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Books Recommended by Hayao Miyazaki

  1. 19

    Swallows and Amazons

    Arthur Michell Ransome · 1930

  2. 20

    THE FLYING CLASSROOM

    Erich Kästner · 1994

  3. 21

    Robinson Crusoe

    Daniel Defoe · 1686

  4. 22

    Treasure island

    Robert Louis Stevenson · 1880

  5. 23

    Tistou of the green thumbs

    Maurice Druon · 1958

  6. 24

    The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

    Hugh Lofting · 1922

  7. 25

    Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1886

  8. 26

    From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

    E. L. Konigsburg, Jill Clayburgh · 1967

  9. 27

    The Hobbit

    J.R.R. Tolkien · 1937

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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