Wednesday, December 8, 2010

GREATEST VICTORIAN CHILDREN BOOKS FROM PERIOD 1837-1901

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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