Hayao Miyazaki's Favorite Children’s Books

The Borrowers - Mary Norton
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Children of Noisy Village - Astrid Lindgren
When Marnie Was There - Joan G. Robinson
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
The Flying Classroom - Erich Kästner
There Were Five of Us - Karel Poláček
What the Neighbours Did, and Other Stories - Ann Philippa Pearce
Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates - Mary Mapes Dodge
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Eagle of The Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff
The Treasure of the Nibelungs - Gustav Schalk
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas, père
A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
Les Princes du Vent - Michel-Aime Baudouy
The Flambards Series - K. M. Peyton
Souvenirs entomologiques - Jean Henri Fabre
The Long Winter - Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Norwegian Farm - Marie Hamsun
Heidi - Johanna Spyri
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Tistou of the Green Thumbs - Maurice Druon
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E. L. Konigsburg
The Otterbury Incident - Cecil Day-Lewis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Little Bookroom - Eleanor Farjeon
The Forest is Alive or Twelve Months - Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak
The Restaurant of Many Orders - Kenji Miyazawa
Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne
Nihon Ryōiki - Kyokai
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Pu Songling
Nine Fairy Tales: And One More Thrown in For Good Measure - Karel Čapek
The Man Who Has Planted Welsh Onions - Kim So-un
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
The Adventures of the Little Onion - Gianni Rodari
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Ship that Flew - Hilda Winifred Lewis
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
The Little Humpbacked Horse - Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov (Ershoff)
The Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge
The Rose and the Ring - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Radium Woman - Eleanor Doorly
City Neighbor, The Story of Jane Addams - Clara Ingram Judson
Ivan the Fool - Leo Tolstoy
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle - Hugh Lofting