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Started by Steve Hayes
Mon, 19 Aug 2024 03:53
The Greatest Children's Authors of all Time
Author: Steve Hayes
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 03:53
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 03:53
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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/> -- Stephen Hayes, Author of The Year of the Dragon Sample or purchase The Year of the Dragon: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/907935 Web site: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail: shayes@dunelm.org.uk or if you use Gmail hayesstw@telkomsa.net
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