Top 100 Children Books of all age

100 Best Books

Here is a list of one hundred books selected by the National Education Association in 1999 as great reading for children and young people. To help make these books more useful, we have added book and author links to any TeachersFirst resources and lesson ideas. For more reading ideas - including books grouped by theme and grade level - check out the hundreds of titles in our Suggested Reading section.

You can see NEA's online survey of best books from 2007 here.

TeachersFirst includes the most recent publications in our monthly TogetheRead themes on our companion site,TeachersAndFamilies. Don't miss these opportunities to promote literacy as a family activity!

Books for All Ages

 by Shel Silverstein
Where the Sidewalk Ends: the Poems and Drawing of Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Books for Preschoolers - More Preschool Titles from TeachersFirst / TeachersAndFamilies

by Eric Carle
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
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The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
Corduroy by Don Freeman
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney 

Books for Children Ages 4-8 - More Primary Reading from TeachersFirst / TeachersAndFamilies

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
The Mitten by Jan Brett
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss
Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by John Archambault
The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
Math Curse by Jon Scieszka
Are You My Mother? by Philip D. Eastman
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss
Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
Curious George by Hans Augusto Rey
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox
Arthur series by Marc Tolon Brown
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
The Art Lesson by Tomie De Paola
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
Clifford, the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell
The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch

Books for Children Ages 9-12 - More Books by Grade Level from TeachersFirst

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder 
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Giver by Lois Lowry
James and the Giant Peach: A Children's Story by Roald Dahl
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Stuart Little by E. B. White
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis 

Books for Young Adults - More Books by Grade Level from TeachersFirst

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

Top Business Book of all time - and their respective Kindle (eBook) version

E-Reader Converter (iPad EPub Format)

How to convert ebooks to iPad EPUB

Many Web sites offer legal and often free books. Everything from public domain books to well known and less known authors. Also, you can shop for the best prices at a number of small independent e-book stores.

Often you can download these e-books in a variety of formats, but you won’t always find them in the format your e-book reader supports. Here is where conversion comes in. There is a very good chance that you will be able to take an e-book and convert it to a format your reader supports, at least if the book doesn’t use Digital Rights Management, anti-copying technology.

Most e-book readers support Epub format, which is an industry standard for ebook publishing. So if you convert the downloaded ebooks to Epub, you get the very chance to read it on your ebook reader well. Wondershare MePub is a simple and powerful EPUB eBook creator. It is designed to provide you with the easiest solution to build your own EPUB eBooks. It can help you quickly create an EPUB eBook from up to 100 files in most popular formats at one time. Also you can customize the book cover, info, layout, tables of contents to make your eBook personalized

How to convert other ebooks to iPad EPUB

Step 1: Launch the program and customize book info

Double click the quick start icon on the desktop to launch the program. Then fill out the pop-up window box with the book info: title, author, date, language, subject, identifier, publisher, and description.

Step 2: Set book cover
Double click the left cover area, and you can customize a local image as your new book cover.

Step 3: Add book content
Click the "Add content" button, and you can quickly import local eBook contents you prepared to the program.

Step 4:Customize tables of contents
Right-click on an imported file, you can also add, remove, clear files, or change the order for the file.

Step 5: Start Conversion
Click the "Build" button and wait for a while, you can get your own EPUB eBook as you like. You can use Adobe Digital Editions on your PC if you want to check your output EPUB eBook immediately.

Buying a Kindle outside USA - Asia, Singapore

How to buy a Kindle outside USA, in my case Singapore

Here are the steps I use to purchase one in Singapore. Do note that Amazon doesn't officially support Kindles in Asia or outside USA. There are instances where buyers were found to be not from 'authorised countries' and their accounts were disabled. Your mileage may vary. Caveat Emptor. Other than that, things have worked really well for many local Kindle users.

• Create an Amazon account if you don't already have one.
• Go to the Kindle page and buy yourself a Kindle. It will be automatically linked to your Amazon account. I prefer the 3G+WiFi version. The added 3G can come handy as AT&T is available in Singapore and it works well with my surfing, i've also verified with Amazon that we don't pay for the 3G traffic, but i've yet to see if the bill actually comes. lol. which means, we get free 3G surfing on the Kindle.
• Ship it to a third party mail forwarder such as Comgateway (go to 'get my US address') is easy to use. I've my kindle delivered to me without any hassle. They use DHL which allow you to track the delivery status of your parcel.
• When you get your Kindle, you need to register it if it hasn't already been registered. After connecting to wifi at home>settings, register it by filling in your Amazon username and password at "home>settings>register".

Start ordering yours here:

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Comparing e-Readers: Kindle vs Nook vs iPad

With ultra-affordable e-ink readers, mid-priced color tablets like the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet, and even the more expensive iPads all vying for your e-book dollar, what's the best choice for you? It depends.

New Ebook Readers compete with Amazon Kindle

With all the new ereaders on the market competing with each other, it may help you to review their features through an ebook reader comparison. When Amazon came out with their Kindle wireless reading device, there really were no comparable digital readers on the market, but other manufacturers are now competing for the wireless crowd of readers.

Amazon Kindle Model Comparison

Let us first tackle the five ebook reader modles offered by Amazon. They now offer the Kindle 4, Kindle Keyborad (aka Kindle 3), Kindle DX, Kindle Touch and the color Kindle Fire Tablet. Say you decided you want a Kindle, but now which one? Well first of all you can eliminate one or four based on your preference for color or E-ink. If you want a color ereader, then your only choice is the Kindle Fire. It also have more media functions for playing movies, TV show, apps, etc. than the other Kindle models. If you want an ebook reader primarily for reading ebooks, then you will want the superior E-Ink Pearl screen which is easiest on the eyes. So now you still have to decide between four E-Ink ereader models. Let us go into further detail.

e-Reader Comparison: iPad vs Kindle vs nook

	iPad 2	Kindle 3	Kindle DX	nook/ nook Color	Sony Reader (3 models)	Borders Kobo eReader Touch
screen (inches)/ resolution	9.7/ 1024x768 LCD	6/ 600x800 E Ink	9.7/ 1200x824 E Ink	6/800x600 E Ink/ 7/1024x600	5-7.1/ 800x600 - 600x1024 E Ink	6 E Ink
color	yes	16 shades gray	16 shades gray	16 shades gray/ 16 million colors	8/16 shades gray	16 shades gray
storage	16GB-64GB	4GB	4GB	2GB / 8GB (both expandable)	512MB (expandable)	1GB (expandable)
connectivity	Wi-Fi/3G	Wi-Fi/ 3G	3G	Wi-Fi	3G	Wi-Fi
connectivity cost	optional, US$15- $50/month	free	free	free	free	free
ebook format	ePub, Kindle, PDF	Kindle, PDF, MOBI	Kindle, PDF, MOBI	ePub & PDF/ePub, PDF, Doc,	ePub, PDF, TXT, RTF, DOC, BBeB Book	ePub, PDF, MOBI, TXT, RTF
web browser	yes	limited	limited	limited/ yes	no	no
audio/video?	yes	audio	audio	audio + images / yes	audio + images	no
games	yes	no	no	yes	no	no
size (in.)	9.56 x 7.31 x 0.34	7.5 x 4.8 x 0.33	10.4 x 7.2 x 0.38	6.5 x 5.0 x 0.47/ 8.1 x 5 x 0.48	varies	6.5 x 4.5 x 0.4
weight (lb.)	1.3-1.35	0.54	1.2	0.47/ 0.99	0.485-0.798	0.44
price	US$499-$829	$139/ $189	$489	$139/ $249	$169- $349	$129

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