Book Series
Here are the top 140 book series from the whole heritage of children’s literature.
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.
A Lemon and a Star
Autobiographical chronicles of a family of children growing up just after the turn of the twentieth century.
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...
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.