Ballot reveals 100 biggest kids’s books ever together with Matilda and The Hobbit
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right here The Wild Things Are has topped a ballot of the 100 biggest kids’s books, with classics together with Matilda, The Hobbit and Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland additionally making the record.
Maurice Sendak’s beloved story about a bit boy known as Max, who visits an island inhabited by monsters, merely known as the Wild Things, got here prime in a ballot run by BBC Culture, which requested kids’s authors, illustrators, publishers, teachers and other people from internationally to vote for his or her prime 10 favorite kids’s books from a number of greater than 1,000.
Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland got here second, whereas Astrid Lindgren’s ebook Pippi Longstocking positioned third.
Joining these books have been The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, which got here fourth, and JRR Tolkien’s ebook The Hobbit, which got here fifth.
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman was in sixth place and was adopted by The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, from CS Lewis’s sequence The Chronicles Of Narnia.
Author AA Milne and illustrator EH Shepard have been well-known for bringing Winnie-The-Pooh into the world, and their beloved storybook got here eighth within the ballot, whereas Charlotte’s Web, by EB White and illustrator Garth Williams, positioned ninth.
Matilda was judged to be the tenth finest kids’s ebook of all time, with six different Roald Dahl books that includes within the prime 100 record.
Other books within the prime 100 embrace The Snowman by Raymond Briggs, The Lord Of The Rings by JRR Tolkien and Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling.
Pullman was the best rating residing creator on the record and mentioned that he was “delighted” on the outcomes of the ballot.
“It has taken me completely by surprise, and I’m not entirely sure I can find the words to respond to it,” he mentioned.
“Children’s books are important because we still think about them when we’re grown up, because they have an effect on our way of seeing the world and our way of thinking about other people.
“They provide us with models of bad behaviour and good behaviour.
“People who we would like to have as friends behaving generously, being kindly, being brave, in difficult circumstances.
“That’s why they’re important to grown-ups as well as to children, and that’s why the best grown-up books are important, for the same sorts of reasons I think.”
Elle McNicoll, creator of A Kind Of Spark, which was quantity 75 on the record, mentioned: “It’s so astounding to see A Kind Of Spark on this list.
“It’s been the highest joy and relief to see so many children, especially children on the margins, falling in love with Addie and her story, but to be recognised in this way is truly incredible.
“Proud to be the youngest as well. I hope I haven’t peaked.”
The ballot respondents got here from 56 completely different international locations and voted for books that had been written in English, Arabic, German, Danish, Korean, Sanskrit, Uzbek and quite a lot of different languages.
BBC Culture has run comparable polls earlier than, together with a ballot of the 100 biggest TV sequence of the twenty first century, which was judged to be The Wire, adopted by Mad Men after which Breaking Bad.
The prime 10 kids’s books from the record:
1. Where The Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak, 1963)
2. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)
3. Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren, 1945)
4. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943)
5. The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien, 1937)
6. Northern Lights (Philip Pullman, 1995)
7. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (CS Lewis, 1950)
8. Winnie-The-Pooh (AA Milne and EH Shepard, 1926)
9. Charlotte’s Web (EB White and Garth Williams, 1952)
10. Matilda (Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake, 1988)