Have you ever considered that the classics our children read today were once contemporaries of their time? So it will be in years to come, that some of the books our children read now will become classics of the future.

What are some modern day children's books that you believe are destined to become classics? Share them with us! Just click "EasyEdit."

Tiffany's New Classics:

Don't let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
The whole collection of Berestien Bears Books-I loved them as a child and now my children love them.

Ellen's Classics:
(I guess it depends on what you count as "new" but here are some that weren't written yet when I was a kid.)
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
You Don't Know Me by Klass (YA)
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (YA)
I second Holes, and I expect the Harry Potter books will stand the test of time.
Cynthia Voight's cycle about the Tillerman family, beginning with Homecoming. (YA)
The Mousehole Cat, by Barber & Bayley (picture book)
Robin McKinley's Beauty, The Blue Sword, and The Hero and the Crown, at least (YA)
Probably The Book Thief by Zusak
Chris Crutcher's Whale Talk and Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes (YA)
Tangerine by Bloor
Ender's Game by Card
Shabanu by Staples (YA)
Princess Academy by Hales
The Indian in the Cupboard by Banks
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Numeroff & Bond (picture book)
Miss Rumphius by Cooney (picture book)
A House is a House for Me by Hoberman & Fraser (picture book)
and I nearly forgot Surviving the Applewhites by Tolan



Julia's Children's Classics Predictions:
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (children's classic)
Harry Potter (entire series) by J.K. Rowling
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
The City of Ember and The People of Sparks, both by Jeanne DuPrau
... Oh, there are so many more to come!

KathyF says:
I agree with Julia--so many great books! I'll add just one. It brings the Dustbowl of the Great Depression to life --in verse, no less.
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

Mustafa says:
Harry Potter!

Frank says:
the Bartimaeus Trilogy
Harry Potter (the series)

Meredith says:
I loved the new Un Lun Dun book by China Mieville
Also - The His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman

NLS says
Holes has already proved its durability!

Mister K (not a kid) says:
Gregor the Overlander, by Suzanne Collins, Ruby Holler, by Sharon Creech, and Esperanza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan