Some of the best novels ever written for children are also the easiest ones to find. Here you will find 27 children's novels in PDF, from Alice's fall down the rabbit hole to a horse telling the story of his own life.
These became classics because children kept asking for them, not because a critic said so. You will find Lewis Carroll and Mark Twain next to the quiet houses of Louisa May Alcott and Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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Classics
Classic Children's Novels
The titles that show up on every childhood reading list, from Wonderland to Treasure Island. Most were written for adults first and adopted by children later.
Alice follows a waistcoated rabbit underground and lands in a world that runs on its own logic. The full 12 chapters, from the pool of tears to the trial of the Knave of Hearts.
Jim Hawkins finds a map in a dead sailor's sea chest and ships out for the island it marks. The complete novel, with Long John Silver and the mutiny that made pirate fiction what it is.
Three ghosts visit Scrooge in one night and show him what his life costs the people around him. This edition keeps the original John Leech illustrations alongside the full text.
A cyclone carries Dorothy to a country of talking scarecrows and cowardly lions, and the only way home runs through the Emerald City. The complete 1900 novel, chapter by chapter.
A pilot stranded in the desert meets a boy from a tiny planet who asks him to draw a sheep. Short enough to finish in one sitting and written for adults as much as for children.
The full novel behind Peter Pan, from the nursery window to the Neverland lagoon. Barrie's own prose version, with the Darling children, Tinker Bell and Captain Hook.
Whitewashed fences, a graveyard at midnight and a cave that nearly swallows two children. Twain's Mississippi boyhood novel in full, set in the town he grew up in.
Two boys born the same day in Tudor London trade clothes for a joke and cannot trade back. A swap story that turns into a plain look at how power treats the poor.
Pyle gathered the scattered Robin Hood ballads into one continuous story and gave the outlaw the voice children still hear. All the Sherwood episodes in sequence.
The original wooden puppet is rude, lazy and repeatedly in danger, which is what makes his change of heart land. The complete novel, far darker than the versions most readers know.
Novels where the animal is the main character, and sometimes the narrator. Black Beauty tells his own story, and so does the rescued dog in Beautiful Joe.
Buck is stolen from a California ranch and sold into a Yukon sled team, where the rules are older and simpler. Short, fast and often a reader's first serious novel.
Mowgli raised by wolves, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi against the cobras, and the white seal looking for a safe beach. All the original stories in a clean modern typeset edition.
Mole, Rat and Badger keep trying to save Toad from his own enthusiasms. A riverbank novel that alternates comedy with some of the quietest chapters in children's fiction.
The bear of very little brain, the honey, the heffalump trap and the flood. Milne's original 1926 chapters, illustrated, exactly as they first appeared.
A rescued dog tells the story of his own abuse and recovery, based on a real animal in Ontario. A scanned edition of the illustrated printing, with the original decorated cover.
Four sisters get through a hard winter while their father is away at the war, and then get through growing up. The complete novel in a large readable typeset.
An orphan is sent to a Prince Edward Island farm that asked for a boy, and refuses to be sent back. The first Anne novel in full, from the slate incident to the scholarship.
Mary Lennox arrives at a Yorkshire manor with a locked garden and a cousin nobody mentions. A novel about two unpleasant children becoming bearable, and then well.
Sara Crewe goes from the richest pupil at a London boarding school to its scullery maid overnight. The complete novel, with the attic chapters that make the ending work.
Three children move to a cottage by the tracks after their father disappears, and the railway becomes their whole world. Complete, including the landslide and the red flannel petticoats.
An orphan arrives at her cold aunt's house playing a game where you find something to be glad about in anything. The full novel, in a clean modern edition with a designed cover.
Rebecca is sent from a struggling farm to live with two strict aunts in a brick house in Maine. A coming of age novel that follows her from ten to seventeen.
A fussed over city child is sent to a Vermont farm and discovers she can do far more than anyone told her. A scanned edition of the illustrated printing.
