Book Series
Here are the top 140 book series from the whole heritage of children’s literature.
Blandings Castle
Eleven novels and nine short stories that take place in and around Blandings Castle in England.
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...
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.
Catwings
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...
Chronicles of Pantouflia
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 ...
Curious George
A series of eight pictures books about a fun loving monkey written and illustrated by H. A. Rey.
Daisychains
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...
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...
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...
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...