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Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (1963)Ī picture book that reveals more about itself each time it’s read. Miss Trunchbull, the vicious headmistress, is one of literature’s great villains.ġ5.

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Dahl’s exuberant imagination is on full display in this emotionally weighty story about a little girl’s fight for love and escape. I’m willing to bet that after reading this, many children stared at pencils, hoping they might be able to move them with their mind alone. Their wildness and subtleties have become thoroughly imbued into the popular imagination. Full of invention and adventure, the stories were an immediate hit, the behaviour of the animals believable and, paradoxically, human. Raised by wolves, Mowgli must face the terrible tiger Shere Khan, with the help of Baloo, a “sleepy brown bear”, and Bagheera, a panther. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894) The brothers and sisters find that magic doesn’t always offer a solution.ġ3.

Nesbit’s grumpy, vain wish-granting Psammead (or “sand fairy”), an immortal who used to eat pterodactyl for breakfast, offers adventure in a world without oppressive evil. Five Children and It by E Nesbit (1902)Ī representative from the first Golden Age of children’s fiction in the early 20th century. Neglected in recent years, White deserves a place in the limelight once more.ġ2. TH White’s masterstroke was to imagine the young king Arthur as Wart, an ordinary boy thrust into extraordinary situations, and his Merlin as a kindly, forgetful old man (viz. The Once and Future King by TH White (1958)Ĭaptivating, wise, witty, this collection of three earlier books treats the Matter of Britain. His story is spellbinding, and, in Lyra Belacqua, he made a heroine at once appealing, spiky and enduring.ġ1. His themes are cosmic and vast, with a dizzying sense of possibility. Philip Pullman’s daemons, in his lavishly-imagined alternative world run by a sinister religious organisation, are among the most enduring creations of children’s literature. Lewis’s stroke of genius, of course, was making the animals talk the knightly adventures of the children are gripping.Ĩ. Everyone can remember their first encounter with Narnia and then trying to get through the back of the wardrobe afterwards into the enticing other world. The best children’s books have a way of altering the universe around them.

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The Narnia series by CS Lewis (mid-20th century) From the Slough of Despond to the Celestial City, it brims with memorable places and people.ħ. Its humour and colloquial nature mean it is still accessible. Unjustly so, as its allegorical power and beauty are unsurpassed. One of the first books enthusiastically taken up by children, this is now largely neglected, even by adults and scholars. The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come by John Bunyan (1678) Gerda’s search for her brother Kay in The Snow Queen the little mermaid’s mute passion for her prince gorgeously written, the stories offer solace and enchantment.Ħ. Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (19th century)Ī strange and shy man, Hans Christian Andersen produced some of the most beautiful and reverberant literary fairy tales in the world, about loss, love and longing. We all know The Frog Prince and Hansel and Gretel but have you read Hans my Hedgehog, about a half-boy, half-hedgehog?ģ. Though the seamier elements were altered for a prudish bourgeois audience, the fairy tales retain a depth that resonates with children and adults alike. Kinder- und Hausmarchen (‘Nursery and Household Tales’) by The Brothers Grimm (19th century)Įxceptionally influential, this collection of more than 200 tales underwent many editions in the Grimms’ lifetime. But most will be content to be drawn away into enchantment.Ģ. Some have tried to work out why a raven is like a writing desk. He employed logic, humour and inventive fantasy, fashioning the most powerful and unusual works in children’s literature. The Alice books by Lewis Carroll (19th century)Īlice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice Found There, are an extraordinary brace of books, written by the mathematician Charles Dodgson, under his pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Barbie fans go wild over ‘genius’ Margot Robbie shot in new trailerġ.Alex Jones shares Angelina Jolie betrayal by ex Steve Jones that led to break-up ‘live on telly’.

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