Almost all the parents want their children to inculcate good reading habits for obvious reasons. Reading increases general knowledge and exposes children to a variety of aspects of life. In fact, it is known to improve the cognitive and analytical abilities of a person. It helps one to form his or her opinions and views about things happening around. Reading also helps kids to express their feelings in a more constructive manner. Apart from increasing their intelligence and brilliance, books also help children to engage in a pure and creative form of entertainment. They also help them to inculcate some good values and morals in life that help them in becoming a better human being. And who knows, your child might get inspired and become an author, writing some of the world's best-selling works. Well, the classic books help children to develop their creativity, as well as personality in a sound manner. There are many literary works that everyone should read, but very few of them are especially designed and written for kids. Out of them, very few are a good mix of entertainment and education. But, still we have a lot of options to choose from a wide array to read. Following is the list of classic books that would help your children to indulge in some constructive brain activity:

Name of the Book	Name of the Author
Little Women	Louisa May Alcott
Aesop's Fables	William Caxton
A Token for Children	James Janeway
Pilgrim's Progress	John Bunyan
Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels	Johnathan Swift
Tales of mother Goose	Charles Perrault
Alice In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass	Lewis Carroll
Amos and Boris	William Steig
Anne of Green Gables	Lucy Maud Montgomery
Goodnight Moon	Margaret Wise Brown
Harriet the Spy	Louise Fitzhugh
Island of the Blue Dolphins	Scott O'Dell
The Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling
The Complete Just So Stories	Richard Kipling
The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter	Beatrix Potter
Little Goody Two Shoes	Oliver Goldsmith
The Swiss Family Robinson	Johann Rudolf Wyss
Ivanhoe	Walter Scott
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	Washington Irving
The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas
Fairy Tales	Hans Christian Andersen
The Water Babies	Charles Kingsley
What Katy Did	Susan Coolidge
The Princess and the Goblin	George McDonald
Black Beauty	Anna Sewell
The Adventure of Tom Sawyer	Mark twain
Heidi	Johanna Spyri
The Happy Price and Other Tales	Oscar Wilde
The Adventures of Pinocchio	Carlo Collodi
Moonfleet	J. Meade Falkner
The Story of the Treasure Seekers	E. Nesbit
King Arthur and His Knights	Howard Pyle
The Call of the Wild	Jack London
Peter Pan	J. M. Barrie
A Little Princess	Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Railway Children	E. Nesbit
White Fang	Jack London
The Wind In the Willows	Kenneth Grahame
Winnie The Pooch	A. A. Milne
Pollyanna	Eleanor H. Porter
The Magic Pudding	Norman Lindsay
The Lost World	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm	Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Tale of Peter Rabbit	Beatrix Potter
Five Children and It	E. Nesbit
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	L. Frank Baum
Seven Little Australians	Ethel Turner
The Blue Fairy Book	Andrew Lang
Little Lord Fauntleroy	Frances Hodgson Burnett
Kidnapped	Robert Louise Stevenson
King Solomon's Mines	H. Rider Haggard
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain
Treasure Island	Robert Louise Stevenson
Nights with Uncle Remus	Joel Chandler Harris
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood	Howard Pyle
Through The Looking Glass	Lewis Carroll
At the Back of the North Wind	George McDonald
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the sea	Jules Verne
Lorna Doone	R.D. Blackmore
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates	Mary Mapes Dodge
Tom Brown's Schooldays	Thomas Hughes
The Children of the New Forest	Frederick Marryat
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens
Grimm's Fairy Tales	Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Rip Van Winkle	Washington Irving
Little Pretty Pocket Book	John Newbery
Mr. Popper's Penguins	Richard Atwater
The Midnight Fox	Betsy Byars
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Roald Dahl
The Four Story Mistake	Elizabeth Enright
The Great Brain	John Dennis Fitzgerald
The Phantom Tollbooth	Norton Juster
Emil and the Detectives	Erich Kastner
Homer Price	Robert McCloskey
Gentle Ben	Walt Morey
The Borrowers	Mary Norton
Banner in the Sky	James Ramsay Ullman
The Cay	Theodore Taylor
Lad: A Dog	Albert Payson Terhune

You can buy any from the aforementioned list, from your local bookstore. If you want a cheaper option, you can take a membership of a good library, and read many of the best-selling works. Some of the classic books to read are also available online. So, just browse the net and find the right website that allows you to read them for free. Most of these literary works are designed in such a way that they are sure to attract and engage kids for a longer time. Many of them are supported with self-explanatory and relevant pictures and illustrations that interest most of the children and boost their imaginations. You should first start with a short and simple book that has many pictures and few written words. You can introduce the bigger and the better ones, once your kids develop liking for reading.