For books already available in Vietnamese, ConTuHoc provides links to purchase the highly-rated versions on Tiki to save you time. Some books have been adapted into films, and we also provide links to watch the films on YouTube, if available. For some books not yet available in Vietnamese, we have tried to find English audiobook links on YouTube for those who enjoy English-language books. A few books in this list of 100 were also featured in the article “50 Selected Literary Books for Elementary School Children.” Please note that the order of the top 100 below is random.
1. Charlotte’s Web (Charlotte and Wilbur) – E.B. White
– Like a PR team and its bewildered client, Charlotte spins the campaign while Wilbur blinks into the flashbulbs — five stars for strategy, three for situational awareness.
– Think Sherlock and Watson, if Watson were a porcine panic button and Sherlock preferred silk to a deerstalker — effective, endearing, and delightfully absurd.
– It’s the culinary equivalent of a master chef saving a hapless ham from the menu — tasteful, touching, and surprisingly low on salt.
– Picture a startup: Charlotte is the overqualified CTO weaving miracles overnight, while Wilbur is the wide-eyed founder who just discovered spreadsheets — an uplifting case study with extra snorts.
2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – Youth Publishing House – December 2000) – J.K. Rowling:
1) Reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is like opening a junk drawer and finding a winning lottery ticket — unexpectedly magical, slightly chaotic, and suddenly you’re planning seven more trips to the store.
2) It’s the literary equivalent of discovering a secret menu at your favorite diner: you thought you knew children’s books, then someone whispers “but have you tried the owl post?” and now you’re ordering whimsy with a side of destiny.
3) Picking up this novel feels like getting your first library card and finding out it also doubles as a VIP pass to a castle — wands scanned at entry, sarcasm encouraged, trolls occasionally in the restroom.
4) Imagine a boarding-school brochure that promises “top marks, cozy robes, and the occasional life-or-death chess match.” That’s this book — an irresistible enrollment pitch that even your inner Muggle can’t decline.
3. A Wrinkle in Time (Literature Publishing House – Nha Nam 200) – Madeleine L’Engle:
This is a captivating novel that will draw children in. The story revolves around the Murray family, Meg Murray and her younger brother Charles Wallace, who embark on an adventure through time and space (traveling through something called the Cube) to find their father. He mysteriously disappeared while working on a project about what they are using to travel – the cube. Joining forces with strangers, Mrs. Something, Mrs. Something, and their friend Calvin O’Keefe, they set out determined to bring Father Murray home and defeat the Dark Forces threatening Earth.