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Top 50 Children’s Books
The Telegraph in the UK compiled a list of the 50 top children’s books. There are a couple of books on here that I think shouldn’t be (A Christmas Carol by Dickens), but there are some that are missing too. Where is Goodnight Moon or Curious George? I also don’t understand how Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince made #6, yet the first book in the series is no where on the list. Anyway, here’s the list:
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, C S Lewis
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
- Famous Five series, Enid Blyton
- Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
- The BFG, Roald Dahl
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, J K Rowling
- The Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
- Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson
- The Tales of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
- Matilda, Roald Dahl
- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Cat in the Hat, Dr Suess
- The Twits, Roald Dahl
- Mr Men, Roger Hargreaves
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- The Malory Towers Series, Enid Blyton
- Peter Pan, J M Barrie
- The Railway Children, E. Nesbit
- Hans Christian Fairy Tales, H C Andersen
- The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
- The Witches, Roald Dahl
- Stig of the Dump, Clive King
- The Wishing Chair, Enid Blyton
- Dear Zoo, Rod Campbell
- The Tiger Who Came to Tea, Judith Kerr
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jan Brett
- James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
- A Bear Called Paddington, Michael Bond
- Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
- Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
- Aesop’s Fables
- The Borrowers, Mary Norton
- Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
- Meg and Mog, Jan Pienkowski
- Mrs Pepperpot, Alf Proyson
- We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Michael Rosen 4
- The Gruffalo’s Child, Julia Donaldson
- Room on a Broom, Julia Donaldson
- The Worst Witch, Jill Murphy
- Miffy, Dick Bruna
- The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- Flat Stanley, Jeff Brown
- The Snail and the Whale, Julia Donaldson
- Ten Little Ladybirds, Melanie Gerth
- Six Dinners Sid, Inga Moore
- The St. Clares Series, Enid Blyton
- Captain Underpants, Dav Pilke
So after reading the Fark thread, here’s a few that “should” be on the list:
* Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss
* Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White
* The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Howard Pyle
* The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
* Superfudge, Judy Blume
* Anything by Shel Silverstein
* Anything by Dr. Seuss
* Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise (Ian’s current favorite)
* Clifford, Norman Bridwell
* Berenstain Bears, Stan & Jan Berenstain
* Curious George, H.A. Rey
* Peter Rabbit, Beatrice Potter
* If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Laura Joffe Numeroff and Felicia Bond
* The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams
* Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Judi Barrett
Ian also loves Goodnight Baby by Ikids (Author), Ana Larranaga (Illustrator). He will go get this book and bring it to me. He’ll sit in my lap and we have to go through it a couple of times before he wants to get back up again. It’s so cute.
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