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Best children's book of all time

A new survey by independent charity Booktrust has named The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis as the best children’s book of all time with The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle taking second place. (Apparently, The Very Hungry Caterpillar has sold one copy every minute since its publication in 1969!!)

I didn't read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a child, but I did read it a few years ago and ... well, it's not my favourite.

Third place goes to Enid Blyton’s Famous Five Series. (Enid Blyton was my childhood favourite, but not this series - I was a Malory Towers girl, myself.)

Best children's book of all time - Comments

Helen

Well you know I love The Famous Five - I would have put that at the top! But I am also a Malory Towers girl. And St. Clares. And the adventure series...and the ones with Kiki the parrot...

Luisa

Ah, I spent a few years walking into cupboards and hoping to find another world meself! I must admit, "winter but never Christmas" kind of appealed to me, then and now...

Love the Very Hungry Caterpillar, or Il Piccolo Bruco Maisazio, as I knew it in my childhood. ;)

And I too was a Malory Towers gal. :)

Shanna Swendson

My favorite of the Narnia series was The Silver Chair. It was a more classic quest-type fantasy, and the characters were friends rather than brother and sister, which I liked. They were too young for a romance to develop, but I liked to imagine that they might end up together when they were older.

I&#39m not sure what my favorite book as a child was. I read so much and so widely, and I went through phases where I&#39d be utterly obsessed with a particular series, then after a while I&#39d move on to being utterly obsessed with something else. There was the Nancy Drew phase, the Tolkein phase (which, oddly, came before the Narnia mania), the Narnia phase, the Lloyd Alexander phase, etc. I also started reading adult books when I was nine, so my exclusively children&#39s book phase was pretty short.

Stella

Nadine, I tried to read it over and over as a child and still, could never finish it. I may try to read it again with my son.

Keris

I agree, Nadine. I do wish I&#39d read it as a child because I&#39m sure I would have loved it.

And, Stella, you&#39ve never read The Very Hungry Caterpillar? It&#39s great!

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Best children's book of all time

Best children's book of all time - Comments

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