Thursday, 28 August 2014

Flavorwire's 10 Best Authors of Children's Literature


A list from Flavorwire in 2012.


Lois Lowry

 E.L. Konigsburg

 C.S. Lewis

Philip Pullman

J.K. Rowling

 Lewis Carroll

 Madeleine L'Engle

 Katherine Paterson

Lloyd Alexander

Judy Blume

I've read 8/10 of these authors! Not every work by them of course, but at least a sampling.

Lois Lowry's The Giver is astonishing (my gushing review from last year) and there is a movie version coming out very soon.

I've only read one E.L. Konigsburg (From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler), but have two more in the house waiting patiently for their turn.

I guess I need to read Lloyd Alexander and Philip Pullman! But fantasy isn't really my genre. Indeed I suspect it's my least favourite genre.

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5 comments:

  1. Brona28 August 2014 at 19:14

    Pullmans fantasy is like Rowlings (but completely different!) if that helps :-)

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  2. Louise28 August 2014 at 23:06

    Umm, I'm not sure that it does Brona! I'll have to read it- he is on my 1001 list of course.

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  3. Satia29 August 2014 at 22:03

    Ooooh, I've read them all. Like you, not necessarily every book they've published but I've read something by everyone and even more than one by most.

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  4. Louise31 August 2014 at 00:10

    Well done Satia! I don't think I've ever read all of a list. I'm a tad jealous.

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  5. Deb Nance at Readerbuzz31 August 2014 at 07:11

    I'd say The Giver is fantasy. Of a sort. And you liked that one. So perhaps Alexander and Pullman aren't a big stretch from that.

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