My Favorite Children's Books

Heather Idoni's personal recommendations for the best children's books ever written.



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By Heather Idoni

Updated Saturday, March 28, 2009

  • Abe Lincoln: Log Cabin to White House by Sterling North
  • The Adventures and Discoveries of Marco Polo by Richard J. Walsh
  • The Adventures of Ulysses by Gerald Gottlieb
  • The Alaska Gold Rush by May McNeer
  • Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr by Anna and Russell Crouse
  • Alexander the Great by John Gunther
  • The American Revolution by Bruce Bliven, Jr.
  • Americans into Orbit: The Story of Project Mercury by Gene Gurney
  • America's First World War: General Pershing by Henry Castor
  • Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel by Katherine B. Shippen
  • Balboa: Swordsman and Conquistador by Felix Riesenberg
  • The Barbary Pirates by C. S. Forester
  • The Battle for Iwo Jima by Robert Leckie
  • The Battle for the Atlantic by Jay Williams
  • The Battle of Britain by Quentin Reynolds
  • The Battle of the Bulge by John Toland
  • Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia by Margaret Cousins
  • Ben-Gurion and the Birth of Israel by Joan Comay
  • Betsy Ross and the Flag by Jane Mayer
  • Buffalo Bill's Great Wild West Show by Walter Havighurst
  • The Building of the First Transcontinental Railroad by Adele Nathan
  • The California Gold Rush by May McNeer
  • Captain Cook Explores the South Seas by Armstrong Sperry
  • Captain Cortes Conquers Mexico by William Johnson
  • Catherine the Great by Katherine Scherman
  • Chief of the Cossacks by Harold Lamb
  • Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross by Helen Boylston
  • Cleopatra of Egypt by Leonora Hornblow
  • Clipper Ship Days by John Jennings
  • Combat Nurses of World War II by Wyatt Blassingame
  • The Coming of the Mormons by Jim Kjelgaard
  • The Commandos of World War II by Hodding Carter
  • Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan by Ferdinand Kuhn
  • The Conquest of the North and South Poles by Russell Owen
  • The Copper Kings of Montana by Marian T. Place
  • The Crusades by Anthony West
  • Custer's Last Stand by Quentin Reynolds
  • Daniel Boone and the Opening of the Wilderness Road by John Mason Brown
  • Davy Crockett by Stewart H. Holbrook
  • Disaster at Johnstown: the Great Flood by Hildegarde Dolson
  • The Doctors Who Conquered Yellow Fever by Ralph Nading Hill
  • Dolly Madison by Jane Mayer
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower by Malcom Moos
  • The Early Days of Automobiles in America by Elizabeth Janeway
  • The Erie Canal by Samuel Hopkins Adams
  • Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys by Slater Brown
  • Evangeline and the Acadians by Robert Tallant
  • The Exploits of Xenophon by Geoffrey Household
  • The Explorations of Pere Marquette by Jim Kjelgaard
  • Exploring the Himalaya by William O. Douglas
  • The F.B.I. by Quentin Reynolds
  • The Fall of Constantinople by Bernadine Kielty
  • Famous Pirates of the New World by A. B. C. Whipple
  • Ferdinand Magellan: Master Mariner by Seymour Gates Pond
  • The First Men in the World by Anne Terry White (evolutionary / NOT recommended)
  • The First Overland Mail by Robert Pinkerton
  • The First Transatlantic Cable by Adele Gutman Nathan
  • Flat Tops by Edmund Castillo
  • The Flight and Adventures of Charles II by Charles Norman
  • Florence Nightingale by Ruth Fox Hume
  • The Flying Aces of World War I by Gene Gurney
  • The Flying Tigers by John Toland
  • The French Foreign Legion by Wyatt Blassingame
  • From Casablanca to Berlin by Bruce Bliven, Jr.
  • From Pearl Harbor To Okinawa by Bruce Bliven, Jr.
  • Garibaldi: Father of Modern Italy by Marcia Davenport
  • General Brock and Niagara Falls by Samuel Hopkins Adams
  • Genghis Kahn and the Mongol Horde by Harold Lamb
  • George Washington Carver by Anne Terry White
  • George Washington: Frontier Colonel by Sterling North
  • Geronimo: Wolf of the Warpath by Ralph Moody
  • Gettysburg by MacKinlay Kantor
  • The Golden Age of Railroads by Stewart H. Holbrook
  • Great American Fighter Pilots of World War II by Robert D. Loomis
  • Great Men of Medicine by Ruth Fox Hume
  • Guadalcanal Diary by Richard Tregaskis
  • Hawaii, Gem of the Pacific by Oscar Lewis
  • Hero of Trafalgar by A. B. C. Whipple
  • Heroines of the Early West by Nancy Wilson Ross
  • Hudson's Bay Company by Richard Morenus
  • Jesus of Nazareth by Harry Emerson Fosdick (NOT recommended)
  • Joan of Arc by Nancy Wilson Ross
  • John F. Kennedy and PT 109 by Richard Tregaskis
  • John James Audubon by Margaret and John Kieran
  • John Paul Jones, Fighting Sailor by Armstrong Sperry
  • Julius Caesar by John Gunther
  • King Arthur and His Knights by Mabel Louise Robinson
  • Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier by Ralph Moody
  • The Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty
  • Lawrence of Arabia by Alistair MacLean
  • Lee and Grant at Appomattox by MacKinlay Kantor
  • Leonardo da Vinci by Emily Hahn
  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition by Richard L. Neuberger
  • The Life of Saint Patrick by Quentin Reynolds
