Top Chapter Books that Feed a Child's Imagination

Paddington - Bond

Peter Pan - Barrie
Mr. Popper's Penguins - Atwater

The Tale of Despereaux, and The Magician's Elephant - Kate DiCamillo

Little House books

Pinocchio - Collodi

The Plain Princess - McGinley

The Courage of Sarah Noble - Dalgliesh

The Little White Horse - Goudge

Misty of Chincoteague - Henry

Charlotte's Web and The Trumpet of the Swan - White

Treasure in an Oatmeal Box - Gire

The Wind in the Willows - Grahame

The Ordinary Princess - M. M. Kaye
Just David - Porter (we used to say "we're having a Just David day" on the days we just did languages and music)

Sarah Witcher's Story - Yates

The Golden Goblet, and Mara, Daughter of the Nile - McGraw

The King's Shadow - Alder
The Gammage Cup - Kendall
Black Ships Before Troy - Sutcliff
Beowulf - Heaney

Redwall books - Jacques

Pollyanna - Porter

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle - Betty MacDonald

Chronicle of Narnia - Lewis

Prydain Chronicles - Alexander

Harry Potter books - Rowling

Adam of the Road - Gray

A Wrinkle in Time - L'Engle
The Pushcart War - we listened to this on tape - it was so much fun

The Treasure Seekers, and The Wouldbegoods, Five Children and It - and others by E. Nesbit

Anne of Green Gables (but I remember my girls did not like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farms)

Sara Crewe/The Little Princess - Burnett

Little Women and others by Louisa May Alcott

Heidi - Spyri

All Robin Hood and King Arthur books

The Reluctant Dragon - Grahame

Princess and the Goblin, and The Light Princess - George Macdonald

Shadrach, and The Wheel on the School - Meindert DeJong

Pretty much all of the good old fairy tales - like the ones compiled by Andrew Lang, the color fairy books

The Hobbit - Tolkien

Plays by Shakespeare

Jane Austen books

Books on historical characters:

Davy Crockett

Childhood of Famous Americans

Jean Fritz history series - Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? and others