Best Children's Author?

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Best Children's Author?

Posted: 10/30/04 at 2:26pm

What were your favorite books as a child - for me no one can top Roald Dahl. His books are some of the best books ever!
The Witches must be my favorite though - truly magical.

#2

re: Best Children's Author?

Posted: 10/30/04 at 2:28pm

Dahl, Lewis, Silverstein, Sendak, Seuss

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re: Best Children's Author?

Posted: 10/30/04 at 2:34pm

Dr. Seuss, hands down. Even now, I love reading his books to all the kids I babysit. He's awesome.

Wow that sounded so weird.

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#4

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Posted: 10/30/04 at 2:34pm

Lewis - The Narnia books were magical and still my favorites. I'm looking forward to the new screen adaptation of "The Lion, the witch and the Wardrobe".

#5

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Posted: 10/30/04 at 2:37pm

For me, Seuss is in a class by himself.

Baum ranks way up there., as does Alcott.

Rowling is certainly my current fave.

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re: Best Children's Author?

Posted: 10/30/04 at 2:40pm

there are so many good authors out there. Tomie De Paola has awesome books, Chris Van Allsburg is there also

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re: Best Children's Author?

Posted: 10/30/04 at 2:41pm

for me, nothing beats J.M. Barrie's original novel of Peter Pan. I ADORE that book. Dahl is also in a class of his own. also, K.A. Applegate's Animorph series was a loong obsession for me =)

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Posted: 10/30/04 at 2:45pm

I was obsessed with K.A.Applegate's "EVERWORLD" series. I read all of those books at least 10 times each. Something was really appealing about those books (maybe because I was in my mythology phase at the time I read them). Also, RENT was mentioned, so how could I NOT like them?

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#9

re: Best Children's Author?

Posted: 10/30/04 at 2:45pm

Dick King-Smith is my favorite. He has written a series of books about animals, including Babe, the Very Important Pig. His books are enjoyable for both children and adults alike.

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re: Best Children's Author?

Posted: 10/30/04 at 2:46pm

when I was a lad, I enjoyed the Dahl and Silverstein the most. I also had a strong affinity for Louis Sacchar, Lloyd Alexander, and the "Great Brain" series by John Fitzgerald.

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#11

re: Best Children's Author?

Posted: 10/30/04 at 2:49pm

C.S. Lewis "The Chronicles of Narnia"
E.B. White "Charlotte's Web"
Laura Ingalls Wilder "The Little House" books
Marguerite Henry the "Misty" series.

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#12

re: Best Children's Author?

Posted: 10/30/04 at 2:51pm

I'll second (and add to my list) E.B. White - Stuart Little was always a favorite!

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Posted: 10/30/04 at 2:56pm

P. L. Travers

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#14

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Posted: 10/30/04 at 4:54pm

Seuss and Silverstien for my generation (I'm now 17)

Rowling for the little ones

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#15

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Posted: 10/30/04 at 5:02pm

Other than Dr. Seuss, Limony Snicket.

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re: Best Children's Author?

Posted: 10/30/04 at 5:04pm

I always like E.B. White. Stuart Little and James and The Giant Peach Peach were among my favorites/ My all time favorite book was called Harriet The Hippopotamus. The author is unknown tome. However, I would like to purchase a copy for my niece.

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#17

re: Best Children's Author?

Posted: 10/30/04 at 5:13pm

I was too old for Seuss by the time I moved to the U.S., so the children's authors I loved were Beverly Cleary, Chris van Allsburg for his magnificent illustrations, Roald Dahl (though The Witches scared the crap out of me), Astrid Lindgren, Shel Silverstein, Marguerite Henry (who made me a total horse freak), Laura Ingalls Wilder, Norton Juster, E.L. Konigsburg, and Wilson Rawls. I'm probably forgetting many others; I was always reading as a child.

#18

re: Best Children's Author?

Posted: 10/30/04 at 5:13pm

Seuss and Silverstein of course.

but I really like the pics in Where the Wild things Are

#19

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Posted: 10/30/04 at 5:20pm

Dude. Dr. Seuss is my homeboy. I love him with all of my soul. Definately Silverstein, and although I can't remember his name, the person who wrote CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS.

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#20

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Posted: 10/30/04 at 8:30pm

the french dude who wrote "the little prince"

#21

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Posted: 10/30/04 at 8:34pm

In addition to all those listed, I LOVED Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses"

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#22

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Posted: 10/30/04 at 9:06pm

Dahl and Frances Burnett

#23

re: Best Children's Author?

Posted: 10/30/04 at 9:06pm

Chris van Allsburg, definitely. And Dahl. And Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince)

#24

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Posted: 10/30/04 at 9:46pm

The picture book called "the Eleventh Hour" was my all time favorite.

I loved also, The Laura Ingalls WIlder books and the Narnia series.

#25

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Posted: 10/30/04 at 9:52pm

Roald Dahl. Man, when I was a kid, that was ALL i read. Chris Van Allsburg, too. Wow... nostalgia.

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