Books Recommended by Hayao Miyazaki

The Little Prince, The Borrowers and A Wizard of Earthsea introduce the children’s literature selected by Hayao Miyazaki for Iwanami’s anniversary.

Source: https://nina313.hatenablog.com/entry/2012/06/23/000000

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

1. El Principito / The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
2. The rose and the ring — William Makepeace Thackeray
3. The three musketeers — Alexandre Dumas
4. Secret Garden (Stepping Stone Book Classics) — Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. Alice in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll
6. A Norwegian farm — Marie Hamsun
7. The Little Humpbacked Horse: Bilingual ~ Russian and English — Pyotr Yershov
8. Eagle of the Ninth — Rosemary Sutcliff
9. Winnie-the-Pooh — A. A. Milne
10. The Long Winter — Laura Ingalls Wilder
11. When Marnie Was There — Joan G. Robinson
12. The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame
13. The ship that flew — Hilda Lewis
14. Flambards — K. M. Peyton
15. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain
16. Twenty thousand leagues under the sea — Jules Verne
17. The Borrowers — Mary Norton
18. Heidi — Spyri, Johanna
19. Swallows and Amazons — Arthur Michell Ransome
20. THE FLYING CLASSROOM — Erich Kästner
21. Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe
22. Treasure island — Robert Louis Stevenson
23. Tistou of the green thumbs — Maurice Druon
24. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle — Hugh Lofting
25. Little Lord Fauntleroy — Frances Hodgson Burnett
26. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler — E. L. Konigsburg, Jill Clayburgh
27. The Hobbit — J.R.R. Tolkien
28. A Wizard of Earthsea — Ursula K. Le Guin
29. The Little White Horse — Elizabeth Goudge
30. The radium woman — Eleanor Doorly
31. The Otterbury incident — Cecil Day-Lewis
32. Hans Brinker, or, The silver skates — Mary Mapes Dodge