From the Achuka blog here is a piece about "the best children's books for all time" as chosen by the 5 former Children's Laureates - Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson and Michael Rosen ( the new Laureate for 2009 - 2011 is Anthony Browne).
http://www.achuka.co.uk/achockablog/archives/2009/04/on-the-laureate.html
The 1930s emerges as the vintage decade for children's fiction, with seven titles making it onto the list, including Sword in the Stone by T.H. White, Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild and P.L. Travers's classic, Mary Poppins. The most popular authors with two selections apiece are E. Nesbit for Five Children and It (chosen by Quentin Blake) and The Railway Children (chosen by Jacqueline Wilson); and Robert Louis Stevenson for A Child's Garden of Verses (chosen by Fine), and Treasure Island (chosen by Michael Morpurgo).
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