#Childhood Canon

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Books 1924–present

The Boxcar Children

Four orphaned Alden siblings turn an abandoned boxcar in the woods into a home — and when their kindly grandfather finds them, he just moves the boxcar to his backyard. Gertrude Chandler Warner's 1924 classic became a 90s classroom juggernaut after ghostwriters revived the series in 1991, on the way to more than 160 titles.

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Books 1950–present

The Chronicles of Narnia

C.S. Lewis's seven-book fantasy series that opened via a wardrobe and stayed in your head for decades. For 90s and 2000s kids, Narnia lived in classroom read-alouds, Scholastic box sets, and library paperbacks with that iconic cover art — the White Witch, Turkish delight, and Aslan waiting inside.