The National Education Association surveyed its members and compiled a list of the top 100 children's books as part of its annual Read Across America celebration.

http://www.bookitprogram.com/parents/100greatbooks.asp

Infant to Preschool

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.
• The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
• Corduroy by Don Freeman
• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
• The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
• Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney

4-8 Years

• 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
• The Mitten by Jan Brett
• Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
• Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss
• Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
• 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 Phillip D. Eastman
• Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
• One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
• 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
• Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox
• Arthur series by Marc 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
• Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
• The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch

9-12 Years

• 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
• 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
• 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 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 fo 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 series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Lois 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 Chirstopher Paul Curtis

Young Adult

• 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

All Ages

• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri