As kids, we all loved reading books. Books are the medium through which the thoughts of a child and his character can be molded. Therefore reading the correct kids’ books becomes very important. There are thousands and thousands of children’s books available in book stores and in libraries. It is a big task for parents to find the best book that can be a value addition for the child and can interest him as well. To make your task easier given below is a list of the top 10 children’s books writers. Be sure that your child will love reading their books.
1. Kevin Henkes:
He is a successful illustrator and author of children’s books who has won the Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Honor in these two fields. ‘Kitten’s First Full Moon’ was one of his most famous books ever written. He also writes for young – adult fiction and many of his stories are based on his own life experiences.
2. Patricia Polacco:
She too is an illustrator and author of children’s books. The books contain beautiful culture, simple language and great illustrations making her books a must read for children and young kids. Some of her works are Chicken Sunday, Thank You, Mr. Falker and My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother; to name just a few.
3. Eric Carle:
His most famous children’s book has been ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ which has been translated into almost 48 languages. His first story illustration was ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?’ which was a huge bestseller. The illustrations used by him were very different, normally made of hand – painted papers and converted into beautiful images. His books bring out his love of nature. His books are not only entertaining but also full of knowledge and learning.
4. Beatrix Potter:
She created the famous Peter Rabbit character from the book ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’. She had to stay at home and learn music and fine art, while her brother was sent to school. Her collection of books includes – The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, The Tale of Two Bad Mice and The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle.
5. E.B. White:
This author of children’s books was born in New York. He has written many novels for children which include some famous names as Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan. As guessed correctly many of his novels have been turned into big animation flicks that have done exceedingly well at the box – office.
Goosebumps is a series of children’s horror fiction novels written by American author R. L. Stine and first published by Scholastic Publishing. It is a collection of stories that feature semi-homogenous plot structures, with fictional kids being involved in scary situations. Themes in the series include horror, humour and the supernatural. This book can be a good read for people who are interested in some supernatural and light horror stories.
Twilight is a young-adult vampire-romance novel by author Stephenie Meyer. Twilight till date, has sold 17 million copies worldwide. It spent over 91 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and has been translated into 37 different languages. Twilight is definitely a good choice as it includes romance, power, supernatural and almost all aspects to make it a successful and worthy read.
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books narrate the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Wesley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story revolves around Harry’s dilemma involving the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry’s parents in his quest to conquer the magic world and rule the non-magical people. This novel is also a super successful movie and generates lots of interest among the young people.
Gossip Girl is an American young adult novel series written by Cecily von Ziegesar and published by Little, Brown and Company, a subsidiary of the Hachette Group. “Gossip Girl” is a series that revolves around the lives and romances amongst the privileged teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite private school in New York City’s Upper East Side. The series primarily focuses on Blair Waldorf and her best friend, and follows the characters through their high school lives up through their graduation and moving on to college.
This book is filled with snippets of advice for those of us who need help or know someone else who needs a bit of help in the relationship department. The book is filled with insight, true stories and lots of humour. It explores the myths and realities of love and lust and lays it all out in common sense terms that anyone can understand. This book can generate lots of interest as its all about relationships and the ways to keep relationships strong and sound.
This book is an excellent book which highlights the various ways and reasons for the success of a company. The book tries to bring out the central theme that the perspective business leaders has just started to understand the fact that the success of a company depends on the success of the stakeholders such as the owners, employees, customers and neighbouring communities of the company. It also emphasizes that the success of a company in longer terms will depend on the company culture based on values. Basically it revolves around the pros and cons of the value based organization. It’s a great book on motivation because it would help you to get self encouraged for your business.
This book is an attempt by Deci and Flaste to bring out the abstract of becoming successful in the endeavours with the support of motivation. This book is an insightful and provocative meditation on how people can become more genuinely engaged and successful in pursuing their goals, in every sphere of life whether in school, in workplace or in a relationship. This book will give you an insight of the cons of the authoritarian motivation and gives a new dimension to motivation.
It’s a book about change. In particular, it’s a book that presents a new way of understanding why change so often happens as quickly and as unexpectedly as it does. The Tipping Point emphasizes that ideas and behaviour and messages and products sometimes behave just like outbreaks of infectious disease. They are social epidemics. The Tipping Point is an examination of the social epidemics that surround us. This book is an excellent insight to self motivation the reverse way.
Raving Fans is a book worth reading for small business entrepreneurs. This book is also an excellent piece of guide as to how successfully manage the customers. This, in a nutshell, is the advice given to a new Area Manager on his first day–in an extraordinary business book that will help everyone, in every kind of organization or business, deliver stunning customer service and achieve miraculous bottom-line results. Raving Fans uses a brilliantly simple and charming story to teach how to define a vision, learn what a customer really wants, institute effective systems, and make Raving Fan Service a constant feature–not just another program of the month.
This is a classic book on how to get more things done. Effective or successful people get to where they are due to the habits they have developed. Obviously, there are good habits and there are bad habits. This book talks about the 7 habits that many successful people seem to have in common.
This epic poem has been the starting point for so many Hollywood films, and has interested people for centuries. If you haven’t read it then get a modern translation and see the “truth” behind the Hollywood blockbusters.
This is one of the best books to come out of the Renaissance, and is a remarkable work. You go through Hell and the inferno to reach Paradise and encounter characters from mythology and Homer on the way.
This is a superb tale of guilt and the need to find redemption which was the starting point for one of Woody Allen’s films, “Match Point.” If you loved the film, but haven’t read this then you should as it is much better than Allen’s film at delving into the recesses of a murder’s mind and his struggle to be punished.
Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” will take you into the world of the minor gentry of England in the 18th century and displays the values of the time with a wit and incisiveness that has not been matched by many authors. Jane Austen wittily writes about the morals of her time and her characters come to life on the page. If you enjoyed the films of the book, do yourself a favour and read the original work as so much of the humour is lost on the screen.
This novel is a mixture of fact and fiction and one of the best to have come out of the Second World War. It is an honest account of a soldier’s feelings and portrays the horror and futility of war extremely well. Many people disliked Mailer because of his personal life, but his novels are well worth reading.
J.R.R. Tolkien was a professor before he started writing- fact which is clear in these books. Even though The Lord of the Rings series is very popular and has raised the bar as far as the fantasy adventure genre is concerned, it will not be an exaggeration to say that the details are superfluous and the plot is slightly vague.
The characters in this popular book are described in such a way that they seem like wooden and lifeless caricatures, the plot is quite boring and the writing is out-dated.
Don Delillo is doted on by professors of English literature and is despised by an equal number of students who are forced to read it.
Once a child passes a certain age; he is told to read Atlas Shrugged. It is a widely celebrated book and is considered to be epic and massively successful. In reality, the book moves at a snail’s pace and the political theme is over-hyped enough to bring down the overall quality of the book.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is said to be that book which gave rise to the genre of magical realism. The plot is extremely complex and there is no doubt that the average and for that matter, the above-average reader will need to log onto the internet just to understand the basics of the novel.
Sex, money, genius and betrayal—the title says it all. Thanks to the movie, The Social Network, it’s now a familiar story. Mark Zuckerberg rises to riches as the entrepreneur of Facebook, enjoying the privileges, but suffering some consequences along the way.
Christmas and comedy just seem to go together and Lewis Black’s rant looks at the non-religious traditions of Christmas from an entirely new perspective.
Thirty-four tomorrow tales surrounding a mysterious machine that can give people information which will change their lives by predicting how they will meet their end.
A collection of four eerie tales from the undisputed master of the macabre.
These contemporary stories feature explicit sex and a surprise at every turn.
This book was basically a guide-book for those who called themselves witch-hunters. Over 36 editions have been released and it is believed that it single-handedly gave rise to out-of-control witch hunts.
Margaret Mead interviewed several teenage girls in Samoa who told her made-up stories about their sexual promiscuity. However, Mead did not know that and she reported them all in her book as fact.
