“Hey, man. It’s the 60s.”

One of us has been wanting to say that for the longest time. Like, whoa. Gnarly, dude. Totally.

Anyway, She Who Is Older Than Dirt came up with a harebrained idea the other day. Another one.

“Hey, Kimmi!” says Her Royal Momness.  “Let’s do a post on best books published in the 1960s. As in, most memorable titles of that decade. You know. The Classics.”

And that’s how we got here. The short version. Sort of.

Official!

So here, without further ado – whatever that means – is The Official Mom and Kimber List of Most Noteworthy and Pawsome Books From the 1960s (original publication date, not anniversary or later versions). Yes, we’ve read them all. More than once. Like, totally. Recognize any of these?

In no particular order:

The Official Mom and Kimber List of 25 Most Noteworthy and Pawsome Books From the 1960s

1. Island of the Blue Dolphins, 1960

By Scott O’Dell

2. Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds

By Joy Adamson

3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 1964

By Roald Dahl

4. The Silver Brumby, 1958

We loved this book so much, we’re fudging the publication date a bit. ‘Sides. The rest of the books in this horsey series set in Australia were published in the 1960s and beyond. So don’t get your knickers in a knot, okay?

By Elyne Mitchell

5. To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

By Harper Lee

6. Green Eggs and Ham, 1960

By Dr. Seuss

7. The Outsiders, 1967

By S.E. Hinton

9. Where the Red Fern Grows, 1961

Bring tissue. By the truckload.

By Wilson Rawls

10. A Wrinkle in Time, 1962

By Madeleine L’Engle

11. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, 1969

By Eric Carle

12. Where the Wild Things Are, 1963

By Maurice Sendak

13. The Incredible Journey, 1960

By Sheila Burnford

14. God’s Smuggler, 1969

By Brother Andrew

15. The Mouse and the Motorcycle, 1965

By Beverly Cleary

16. Christy, 1967

By Catherine Marshall

17. Corduroy, 1968

By Don Freeman

8. The Snowy Day, 1962

By Jack Keats

19. The Bronze Bow, 1961

20. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, 1969

21. Curious George Goes to the Hospital, 1966

By H A. Rey

22. The Little Drummer Boy, 1968

23. The Egypt Game, 1967

By Zilpha Keatley Snyder

24. Owls in the Family, 1962

By Marley Fowat

Cowabunga, dude! 

25. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

What would you add? Like, totally.