While some children’sbookshave more or lessfaded into obscurity , others have become such an ingrain part of our cultural cognizance that it ’s strong to imagine they could ever halt being democratic — like A.A. Milne’sWinnie - the - Pooh , for example , or C.S. Lewis’sThe Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe .
It ’s no surprise that both of those books made the top 10 on a new list of the top 100 greatest nipper ’s record of all time , compile byBBC Culture . But they did n’t crack the top five , which were , in purchase order , Maurice Sendak’sWhere the Wild Things Are , Lewis Carroll’sAlice ’s Adventures in Wonderland , Astrid Lundgren’sPippi Longstocking , Antoine de Saint - Exupéry’sThe Little Prince , andJ.R.R. Tolkien’sThe Hobbit .
BBC Culture determined the breakdown by asking 177 “ critics , source , and publish figures ” across 56 land “ from Austria to Uzbekistan ” to select the 10 cracking children ’s Scripture . More than 1000 different titles were accede in aggregate , and the 100 top responses made the last list . nigh three - fourths of those 100 volume were in the beginning published in English ; and a bulk run into shelves between the 1950s and seventies , which , as BBC Culture points out , may be due to the fact that most of the voters “ were suffer in the 1970s and 1980s . ”
The top 25 had only two books published in the twenty-first century : Shaun Tan ’s 2006 computer graphic novelThe Arrival , andI Want My Hat Backby Jon Klassen ( 2011 ) . AndRoald Dahlwas the only generator to have more than one book in the top 25 : Matildain tenth station , andCharlie and the Chocolate Factoryin 18th . ( He had six titles total in the top 100 . )
Did your personalfavorite kids ’ bookmake the top 25 below ? If not , see if it charted on the full listhere .
