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In the spirit of Peter Pan, I'll remain an enthusiastic reader of children's literature as long as it can give as much delight as it did this afternoon. My children and I spent wonderful hours going through this brick of a book, page for page, book for book. The initial task was to list five favourites and five books to read during the year, and to give each other suggestions.
It ended up being more than five books each, of course, and after hours of wild
I'll postpone growing up another decade!In the spirit of Peter Pan, I'll remain an enthusiastic reader of children's literature as long as it can give as much delight as it did this afternoon. My children and I spent wonderful hours going through this brick of a book, page for page, book for book. The initial task was to list five favourites and five books to read during the year, and to give each other suggestions.
It ended up being more than five books each, of course, and after hours of wild discussions whether the reading age suggestions were outrageously wrong or not (my children think they are!), we all had filled our papers, and ran back and forth to our spread out bookshelves to look for the books we thought the others HAD to read first. The result was a tremendous journey down memory lane for me, and an end to the never-ending complaints from my children that "they have nothing to read".
As with all lists, this one has flaws for sure, but those are minor compared to the treasure chest of wondrous reading that is to be found inside. When it is -8°C outside, the snow keeps falling and it is pitch dark at three in the afternoon, there is nothing better than to cuddle up together and try to figure out which are the all time childhood favourites.
Here a compromise we came up with:
My daughter is forever in love with...
Anne of Green Gables
Nesthäkchen
The Little House on the Prairie
Matilda
Mary Poppins
And she wants to read...
Heidi
Robinson Crusoe
The Railway Children
Little Women
The Three Musketeers
My middle son loves...
Mio, my Mio
The Giver
Jim Knopf
Tintenherz
A Wrinkle In Time
And he wants to read...
Five Children and It
The Graveyard Book
The Machine Gunners
Krabat
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
My eldest son didn't want to choose from the children's book list, and insisted on listing…
1984,
David Copperfield,
The Children of the Alley (Mahfouz),
Germinal and
Things Fall Apart
… as all time favourites. I think they might be challenged by his to-reads in 2017:
Dostoyevsky's Double and Karamazov,
Othello,
Great Expectations,
For Whom the Bell Tolls and
Catcher in the Rye.
When asked to choose some favourites from the children's list, he said (yes, he is a teenager!) Thomas the Tank Engine, and that made us try to come up with "first" favourites.
Here our shared memories of reading time past...
Alfie Atkins (ALL of them, twenty times)
Elsa Beskow, all
Astrid Lindgren, all
Michael Ende, all
Otfried Preussler, all
Paul Maar, all (not on the list, to our horror!)
Sven Nordquist, Findus/Mamma Mu
Moomins, all
Pinocchio
Alice in Wonderland
Nils Holgersson
Peter Pan
Dr Doolittle
The Jungle Book
Winnie The Pooh
Paddington
Babar
Maria Gripe, all
And so on in eternity!
I found some classics I had not read as a child, so I will add my own books to read before I grow up before closing this documentary:
The Call of The Wild
The Hound Of The Baskervilles
Chocky
The Summer Book
This was just the drastically reduced list of books that cannot be left unmentioned. The long list is… well, … LONG!
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I spent an hour leafing through it this afternoon, and I was blown away by the brilliant selection. It's wonderfully balanced, and if the editors have any prejudice I didn't spot what it was. They have all the obvious old classics - Alice in Wonderland, Winnie-the-Pooh, Little Women - and all the new ones - H
All rules have exceptions, and here's a stellar example of that principle: other titles I've seen in this series have varied between dull and nauseating, but this one is absolutely terrific.I spent an hour leafing through it this afternoon, and I was blown away by the brilliant selection. It's wonderfully balanced, and if the editors have any prejudice I didn't spot what it was. They have all the obvious old classics - Alice in Wonderland, Winnie-the-Pooh, Little Women - and all the new ones - Harry Potter, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Twilight. But they've also found an absolute wealth of more or less obscure books, including most of my Swedish favorites. These are people with enough taste and judgement that they don't think it's redundant to include Pippi Långstrump and Bröderna Lejonhjärta, or Kometen Kommer and Hur Gick Det Sen?, or Godnatt Alfons Åberg and Alfons och Odjuret. They have Tomi Ungerer's Crictor, die gute Schlange and la Comtesse de Ségur's Les malheurs de Sophie. They even had 100万回生きたねこ, a book I've unsuccessfully been trying to locate for years. Wow. Impressed doesn't begin to cover it.
