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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
Article Source: The San Francisco Chronicle
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Boy...Charlotte's Web...must be a left wing conspiracy. Teaching tolerance. Acceptance. Niceness. Watch out for those libs...always wanting to indoctrinate.
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#1 - Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:33 AM ESTHa! Like your comment. It's a tough choice between the two,especially because they appeal to different age groups and the requirements for each group is different. The words to Goodnight Moon have been echoed by my son and i to each other all the way through his teens.So that has my "heart" vote.
But as a book with a universal message, you can't beat Charlotte's Web. Lot of teaching moments in that book. And it always made me cry each time I reach the part where Charlotte dies.(sigh) Gotta give a book points if it makes the mama cry. So I guess they got it right after all.
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#2 - Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:46 PM ESTI have read GM, I know 100s of times to my girls. LOVE it. We actually found a spoof, Goodnight Ghoul this past Halloween. Very good too.
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