Book Series
Here are the top 140 book series from the whole heritage of children’s literature.
The Cricket in Times Square
This series of books follows the adventures of a cricket and his friends, from New York to The Countryside:
The Cricket in Times Square (1960)
Tucker’s C...
The Dark Is Rising
The Dark Is Rising is a series of five contemporary fantasy novels for older children and young adults, written by the English author Susan Cooper and published...
The Don Rosa Library
The Don Rosa Library is a series of books published by Fantagraphics Books, collecting all of the Scrooge McDuck and Donald Duck comic book stories written and ...
The First Book Library
A series of omnibus volumes published by Franklin Watts combining separately published nonfiction works.
The Foxbury Force
The Foxbury Police Force, is of course composed of foxes. They may be confused at first, but they always get their fox.
The Hall Family Chronicles
The Happy Lion
The Happy Lion is a 1954 children’s picture book by Louise Fatio and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin. The book was so popular that it spawned several sequel...
The Home Treasury
A series of children's books initiated by Sir Henry Cole in 1843. In addition to nursery rhymes, there were traditional and new fairy tales, bible stories and t...
The Island Stallion
Steve Duncan visits a deserted island in the Caribbean and discovers a band of horses, left by the Spaniards.
The Lawrenceville Stories
A series of novels about an American boys’ boarding school written in the early twentieth century by Owen McMahon Johnson. The Lawrenceville School was fo...
The Little Lulu Library
Little Lulu was a comic strip about Lulu and Tubby. It was created in 1935 by Marjorie Henderson Buell, with work by John Stanley. It had 145 consecutive issues...
The Little World of Don Camillo
Don Camillo is a fictional hotheaded priest who is constantly at odds with the communist mayor Peppone in a rural Italian village. The Camillo character was cre...
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. It was written in stages between 1937 and 1949.
The Marlows
A series of novels about the British Marlow family at their girls boarding school and at home.
The Melendy Quartet
This series follows the four Melendy children from an apartment in New York to a home in the country. The series includes these works:
The Saturdays (1941)
The...
The Mother Goose Library
The Mushroom Planet
This is a group of children’s books by Eleanor Cameron. Two boys build a space ship and fly to a planetoid named Basidium. There, they meet the Mushroom P...
The Nicola Bayley Miniature Collection
The Odyssey Library
A series of small oblong books of about fifty pages on general topics with many illustrations.