppins
McDuff Stories
The Melendy Quartet
This series follows the four Melendy children from an apartment in New York to a home in the country. The series includes these works:
The Saturdays (1941)
The...
Merry-Go-Rhymes
The Merry-Go-Rhymes are a series of four small books that feature what may be the finest artwork of the accomplished Nicola Bayley.
Moomintrolls
Tove Jansson chronicled the adventures of the Moomintrolls in novels, picture books and a comic strip. The early books are humorous adventure stories. Beginning...
The Mother Goose Library
Mr. Small
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
The Mushroom Planet
This is a group of children’s books by Eleanor Cameron. Two boys build a space ship and fly to a planetoid named Basidium. There, they meet the Mushroom P...
Music for Living Series
A thirteen volume music education system for elementary schools. There is a teachers’ book and companion books for the students.
My Book House
Originally a set of six books (it was later printed in twelve volumes), it was later augmented by the three-volume My Travelship set and the four-volume My Book...
My Father’s Dragon
Stories about Elmer Elevator and the dragons. The series includes these works:
My Father’s Dragon (1948)
Elmer and the Dragon (1950)
The Dragons of Bluel...
The Nicola Bayley Miniature Collection
Nicola Bayley’s Copycats
Noisy Books
A series of pictures books written by Margaret Wise Brown, most of which were illustrated by Leonard Weisgard.
The Odyssey Library
A series of small oblong books of about fifty pages on general topics with many illustrations.
Oz
The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and relate the fictional history of the Land of Oz. It was created by author ...
Pere Castor’s Wild Animal Books
Eight books by Lida, illustrated by Rojan (Feodor Rojankovsky), originally published in French.
Peter Parley to Penrod
A bibliography of 113 children's books published between 1827 and 1926 along with 43 alternates. The author was a bibliographer, responsible, among others for t...
Peter Spier’s Village Books
Pictured Geography Series
Albert Whitman and Company of Chicago published the Pictured Geography series in the 1940s. Four sets of eight 28-page children’s picture books about worl...
Pogo
Popeye the Sailor
Popeye the Sailor is a cartoon fictional character created by E. C. Segar. The character first appeared in 1929.
Between 2006 and 2011, Fantagraphics Books publ...
Prince Valiant
Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, or simply Prince Valiant, is an American comic strip created by Hal Foster in 1937.
Beginning in 2009, Fantagraphics ...
Psmith
We first meet Psmith, the P is silent, as Mike’s roommate at Sedleigh. He goes on to a career as a journalist and promoter.
Mike: A Public School Story (...
The Queen’s Thief
R. Caldecott’s Picture Books
A series of sixteen picture books issued singly and in groups. Two were published each year. They were then also sold in collections of two, four, eight and six...
The Reading Hour
A series of elementary school readers that were published by John C. Winston in the early 1930’s. Book IV to VIII are listed in WorldCat. The OCLC number ...
The Rescuers
In 1959 Margery Sharp published The Rescuers, and though originally written for an adult audience it became hugely popular with children. Sharp continued the se...
Richard Scarry’s Look and Learn Library
The four volumes in the Look and Learn Library are made up of previously published books from Golden Press.
Riverside Bookshelf
This series was described as “An ideal library of the best books for boys and girls, illustrated in color by noted artists and published at the price of o...
Rootabaga Stories
A series of books including American fairy tales by Carl Sandburg, the poet of the prairies. The second collection, Rootabaga Pigeons was later titled More Root...
The Round Barn
The history and stories of the Dougan farm in Beloit, Wisconsin, know far and wide for its Round Barn.
Roy Blakeley
The Roy Blakeley series, written by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, consisted of 18 titles published between 1920 and 1931. They featured characters residing in the town ...
Scribner’s Illustrated Classics
Beginning with Maxfield Parrish’s illustrated edition of Poems of Childhood by Eugene Field, Charles Scribner’s Sons began to publish a generally un...
Sherlock Holmes
A series of novels and short stories about literature's first consulting detective and his amenuensis Dr. Watson.
Snipp, Snapp and Snurr
This series about triplets from Sweden has been a perennial favorite since its first publication in Swedish in 1926.
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Red Shoes (193...
Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
Steve and Sim Stories
A series of ten mystery novels by Wisconsin author August Derleth set in his native Sac Prairie.
The Story Book
A collection of short illustrated books about common objects and aspects of everyday life, written and illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham.
Story Parade
Story Parade was a monthly magazine for children published between 1936 and 1954. Annual volumes were published:
Story Parade (1936) 1938
Story Parade Red Book...
Susan and Bill Series
Swallows and Amazons
Set on the English Lakes, rivers and estuaries, with occasional trips abroad, this series by Arthur Ransome follows the adventures of a set of English children ...
Terry and the Pirates
Terry and the Pirates was an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff.
In March 2007, IDW Publishing, under its “The Library of Am...
Through Golden Windows
A ten-volume set of anthologies of children’s stories and poems. This set was co-published by Grolier and E. M. Hale in an illustrated library binding in ...
Tinker and Tanker
Tiny Golden Library
There are three Tiny Golden Library collections: Tiny Animal Stories and Animal Nonsense Stories by Dorothy Kunhardt and illustrated by Garth Williams, and Walt...
Tom Slade
The Tom Slade series, written by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, consisted of 19 titles about Boy Scouts, written between 1915 and 1930.
Tom Swift
Tom Swift is the main character of five series of American juvenile science fiction and adventure novels that emphasize science, invention and technology. First...
Treasure Seekers
The Treasure Seekers is a book series by E. Nesbit about siblings who amuse themselves alone while on holiday. Through magic or complex imaginative play, the ch...
Treasure Trails
The Tudor Translations
A forty-four volume work under the general editorship of W. E. Henley that published the English translations of classical and medieval works first Englished du...
Twinkle Tales
A series of six short books by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, which were later issued in omnibus form.
Ukridge
One of P. G. Wodehouse’s greatest creations is the self-centered promoter Ukridge.
Love Among the Chickens (1906) (revised 1921)
Ukridge (1924)
Lord Emsw...
Uncle Fred
Frederick Altamont Cornwallis, fifth Earl of Ickenham, familiarly known as Pongo Twistleton-Twistleton’s Uncle Fred occasionally descends on his nephew in...
Walter Crane’s Toy Books
Books for babies are called Toy Books. Prior to Walter Crane, they were often unremarkable. Then Crane produced a series of Toy Books that gradually transformed...
Winnie-the-Pooh
Two books of poetry and two books of short stories about Pooh Bear, Christopher Robin and their friends in the Hundred Acre Wood.
The World of Music
A series of song books for schools. Include illustrations by some of the best illustrators of the day.
