Top 100 Children's Books
Compiled by Lorraine Orman
Top 100 New Zealand Children's Books of the 20th Century as compiled by Lorraine Orman, children's literature expert & writer in 2000. If I have reviewed a book, there will be a link to the review. (Original Source)
Books in RED are Living Books
** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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The cradle ship by Edith Howes
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Six Little New Zealanders by Esther Glen
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Quicksilver by Isabel M. Peacocke
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Rifle and tomahawk by Mona Tracy
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Silver Island by Edith Howes
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Hilda at School by Phillis Garrard
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The Book of Wiremu by Stella Morice
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Myths and Legends of Maoriland by A. W. Reed
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Drovers Road by Joyce West
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The Year of the Shining Cuckoo by Joyce West
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Turi: The Story of a Little Boy by Lesley Cameron Powell
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The boy and the taniwha by Ronald Leonard Bacon
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A Lion in the Meadow by Margaret Mahy
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The Duck in the Gun by Joy Cowley
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The First Margaret Mahy Story Book by Margaret Mahy
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The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate by Margaret Mahy
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Again the bugles blow by Ron Bacon
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My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes by Eve Sutton
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Crayfishing with grandmother by Jillian Mary Mayer Bagnall
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The Witch in the Cherry Tree by Margaret Mahy
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The house on the cliffs by Ruth Dallas
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The House of the People by Ronald Leonard Bacon
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The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch by Ronda Armitage
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Take the Long Path by Joan De Hamel
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The Great Piratical Rumbustification / The Librarian and the Robbers by Margaret Mahy
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Under the Mountain by Maurice Gee
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The Silent One by Joy Cowley
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The Kuia and the Spider by Patricia Grace
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Bidibidi by Gavin Bishop
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Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen
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The Haunting by Margaret Mahy
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Mr Fox by Gavin Bishop
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The Halfmen of O by Maurice Gee
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Night Race to Kawau by Tessa Duder
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Bertie And The Bear by Pamela Allen
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Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd
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The Tree Witches by Gwenda Turner
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Jacky Nobody by Anne De Roo
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The Poetry Girl by Beverley Dunlop
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The Changeover by Margaret Mahy
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Visitors by Caroline Macdonald
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The fish of our fathers by Ronald Leonard Bacon
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Hemi's Pet by Joan De Hamel
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New Zealand ABC (Picture Puffin Books) by Gwenda Turner
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A Lion in the Night by Pamela Allen
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The guardian of the land by Joanna Orwin
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Jellybean by Tessa Duder
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Taniwha by Robyn Kahukiwa
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The Keeper by Barry Faville
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The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy
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Just an Ordinary Kid by Lisa Vasil
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Memory by Margaret Mahy
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Alex by Tessa Duder
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Paradise Lane by William Taylor
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My Brown Bear Barney by Dorothy Butler
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Annie & Moon by Miriam Smith
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The Mangrove Summer by Jack Lasenby
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Biddy Alone by Wanda Cowley
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Grandpa's Slippers by Joy Watson
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Chen Li and the River Spirit by Anthony Holcroft
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Tangaroa's Gift: Te Koha ā Tangaroa by Mere Whaanga
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Grandma McGarvey by Jenny Hessell
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Agnes the Sheep by William Taylor
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Rocco by Sherryl Jordan
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The Wednesday Wizard by Sherryl Jordan
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Prudence M. Muggeridge, Damp Rat by Gaelyn Gordon
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Bow Down Shadrach by Joy Cowley
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Duckat by Gaelyn Gordon
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The Little Yellow Digger by Betty Gilderdale
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Deepwater Black by Ken Catran
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Underrunners by Margaret Mahy
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The Juniper Game by Sherryl Jordan
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See Ya, Simon by David Hill
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Slide the Corner by Fleur Beale
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Winter of Fire by Sherryl Jordan
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A Dolphin in the Bay by Diana Noonan
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Sasscat by Paula Boock
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The Best-loved Bear by Diana Noonan
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The Fat Man by Maurice Gee
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The Blue Lawn by William Taylor
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Take It Easy by David Hill
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The Waterfall by Jack Lasenby
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Crossroads by Janice Marriott
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Mechanical Harry by Bob Kerr
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The Bantam and the Soldier by Jennifer Beck
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Sanctuary by Kate De Goldi
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The Shearwater Bell by Margaret Beames
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Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock
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Alphabet apartments by Lesley Moyes
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Fat, Four-Eyed and Useless by David Hill
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Because We Were the Travellers (The Travellers) by Jack Lasenby
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I Am Not Esther by Fleur Beale
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A Summery Saturday Morning by Margaret Mahy
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The Tiggie Tompson Show by Tessa Duder
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The House That Jack Built by Gavin Bishop
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The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan
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2MUCH4U by Vince Ford