Best Victorian Children's Books
What are your favorite books for children from the Victorian period (1837-1901)?
60 books on the list, 8 voters, list created: September 15th
scorePoints are based on the ranking of the book on each list and the number of people have voted for it. A book's "score" is the total.
all votes
1 Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
3.79 avg rating — 16,191 ratings
score: 481, and 5 people voted my rating:
2 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
3.76 avg rating — 45,280 ratings
score: 389, and 4 people voted my rating:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
4.04 avg rating — 47,327 ratings
score: 293, and 3 people voted my rating:
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
3.94 avg rating — 265,072 ratings
score: 276, and 3 people voted my rating:
5 Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
3.56 avg rating — 3,983 ratings
score: 274, and 3 people voted my rating:
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
3.68 avg rating — 22,286 ratings
score: 269, and 3 people voted my rating:
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
by Beatrix Potter
4.03 avg rating — 8,181 ratings
score: 240, and 3 people voted my rating:
8 Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
by Lewis Carroll
4.02 avg rating — 6,081 ratings
score: 195, and 2 people voted my rating:
9 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
by L. Frank Baum
3.94 avg rating — 20,679 ratings
score: 193, and 2 people voted my rating:
10 Eight Cousins
by Louisa May Alcott
3.95 avg rating — 3,585 ratings
score: 186, and 2 people voted my rating:
11 Rose in Bloom
by Louisa May Alcott
3.88 avg rating — 2,469 ratings
score: 184, and 2 people voted my rating:
11 A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
4.14 avg rating — 1,420 ratings
score: 184, and 2 people voted my rating:
11 The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Brothers Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Josef Scharl (Illustrator), Margaret Hunt (Translator), James Stern (Editor), Padraic Colum (Contributor), Joseph Campbell (Contributor)
4.24 avg rating — 8,044 ratings
score: 184, and 2 people voted my rating:
14 The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
by Oscar Wilde
4.31 avg rating — 1,187 ratings
score: 182, and 2 people voted my rating:
15 A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Nancy Bond (Foreword)
4.18 avg rating — 21,608 ratings
score: 181, and 2 people voted my rating:
16 The Prince and the Pauper
by Mark Twain
3.60 avg rating — 8,462 ratings
score: 179, and 2 people voted my rating:
17 Tanglewood Tales: A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.86 avg rating — 159 ratings
score: 178, and 2 people voted my rating:
Jo's Boys
by Louisa May Alcott
3.65 avg rating — 5,964 ratings
score: 178, and 2 people voted my rating:
9 Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling
3.64 avg rating — 1,144 ratings
score: 176, and 2 people voted my rating:
19 The Pied Piper of Hamelin
by Robert Browning, Kate Greenaway (Illustrator)
3.62 avg rating — 81 ratings
score: 176, and 2 people voted my rating:
ook of Nonsense
by Edward Lear
3.94 avg rating — 141 ratings
score: 176, and 2 people voted my rating:
by Louisa May Alcott
3.70 avg rating — 8,253 ratings
score: 174, and 2 people voted my rating:
22 The Owl and the Pussycat (Picture Books)
by Edward Lear, Jan Brett (Illustrator)
4.19 avg rating — 354 ratings
score: 174, and 2 people voted my rating:
22 Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
3.59 avg rating — 3,279 ratings
score: 174, and 2 people voted my rating:
5 Little Lord Fauntleroy
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
3.56 avg rating — 1,577 ratings
score: 167, and 2 people voted my rating:
25 The Elephant's Child
by Rudyard Kipling, Arlette Lavie (Illustrator)
4.21 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 167, and 2 people voted my rating:
by Andrew Lang
4.12 avg rating — 516 ratings
score: 165, and 2 people voted my rating:
28 The Green Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
4.13 avg rating — 298 ratings
score: 161, and 2 people voted my rating:
29 Kate Greenaway's Mother Goose
by Kate Greenaway
4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 100, and 1 person voted my rating:
30 The Coral Island
by R.M. Ballantyne
3.55 avg rating — 193 ratings
score: 98, and 1 person voted my rating:
31 The Madman and the Pirate
by R.M. Ballantyne
3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 97, and 1 person voted my rating:
