Japon animesinin dev ismi Hayao Miyazaki, çocuklara yönelik 50 kitap önerisinde bulunmuş. Liste şu şekilde:
- Les Princes du Vent by Michel-Aime Baudouy
- Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Nine Fairy Tales: And One More Thrown in for Good Measure by Karel Čapek
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en
- The Otterbury Incident by Cecil Day-Lewis
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
- The Radium Woman by Eleanor Doorly
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Tistou of the Green Thumbs by Maurice Druon
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- Souvenirs entomologiques by Jean Henri Fabre
- The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon
- The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- A Norwegian Farm by Marie Hamsun
- City Neighbor, The Story of Jane Addams by Clara Ingram Judson
- The Flying Classroom by Erich Kästner
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
- Nihon Ryōiki by Kyokai
- A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Ship that Flew by Hilda Winifred Lewis
- Children of Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
- The Forest is Alive & Twelve Months by Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak
- Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
- The Restaurant of Many Orders by Kenji Miyazawa
- The Borrowers by Mary Norton
- What the Neighbours Did, and Other Stories by Ann Philippa Pearce
- The Flambards Series by K. M. Peyton
- There Were Five of Us by Karel Poláček
- Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
- When Marnie Was There by Joan G. Robinson
- The Adventures of the Little Onion by Gianni Rodari
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The Treasure of the Nibelungs by Gustav Schalk
- The Man Who Has Planted Welsh Onions by Kim So-un
- Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling
- Heidi by Johanna Spyri
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Eagle of The Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
- The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Ivan the Fool by Leo Tolstoy
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Little Humpbacked Horse by Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov