Book Series
Here are the top 140 book series from the whole heritage of children’s literature.
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...
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.
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
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 ...
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...
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...