The Ship that Flew - Hilda Winifred Lewis.Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson.The Adventures of the Little Onion - Gianni Rodari.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne.The Man Who Has Planted Welsh Onions - Kim So-un.Nine Fairy Tales: And One More Thrown in For Good Measure - Karel Čapek.Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Pu Songling.The Restaurant of Many Orders - Kenji Miyazawa.The Forest is Alive or Twelve Months - Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak.Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll.The Otterbury Incident - Cecil Day-Lewis.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle.Tistou of the Green Thumbs - Maurice Druon.Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain.Souvenirs entomologiques - Jean Henri Fabre.Les Princes du Vent - Michel-Aime Baudouy.The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas, père.The Treasure of the Nibelungs - Gustav Schalk.The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett.Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates - Mary Mapes Dodge.

What the Neighbours Did, and Other Stories - Ann Philippa Pearce.Children of Noisy Village - Astrid Lindgren.The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

We invite you to take a nostalgic stroll through Miyazaki’s best-loved children’s books.

Frankweiler and When Marnie Was There, the latter eventually serving as source material for a Studio Ghibli movie, as did Miyazaki’s top pick, Mary Norton’s The Borrowers. Several of the titles that made the cut were ones he could only have encountered as a grown up, including 1967’s From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.

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