Quality Children's Books

This has been very hard, because I wanted to limit myself to the best 20 books. There are so many fantastic books, but if I included every book I enjoyed or my students enjoyed the list would be too long. For me, these are my top 20.

Picture Books for the young and not so young

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Pena
In My Heart, by Jo WitekGrandpa and Thomas or Mr McGee by Pamela Allen
Where is the Green Sheep by Mem Fox
Handa's Hen or Handa's Surprise by Eileen Browne
Elmer by David McKee
Bamboozled by David Legge
Belonging by Jeannie Baker
Imagine or Magic Beach by Alison Lester
Sunday Chutney Aaron Blabey
It’s a Book by Lane Smith 
How to Heal a Broken Wing Bob Graham
​The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers
Wabi Sabi by Mark Reibstein
They All Saw A Cat by Brendan Wenzel
The Umbrella by Ingrid Schubert
Wolves by Emily Gravett
Just Another Ordinary Day Rod Clement
It Starts with a Seed by Laura Knowles
We Are All Born Free: ​The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures: Amnesty
Would You Rather? by John Burningham
Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler and many others by the same author

Lower primary

Crenshaw by Applegate, Katherine
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid
Just a Dog by Michael Gerard Bauer
 The Red Wind: Kingdom of the Lost Book 1 Isobelle Carmody
Someone Like Me by Elaine Forrestal
Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman
The 13-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and many others by this author
The Gizmo by Paul Jennings
Emily Rodda is very popular with children. 
Nips X1 by Ruth Starke
Zoom by  Istvan Banyai

Upper primary 

I Am Malala  by Malala Yousafzai 
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Blueback by Tim Winton
Wonder by R J Palacio 
The Rabbits by John Marsden
Wolves in the Walls  by Neil Gaiman 
The Water Tower by Gary Crew