Puffin's 70 best books for children

Best Mischief & Mayhem: Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney The Twits by Roald Dahl The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog by Jeremy Strong The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend Photograph: Penguin Books Photograph: guardian.co.uk Best Weepies: Charlotte's Web by EB White Watership Down by Richard Adams The Truth about Leo by David Yelland Two Weeks with the Queen by Morris Gleitzman Photograph: Penguin Books Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Best Swashbucklers and Derring-Do: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs by Giles Andreae & Russell Ayto Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior by Chris Bradford Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green Photograph: Penguin Books Photograph: guardian.co.uk Best Blood & Guts: The Enemy by Charlie Higson Dracula by Bram Stoker Being by Kevin Brooks The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Photograph: Penguin Books Photograph: guardian.co.uk Best to Cuddle Up With: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis & Gwen Millward Peepo! by Janet and Allan Ahlberg Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy by Lynley Dodd Photograph: Penguin Books Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Best Phizzwhizzers: Charlie & the Chocolate Factory The BFG Matilda Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Fantastic Mr Fox - all by Roald Dahl Photograph: Penguin Books Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Best Alternatives to Twilight: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead The Luxe by Anna Godbersen Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Best Animals: Spy Dog by Andrew Cope The Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell Lionboy by Zizou Corder Photograph: Penguin Books Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Best BEST BEST BEST! Stig of the Dump by Clive King Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff Junk by Melvin Burgess Photograph: Penguin Books Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Best Character: Fungus the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs Charlie and Lola: Excuse Me But That is My Book by Lauren Child Meg and Mog by Helen Nicoll & Jan Pienkowski Angelina Ballerina by Katharine Holabird & Helen Craig Photograph: Penguin Books Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Best Fantasy & Adventure: TimeRiders by Alex Scarrow Dot Robot by Jason Bradbury Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin Photograph: Penguin Books Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Best Friends and Family: The Family From One End Street by Eve Garnett Dizzy by Cathy Cassidy The Borrowers by Mary Norton Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild Photograph: Penguin Books Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Best Heroes: Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer Young Bond: SilverFin by Charlie Higson The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Photograph: Penguin Books Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Best Rhymes and Verse: Michael Rosen’s A-Z: The best children’s poetry from Agard to Zephaniah Please Mrs Butler by Allan Ahlberg Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah Bad Bad Cats by Roger McGough Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Best Sugar & Spice: The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories by Joyce Lankester Brisley, The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams The Princess and the Pea by Lauren Child & Polly Borland Photograph: Penguin Books Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Best War and Conflict: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Once by Morris Gleitzman Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Best Weird and Wonderful: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Five Children and It by E Nesbitt The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum Peter Pan by JM Barrie Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk