Comments on: Top 100 Children’s Novels (#1)

By: Fuse #8

Fuse #8 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:55:47 +0000

Soitenly. Try this: onourmindsatscholastic.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-fuse-8-blogger-on-her-top-100.html

By: Debbie Reese

Debbie Reese — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:43:54 +0000

Hey… Clicking around today, I ended up on a video interview of you about the Top 100. Can you tell me where it is? I had to run out and didn’t bookmark it.

Thanks,
Debbie

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:36:15 +0000

As promised.

whatwereadandwhatwethink.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-if-top-100-childrens-novels-poll.html

Change the scoring methods and the top 100 fluctuates, but title #1 stays the same!

By: Sondy

Sondy — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:53:45 +0000

So many people have mentioned first hearing this when a teacher read it to them. I was one, with it read by Miss Kita in 3rd grade. I’m remembering now that when we moved in the middle of 3rd grade, I didn’t like my new teacher because she didn’t read to us. Miss Kita read lots of books, and Charlotte’s Web was one of the best. It’s not one of my personal top ten favorites, but I cheerfully acknowledge it as one of the best children’s books ever written.

By: mary ann rodman

mary ann rodman — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:31:32 +0000

I discovered last year, after twenty years of marriage, that my husband had NEVER READ CW!!! He then added injury to insult by saying, “But I saw the cartoon.” Arggh! Had I known this twenty years ago….
Thank you, Besty. Reading this blog was like taking History of Children’s Literature again…only funnier and more interesting.

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:21:46 +0000

@JMyersbook – Glad I could help! I know how things like that bug me if I can’t remember them! Fortunately, my daughter’s music teacher plays that music during class, so it was on the tip of my brain!

By: JMyersbook

JMyersbook — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:22:55 +0000

Thank you to HOLLY!!! You’re exactly right — the music is “The Aquarium” from Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals. I’m really grateful to you for identifying it.

By: Ed Spicer

Ed Spicer — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:12:02 +0000

I once polled over 400 high school students about which books they remember as favorites, books they would read even if no one forced them to read them. These students generated a list of about 3500 titles. There was a tie for the favorite book. Each book received 52 votes (I did not weight the ballot as Betsy did). One book was To Kill A Mockingbird. The other book was Where the Red Fern Grows. The most popular author, by a long shot, was (and may still be–I did this about 9 or 10 years ago) Stephen King. Also, there wasn’t any other title close to Mockingbird and Red Fern. Nonfiction was just as popular with girls as it was with boys (although the topics varied in some predictable ways–girls loved horse books, boys loved NASCAR).

By: Sheela

Sheela — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:22:11 +0000

I can’t tell you how happy I was to see this book come in first! I was sure it would be something else, and here I’m delightfully surprised. This is a wonderful book to read on your own or out loud to a child. I was struck by its sheer perfection when I read the book to my daughter a few years ago.

Thanks so much, Betsy, for providing such a thoughtful, complete and fascinating compilation for us. The only thing I regret now is that I no longer have this list to look forward to in the mornings when I check in here! Ah, well!
Thanks again.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:39:59 +0000

full breakdown is up here: whatwereadandwhatwethink.blogspot.com/2010/04/breaking-down-completed-top-100.html

Alternate scoring top 100s to come tomorrow!