50 Books to read before you turn 16? Hmmm

snipI am always fascinated by lists such as this one compiled by Sainsbury’s, a huge UK supermarket chain.    Included on the list of 50 must read books are many of the classics such as Black Beauty, The Railway Children and Alice in Wonderland.  Also featuring are a number of Roald Dahl novels and two of the Narnia series.  A cursory glance shows the majority of authors are English with a smattering of American and one Canadian-LM Montgomery with Anne of Green Gables. 

 

Seriously, the gurus at Sainsbury’s have not included one Australian children’s author in  the mix and I am wondering how can this be?  Was it a commercial decision … the list looks a lot like a supermarkets stock list!   If I were to compile a list of the books I think all children should have read or heard before they turned 16 it would look very different to the Sainsbury list.  Watch this space!

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