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100 Best Young-Adult Books and 100 Best Children’s Books. Vote for your favorite in the poll below. See 17 authors’ favorite books for young readers. Read about how author Meg Wolitzer was ...

Here are the 100 best opening lines from your favourite children’s’ books. Let us know your favourite children’s book first lines from the gallery, or any we missed, in the comments section ...

7. The Narnia series by CS Lewis (mid-20th century) The best children’s books have a way of altering the universe around them. Everyone can remember their first encounter with Narnia and then ...

100 Best Young-Adult Books and 100 Best Children’s Books. Vote for your favorite in the poll below. See 17 authors’ favorite books for young readers. Read about how author Meg Wolitzer was ...