A BBC poll of critics from around the world resulted in 21 favorites. # 1….drum roll? Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White.
Roald Dahl has 2 books on this group of faves. Here is the complete list:
- Charlotte’s Web – EB White
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
- Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
- The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Winnie-the-Pooh – AA Milne
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
- A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula Le Guin
- A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’Engle
- The Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
- From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – EL Koenigsburg
- The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
- His Dark Materials trilogy – Philip Pullman
- Matilda – Roald Dahl
- Harriet the Spy – Louise Fitzhugh
- Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown and Pat Hancock
- The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
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