This book is now considered to be a guide-book full of rules for those who want their society to live in tyranny. It talks about how a ‘prince’ need not have morals or scruples as long as he can pretend to have them. He also points out how society can be made to understand that evil is more beneficial than good. This book impacted the likes of Hitler and Stalin.
This book by Adolf Hitler was not accepted by any publishing house but once he rose to power, it was circulated all over the world. Mein Kampf talks about Hitler’s plan to remove each and every Jew from the world in order to allow the Germans to live peacefully.
Margaret Sanger supported the use of contraceptive because she felt that inferior human beings had no right to live and that the superior category should solely survive so that the world could be filled with only intelligent and able-bodied people. She lists out the benefits of eugenics as well as purity amongst different races.
The creator of Inspector Maigret was a prolific writer and wrote over 500 books. He is considered to be the forerunner of the police detective genre of books. His books followed the simple formula of murder, investigations, clues and the arrest of the murderer. Simply written and set in Paris, the books have remained ever popular, even 80 years after the first book was published.
The Guiness Book of Records lists her as the bestselling book writer of all times, with over four billion copies of her books having been published worldwide. Her mystery novels were never too long,. The stories were superb and the characterization of her detectives such Hercules Poirot and Miss Marple was very well done. She wrote about 80 detective novels, and some plays and also some romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.
Sherlock Holmes’s deductive and reasoning abilities have astonished readers for many decades. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave us a series of mysteries which have enchanted and confounded us. He also wrote science fiction book, plays, poetry, non-fiction books and some historical novels, but he is best remembered for his series of books with Holmes as their central character, accompanied by Watson.
The first book written by two friends under this pseudonym was released in 1934, and over eight decades later his books are still very popular. They have instituted a much coveted mystery writer’s award in his name. The books are excellent whodunit mysteries and they are very elegantly crafted and intellectually challenging.
He sold over 100 million books, and his lawyer Perry mason became the bane of most practising lawyers in the US. Every litigant began to expect his lawyer to eventually solve all crimes and find the right killer. Clever legal systems, fast action and good mystery stories are what marked this prolific and best selling writer.
This book was written during the sixth century and the images leave nothing to imagination. Each and every position is clearly described and the techniques are so detailed that you will be able to practice the art with ease- if that’s what you want!
This book has basically compiled the names and descriptions of 1001 books that should not be missed out on. If you don’t like reading, you can always glance through these recommendations and sound smart in front of a man or woman you want to impress.
This book is so informative, that you will find yourself turning red after a few chapters. When Dave Praegar started writing this book, he obviously wanted to shame the readers but make them laugh at the same time. By the time you finish the book, you will be very well informed about the history and facts of poop, that is, human waste.
Written by Sun Tzu, this book is short and sweet enough to be read in single sitting. Maybe it’s not what the author intended, but his ideas are being appreciated by management students who get bored on the toilet all over the world!
If you have always wanted to say words like ‘cheers’ and ‘bottoms up’ in Korean or Gaelic, this book has been made for you. You will also find answers to various questions related to different alcoholic beverages.
Stephen King is definitely the King of disturbing novels and this one is no exception. One particular portion of the book involves the use of an axe- the protagonist uses it to remove his foot from the rest of his body. The pages are full of his pain and the psychological agony he goes through.
The protagonist’s senses are alert enough to distinguish the scent of one human from another but he does not have a smell of his own. He wants to produce a perfume that is perfect in every way which is when he decides to kill some people.
When this book was published, Napoleon was so disturbed by it that wanted to have the author arrested. According to him, the novel was ‘abominable’ and created by somebody with an imagination that nothing if not depraved. It is about a girl named Justine who is sexually abused at every turn in her life.
The beginning of this book is nauseating enough and those who go on really deserve an award of some kind. The novel involves a lot of people who get slashed, diced, gutted and sawed to death. The most disturbing part is that the main character is actually indifferent to it all.
The Painted Bird is meant to be a holocaust novel but it is primarily about a young boy who is sent away to safety during the war. The boy is tortured in every way possible and the things he goes through are mind-numbingly shocking.
