Rabbits book series in reading order

by Marilyn Sadler

by Jamie Smart

by S.D. Smith

by Alyssa Satin Capucilli

by Eve Bunting

by Lily Small

by Tish Rabe

Margaret Wise Brown (May 23, 1910 - November 13, 1952) was an American writer of children's books, among them The Runaway Bunny (1942) and Goodnight Moon (1947), both with illustrations by Clement Hurd. Brown has been called the laureate of the nursery. Brown also published as Golden MacDonald for Doubleday, as Timothy Hay for Harper & Brothers, and, with Edith Thacher Hurd, as Juniper Sage for William R. Scott. The catalogue lists 166 books, opening with When the Wind Blew (1937), then I Like Bugs and The Steam Roller (1938). Stories in rhyme, rabbits, bedtime and sound recur in the subjects.

Cynthia Rylant, born Cynthia Smith on June 6, 1954, is an American author and librarian who has written more than 100 children's books across picture books, short stories, novels, nonfiction and poetry. Missing May took the 1993 Newbery Medal, A Fine White Dust was a 1987 Newbery Honor book, and two further titles are Caldecott Honor Books. The catalogue records 229 books from When I Was Young in the Mountains (1982) onward, with series including Henry and Mudge, Mr. Putter & Tabby, Poppleton and the Lighthouse Family.

Enid Blyton

957 books• 42 series

Enid Blyton (11 August 1897 to 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer and one of the best-selling authors of children's literature, with more than 600 million copies sold and translations into ninety languages. Blyton wrote on education, natural history, fantasy, mystery and biblical stories. Noddy, the Famous Five, the Secret Seven, the Five Find-Outers and Malory Towers are the best-remembered Blyton books, and St Clare's, Mary Mouse and Toyland Stories are also listed. The catalogue opens with The Enid Blyton Book of Fairies (1924), and The Naughtiest Girl in the School (1930) and The Adventures of the Wishing-Chair (1937) follow. Titles dated after Blyton's death also appear, up to Stories of Wonders and Wishes (2023).

Kate McMullan, born Kate Hall on January 16, 1947, is an American children's author with more than 100 published books. Myth-O-Mania and Dragon Slayers' Academy are the notable McMullan series, and others include Fluffy the Classroom Guinea Pig, Pearl and Wagner and Lila Fenwick. Greek mythology, knights, dragons, guinea pigs and school life feature in the subjects. The catalogue counts 124 books from 1984 to This Is the Tree We Planted (2022).

Ben M. Baglio, born in New York City in 1960, is an American author who created the brief for two children's book series, Animal Ark and Dolphin Diaries. Animal Ark features Mandy Hope, the child of vets, who helps injured animals and solves animal mysteries. Dolphin Diaries follows a Florida family of marine biologists who study dolphins around the world. Commissioned writers produced the books under Baglio's instruction, and UK editions used the pseudonym Lucy Daniels. The catalogue also lists Animal Ark Pets, Animal Ark Hauntings and Pet Finders Club.

Marilyn Sadler, born 17 November 1950 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, writes for children. Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, about a space girl sent to Earth who meets cultural clashes there, became a Disney television film, and two more Zenon films followed: Zenon: The Zequel and Zenon: Z3. The Alistair books follow a boy genius who builds a time machine, explores outer space and irons his shoelaces; titles include Alistair's Elephant (1983) and Alistair Underwater (1990). The catalogue lists 42 books through Best Bunny Brother Ever (2026), with series including P.J. Funnybunny, Bob and John and Charlie Piechart. The median book runs to 40 pages.

Beatrix Potter

30 books

Beatrix Potter wrote small books about animals for children. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901) is the earliest of the catalogued tales, followed by The Tailor of Gloucester (1903), The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (1903), The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904) and The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (1905). Thirty-one titles are catalogued in all, most of them from the 1900s, and they run short at a median 64 pages.

Daisy Meadows is the name on the Rainbow Magic children's books, a fantasy line whose subjects include fairies, goblins, Jack Frost and two girls, Kirsty Tate and Rachel Walker. The catalogue opens in 2003 with colour-fairy titles such as Ruby the Red Fairy, Amber the Orange Fairy and Fern the Green Fairy, and runs to Nur the Vlogger Fairy (2023). Sub-series include the Weather, Jewel, Party, Pet Keeper, Dance, Ocean and Showtime Fairies. Magic Animal Friends appears under the same name.

