Twelve Months: A Fairy-Tale by Samuil Marshakģ5. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevensonģ4. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransomeģ1. Nine Fairy Tales: and One More Thrown in for Good Measure by Karel Capekģ0. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneĢ9. The Restaurant of Many Orders by Kenji MiyazawaĢ7. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainĢ5. Tom’s Midnight Garden by Ann Philippa PearceĢ4. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth GrahameĢ3. The Long Winter (Little House) by Laura Ingalls WilderĢ0. Les Princes du Vent by Michel-Aime Baudouyġ8. The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles (Three books) by Rosemary Sutcliffġ7.

Toui Mukashi no Fushigina Hanashi-Nihon Reiiki by Tsutomu Minakamiġ5. Fabre’s Book of Insects by Jean-Henri Casimir Fabreġ3.

The Humpbacked Horse by Pyotr Pavlovich Yershovġ2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyleġ1. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carrollĩ. Die Nibelungensage (The Treasure of the Nibelungs) by Gustav SchalkĨ. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnettħ. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasĦ.

The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace ThackerayĤ. Il Romanzo di Cipollino (The Adventures of the Little Onion) by Gianni Rodariģ. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryĢ. As mentioned before on this site, books by Rosemary Sutcliff were amongst the stories Miyazaki loved.ġ. (I am not sure of his source nor do I know if this is in order of preference). He thought “it would be fun” to revisit animated film-maker Hayao Miyazaki’s “fifty favourite children’s books”. Yet – to adapt a phrase of his – there he was, there I was and here you are. is – by his own admission – “far too old to be seeking the attention and approval of strangers”. At the Skunk & Burning Tires blog, author Ju-osh M.

The Ship That Flew by Hilda Lewis