Best children’s books over the past 7 decades?
A list of best books for children over the last 70 years has caused some controversy due to the absence of several authors that many deem to be inevitable choices for such a list. Among those authors that didn’t make the list are Enid Blyton, C.S. Lewis and JK Rowling.
The list however, is not without bias. It is after all the Carnegie Anniversary Top Ten and is put together by the orgainzers of the Carnegie Medal. This means only authors who have received the medal made the list. (Enid Blyton, for example never won the Carnegie Medal.)Â
The defense is that the list was meant to be controversial thus stirring passion for the subject. Do you feel passionate about it? The public is invited to vote on their favorite Carnegie medal winner so you too can have a say.
The Carnegie Anniversary Top Ten includes:
A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly
His Dark Materials: Book 1 Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
Junk by Melvin Burgess
Skellig by David Almond
Storm by Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
The Family from One End Street By Eve Garnett
The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall
The Owl Service by Alan Garner
Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
