in a magical land not so very far away, there lived a Magic Bookcase, its shelves were filled with wonderful stories...
- AA Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
- Adams Richard, Watership Down
- Alan Garner, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
- Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
- Anthony Horowitz, Alex Rider books
- Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons books
- Beatrix Potter, The Original Peter Rabbit Books
- Berlie Doherty, Children of Winter, Granny was a Buffer Girl
- Captain Frederick Marryat, The Children of the New Forest
- Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies
- CS Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
- David Almond, Kit's Wilderness
- Dodie Smith, The Hundred and One Dalmatians
- E Nesbit, The Railway Children
- Enid Blyton, Famous Five books
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
- Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter
- Ian Fleming, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Jamila Gavin, Coram Boy
- JK Rowling, Harry Potter books
- JM Barrie, Peter Pan play and books
- John Meade Falkner, Moonfleet
- JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Lucy M Boston, Green Knowe books
- Mary Tourtel, Rupert Bear
- Michael Bond, Paddington books
- Michael Morpurgo, Why the Whales Came
- Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials
- Philippa Pearce, Tom’s Midnight Garden
- PL Travers, Mary Poppins Books
- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, Matilda and more
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners
- Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
- Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising
- The Revd WV Awdry & Christopher Awdry, Thomas the Tank Engine books