Posted by andyb on April 05, 2010 at 12:44:16 user beardbiter.
In Reply to: Re: Top 20 Children's Books posted by Andy on April 05, 2010 at 05:53:46:
Well of course, 'children's book' is an awfully broad field, how do you compare books for infants like 'The Very Hungary Caterpillar' or 'The Grufflo' with 'His Dark Materials', or 'The Diary of Anne Frank'? My two year old grand-daughter loves 'The Gruffolo's Child'.
Even so, there are some notable omissions: 'The Borrowers', Joan Aiken and the Mommintroll series, to name three that might be familiar to the Telegraph's (and Tarboard's) demographic. I quite agree, however, that 'The Hobbit' is far superior to LOTR