Years before the Goosebumps series invaded American bookstores, the Little House series and Hardy Boys books were on nearly every kid's night table. Many classic kids' novels are still popular decades after they were written. Check out the best-selling kids' paperbacks of all time:
1. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (1974)
7,894,103 copies sold*
2. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (1968)
7,798,000
3. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume (1976)
6,371,000
4. Shane by Jack Schaefer (1983)
6,161,000
5. Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (1972)
6,015,000
*Sales as of January 1996
Source: (c) 1996, Publishers Weekly. Reprinted with permission