I only have one criticism: somehow, they've managed to omit Ainsi va la vie . How is this possible, when they do have the vastly inferior Titeuf?? I will write and ask them. Maybe I can get them to include it in the next edition.
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With this book, it is more like a directory listing the origins, genre and also providing an excerpt of the book to give the reader an idea of what each book is about. A useful tool for helping primary school teachers find suitable text for their class.
It's not too late to revisit your childhood books, even if you are not a parent and just a grown up. With this 1001 Children's Book, I am sure there are loads that you will remember reading as a child. There are most certainly plenty of enjoyable books to discover now as an adult. And yes Harry Potter books are mentioned too!
Most definitely a Must Read!
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A couple of months ago, while perusing our recent arrivals, I found a book of hidden treasures: 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up, edited by Julia Eccleshare.
This book is a visual feast: published with heavy paper, beautiful illustrations, current through 2008, and divided into age groups of 0-3, 3+, 5+, 8+, and 12+ that cover birth through teen reads.
Each title, selected from books published around the world, is presented in eithe
Review originally published April 2010A couple of months ago, while perusing our recent arrivals, I found a book of hidden treasures: 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up, edited by Julia Eccleshare.
This book is a visual feast: published with heavy paper, beautiful illustrations, current through 2008, and divided into age groups of 0-3, 3+, 5+, 8+, and 12+ that cover birth through teen reads.
Each title, selected from books published around the world, is presented in either full or half-page format with most showing a color picture of the front cover, date published, author, illustrator, their respective nationalities, publisher, and theme of the book.
The synopsis of each usually provides setting, a bit of the storyline, and information regarding the value of the chosen book. Some of the reviews give insights into the authors, illustrators, and their lives and the timeframe in which the book was written.
Initially, I found it fun to flip through the book to see how many of the listed books I had read at some time in my life. Then I began to read this book as you would any book, from the beginning. I realized the treasures it held, and everything I could learn from reading the book itself, and what more I could learn by reading those books it recommends.
The book, The Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper (pseudonym) and illustrated by Lois Lenski, copyright 1930, allows me to reflect on the lesson to keep trying when you want to succeed.
Many of us were read this book while growing up or have read this book to our children or grandchildren, but until I read the short description of the book in this text I hadn't really thought about the "little engine" being a "she" or realized that this story is a version of an earlier story.
Perhaps before I "grow up" I will be able to read or reread all of these books with new insight and perspective.
I would recommend this book to all who love children's literature, no matter your current age!
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There were however a few things that bother me a bit. First, I didn't like that the list loads of books that are very hard to get or only at prices the books are really not worth. So what's the sense of listing them if hardly anyone can read them? Second, I didn't like that the authors didn't take any interest in the I think this is a very good list of children's books. I really like it much better than the adults' version. It's much more international and lists books from much more categories.
There were however a few things that bother me a bit. First, I didn't like that the list loads of books that are very hard to get or only at prices the books are really not worth. So what's the sense of listing them if hardly anyone can read them? Second, I didn't like that the authors didn't take any interest in the availability of the books in other languages. I read books in German, English, French and Spanish and I also don't have a problem with reading picture books in Italian. But many people and especially children (who are the actual target group of this book) don't. I read the German translation of this book. I know that a translation is not supposed to change anything. But it would have been great to have a version with books that are all available in German as well. The last thing I sometimes found very strange was the age certain books were recommended for. E.g. in the 3+ section you can find picture books with hardly any text in them which would as well fit into the 0-3 category. At the same time you have books with a lot of text which are also quite thick (at least for a 5+ child). This might make it difficult for parents who are using this book to found suitable reading material for their children; they just can't rely on the book really being adequate. ...more
This amazing volume is a compilation of 1001 half-page (some whole-page) summaries of great children's books, from the earliest picture books through the middle grades and up. It has been the source of a number of books I've read and reviewed this winter, as I've been perusing the suggestions for the 8 and up age ranges. Whatever I can among the books I missed in my own youth, I order f
General Editor, Julia Eccleshare. Over 70 contributors, plus special reviews by more than 30 well-known authorsThis amazing volume is a compilation of 1001 half-page (some whole-page) summaries of great children's books, from the earliest picture books through the middle grades and up. It has been the source of a number of books I've read and reviewed this winter, as I've been perusing the suggestions for the 8 and up age ranges. Whatever I can among the books I missed in my own youth, I order from the library.
