Comments on: Top 100 Children’s Novels (#8)

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 — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:46:22 +0000

[...] Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg#6 Holes by Louis Sachar#7 The Giver by Lois Lowry#8 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett#9 Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery#10 The Phantom Tollbooth by [...]

By: sarah dotts barley

sarah dotts barley — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:33:19 +0000

i love the secret garden musical, too (almost as much as i love the book. but not quite). when i saw it for the first time when i was 8 or 9, i went around calling everything “wick.” in fact, on a rare car trip just this last weekend, i serenaded my driving companion with each and every song, including harmonies. i do those well, especially the ones with archibald craven.

By: Fuse #8

Fuse #8 — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:00:45 +0000

Alas, I deleted it entirely. April Fool’s posts don’t age all that well.

By: Leann

Leann — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:55:25 +0000

Can you pretty please link to your April Fools post so those of us who were not on the computer on the 1st can see it?

By: Libby Gruner

Libby Gruner — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:54:49 +0000

I was so mad I didn’t even click through, so it took me ’til today to find out I actually had a pick in the top 10! Even though I, like a few others, really liked Streatfeild’s take off better, this one was and still is a great one. Whew!

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:11:19 +0000

Yes, do keep the comments! What better way to convey to people why the book is good than people’s enthusiastic comments. Not all of them, but enough to give a representative reaction to a title.

By: Els Kushner

Els Kushner — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:49:43 +0000

And maybe you could include some selected comments, too. That would be cool.

I’d totally buy it.

By: Fuse #8

Fuse #8 — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:12:43 +0000

The thought is alluring.

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:50:11 +0000

Please Fuse, PLEASE make these two polls into a book! There is a reason so many of us got hooked by this poll, and the book would be wonderful in a kids’ lit class in library school or in a kids lit class in general! I absolutely swear I’ll buy it! I realize that some of what I loved won’t translate like the video of Michael Rosen in the picture book poll, but still, the rest is well worth reading. And you can have links to the poll online for the videos.

By: Scrumptious

Scrumptious — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:28:27 +0000

I love The Secret Garden. It is the book that has endured the longest for me, and the one I have read more times than any other.

I think in my heart of hearts I always loved A Little Princess a teensy bit more, but even as a child I knew it was far too precious and cutesie, and that The Secret Garden was a better choice for “favorite book.” And so it became my favorite book!

Thanks for all the extra info – as always it’s so illuminating to have biographical information and interesting analysis of different aspects of the book. I especially value this for childhood favorites, which I still read in “child’s mind” without class or race awareness, so it’s so helpful to get to read these adult perspectives, too.