The top 50 children's books

The top 50 children's books

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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

"Fred Goodwin, CMA" wrote:
The top 50 children's books

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...ws/2008/02/22/
nbook222.xml
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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!

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-Steffan O'Sullivan |
| "Today is the yesterday you won't be able to
Plymouth, NH, USA | remember tomorrow."
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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).

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?

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"Steffan O'Sullivan" wrote in message
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"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

"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.)

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sort of car *starts* easily?" -Kenneth Grahame

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



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"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

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

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?

Ruritanian Muglug wrote
...

What about Grimm's Fairy Tales

The original Grimm's Fairy Tales were really grim. You can find them online.

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?
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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.