What you consider the 10 best books ever

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 >You might be interested in the just-published 100 BEST BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
 >written by Anita Silvey and published by Houghton. Of the titles you listed,
 >five were also included in her selection -- Bridge to Terabithia, Homecoming,
 >Tom's Midnight Garden, The Wizard of Earthsea, and Redwall. Peter

Interesting to see _Homecoming_ chosen, instead of _Dicey's Song_. I
thought _Homecoming_ was by far the best of the books, myself, but it
usually seems to get passed over on lists.

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I also could name many more than 10 but my favorites list is as
follows:

Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (also A Wind in the DOor and A
Swiftly Tilting Planet)
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and James & the Giant Peach by Roald
Dahl
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Hobbit & the Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
Princess and the Gobline (also The Princess and Curdie) by George
MacDonald
The whole Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
Anything by Colin Thompson (How to Live Forever is my fave)
and of course the Harry Potter series
I guess you could call me a fantasy nut.
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I could easily list 100 books, but among my top ten are:

1. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
2. Wind Singer by William Nicholson
3. The Giver by Lois Lowry
4. Stravaganza #1+2 by Mary Hoffman
5. Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg
6. Holes by Louis Sachar
7. Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
8. Daughter of Venice by Donna Jo Napoli
9. Speak by Laurie Hals Anderson (sorry I can't spell)
10. Pirates by Celia Reese.
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Wendy E. Bett said:

<< Interesting to see _Homecoming_ chosen, instead of _Dicey's Song_. I
thought _Homecoming_ was by far the best of the books, myself, but it
usually seems to get passed over on lists.
   >>

The cachet of the Newbery probably gives Dicey the edge for many, but I agree
that Homecoming is the better of those two books. But I must admit that I
think the strongest books in the entire cycle are those that feature the boys,
Solitary Blue and especially Sons from Afar and The Runner.

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On 19 Mar 2004 20:47:22 -0800, strawberrydragon17.RemoveThis@ix.netcom.com (Alyson
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 >I also could name many more than 10 but my favorites list is as
 >follows:
 >
 >Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
 >Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
 >A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (also A Wind in the DOor and A
 >Swiftly Tilting Planet)

And "The weirdstone of Brisingamen," "The moon of Gomrath" and "Elidor" by
Alan Garner.


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100 is pushing it.

So lets try for a top 10!

1 Hobbit
2 Lion Witch and Wardrobe (substitute any other in the series
possibly)
3 Wizard of Earthsea
4 The Call of the Wild
5 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (excuse Polish spelling-
substitute some other Harry Potter possibly)
6 The Phoenix and the Carpet
7 The Kingdom of Carbonel
8 I Robot
9 The Kraken Wakes
10 The Devil in Vienna

I have instituted flood control but other books by Asimov, Nesbit etc
could be substituted. I also read a lot of Ian Fleming and Dennis
Wheatley but I am not sure about these as children's books.


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 >You might be interested in the just-published 100 BEST BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
 >written by Anita Silvey and published by Houghton. Of the titles you listed,
 >five were also included in her selection -- Bridge to Terabithia, Homecoming,
 >Tom's Midnight Garden, The Wizard of Earthsea, and Redwall. Peter

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Okay, I'll bite. Most of these are part of a series; you can take the whole
series as included (ie Narnia books), but I've actually chosen my favourite
in each series. I'm putting The Hobbit and Winnie the Pooh on some kind of
transcendent Hall of Fame list, so they're not included in my top ten - also
I can fit extras in this way!

A Wizard of Earthsea U.K.le Guin



The Hero and the Crown Robin McKinley



The Wierdstone of Brisengamen Alan Garner



The Dark is Rising Susan Cooper



The Little White Horse Elizabeth Goudge



Moominland Midwinter Tove Jansson



The Voyage of the Dawn Treader C.S. Lewis



White Boots Noel Streatfield



The Kingdom of Carbonel Barbara Sleigh



Howl’s Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones





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  > >I also could name many more than 10 but my favorites list is as
  > >follows:
  > >
  > >Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
  > >Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  > >A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (also A Wind in the DOor and A
  > >Swiftly Tilting Planet)
 >
 > And "The weirdstone of Brisingamen," "The moon of Gomrath" and "Elidor" by
 > Alan Garner.
 >
 >
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On 19 Mar 2004 04:23:31 -0800, grolton.DeleteThis@picknowl.com.au (Gloria Rolton)
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 >Last night I was visiting a site where people suggested the
 >Best Books ever in particular genres but they were mostly adult
 >novels.
 >I thought it would be interesting to see what you people would suggest
 >from Children's Literature.


