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The top 50 children's books
The top 50 children's books
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...ws/2008/02/22/ nbook222.xml http://tinyurl.com/yvztcc Last Updated: 2:03am GMT 22/02/2008 1 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, C S Lewis 2 The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle 3 Famous Five series, Enid Blyton 4 Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 5 The BFG, Roald Dahl 6 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, J K Rowling 7 The Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton 8 The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 9 Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 10 The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson 11 The Tales of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter 12 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 13 Matilda, Roald Dahl 14 The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett 15 The Cat in the Hat, Dr Suess 16 The Twits, Roald Dahl 17 Mr Men, Roger Hargreaves 18 A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 19 The Malory Towers Series, Enid Blyton 20 Peter Pan, J M Barrie 21 The Railway Children, E. Nesbit 22 Hans Christian Fairy Tales, H C Andersen 23 The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum 24 The Witches, Roald Dahl 25 Stig of the Dump, Clive King 26 The Wishing Chair, Enid Blyton 27 Dear Zoo, Rod Campbell 28 The Tiger Who Came to Tea, Judith Kerr 29 Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jan Brett 30 James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl 31 A Bear Called Paddington, Michael Bond 32 Black Beauty, Anna Sewell 33 Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak 34 Aesop's Fables, Jerry Pinkney 35 The Borrowers, Mary Norton 36 Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling 37 Meg and Mog, Jan Pienkowski 38 Mrs Pepperpot, Alf Proyson 39 We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Michael Rosen 4 40 The Gruffalo's Child, Julia Donaldson 41 Room on a Broom, Julia Donaldson 42 The Worst Witch, Jill Murphy 43 Miffy, Dick Bruna 44 The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery 45 Flat Stanley, Jeff Brown 46 The Snail and the Whale, Julia Donaldson 47 Ten Little Ladybirds, Melanie Gerth 48 Six Dinners Sid, Inga Moore 49 The St. Clares Series, Enid Blyton 50 Captain Underpants, Dav Pilke |
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The top 50 children's books
"Fred Goodwin, CMA" wrote:
The top 50 children's books http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...ws/2008/02/22/ nbook222.xml http://tinyurl.com/yvztcc While many of these are excellent and worthy books, the absence of The Hobbit makes the list makers abilities to recognize good children's books suspect. But thanks for posting it! -- -Steffan O'Sullivan | | "Today is the yesterday you won't be able to Plymouth, NH, USA | remember tomorrow." www.panix.com/~sos | -Daniel M. Pinkwater |
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The top 50 children's books
Steffan O'Sullivan wrote:
"Fred Goodwin, CMA" wrote: The top 50 children's books http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...ws/2008/02/22/ nbook222.xml http://tinyurl.com/yvztcc While many of these are excellent and worthy books, the absence of The Hobbit makes the list makers abilities to recognize good children's books suspect. But thanks for posting it! I think this is a best sellers list, not an all-time greatest books list (Note the absence of Harry Potter and the [Socerer's | Philosopher's] Stone and the other Harry Potter books on the list, too). |
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The top 50 children's books
I'm going to ask a stupid question (won't be the first or last time). Is
The Hobbit really considered a children's book? I mean, was it written with children as the intended primary audience? And, if so, can I assume the Lord of the Rings trilogy was also? ----------------------------- "Steffan O'Sullivan" wrote in message ... "Fred Goodwin, CMA" wrote: The top 50 children's books http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...ws/2008/02/22/ nbook222.xml http://tinyurl.com/yvztcc While many of these are excellent and worthy books, the absence of The Hobbit makes the list makers abilities to recognize good children's books suspect. But thanks for posting it! -- -Steffan O'Sullivan | | "Today is the yesterday you won't be able to Plymouth, NH, USA | remember tomorrow." www.panix.com/~sos | -Daniel M. Pinkwater |
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The top 50 children's books
"aglet" wrote:
I'm going to ask a stupid question (won't be the first or last time). Is The Hobbit really considered a children's book? I mean, was it written with children as the intended primary audience? And, if so, can I assume the Lord of the Rings trilogy was also? The Hobbit was written for Tolkein's own children, in a slightly different version than is now readily available. LotR was written for an adult audience, and he went back and ammended the Hobbit to match the plot, particularly the chapter Riddles in the Dark. (The original story matched Bilbo's version to the dwarves pretty closely.) -- Steffan O'Sullivan -------------------- http:/www.panix.com/~sos -------------------- "I wonder," he said to himself presently, "I wonder if this sort of car *starts* easily?" -Kenneth Grahame |
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The top 50 children's books
aglet wrote:
I'm going to ask a stupid question (won't be the first or last time). Is The Hobbit really considered a children's book? I mean, was it written with children as the intended primary audience? And, if so, can I assume the Lord of the Rings trilogy was also? The Hobbit was written for a small audience of four children: John Francis Reuel Tolkien, Michael Hilary Reuel Tolkien, Christopher John Reuel Tolkien and Priscilla Mary Anne Reuel Tolkien The Lord of the Rings was written as a sequel to the Hobbit originally meant to be a children's tale, but grew more serious and darker. Tolkien also wrote a few shorter children's tales, like Farmer Giles of Ham and the Smith or Wotten Minor. You can read about it he http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien#Writing ----------------------------- "Steffan O'Sullivan" wrote in message ... "Fred Goodwin, CMA" wrote: The top 50 children's books http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...ws/2008/02/22/ nbook222.xml http://tinyurl.com/yvztcc While many of these are excellent and worthy books, the absence of The Hobbit makes the list makers abilities to recognize good children's books suspect. But thanks for posting it! -- -Steffan O'Sullivan | | "Today is the yesterday you won't be able to Plymouth, NH, USA | remember tomorrow." www.panix.com/~sos | -Daniel M. Pinkwater |
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Steffan O'Sullivan wrote:
"aglet" wrote: I'm going to ask a stupid question (won't be the first or last time). Is The Hobbit really considered a children's book? I mean, was it written with children as the intended primary audience? And, if so, can I assume the Lord of the Rings trilogy was also? The Hobbit was written for Tolkein's own children, in a slightly different version than is now readily available. LotR was written for an adult audience, and he went back and ammended the Hobbit to match the plot, particularly the chapter Riddles in the Dark. (The original story matched Bilbo's version to the dwarves pretty closely.) LotR originally started out as a Children's book, but became darker and more serious. jeff |
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Besides "Alice in Wonderland" "A Christmas Carol" (which I don't think
was at all directed at children) and "Anderson's Fairy Tales" -- nothing before 1900? What about Grimm's Fairy Tales, Perrault's. Just because children's stories from before 1900 don't fit people's current tastes or conception of children's books doesn't mean they aren't good reading. Surely some of Capt. Marryat's novels warrant reading today...OK maybe he's not much remembered nowadays...but surely R.L. Stevenson's "Treasure Island" should make such a list. I would also put in my vote for "Struwwelpeter" http://www.fln.vcu.edu/struwwel/pauline_e.html -- "meow, mee-o, meow- meo, She'll burn to death, we told her so." -- my young daughters loved Stuwwelpeter when they were little. Lots more 1900 stuff too, but I won't belabour the point... Roald Dahl was a fine writer, and I've very much enjoyed his children's and adult fiction, but 6 of 50 titles? And 5 by Enid Blyton, hugely popular in England, but largely unknown elsewhere? and of dubious literary merit according to some (personally, those I tried to read as a child bored me to tears). What about Arthur Ransome's "Swallows and Amazons" series, or the Green Knowe series by Lucy M. Boston. What about Collodi's Pinocchio? |
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Ruritanian Muglug wrote
... What about Grimm's Fairy Tales The original Grimm's Fairy Tales were really grim. You can find them online. |
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The top 50 children's books
R. Steve Walz wrote:
aglet wrote: I'm going to ask a stupid question (won't be the first or last time). Is The Hobbit really considered a children's book? I mean, was it written with children as the intended primary audience? And, if so, can I assume the Lord of the Rings trilogy was also? ----------------------------- The whole thing was written by an immature sexless ninny for other immature sexless ninnies. Steve I am glad that you are able to show your maturity by not name calling or anything. |
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