Best Selling Children’s Books

The Pokey Little Puppy (A Little Golden Book Classic)

Want some fun memories? Take a look at these list of the Best Selling Hardcover Children’s Books of all time (up to 2000) and the Best Selling Paperback Children’s Books of all time (up to 2000). It was so fun to read those lists and remember the books I read as a child and then read again to my children. Some of them I The Saggy Baggy Elephant (Little Golden Book)had never read until I had children. And some of them I read over and over and over to my children - The Pokey Little Puppy, The Saggy Baggy Elephant, The Little Engine That Could.

I remember when we borrowed The Little Engine book from the library. I read it to Beth over The Little Engine That Could: Original Classic Edition (Little Engine That Could)and over for two weeks straight. Then we took it back to the library to return it and get another book. This was Beth’s first library experience - she cried and cried and cried because we had to give the book back. A very thoughtful friend gave Beth the book for her birthday soon after (thanks Pam).



Complete Anne of Green Gable Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside)Watership DownI used to read to my kids all of the time. We made it a part of our lives. My kids are seven and a half years apart so I read some of the same books to both at different times. We read the Chronicles of Narnia both ways (the way they were written and in chronological order), the Little House Series, Watership Down, The Hobbit, Flowers for Algernon, Of Mice My Side of the Mountainand Men, Huckleberry Finn, My Side of the Mountain, Miguel, Harriet the Spy, Swiss Family Robinson,Anne of Green Gables and more. Whenever we went on a driving vacation we always read a Happy Hollisters book.Harriet the Spy


Every night for years, until David changed jobs and Josh was about 16 we’d crawl into bed and read a chapter or two of the current book. I think the last book we read together was Skipping Christmas on our way out to Kennewick and back to my sister’s for Christmas a few years ago.Skipping Christmas

Ahhh…those were the days. That’s one of the reasons I love books so much - the experience of enjoying them, remembering where you were when you read them, remembering them together with those who read them, too.

Thank you Heather for sending me the list.


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3 Responses to “Best Selling Children’s Books”

  1. Beth Says:
    August 4th, 2006 at 6:40 am

    Thank you, Pam, for The Little Engine That Could! I still have it to this day. In all the times I’ve moved from house to house, state to state, I’ve never misplaced it. :o )

    And thanks for reading to me, Mom! I still think of campong every time I smell a Happy Holisters book. (And yes.. they have a very distinctive smell)

  2. Theresa Says:
    August 4th, 2006 at 7:10 am

    Maybe they smell that way because we got most of them at the second hand store when we were camping. I still have all of them if you ever want to come by and smell or read them :-)

    Wasn’t that a fun list to read?

  3. danielle Says:
    August 4th, 2006 at 8:45 am

    That list is great, I have read every single one of them. I LOVE reading to Winston and he will drop everything for a chance to sit and listen to a story. I hope he has the same love of reading that I do. You are never alone with a book and reading has been one of the greatest joys of my life. I am a junkie for the printed word! Mt dream lover would be an editor and he would bring me home stacks of manuscripts and I could read them before they were even published….ahhhh

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