The Oz books
The Avonlea books
Swallows & Amazons series
Narnia series
Lang's Blue Fairy Book and others
MacDonald's The Light Princess and others*
The Wicked Enchantment by Margot Benary-Isbert
Greenwillow
The Enchanted Castle and others by Nesbit
Maya the Bee by Bonsels
Jenny's Secret Island

*especially Lilith, tho probably not intended as a children's book


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grolton.DeleteThis@picknowl.com.au (Gloria Rolton) wrote in message news:<a76eefa3.0403190423.26e53a70.DeleteThis@posting.google.com>...
 > Last night I was visiting a site where people suggested the
 > Best Books ever in particular genres but they were mostly adult
 > novels.
 > I thought it would be interesting to see what you people would suggest
 > from Children's Literature.


mine are

The boys of pal street by Ferenc Molnar
White Fang by Jack London
Little men by Alcott Louise may
Sandokan. The tigers of Mompracem by Emilio Salgari
The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
The call of the wild by Jack London
Treasure Island by Stevenson Robert Louis
20.000 leagues under the sea by Jules Vernes
Quo vadis? by Sienkiewicz Henry

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  > >Last night I was visiting a site where people suggested the
  > >Best Books ever in particular genres but they were mostly adult
  > >novels.
  > >I thought it would be interesting to see what you people would suggest
  > >from Children's Literature.

My list includes (but is certainly not limited to!):

1. The Borrowers - Mary Norton
2. Harris and Me - Gary Paulsen (one of the funniest books I've ever read -
still makes me laugh out loud)
3. The Hobbit - Tolkien
4. Narnia - C.S. Lewis
5. James and the Giant Peach - Dahl
6. A Ring of Endless Light - L'Engle (and all her other stuff - she's
definitely one of my very favourite authors)
7. Tom's Midnight Garden - Pearce
8. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (not great literature, I'll admit,
but I keep on rereading it for some reason!)
9. The Mennyms - Waugh
10. I Want To Go Home - Gordan Korman

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Gloria Rolton wrote:

 > Last night I was visiting a site where people suggested the Best Books ever in
 > particular genres but they were mostly adult novels. I thought it would be
 > interesting to see what you people would suggest from Children's Literature.
 > My list would include the following:
 > Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
 > Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
 > Goodnight Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
 > The Fate of Jeremy Visick by David Wiseman
 > Tom's midnight garden by Phillippa Pearce
 > So much to tell you by John Marsden
 > Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
 > I am David by Anne Holme
 > Redwall ... the whole series by Brian Jaques
 > Hating Alison Ashley by Robin Klein`
 > Master of the Grove by Victor Kelleher
 > I've gone past 10 and there are so many that I'd still like to include. I'd
 > not mentioned John Christophers, Monika Hughes or Gary Paulsen.

In no particular order, my favourite books when I was a child:

The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Peter Pan - J M Barrie
The Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Winnie The Pooh & The House At Pooh Corner - A A Milne
Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
The Lord Of The Rings - J R R Tolkien
The Wizard Of Oz - L Frank Baum
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe & sequels - C S Lewis
Swallows And Amazons & sequels - Arthur Ransome
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Little Women & sequels - Louisa May Alcott
What Katy Did & sequels - Susan Coolidge
My Friend Flicka & sequels - Mary O'Hara
The Story Of Doctor Dolittle & sequels - Hugh Lofting
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Just William & sequels - Richmal Crompton
Moonfleet - J Meade Falkner
The Eagle Of The Ninth & sequels - Rosemary Sutcliff
Over Sea, Under Stone & sequels - Susan Cooper
The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen & The Moon Of Gomrath - Alan Garner
A Wizard Of Earthsea & sequels - Ursula Le Guin
Red Moon And Black Mountain - Joy Chant
The Island Of Adventure & sequels - Enid Blyton
The Peter Rabbit books - Beatrix Potter
Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen
Amazon Adventure & sequels - Willard Price
The Biggles books - Captain W E Johns.

Ten? Who said anything about ten? Likewise "best": according to whom I'd
like to know! (mutter, grumble, back to my box...)

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Include the Tolkien books The Lord of the Rings, and The Hobbit

Also, The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.

Watership Down by Richard Adams

A Wrinkle in Time by...I forget. heh.
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Books I read and reread often as a child (8-11, I'd say), which may not be
the "best", are:

1. Anne McCaffrey: Dragonsong; Dragonsinger; Dragondrums
2. Edward Eager: Half Magic; Magic or Not; Time Garden, etc.
3. Mary Norton: The Borrowers series
4. E.W. Hildick: Louie's Lot; Louie's SOS; Louie's Snowstorm; Manhattan is
Missing; The Active-Enzyme Lemon-Freshened Junior-High School Witch; The
Secret Spenders; The Secret Winners
5. Louise Fitzhugh: Harriet the Spy; The Long Summer
6. Zilpha Keatley Snyder: The Egypt Game
7. Thomas Rockwell: How to Eat Fried Worms; The Portmanteau Book
8. Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House series
9. Elizabeth Enright: Gone-Away Lake; Return to Gone-Away; The Melendy
Family
10. E.L. Konigsburg: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler;
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth; About the
B'Nai Bagels

Becky
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