Best Children’s Books of All Time

imgresA 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:

 

  1. Charlotte’s Web – EB White
  2. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
  3. Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
  4. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  5. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  6. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  7. Winnie-the-Pooh – AA Milne
  8. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
  9. A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula Le Guin
  10. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’Engle
  11. The Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder
  12. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
  13. From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – EL Koenigsburg
  14. The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
  15. His Dark Materials trilogy – Philip Pullman
  16. Matilda – Roald Dahl
  17. Harriet the Spy – Louise Fitzhugh
  18. Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren
  19. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  20. Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown and Pat Hancock
  21. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

 

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