Comments on: Top 100 Children’s Novels (#35-31)

By: Top Teen Titles #30-34: Practically Paradise by Diane R. Kelly

Top Teen Titles #30-34: Practically Paradise by Diane R. Kelly — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:18:52 +0000

[...] note: A perfect novel for fifth and sixth graders especially. I have loved this book for years. Betsy Bird had The Watsons Go To Birmingham – 1963 as book #34 on her list this past year. The touching [...]

By: Top Teen Titles #30-34 « Practically Paradise

Top Teen Titles #30-34 « Practically Paradise — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:04:25 +0000

By: Top 100: 2010 Picks for Best Children’s Novels (grades 3-8) : PragmaticMom

Top 100: 2010 Picks for Best Children’s Novels (grades 3-8) : PragmaticMom — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:57:36 +0000

[...] /Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll#30 The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper#31 Half Magic by Edward Eager#32 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien#33 James and the Giant [...]

By: Book Discussion Series: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Book Discussion Series: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:37:56 +0000

[...] literature blog A Fuse #8 Production ran a poll of best children’s novels and the review in that poll, where the book ranked 32nd best ever children’s novel, not only tells what it’s about [...]

By: Joanne Fritz

Joanne Fritz — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:54:02 +0000

I was also beginning to wonder about my choices, but AT LAST one of them has made the list (James and The Giant Peach). Yay! And I’m kicking myself for forgetting about Edward Eager. Ten choices simply weren’t enough.

By: Tricia (Miss Rumphius)

Tricia (Miss Rumphius) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:44:16 +0000

Hooray! I FINALLY made the list, not once, but twice. I was beginning to worry about my choices.

As always, I’m having too much fun here!

By: Constance

Constance — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:24:08 +0000

I can’t remember if I voted for Seven Day Magic or The Time Garden (clearly set in Massachusetts) but I love Half Magic too, and am glad to see others do too. Although I hate rodents (even Stuart Little) I really like Mrs. Frisby. In fact, the only book from this group I don’t love is The Watsons, which I have never read. All right, I will and soon. In fact, I now plan to read everything on this list I haven’t read (but I don’t think it’s much).

By: Maggi

Maggi — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:17:44 +0000

Ahh, NIMH. I re-read that book quite a few times. I especially liked the whole section about the rats and how they learned to read. Saw that nice 35th anniversary cover in the Scholastic book fair today. Zachariah I read in my children’s lit class and liked it, but thought it was a big downer. Now, Silver Crown I didn’t read until I was an older person (I refuse to say adult), but it was very good, and like you, Betsy, I’ve never even heard of the other (but just ordered it).

Wow, that Ukraine cover of HP4 is absolutely stunning!

By: Gene in Tacoma

Gene in Tacoma — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:36:29 +0000

Just from my own experience reading Eager, there is a certain polite “formality” or, dare I say, quaintness in his style and characters that gives a Brit “vibe” to the books. It’s like they are set in America but don’t have the feeling of “typical” America. This is definitely a positive trait and I enjoyed them as both a child and adult. I remember feeling sad as a child when I realized I had read the last of his books.

By: RM1(SS) (ret)

RM1(SS) (ret) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:38:25 +0000

Seems to me that there’s somewhere in Half Magic or Magic by the Lake a statement that they’re in Ohio. And the other two books in that series are very clearly set in the States. Why in the world WOULD anybody think he was a Brit?