Dav Pilkey

86 books• 12 series

Dav Pilkey, born David Murray Pilkey Jr. on March 4, 1966, is an American comic book writer, author and illustrator of children's fiction. Captain Underpants and the graphic novel spin-off Dog Man are the series Pilkey is best known for. Dog Man appears under the pen names George Beard and Harold Hutchins, which are also the names of the two Captain Underpants protagonists. The catalogue holds 86 books from World War Won (1987) to A Sprinkle in Time (2026), and the Dragon, Dumb Bunnies, Ricky Ricotta and Cat Kid Comic Club lines also feature.

Guardians of Ga'Hoole is one of the series by Kathryn Lasky, an American children's writer born June 24, 1944, who writes for adults as Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann. Lasky's children's work also includes Dear America and The Royal Diaries books, Wolves of the Beyond, Sugaring Time and The Night Journey, and honours include a Newbery Honor, the National Jewish Book Award and the Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature. The catalogue holds 159 books from I Have Four Names for My Grandfather (1976) to Sacred Light (2026), including Tugboats Never Sleep (1977), The Weaver's Gift (1980) and Beyond the Divide (1983). Horses Of The Dawn, Bears Of The Ice and Camp Princess are further series, and subjects name owls, wolves, diaries and Jews.

Thornton W. Burgess

72 books• 5 series

Thornton W. Burgess (1874-1965) was an American conservationist and author of children's stories who wrote more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for a daily newspaper column. The animal tales are the surviving work: Lightfoot the Deer (1906), Mother West Wind's Animal Friends (1912), The Adventures of Reddy Fox (1913), The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat (1914), The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (1914) and The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (1914). Forest animals, birds, rabbits, mice, friendship and folklore fill them. Seventy-two titles are catalogued, gathered into the Bedtime Story Books, Old Mother West Wind and Smiling Pool series, at a median 96 pages.

Marc Brown

47 books• 1 series

Marc Brown, born 25 November 1946, is an American children's author and illustrator who writes and draws the Arthur books. The Arthur series became an animated television show broadcast on PBS Kids. The catalogue lists 47 books by Marc Brown between 1996 and 2009, starting with Arthur's Reading Race (1996) and ending with Arthur's Reading Trick (2009). Arthur, a fictitious aardvark, heads the subject records, alongside schools, friendship, brothers and sisters, and Spanish language editions.

Alyssa Satin Capucilli

142 books• 11 series

Alyssa Satin Capucilli, born November 2, 1957, is an American children's author whose most notable work is the Biscuit series. Biscuit, the opening book, appeared in 1996, and the series had sold more than 21 million copies worldwide by 2016. Biscuit books belong to HarperCollins' I Can Read! line. The catalogue lists 142 books from Peekaboo Bunny (1994) to Biscuit's Puppy Sleepover (2025), and other series include Katy Duck, Tulip and Rex, This Bear and Library Fish.

Jamie Smart makes comics and graphic novels for children. Monkeys, rabbits, humorous stories and good and evil supply the subject matter across 23 catalogued books published between 2013 and 2025. Bunny vs. Monkey, Flember and Looshkin are the three series listed under Smart's name. Fish Head Steve (2013) opens the catalogue and Intergalactic Monkey Business! (2025) is the newest title. The books are short: across the 3 with recorded page counts, the median is 63 pages. Output concentrates in the 2020s.

Santa Montefiore

34 books• 4 series

Santa Montefiore is a British author, born Santa Palmer-Tomkinson on 2 February 1970. Montefiore's 34 catalogued books run from Meet Me Under the Ombu Tree (2001) to The Last Encore (2026). The Deverill Chronicles is the largest series, followed by Royal Rabbits of London, Timeslider and Flappy. Historical and contemporary romance dominate the output, with family secrets, fathers and daughters, Italy and London recurring across the novels.

Richard Adams

22 books• 3 series

Richard Adams (10 May 1920 to 24 December 2016) was an English novelist whose first novel, Watership Down (1972), won international acclaim. Maia, Shardik and The Plague Dogs are among the other works. Adams read Modern History at Worcester College, Oxford, served in the British Army in World War II, joined the British Civil Service, and turned to full-time writing in 1974. The catalogue lists titles such as Shardik (1974), The Plague Dogs (1977) and The Girl in a Swing (1980), with Watership Down and Beklan Empire as series. Rabbits, nature, adventure and fantasy appear in the subject records.