  • The Life of Saint Paul by Harry Emerson Fosdick (NOT recommended)
  • Lincoln and Douglas: The Years of Decision by Regina Z. Kelly
  • The Louisiana Purchase by Robert Tallant
  • The Magna Charta by James Daugherty
  • The Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat-sen by Pearl S. Buck
  • Marie Antoinette by Bernadine Kielty
  • Marquis de Lafayette: Bright Sword of Freedom by Hodding Carter
  • Martin Luther by Harry Emerson Fosdick (NOT a recommended author)
  • Mary, Queen of Scots by Emily Hahn
  • Medal of Honor Heroes by Colonel Red Reeder
  • Medical Corps Heros of World War II by Wyatt Blassingame
  • Midway, Battle for the Pacific by Edmund L. Castillo
  • The Mississippi Bubble by Thomas B. Costain
  • The Moniter and the Merrimac by Fletcher Pratt
  • Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone by Katherine B. Shippen
  • The Mysterious Voyage of Captain Kidd by ABC Whipple
  • Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo by Frances Winwar
  • Old Ironsides, the Fighting Constitution by Harry Hansen
  • Our Independence and the Constitution by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
  • The Panama Canal by Bob Considine
  • Paul Revere and the Minute Men by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
  • Peter Stuyvesant of Old New York by Anna and Russell Crouse
  • The Pharoahs of Ancient Egypt by Elizabeth Payne
  • The Pirate Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans by Robert Tallant
  • Pocahontas and Captain John Smith by Marie Lawson
  • The Pony Express by Samuel Hopkins Adams
  • Prehistoric America by Anne Terry White
  • Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada by Frances Winwar
  • Queen Victoria by Noel Streatfeild
  • Remember the Alamo! by Robert Penn Warren
  • The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler by William L. Shirer
  • Robert E. Lee and the Road of Honor by Hodding Carter
  • Robert Fulton and the Steamboat by Ralph Nading Hill
  • Rogers' Rangers and the French and Indian War by Bradford Smith
  • The Royal Canadian Mounted Police by Richard L. Neuberger
  • Sam Houston, the Tallest Texan by William Johnson
  • The Santa Fe Trail by Samuel Hopkins Adams
  • The Seabees of World War II by Edmund Castillo
  • Sequoyah: Leader of the Cherokees by Alice Marriott
  • Simon Bolivar, the Great Liberator by Arnold Whitridge
  • The Sinking of the Bismarck by William L. Shirer
  • The Slave Who Freed Haiti: The Story of Toussaint Louverture by Katherine Scherman
  • Stonewall Jackson by Jonathan Daniels
  • The Story of Albert Schweitzer by Anita Daniel
  • The Story of Atomic Energy by Laura Fermi
  • The Story of Australia by A. Grove Day
  • The Story of D-Day: June 6, 1944 by Bruce Bliven, Jr.
  • The Story of Oklahoma by Lon Tinkle
  • The Story of San Francisco by Charlotte Jackson
  • The Story of Scotland Yard by Laurence Thompson
  • The Story of Submarines by George Weller
  • The Story of the Air Force by Robert Loomis
  • The Story of the Naval Academy by Felix Riesenberg, Jr.
  • The Story of the Paratroops by George Weller
  • The Story of the Secret Service by Ferdinand Kuhn
  • The Story of the Thirteen Colonies by Clifford Lindsey Alderman
  • The Story of the U.S. Coast Guard by Eugene Rachlis
  • The Story of the U.S. Marines by George Hunt
  • The Story of Thomas Alva Edison by Margaret Cousins
  • The Swamp Fox of the Revolution by Stewart H. Holbrook
  • Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders by Henry Castor
  • The Texas Rangers by Will Henry
  • Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by Ted Lawson and Bob Considine
  • Thomas Jefferson, Father of Democracy by Vincent Sheean
  • Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too! by Stanley Young
  • To California by Covered Wagon by George R. Stewart
  • Trappers and Traders of the Far West by James Daugherty
  • The United Nations in War and Peace by T. R. Fehrenback
  • The U.S. Border Patrol by Clement Hellyer
  • The U.S. Frogmen of World War II by Wyatt Blassingame
  • Up the Trail From Texas by J. Frank Dobie
  • The Vikings by Elizabeth Janeway
  • The Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Armstrong Sperry
  • The Voyages of Henry Hudson by Eugene Rachlis
  • Walk in Space: the Story of Project Gemini by Gene Gurney
  • Walter Raleigh by Henrietta Buckmaster
  • The War Chief of the Seminoles by May McNeer
  • The War in Korea: 1950 - 1953 by Robert Leckie
  • The West Point Story by Col. Red Reeder and Nardi Reeder Campion
  • Wild Bill Hickok Tames the West by Stewart H. Holbrook
  • Will Shakespeare and the Globe Theater by Anne Terry White
  • William Penn: Quaker Hero by Hildegarde Dolson
  • William the Conqueror by Thomas B. Costain
  • Winston Churchill by Quentin Reynolds
  • The Winter at Valley Forge by Van Wyck Mason
  • The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson
  • Women of Courage by Dorothy Nathan
  • The World's Greatest Showman: P.T. Barnum by J. Bryan III
  • The Wright Brothers by Quentin Reynolds
  • Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshall by Stewart H. Holbrook
  • Young Mark Twain and the Mississippi by Harnett T. Kane

 




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