Children’s Literature Favorites

A meme via Kimbofo at Reading Matters, originally from Shelly’s Book Shelf:

Name your 3 favourite children’s series.

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.

The Prydain series, starting with The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander.

I really liked the Boxcar Children books when I was a child. The idea of four children living in an old boxcar on their own was intriguing to me. Such independence!

Name your 3 favourite non-series children’s books.

Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne

Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott. It does have a sequel, but it’s not a series.

A Ring of Endless Light by Madeline L’Engle Mrs. L’Engle also wrote other books about the characters in this book, but I wouldn’t call it a series either.

Name 3 favourite children’s book characters.

Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables

Bilbo Baggins of The Hobbit

Toad of Toad Hall

So what are your favorites?

6 thoughts on “Children’s Literature Favorites

  1. I’m not sure if these qualify strictly as series, but I love the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary, The Borrowers books by Mary Norton and, of course, the Narnia series.

    Three favorite non-series books:

    A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
    The Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit
    The Dolls’ House by Rumer Godden

    Three favorite characters:

    Oswald Bastable of The Treasure Seekers
    Lucy Pevensie of Narnia
    Eeyore

  2. Hello. I replied over at M-mv. It’s a funny thing, meme… so much must be discarded to bring one’s answer down to three (or two or five or whatever the poll requires).

    I find that I was actually alarmed to realize I loved Grandma more than Anne, George and Martha more than Frog and Toad, and so on.

    Anyway, happy Thursday.

    MFS

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