Because the book was first published in England (and the authors/editors/compilers are English), the selection of books is more international than it might be if produced in the U.S. Though all books are available (with some hunting) in English, many were first written in other languages, and more come from Australia and New Zealand than I was ever aware existed (why did I never think about people in other countries writing books for kids? Probably because you didn't find many of them in our libraries and bookstores). If nothing else, this book showed up my typical American upbringing. Though I read a great many British children's books (Famous Five, anyone? not to mention Narnia and Tolkien), and have known for decades what a torch, jumper, and rug are, and where you will find them if they are in the back of a lorry, I have read almost none of the recommended books from anywhere but the U.S and the British Isles. Not all can be easily found, but I suspect nearly all would be worth the search.
Many of the mini-reviews (just a little more than summaries) are accompanied by the original cover art, and some by illustrations from the book interiors. Some of the art is stunning, some is fascinating just for being so dated, and some is still in use even after many decades while other covers have been redesigned and updated many times.
The book is divided into five sections, for kids from ages 0-3, 3+, 5+, 8+ and 12+. I spent less time in the first three sections, as these were primarily picture books, baby books, and easy readers, though of course my well-beloved Dr. Seuss shows up in all three. A quick look showed many favorites as well as many that I never saw (and some that I discovered only when my own kids were little and hadn't realized had been around since I wasn't much older than 5!). Some of the books in the 8+ and 12+ sections I would definitely say are for the younger end of those age ranges--the final section goes right on up to Young Adult novels, but some in the 8+ section are difficult to read due to either style or content. Some parental judgement may be needed when selecting books for children; fortunately, the story summaries and reviews give you most of what you need to know.
Are all the books listed truly must-reads? Frankly, no (and thus the four stars. It's darned good, but I think there were some slips). I don't think I'll suffer in the least if I grow up (or grow old and die) without having read Twilight. Others are just not that interesting to me. But most of these books will amply repay the time spent finding--and reading them, and many are books we'd never know about without this great resource.
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Citation by: Margie Findley
Type of Reference: Bibliography
Call Number: Z1037 .A252x 2009
Description: A collection of bibliographies about the best classic and contemporary children's books.
Relevance and Relationship: The cost is $24.19 and is a superb selection to other similar titles. It is a one stop for selecting the best children's books to read or to help with collection
Eccleshare, J. & Blake, Q. 1001 children's books you must read before you grow up. New York: Universe Publishing Company.Citation by: Margie Findley
Type of Reference: Bibliography
Call Number: Z1037 .A252x 2009
Description: A collection of bibliographies about the best classic and contemporary children's books.
Relevance and Relationship: The cost is $24.19 and is a superb selection to other similar titles. It is a one stop for selecting the best children's books to read or to help with collection development for a library.
Purpose: There are many bibliographies of children's books, but none that combine them as this one does. Teachers and librarians have limited time to select the best books for their elementary students. This resource will help them use this time more efficiently.
Validity: The author is known for publishing the 1001 series. The next version will need to be purchased when available to stay up to date on new titles.
Format: The hardcover includes illustrations of many books.
Arrangement and Presentation: The 960 page book is organized by age allowing for an easier search for a classroom, library, or parent depending on the children's' age. It includes lists of silly books, great collections of fables, recommended books about horses, books about granddads, great war books, time-travel tales, and much more with illustrations for a more appealing presentation.
Diversity: Includes a diverse selection of books from around the world.
Professional Review: Julie Just, New York Times
A book I will definitely be checking out!
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This book is positively gorgeous, with simple, clean layout, and great use of original graphics. It's a doorstop of a book, and wouldn't look bad sitting on the shelf. And you know, I agree with a lot of the books in there. What I disagree with is the way its organize
Lists exist for all kinds of reasons. Groceries, things you gotta do, etc. And with the proliferation of books about things you need to read, see, do, try and hear before you die, well, we've got all the advice we need for a while.This book is positively gorgeous, with simple, clean layout, and great use of original graphics. It's a doorstop of a book, and wouldn't look bad sitting on the shelf. And you know, I agree with a lot of the books in there. What I disagree with is the way its organized. Would you give a 12 year old Catcher in the Rye ? It's nothing to do with preventing them from being exposed to the content. I just don't think they'd want it at that point in their lives. Catcher in the Rye falls under the 12+ category. 12+ what? The book puts Ramona the Pest in the 5+ category. Let's create more of a base here. A 5 year old could enjoy Ramona, probably. But they couldn't read it. And then on the page before it is a picture book. I don't know. I liked the way it looked, and think it's pretty, and agree with the bulk of what's in there, in terms of forming a slightly modern canon of children's lit. But you couldn't use this book in a real way, not for work. You could use it for reminiscing, which I did.
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- Rebecca H.
Click here to find the book at the Prince William County Public Library System
If you are looking for good books for your children (or yourself), here is an excellent resource of suggestions. While some might wonder whether this list is truly the 'perfect' list of books all children should read, I suggest that it doesn't really matter if you think some don't belong on the list while others do. Take the book as it is, a suggestion of good books and find some you think you would enjoy.- Rebecca H.
Click here to find the book at the Prince William County Public Library System.
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This was a joy to read and I'm going to buy a copy if I can find one.
Highly recommended!
This is a delightful book with wonderful suggestions for children of all ages. It is a heavy book (960 pages) and well worth the time spent in perusing the wonderful descriptions, well written reviews and stunningly beautiful illustrations.This was a joy to read and I'm going to buy a copy if I can find one.
Highly recommended!
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I always have some difficulties with books of this nature that simply reflect the experiences or prejudices of the contributors. I wonder if any of the 72 contributors have actually read all the books....or how many of them have they read. Certainly, the editors have tried to put together an international collection of contributors...but it's not really international. I can't complain too much.....my own country (Australia) is heavily represented. There is a clear preponderance of British contributors ...and rather a dearth of American....and very few from Asia (I counted about 3 from Japan) or the Middle East ....and rather few from continental Europe. So, I guess, we have a selection here that has a massive anglo saxon bias with a scattering of other tales. I visit Japan a lot and am very impressed with the wonderful range of illustrated books available there ....but hardly any appear in 1001 Children's books. (Except for Roald Dahl's interpretation of James and the giant peach....which I think probably has some sort of origins in the Japanese folk tale, Momontoro and two other's that I noticed). In some ways, I wanted to buy this book because of the great children's book illustrations and the collection of illustrators...and in this, I was not disappointed. There is a great collection of illustrations ...and many styles.
One issue that I had was that often I had read a version of the book that was different to that illustrated in 1001....for example, "The wide-mouthed frog" where we used to have a pop up version...which was wonderful. (I think I might still have it). So i was half wondering whether one had to read the version that was shown in 1001....and what one was missing if one had read a different version.
Each book has a description and often background information which is interesting and helpful. Will I go out and buy (or borrow) the books that I haven't read. Almost certainly not. They don't even have "The Poky Little Puppy" listed among the 1001. Now this was a favourite of mine and very popular with two later generations of kids.... And, of course.....Johnnie's Machines (a little Golden Book that seems to be out of print.....but I loved it as a chid). And of course......The Fairy Tales of Grimm and Anderson, Illustrated by Anne Anderson, Collins, 1925.
As the editor acknowledges "Any grouping of children's books inevitably raises as many questions as it answers". and this is no exception. It's obviously a great start for somebody who has to buy a present for a child or for a parent looking to educate their children. But it is just one perspective on the issue.
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My happiest memories of books I read back in the early years were "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", the "Spot" books, and "The Magic Tree house" series.
I went through the book in sections and wrote down all the books I have already read,
This book was great! Now, I did not read all 1001 books, and I'm 18 now, so I'm technically grown up. I got to reconnect with my childhood and have years of memories come flooding back. I think I: drowned, but I'm here now reviewing, so I guess I made it out okay.My happiest memories of books I read back in the early years were "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", the "Spot" books, and "The Magic Tree house" series.
I went through the book in sections and wrote down all the books I have already read, and the ones I plan to read or re-reread.
So without further adue, I present my list of books from this book:
Read:
* The Little Engine That Could
* Goodnight Moon
* The Very Hungry Caterpillar
* Where's Spot?
* The Tale of Peter Rabbit
* The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
* The Cat in The Hat
* A Bear Called Paddington
* Green Eggs and Ham
* Go, Dog. Go!
* The Berenstain Bears
* Clifford the Big Red Dog
* Where the Wild Things Are
* Burglar Bill
* Angelina Ballerina
* Love you Forever
* Guess How Much I Love You
* The Jungle Book
* Velveteen Rabbit
* Charlotte's Web
* Frog and Toad Are Friends
* Leo The Late Bloomer
* Strega Nona
* The Paper bag Princess
* If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
* The Polar Express
* Oh, the Places You'll Go!