32 The Light Princess
by George MacDonald, Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)
4.01 avg rating — 888 ratings
score: 96, and 1 person voted my rating:
32 The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West
by R.M. Ballantyne
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 96, and 1 person voted my rating:
32 Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear
by Holbrook Jackson
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 96, and 1 person voted my rating:
35 Goblin Market
by Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Illustrator), William Morris (Illustrator), Laurence Housman (Illustrator), Joyce Carol Oates (Afterword)
4.16 avg rating — 251 ratings
score: 95, and 1 person voted my rating:
36 The Black Arrow
by Robert Louis Stevenson
3.64 avg rating — 775 ratings
score: 94, and 1 person voted my rating:
37 The Red Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
4.18 avg rating — 323 ratings
score: 91, and 1 person voted my rating:
38 The Yellow Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
4.13 avg rating — 242 ratings
score: 90, and 1 person voted my rating:
39 The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories
by George MacDonald
4.13 avg rating — 61 ratings
score: 88, and 1 person voted my rating:
40 At the Back of the North Wind (Books of Wonder)
by George MacDonald
3.99 avg rating — 731 ratings
score: 87, and 1 person voted my rating:
40 Rapunzel
by Brothers Grimm, Paul O. Zelinsky
3.97 avg rating — 1,317 ratings
score: 87, and 1 person voted my rating:
42 Little Red Riding Hood
by Brothers Grimm, Trina Schart Hyman
3.88 avg rating — 1,225 ratings
score: 86, and 1 person voted my rating:
43 Rumpelstiltskin
by Brothers Grimm, Paul O. Zelinsky (Illustrator)
3.95 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
score: 85, and 1 person voted my rating:
44 The Twelve Dancing Princesses
by Brothers Grimm, Marianna Mayer, Kinuko Y. Craft (Illustrator)
4.15 avg rating — 644 ratings
score: 84, and 1 person voted my rating:
45 Hansel and Gretel (Groundwood Books: Folk & Fairytales)
by Brothers Grimm, Ian Wallace (Author / Illustrator)
3.65 avg rating — 689 ratings
score: 83, and 1 person voted my rating:
46 The Story of the Amulet
by E. Nesbit
3.90 avg rating — 336 ratings
score: 82, and 1 person voted my rating:
46 The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
by Hans Christian Andersen (Author), Lily Owens (Editor & Introduction)
4.24 avg rating — 4,547 ratings
score: 82, and 1 person voted my rating:
46 The Frog Prince
by Brothers Grimm
3.74 avg rating — 156 ratings
score: 82, and 1 person voted my rating:
49 The Elves and the Shoemaker
by Brothers Grimm, Jim LaMarche
3.99 avg rating — 239 ratings
score: 81, and 1 person voted my rating:
50 The Frog Prince, Continued
by Jon Scieszka, Steve Johnson
4.10 avg rating — 628 ratings
score: 80, and 1 person voted my rating:
Rose Red and Snow White: A Grimms Fairy Tale
by Brothers Grimm
3.98 avg rating — 133 ratings
score: 79, and 1 person voted my rating:
2 Cinderella
by Brothers Grimm, Ruth Sanderson, Charles Perrault
3.86 avg rating — 105 ratings
score: 78, and 1 person voted my rating:
e Girl: A Story from the Brothers Grimm
by Brothers Grimm, Eric A. Kimmel
3.95 avg rating — 74 ratings
score: 77, and 1 person voted my rating:
Grimms' Fairy Tales and Anderson's Fairy Tales
by Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm
4.18 avg rating — 74 ratings
score: 76, and 1 person voted my rating:
5 The Jungle Books
by Rudyard Kipling
3.86 avg rating — 5,051 ratings
score: 75, and 1 person voted my rating:
6 Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
by Joel Chandler Harris, Robert Hemenway
3.54 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 74, and 1 person voted my rating:
How The Camel Got His Hump (Just So Story Series)
by Rudyard Kipling
4.06 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 73, and 1 person voted my rating:
58 How The Leopard Got His Spots
by Rudyard Kipling, Lori Lohstoeter (Illustrator)
3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 71, and 1 person voted my rating:
59 How the Elephant Got Its Trunk : A Retelling of the Rudyard Kipling Tale
by Jean Richards, Norman Gorbaty (Illustrator)
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 70, and 1 person voted my rating:
60 Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Puck of Pook's Hill, Stalky & Co., Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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