Tolkien beaten by Enid Blyton!

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The Top 10 were:
1.The Famous Five, Enid Blyton
2.The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, C S Lewis
3.Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
4.The Secret Seven, Enid Blyton
5.Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
6.The Lord of the Rings, J R R Tolkien
7. Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
8.The Hobbit, J R R Tolkien
9. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
10. Little Women, Louisa M Alcott

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7 responses to “Tolkien beaten by Enid Blyton!”

  2. What the heck do people consider children’s books? I can’t really see how LotR is a book for children, even though it does have elves and dwarves and a little bit of magic. The Hobbit is understandable, as it was intended to be a children’s book, but LotR is really a very serious and grown-up book. And Of Mice and Men? That book gave me nightmares for weeks when I read it in high school; it’s full of mature themes and sad events. I want to know how it made it onto this list at all. Granted, 1000 people isn’t a very big group to sample for a poll like this, so you’re bound to get odd results. But Of Mice and Men? What kind of twisted parent would give that to a ten-year-old to read?

  3. I can see how the Famous Five would beat LotR if it was a young children’s poll, but I have never read “Of Mice ad Men” so I don’t have a valid opinion on that matter.

  4. Well, if I was choosing a children’s book, I’d have voted 100% for Famous Five.

    I can also comment that Of Mice and Men is a very wierd choice! I read it when I was younger, we had to study it at school. Aged 11. And I think it’s what kept me off all vaguely adult books! I still hang around the children’s section in libraries… Even now, we were offered a choice of 3 books to study, and OMAM was the only one to get 0 votes!

    FF deserves to win a children’s book poll, though.

  5. One second…I fail to see how Of Mice and Men is considered a children’s book. And on that note, I don’t know that I really consider LotR a children’s book either. As another comment stated, yes it has Elves and Dwarves and Wizards and Magic and small people with furry feet, but those are hardly a reason to call a book “Children’s Literature.” I personally can’t stand Little Women; it’s rambling and boring. And I know Black Beauty is a classic, but again, I personally don’t care for it. Treasure Island I would think would be a bit difficult to read for children.

    All in all, I don’t entirely agree with the placings or even the ingredients for this list. I don’t know which adults they were asking, but several of these books would not have made it on my list!

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