* Stellaluna
* Farmer Boy
* The Hobbit
* Stuart Little
* The Chronicles of Narnia
* Old Yellar
* The Hundred and One Dalmatians
* The Incredible Journey
* James and the Giant Peach
* Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
* The Mouse and The Motorcycle
* From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
* Bridge to Terebithia
* Sarah, Plain and Tall
* Maniac Magee
* Millions
* The Call of the Wild
* White Fang
* The Fellowship of the Ring
* To Kill a Mockingbird
* Tuck Everlasting
* Holes
* Bud, Not Buddy
Re-Reading:
* We're Going on a Bear Hunt
* Winne-the-Pooh
* Madeline
* Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
* Curious George
* The Little House
* Harry the Dirty Dog
* Are you my Mother?
* What do People Do all Day?
* Corduroy
* Mr. Popper's Penguins
* Caps For Sale
* Swimmy
* The Giving Tree
* Matilda
* The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
* A Bad Case of Stripes
* Black Beauty
* The Hardy Boys
* Nancy Drew
* The Wheel on The School
* The Cricket in Times Square
* The Indian in the Cupboard
* Around the World in Eighty Days
* The Westing Game
To-Read:
* Thomas The Tank Engine
* The Runaway Bunny
* The Elephant and the Bad Baby
* Elmer
* The Story of the Root Children
* The Story of Babar
* Little Toot
* The Little Red Lighthouse
* Eloise
* The Cow Who Fell in the Canal
* Ivor the Engine
* Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
* The Snowman
* Freight Train
* Gorilla
* We Are the Triplets
* Fire Engine Lil
* One Snowy Night
* Runaway Train
* The Gruffalo
* Lost and Found
* Fairy Tales from the Past
* Grimms' Fairy Tales
* The Emperor's New Clothes
* The Little Mermaid
* The Magic Fishbone
* The House That Jack Built
* Cole's Funny Picture Book
* The Dutch Twins
* Rupert the Bear
* Tales and Legends
* Pippi Longstocking
* Stone Soup
* The Doll's House
* My Father's Dragon
* The Biggest Bear
* Harold and The Purple Crayon
* Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf
* The Three Robbers
* Gumdrop
* Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
* The Giant Jam Sandwich
* Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish
* Where the Sidewalk Ends
* Falling Up
* The Worst Witch
* Miss Nelson is Missing!
* Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
* The Enormous Crocodile
* Haunted House
* Not Now, Bernard
* Jumanji
* Hey, Al
* Else-Marie and Her Seven Little Daddies
* My Friends Percy's Magical Gym Shoes
* The Stinky Cheese Man
* The Great Escape from City Zoo
* The Death Book
* The Sea Monster
* Leonardo, the Terrible Monster
* Flotsam
* The Adventures of The Dish and Spoon
* Aesop's Fables
* The Pied Piper of Hamelin
* A Christmas Carol
* The Water-Babies
* Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
* Through The Looking Glass
* The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
* The Prince and The Pauper
* Pinocchio
* Treasure Island
* Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
* Moonfleet
* The Story of the Treasure Seekers
* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
* Sussi and Biribissi
* The Bobbsey Twins
* Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
* The Wind In The Willows
* The Story of Doctor Dolittle
* The Boxcar Children
* TinTin
* Mary Poppins
* Little House on the Prairie
* The Adventures of the Wishing Chair
* The Sword in the Stone
* Five on a Treasure Island
* The Borrowers
* Half Magic
* The Children on Green Knowe
* Tom's Midnight Garden
* The Phantom Tollbooth
* How The Whale Became
* Stig of the Dump
* Harriet the Spy
* The Magic Finger
* The Iron Man: A Children's Story in Five Nights
* Watership Down
* Conrad: The Factory-made Boy
* Ordinary Jack
* Under the Mountain
* Superfudge
* The BFG
* Storm
* Why the Whales Came
* The Snow Spider
* Whipping Boy
* Quirky Tales
* Only You Can Save Mankind
* The Giver
* 45 & 47 Stella Street and Everything that Happened
* The View from Saturday
* Harry Potter
* Skellig
* Just Annoying
* A Series of Unfortunate Events
* Hitler's Daughter
* Alex Rider
* Mortal Engines
* Artemis Fowl
* The Spiderwick Chronicles
* Inkheart
* The Tale of Despereaux
* The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
* The Arrival
* Robinson Crusoe
* Gulliver's Travels
* The Three Musketeers
* The Scarlet Letter
* Journey to the Center of the Earth
* Little Woman
* 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
* Kidnapped
* Sherlock Holmes
* The Happy Return
* Cue for Treason
* The Otterbury Incident
* Metropolis
* The Catcher in the Rye
* King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
* Fahrenheit 451
* Lord of the Flies
* The Witch of Blackbird Pond
* Marianne Dreams
* Friday's Tunnel
* A Wrinkle in Time
* The Outsiders
* The Dark is Rising
* The Chocolate War
* Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
* Thunder and Lightnings
* Underground to Canada
* After the First Death
* Neverending Story
* Homecoming
* Hatchet
* Madame Doubtfire
* Strange Objects
* Redwork
* Pagan's Crusade
* Tomorrow, When the War Began
* Some of the Kinder Planets
* Rowan of Rin
* The Gathering
* Gold Dust
* Dougy
* Switchers
* Whispers in the Grave Yard
* See How They Run
* A Jump into the Other World
* Northern Lights
* I Am Not Esther
* Not Chicago. Not Here.
