Charlotte’s Web or Goodnight Moon? Which one is the greatest children’s book of all time?
A team of literacy experts, mom bloggers and book editors agonized over this question when creating a list of the 100 great books for kids, released this month by Scholastic’s Parent & Child Magazine.
Nick Friedman, editor-in-chief of the magazine, told USA Today that the toughest choice was deciding on a book for that number-one spot.
The prize ultimately went to…drum roll…E.B. White’s classic about a pig named Wilbur who becomes famous with the help of a clever spider and a compassionate farm girl. Margaret Wise Brown’s beloved 1947 bedtime story fell into the number-two slot.
Madeleine L’Engle’s Newbery-winning fantasy favorite A Wrinkle in Time came in third, and A Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats’ pioneering 1962 portrayal of an African-American child, in fourth.
Shocked? Outraged? Do you entirely disagree?
The Best Children's Books Ever
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