Classics for Children

The Jefferson County Library is excited to be sponsoring author visits by Pulitzer Prize winning-author Caroline Fraser later this month.  She won the Pulitzer Prize for her book Prairie Fires about the life of children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder.  So this week, I am sharing some classic books for children.  Here are a few of my favorites . . .

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls
Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and her famlily are kept busy and happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie.

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to the bleak wastes of Dartmoor to solve the mystery surrounding the late Sir Charles Baskerville and a ghostly hound.

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth.


More Classics --
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
White Fang by Jack London
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum


Check these books out on display at the Arnold Branch through October 11, 2019.