Top authors and former poets laureate have been nominating their favourite children’s books – what would you add to a modern rollcall of classics ?
Two events this week have set me thinking about what makes a great children’s book and what a canonical list might look like in the early years of the 21st century. On Monday, as part of a widely appreciated feature on the rereading of children’s books, SF Said asked seven writers for the ones they liked to reread. The results were as follows: