Comments on: Top 100 Children’s Novels (#4)

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 13:54:10 +0000

[...] Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle#3 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling#4 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis#5 From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg#6 Holes by [...]

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:35:33 +0000

> So, HP tomorrow followed by Wrinkle and Charlotte?

I would have to say yes

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:45:05 +0000

Rams, that was awesome. SO agree with you!

Phantom Tollbooth wouldn’t even be on my list. But this one–I think this would be my #1.

By: sarah

sarah — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:50:46 +0000

on an unrelated note….look who’s Gwyneth’s new pal! Great NY picture book recommendations!

By: My Boaz''''s Ruth

My Boaz''''s Ruth — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:08:57 +0000

When I say top ten I don’t mean “Don’t particularly love it” I mean just what I say — it was not in the top ten (Ie not a book I voted for).

Oh and Dawn Treader is my favorite too, but this is the book I voted for. I kept myself to first in each series. It is one way that I crowded as many books as I could onto such a skimpy list.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:47:35 +0000

Sondy, you’re not alone…I, too, love Turkish Delight (especially the rose flavored kind!). The chocolate covered variety you’re thinking of is most likely Fry’s Turkish Delight, which is available in the US…google it, and you’ll find a few sources pop up.

My first encounter with the stuff was from the perfumer Crabtree & Evelyn…they sell it in their shops in the UK, and for a time they also sold it in the US…a little round box with a variety of rose and lemon pieces, dusted with confectioners sugar.

rams…yes, Lord Peter did use the ruse you mention, it was in (appropriately enough) Strong Poison.

By: RM1(SS) (ret)

RM1(SS) (ret) — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:14:46 +0000

Dawn Treader was my introduction to Narnia (the library had it out as part of a display), but as soon as I finished reading it I started on the others, in publication order. Christian symbolism? Didn’t even notice it until I got to The Last Battle….

I somehow managed to leave it off my original top-ten submission*, but I had it at #2 on my Top Ten prediction, with Files in the #4 slot.

* 8(

By: rams

rams — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:39:28 +0000

Ah, well — Turkish Delight. Thanks for the sugar-deprivation justification — much is explained. Doesn’t Lord Peter Wimsey trick a murderer into semi-confession with Turkish Delight he claims is covered in arsenic?

By: rockinlibrarian

rockinlibrarian — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:27:14 +0000

(Genevieve: my favorite is Dawn Treader, too! In fact the main reason I predicted this would be LOWER in the top ten than it is is that I was SURE there’d be vote-splitting among the Narnia books. If I had had room for a Narnia book on my Top Ten votes– incidentally, what’s with these people who use the phrase “not on my top ten” to mean “I don’t particularly love it”? How could they not have had forty-some books they adored that they didn’t have room to vote for? anyway– oh, what I was saying, if I had voted for a Narnia book it would have been Dawn Treader, too. But now that I think of it, in general LWW IS most people’s favorite Narnia, so there probably wasn’t that much vote-splitting after all).

By: Sondy

Sondy — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:57:11 +0000

Oh, z-Dad, I LOVE that rose-flavored Turkish delight! When my husband was stationed in Germany, he made several trips to Britain and Turkey, and made sure to bring some back. Maybe it helped that my first taste was chocolate-covered rose-flavored Turkish Delight, but I could easily have been enchanted by it! Best of all, he had just come back from a trip when the movie came out, so we snuck in Turkish Delight to eat during the movie!