@KShortill@joyce I would certainly list the younger-audience works by @neilhimself to start with. He writes with respect for the minds of younger people, which is the key quality of a work like this. Calvin & Hobbes is a canonical text of this type, as are the first few Earthsea books by LeGuin. The Princess Bride novel is not, which surprises many who see the movie first. I've never written out an actual list so I'll have to think about it to recover a few more examples.