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  • The Greatest Children's Authors of all Time

    From Steve Hayes@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 19 03:53:14 2024
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    These are the greatest children’s authors of all time – and Roald Dahl definitely isn’t one of them

    Children’s literature is far more important than adult fiction – so here’s 12 writers that belong on every bookshelf (and six best
    banished)

    Sam Leith

    17 August 2024 • 10:45am

    <https://t.co/dCIuiBropX>

    IN

    Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
    AA Milne (1882-1956)
    CS Lewis (1898-1963)
    TH White (1906-1964)
    Judy Blume (b 1938)
    Jacqueline Wilson (b 1945)
    Philip Pullman (b 1946)
    Julia Donaldson (b 1948)
    Malorie Blackman (b 1962)
    JK Rowling (b 1965)
    Jon Klassen (b 1981)
    Katherine Rundell (b 1987)

    OUT

    Willard Price (1887-1983)
    WE Johns (1893-1968)
    Enid Blyton (1897-1968)
    Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
    Roger Hargreaves (1935-1988)
    David Walliams (b?1971)


    The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading by Sam Leith
    (Oneworld, £30) will be published on Sept 5

    Read it all here:

    Source: <https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/childrens-books/greatest-children-authors-rowling-dahl-pullman-blyton/>
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    Stephen Hayes, Author of The Year of the Dragon
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