* The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley
* The Messenger
* Crispin
* The Keys to the Kingdom
* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
* Grimpow
I totally disagree with the "must read" label, though. In part because there were a lot of titles that I thought "no that's not true" and also because I felt like there were so many wonderful books NOT included. While I appreciated how different and diverse it was overall, I didn't see much of a criteria applied to what made these stand outs.
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Also, the selection goes only up to 2009/2010 since this edition was published at that time. Needless to say, much has changed in Young Adult literature in the
Many of the books recommended for ages 0-11 are classic titles that children should read in board books and in picture books and in chapter books. However, most of books recommended for ages 12+ are classic titles that most pre-teens and teens will not read because they reflect titles from the late 19th, early 20th, and mid 20th centuries.Also, the selection goes only up to 2009/2010 since this edition was published at that time. Needless to say, much has changed in Young Adult literature in the last decade! :-)
There is a sample of worldwide titles throughout the age groups, but I don't know how to react to those global titles as well as the English-language-translated titles because many aren't easily available to readers in the United States.
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So, I would give the first half of this book 4 stars, as I've read a decent portion of the selection and some of them are lesser known gems. Unfortunately, however, many of them are also out of print and therefore hard to find.
The second half of the book seems odd to me... I may revisit this rating after I've read more of them... So I'll stick with the first half rating for now.
Overall an interesting collection t
One star taken off for the silly title of this book. I don't have to do anything!So, I would give the first half of this book 4 stars, as I've read a decent portion of the selection and some of them are lesser known gems. Unfortunately, however, many of them are also out of print and therefore hard to find.
The second half of the book seems odd to me... I may revisit this rating after I've read more of them... So I'll stick with the first half rating for now.
Overall an interesting collection to mine for older and international children's books, which is a welcome contrast to the new release book marketing we are all inundated with.
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Eccleshare was born in Cambridge and grew up in North London, the third of four children of Colin Ecclesh
Julia Eccleshare MBE (born 1951) is a British journalist and writer on the subject of children's books. She has been Children's Books editor for The Guardian newspaper for more than ten years, at least from 2000. She is also an editorial contributor and advisor for the website Lovereading4kids.Eccleshare was born in Cambridge and grew up in North London, the third of four children of Colin Eccleshare, a publisher with Cambridge University Press and Liz, a history teacher.
Eccleshare was children's book editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1974 to 1978. She served as non-fiction and picture book editor at Penguin Books children's imprint Puffin Books from 1978 to 1980, and as fiction editor at Hamish Hamilton children's books from 1980 to 1984, before returning to freelance book reviewing.
She selected hundreds of books for Children's Books of the Year from 1985 to 1993. The annual exhibition and annotated list had been established circa 1970 by the National Book League (later renamed Booktrust) and had missed one year before its 1985 resumption.
Eccleshare has also served on many book award panels including the Whitbread Children's Book Award in 2001, and chaired the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize panel from 2001 to its conclusion in 2007. In 2000 she co-founded the Branford Boase Award for an outstanding novel for young people by a first-time writer, and continues to chair its panel of judges. At least from 2000 to 2012, she chairs the panel of three children's writers who judge the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
In 2000 she won the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of "her outstanding contribution to children's books".
Eccleshare is currently children's books editor for The Guardian newspaper, and also regularly appears on BBC Radio 4's Open Book and Front Row programmes. In 2014 she was appointed Head of Policy and Advocacy for Public Lending Right. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to children's literature. She was an awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt, Hons) by the University of Worcester in 2014.
She is married and has four children, and lives in London.
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