Stylist's list of the 50 best children's books of all time.

50 Best Children's Books

The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson (1999)

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (1950)

The BFG by Roald Dahl (1982)

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (1952)

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)

Matilda by Roald Dahl (1988)

The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit (1906)

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908)

The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy (1974)

First Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton (1946)

The Queen's Nose by Richard King Smith (1983)

Naughty Amelia Jane! by Enid Blyton (1939)

What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge (1872)

The tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (1902)

The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton (1943)

The Babysitters Club by Anne Martin (1986)

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)

George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl (1981)

Where the Wild Things are by Maurice Sendak (1963)

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne (1926)

Mr Men by Roger Hargreaves (1971)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)

The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss (1957)

Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian (1981)

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (1930)

The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett (1937)

The Hundred and One Dalmations by Dodie Smith (1956)

Vlad the Drac by Ann Jungman (1984)

Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl (1982)

The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross (1982)

Stig of the Dump by Clive King (1963)

Choose your own Adventure (1979)

The Tiger who came to Tea by Judith Kerr (1968)

Peter Pan & Wendy by J.M. Barrie (1911)

Watership Down by Richard Adams (1972)

Little Old Mrs Pepperpot by Alf Proysen (1956)

The Famous Five by Enid Blyton (1942)

Dogger by Shirley Hughes (1977)

Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown (1964)

The Twins at St. Clare's by Enid Blyton (1941)

Mrs Frisby and the rats of Niamh by Robert C. O'Brien

Please Mrs Butler by Allan Ahlberg (1983)

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle

Carrie's War by Nina Bawden (1973)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900)

Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene (1930)

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester Brisley

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

The 50 best children's books