As of: February 25, 2024, 7:24 p.m
By: Carina Blumenroth
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In books, children meet their first heroes, learn to read and learn things about life.
These are the most popular books for children.
According to a list from BBC Culture.
1 / 1010th place: Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake “Matilda”A smart girl who is born into a not so smart family.
Matilda doesn't have an easy time of it, not even with the school director, Ms. Trunchbull.
If it weren't for the class teacher, Miss Honig.
Matilda also discovers her abilities.
© Penguin LLC US
2 / 109th place: EB White and Garth Williams “Charlotte's Web” (German Wilbur and Charlotte) © Penguin Books Ltd
3 / 108th place: AA Milne and EH Shepard “Winnie-the-Pooh” (1926) Winnie the Pooh and his friends Piglet, Owl, Tigger and Eeyore go on adventures with Christopher Robin.
© Dutton Books for Young Readers
4 / 107th place: CS Lewis “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe” (German The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, 1950)The classic story behind Narnia, the land behind the wardrobe.
© Harper Collins Publishers
5 / 106th place: Philip Pullman “The Golden Compass” (1995) “Lyra Belacqua leads a carefree, wild life among the scholars at Jordan College in Oxford.
Always at her side is Pantalaimon, her animal daemon.
But with the arrival of Lyra's uncle, the dark Lord Asriel, a dangerous adventure begins for her.
Because there are secret plans that plunge Lyra's world into chaos: It's about stolen children and lost dæmons, about witch clans and fighting polar bears - and about a mysterious, world-changing substance called dust..." writes Carlsen.de.
© Carlsen
6 / 105th place: JRR Tolkien “The Hobbit” (1937) “It was a beautiful morning when an old man knocked on Bilbo's door.
“We don’t want any adventures here, thank you very much,” he brushed off the uninvited visitor.
"Anyway, what's your actual name?" - "I'm Gandalf," he replied.
And then it dawned on Bilbo: the adventure had already begun. Sixty years ago, Tolkien wrote down the story of Bilbo and the dragon's treasure for his children.
And since then, Bilbo's perilous journey has been a classic of children's literature.
Much to Tolkien's chagrin: In order to correct the impression of a children's book, he later made many revisions," writes Klett-Cotta.de.
© Klett Cotta
7 / 104th place: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “The Little Prince” (1943) “The Little Prince lives with his rose on the planet asteroid B 612 and visits Earth.
Here, in addition to the narrator, who made an emergency landing in the desert with his plane, he also gets to know the fox, who explains to him about familiarization: “You are responsible for what you have become familiar with throughout your life.”
A world-famous book full of wisdom and with many common quotes, such as “You can only see well with your heart” or “The real thing is invisible,” writes Karl Rauch Verlag on its homepage.
© Karl Rauch Verlag
8 / 103rd place: Astrid Lindgren “Pippi Longstocking” (1945) The character “Pippi Longstocking” has haunted children’s rooms around the world for generations.
Oetinger writes about the book: “Pippi Longstocking is the strongest, sweetest, funniest and richest girl in the whole world.
She lives all alone in Villa Kunterbunt with her horse and the monkey Mr. Nilsson.
And she owns a large suitcase full of gold pieces.
Thomas and Annika live in the house next door, and they find life much more fun since Pippi moved in!” © Oetinger
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9 / 102nd place: Lewis Carroll “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” (Original: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865).
“Alice in Wonderland, curious and self-confident: she runs after a white rabbit with a clock.
She follows it down the rabbit hole.
Here she ends up at the entrance to a strange world.
Deep inside the earth she tumbles from one adventure to another: it is the most mysterious, enchanting and enchanting of all children's books, a dream journey into the inside, into one's own dreams, wishes and fears that can never be explained.
And all the wonderful creatures and wild things she meets celebrate a fabulous resurrection in Jonathan Wolstenholme's world of images: the rabbit in white that starts it all, the advice-giving and smoking caterpillar with the water pipe, the Cheshire cat of which only the grin remains , the lobster quadrille and the high court at the playing card court with the finale furioso,” describes the two-thousand-one publishing house on its homepage.
© Two thousand one.
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10 / 101st place: Maurice Sendak “Where the Wild Things are” was originally published in April 1963.
“The story of wild Max, who is sent to bed by his mother without food and then conquers the kingdom of the wild things,” writes the publisher Diogenes about the book.
© Product image Amazon/Diogenes
For many children and parents, a good book is part of their evening ritual.
Reading to children stimulates their imagination, but it also makes it easier for them to learn to read themselves.
The British broadcaster
BBC Culture
asked experts from all over the world about the best 100 children's books of all time.
Children's book authors, editors, publishers, academics, librarians and readers were interviewed.
The
Börsenblatt
reports that six originally German-language books are among the top 100.
In our picture gallery we present the ten best books overall.