- Reading suggestions,
- compiled in 1925
compiled in 2009
reading suggestions,
compiled in 1925
The two reading lists below were compiled by asking a
group of high IQ children and a group of average children
for their favourites, compiled in about 1925.
| The
Twenty Books Most Liked by Boys |
|
The Twenty
Books Most Liked by Girls |
| 1 |
Treasure Island* |
Stevenson |
|
1 |
Little Women |
Alcott |
| 2 |
Call of the Wild* |
Jack London |
|
2 |
Anne of Green Gables |
Montgomery |
| 3 |
Tom Sawyer |
Mark Twain |
|
3 |
Ivanhoe* |
Scott |
| 4 |
Robinson Crusoe |
Defoe |
|
4 |
Little Men |
Alcott |
| 5 |
Three Musketeers* |
Dumas |
|
5 |
Treasure Island* |
Stevenson |
| 6 |
Ivanhoe* |
Scott |
|
6 |
Laddie |
Porter, G. S. |
| 7 |
Huckleberry Finn |
Mark Twain |
|
7 |
Three Musketeers* |
Dumas |
| 8 |
Penrod |
Tarkington |
|
8 |
Alice in Wonderland |
Carroll |
| 9 |
Sherlock Holmes |
Conan Doyle |
|
9 |
Heidi |
Spyri |
| 10 |
Kidnapped |
Stevenson |
|
10 |
Pollyanna |
Porter, E. |
| 11 |
Black Beauty |
Sewall |
|
11 |
Secret Garden |
Burnett |
| 12 |
Swiss Family Robinson |
Wyss |
|
12 |
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm |
Wiggin |
| 13 |
Connecticut Yankee |
Twain |
|
13 |
David Copperfield |
Dickens |
| 14 |
Tale of Two Cities* |
Dickens |
|
14 |
Little Lord Fauntleroy |
Burnett |
| 15 |
Count of Monte Cristo |
Dumas |
|
15 |
Call of the Wild* |
London |
| 16 |
Penrod and Sam |
Dumas |
|
16 |
Eight Cousins |
Alcott |
| 17 |
White Fang |
London |
|
17 |
Freckles |
Porter, G. |
| 18 |
Last of the Mohicans |
Cooper |
|
18 |
Little Minister |
Barrie |
| 19 |
Jungle Books |
Kipling |
|
19 |
Tale of Two Cities |
Dickens |
| 20 |
Oliver Twist |
Dickens |
|
20 |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
Stowe |
[Asterisked items appear in both lists.]
From pp.452-3, Genetic studies of genius, Vol. I,: Mental
and physical traits of a thousand gifted children by Lewis
M Terman, Stanford Univ. Press, 1925.
reading suggestions,
compiled in 2009
- by Enid Blyton
- Molesworth - Down with Skool and How
to be Topp by Geoffrey Willans and Ronard Searle
- by Alan Garner, especially The Owl Service
- Sherlock Holmes stories, by Conan Doyle
- by E Nesbitt, especially The Railway Children
- Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
- The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
- The Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield
- CS Lewis’s Narnia series
- the Jennings books by Anthony Buckeridge
- Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur
Ransome
- Just William books by Richmal Crompton
- by John Buchan, such as Greenmantle,
Three Hostages
- other books by Rudyard Kipling, such as Stalky
and Co, Kim, Puck of Pook’s
Hill
- by John Verney, especially Friday’s Tunnel
- Biggles series by W. E. Johns
- boys’ adventures from the early 20th century:
by Percy Westerman [mostly with military themes]
by John Westerman [probably related to Percy, mostly
with aviation themes]
- science fiction - for example by Paul Capon, John
Wyndham, Robert
Heinlein, Isaac
Asimov
- by A.A. Milne, especially Winnie the Pooh
and Now we are six
- Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire
Belloc
- Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
[With contributions by joblard and DVH]
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