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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Recommended for your Blog-Reading Pleasure
Note: BEFORE YOU READ THIS POST, you might want to come up with a list of your ten favorite children's chapter books, in order. It could be fun, and if you do it before you continue, you won't have my list polluting your clear thinking on this obviously very important issue.
OK. Do you have your list done?
Back in early January, somebody (I wish I could remember who; probably someone on Twitter; was it you?) directed me to A Fuse #8 Production, a blog at the School Library Journal website whose author was conducting a poll looking for the top children's chapter books of all time. Now, I am not a school librarian or any kind of librarian so I'm not one hundred percent sure I was supposed to participate in the poll, but hey, it was up there on the Internet, and teachers were telling their students to participate, and I'm an educator and an avid reader of kidlit even though I'm thirty-my-gosh-five years old, so I sent in my list. It looked like this:
10. Daddy Long-Legs (Jean Webster)
9. The Great Brain (John D. Fitzgerald)
8. A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
7. Ramona the Pest (Beverly Cleary)
6. Farmer Boy (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
5. Henry Huggins (Beverly Cleary)
4. Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
3. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
2. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Robert C. O'Brien)
1. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
(Note: It would have looked different if I hadn't excluded some books, like Robin McKinley's Hero and the Crown and Richard Adams' Watership Down, on the basis that I thought they were probably more YA [or, in the case of Watership Down, adult] than kidlit, and the rules of the poll were very specific about excluding YA books. PLEASE OH PLEASE I hope this means there'll be a YA poll in the future; a year or so before she did this one, the writer did one for picture books, so my hope is not entirely without foundation, right?)
AT ANY RATE.
Since early February, the poll results have been coming out a few books at a time -- first ten books per post, then five, and now that she's on the top 20, one book per post, which means about four books per week, because the writer is torturing me specifically, of course. And when I say results, I don't mean just a list, although that would have been fascinating and it was what I was keenly anticipating when I started haunting her blog February 1st just in case my RSS reader had missed an update or something tragic like that. She writes an essay for each result, with summaries and author information and quotes from people who participated in the poll and even snippets of video and pictures of different covers for each book. It's a treasure trove for kidlitaholics like me.
It's been interesting to see where books from my list have appeared on THE list -- those which have appeared so far -- and also, it's been interesting, if you call smacking myself in the forehead repeatedly interesting, to see the books I'd have voted for if they hadn't slipped my mind at the crucial moment*, or if (which would have been much kinder, but a lot more work for the already-heavily-employed nice lady who compiled all these results from who knows how many people) I had been allowed to choose fifteen or twenty or an infinite number of books. It's also been fun to discover kidlit that had somehow slipped through the cracks of my vast kidliterary knowledge (ha). The Saturdays, where have you been all my life? My library holds list overfloweth.
*HELLO! Blue Willow!? Duh! Would have replaced one of the Little House books, I think.
So. What's your list look like?
Comments
I'm disappointed that Little Women only ranks 25! Whoever said "I didn't read this book so much as inhabit it" was speaking for me; it was the first book I ever gave up on rereading because I'd internalized it so thoroughly I didn't have to.
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