Worldcat's Top 1000 Books -- The Children's Titles
OCLC Research has updated its list of the top 1000 titles owned by member libraries—the intellectual works that have been judged to be worth owning by the "purchase vote" of libraries around the globe.
Here are the children's titles on Lorcan Dempsey's del.icio.us page; see the cloud on the right to bring up other lists.