Posted by Philip Ragan on April 07, 2010 at 01:40:49 user aussiephil.
In Reply to: Re: Top 20 Children's Books posted by Peter Ceresole on April 05, 2010 at 03:05:17:
A few surprises in there. I wouldn't argue with the Faraway Tree getting into the list, but in that case wouldn't you expect to see the Famous Five there? Or, like S&A, maybe they are rating individual books instead of series.
Does anyone remember Enid Blytons Five Find-Outers and Dog series? With the politically incorrect Fatty, Larry, Daisy, Mr Good the policeman, and some others I now forget. If anyone could tell me the name of the dog I'd appreciate it! For me at the library aged 11, it was first a race to see which AR books were in, the good old hardbacks with the map covered fly covers, then to check out the Find-Outers, and only then, if none were available, I'd start to work along the other Enid Blyton books.