Poll reveals 100 greatest children’s books ever including Matilda and The Hobbit

The top 10 children’s books from the list:

1. Where The Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak, 1963)

2. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)

3. Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren, 1945)

4. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943)

5. The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien, 1937)

6. Northern Lights (Philip Pullman, 1995)

7. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (CS Lewis, 1950)

8. Winnie-The-Pooh (AA Milne and EH Shepard, 1926)

9. Charlotte’s Web (EB White and Garth Williams, 1952)

10. Matilda (Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake, 1988)