Most borrowed authors from UK public libraries, 2005-06

[wellinghall]

1. Jacqueline Wilson C
2. James Patterson A
3. Josephine Cox A
4. Danielle Steel A
5. Ian Rankin A
6. Janet & Allan Ahlberg C
7. Mick Inkpen C
8. Roald Dahl C
9. John Grisham A
10. Nora Roberts A



1. James Patterson
2. Josephine Cox
3. Danielle Steel
4. Ian Rankin
5. John Grisham
6. Nora Roberts
7. Agatha Christie
8. Bernard Cornwell
9. Katie Flynn
10. Patricia Cornwell

I am familiar with two of these authors, and have read a couple of books by two others.



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 two of these authors.



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 six of these authors.

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Comments

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Some of those children's authors are creators of popular pre-school picture book characters - Kipper (Mick Inkpen), Percy the Park-Keeper (Nick Butterworth), Maisy Mouse (Lucy Cousins), Spot the Dog (Eric Hill) - so I wouldn't have expected you to have heard of them. Francesca Simon does the immensely popular Horrid Henry series - one of the few books that have huge appeal to 7 year old boys. (Publishing for 7 year olds is horribly girl-centred and overflowing with fairies and princesses, which is very annoying.)

Lucy Daniels, however, doesn't exist. "She" is a consortium who churns out animal stories, using a name carefully chosen to put the books next to Roald Dahl on the shelves.

JK Rowling probably doesn't feature partly because lots of people buy the books, but mostly because she only has 7 titles, as opposed to the 30 plus that most of these authors have. Plus, her books are long, so people tend to renew them and keep them for ages. Pre-school books issue really well, because people swap them much more frequently than they do older fiction.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

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.

:)