I agree re the girls' choices. Fortunately our girl, although liking fairies and princesses too up to a point (I refused to have more than one set of 7 of those rainbow fairies books in the house, although being the first 7 they were probably the best of the lot), also enjoys HH. (HH is very popular still with our much older boy although he reads things like LoTR as well, it's one of his childhood pleasures that he comes back to).
It's not often that I can say "I am familiar with" more authors on a list than wellinghall, but I will revel for a second in saying:
1. Jacqueline Wilson 2. Janet & Allan Ahlberg 3. Mick Inkpen 4. Roald Dahl 5. Lucy Cousins 6. Lucy Daniels 7. Eric Hill 8. Enid Blyton 9. Francesca Simon 10. Nick Butterworth
I am familiar with 8 of these authors (and potentially the other 2 as I don't always notice the author name on children's books that come into the house).
1. Roald Dahl 2. Agatha Christie 3. Georgette Heyer 4. C S Lewis 5. Beatrix Potter 6. Charles Dickens 7. Jane Austen 8. J R R Tolkien 9. William Shakespeare 10. A A Milne
I am familiar with 9 of these authors and was listening to someone, I think Stephen Fry, extolling the guilty pleasures of the 10th, Georgette Heyer the other day, so I at least just about know who she is.
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It's not often that I can say "I am familiar with" more authors on a list than wellinghall, but I will revel for a second in saying:
1. Jacqueline Wilson
2. Janet & Allan Ahlberg
3. Mick Inkpen
4. Roald Dahl
5. Lucy Cousins
6. Lucy Daniels
7. Eric Hill
8. Enid Blyton
9. Francesca Simon
10. Nick Butterworth
I am familiar with 8 of these authors (and potentially the other 2 as I don't always notice the author name on children's books that come into the house).
1. Roald Dahl
2. Agatha Christie
3. Georgette Heyer
4. C S Lewis
5. Beatrix Potter
6. Charles Dickens
7. Jane Austen
8. J R R Tolkien
9. William Shakespeare
10. A A Milne
I am familiar with 9 of these authors and was listening to someone, I think Stephen Fry, extolling the guilty pleasures of the 10th, Georgette Heyer the other day, so I at least just about know who she is.
:)