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The Guardian has just posted a series of Top Ten lists, including
Jacqueline Wilson’s Top Ten Children’s Books
Julia Golding’s Top Ten Characters from Children’s Historical Fiction
David Almond’s Top Ten Children’s Books
Eoin Colfer’s Top Ten Children’s Books
Georgia Byng’s Top Ten Books To Feed the Imagination
Terry Deary’s Favourite History Books
What are your Top Ten Children’s Books?
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July 25th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Only ten?
1: The Mouse and his Child (Russell Hoban)
2: Josh (Ivan Southall)
3: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (CS Lewis)*
4: The Outsiders (SE Hinton)
5: Storm Boy (Colin Thiele)
6: Smith (Leon Garfield)
7: A Cue for Treason (Geoffrey Trease)
8: Blowfish Live in the Sea (Paula Fox)
9: Swallows and Amazons (Arthur Ransome)
10: Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
10.1: The Machinegunners (Robert Westhall)
10.1.1: Danny the Champion of the World (Roald Dahl)
* I would have included all seven of the Narnia books, except they would have taken up most of the remaining slots. Likewise Swallows and Amazons.