The 100 best children's books - Brian Alderson

The latest in the much praised 100 Best Books series (Fiction, Nonfiction and Translations) comes a superb selection of children's books made by the one of the most revered children's books specialists, Brian Alderson. Organised in chronological order including children's novels by Defoe, Swift, Andersen, Verne, Lewis Carroll, Frank Baum, JM Barrie, Beatrix Potter, Kipling, Kenneth Grahame, AA Milne, Ransome, Streatfield, Tolkien, TH White, CS Lewis, Aiken, Roald Dahl, Garner, Hoban, Pearce, Hughes, Dickinson, Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Wilson, Quentin Blake (who has done an original illustration for the cover of this book), and Philip Pullman.