Eve Bunting, born Eve Bolton, was a Northern Irish-born American writer of more than 250 books who lived from December 19, 1928, to October 1, 2023. Bunting wrote fiction and non-fiction, mainly novels for children and young adults, and also wrote the text of picture books. Many of the books are set in Northern Ireland, where Bunting grew up, while others range in subject from Thanksgiving to riots in Los Angeles. The Two Giants (1971) was Bunting's first book. Series in the catalogue include Frog and Friends, Horse Stories, Dinosaur Machines and Pirate Captain's Daughter, and subjects include animals, horses, stories in rhyme and mystery stories.

Joan Holub, born in Texas in 1956, has written and illustrated over 180 children's books and also publishes as Rita Book and Brad Bucks. The catalogue lists 184 Holub titles from If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution (1987) to This Little Engineer (2023), with a median length of 48 pages. Subject tags include Greek mythology, Greek goddesses, stories in rhyme, schools and ants. Holub series include Goddess Girls, Mini Myths, Ant Hill, Doll Hospital, Young Princesses Around the World and Smart About History.

Tish Rabe is a children's book author who has written or adapted more than 40 Dr. Seuss books since the death of Dr. Seuss. Rabe's series include Cat in the Hat's Learning Library and Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That, and the catalogue also groups titles under Sesame Street, Nickelodeon and Disney. The 102 catalogued books start with Sing with Me My Name is Ernie (1991) and My Name Is Grover (1992) and reach The Start of Something (2022). Stories in rhyme and animals are among the subjects. Rabe lives in New York City and Mystic, Connecticut.

Louie Stowell is a British author best known for a comic series of illustrated children's books about Loki, the Norse god. The catalogue lists 38 books, from Beauty And The Beast (2006) to A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos (2025). Stowell's series are Loki: A Bad God's Guide and Kit the Wizard. Titles include Brer Rabbit And The Blackberry Bush (2008) and The Story of Astronomy and Space (2009), and subjects include folklore, rabbits, pirates and space exploration.

S.D. Smith writes children's fantasy adventure, with rabbits, anthropomorphic animals, refugees and loyalty among the recorded subjects. The series are Green Ember, Green Ember Archer, Green Ember Lost Tales, Tales Of Old Natalia and Jack Zulu. The Green Ember (2014) is the first of 16 books, followed by The Black Star of Kingston (2015), Ember Falls (2016), Ember Rising (2018) and Ember's End (2020). Jack Zulu and the Waylander's Key came out in 2022, and The Lost Legend (2026) is the newest.

Shel Silverstein

25 books• 3 series

Shel Silverstein wrote children's poetry, nonsense verse and pictorial humour, and worked as a cartoonist, songwriter and musician. Silverstein lived from 1930 to 1999 and was raised in Chicago. His 25 catalogued books span 1955 to 2017, from Take Ten to Runny Babbit Returns, and run short at a median of 95 pages, with the 1960s his densest decade. Silverstein's drawings appeared in newspapers and magazines including Playboy during the 1950s, and Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book (1961) was his satire for adults. The Giving Tree (1964), Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic are among his most acclaimed titles, and the Missing Piece books form one of his two series.

Julia Donaldson

349 books• 14 series

Dame Julia Donaldson, born Julia Catherine Shields on 16 September 1948, is a British writer and playwright who served as Children's Laureate from 2011 to 2013. Rhyming stories for children made Donaldson's name, above all those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, such as The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Stick Man and Superworm. Donaldson first wrote songs for children's television; the lyrics of A Squash and a Squeeze became a picture book in 1993, and books have been the focus since. The catalogue carries 349 entries, from Tim's Bad Mood and Other Stories (1970) to The Tooth Fairy and the Crocodile (2026), including Tales from Acorn Wood, Princess Mirror-Belle and Zog.

Shannon Hale

62 books• 11 series

Shannon Hale, born Shannon Bryner on January 26, 1974, is an American author mainly of young adult fantasy. Princess Academy (2005) earned a Newbery Honor, and The Goose Girl (2003) opens the catalogue. Austenland (2007), the first novel for adults, became a film in 2013. Hale graduated from the University of Utah and the University of Montana, and has co-written with husband Dean Hale. The catalogue lists 63 titles through The Princess in Black and the Trick-or-Treating Trouble (2026), across series including Princess In Black, Books of Bayern, Real Friends and Kitty-Corn.