Best Children’s books series

The 19 best Children’s books series, scored across every volume.

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By year of first publication, 1908–2017. The busiest stretch is 2000–2009, with 8. Select a bar to narrow the list.

Why Winnie-the-Pooh series is #1

Winnie-the-Pooh series (A. A. Milne) scores 8.4/10 from 712 ratings — 0.1 points ahead of Anne of Green Gables in second place.

The score is a weighted average across 3 independent rating sources. A title with few ratings is pulled toward the category average, so a handful of enthusiastic reviews cannot outrank a book that thousands of readers have judged. Method →

Could you read it twenty times?

Children’s books get reread, often aloud. The list runs from picture books to novels for twelve-year-olds, so start with age.

The adult laughs tooWinnie-the-Pooh amuses parent and child in different ways, but both of them for real.
A rhythm the child repeatsIf your child says the lines with you by the third reading, it was written for reading aloud.
It doesn’t talk downGood books take a child’s fear, sadness and anger seriously, with no moral stuck on the end.

Frequently asked questions

Which title here has the most ratings?

Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) — 2K ratings and 8.3/10, which puts it at #2 on this list.