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“This is my favourite of the five books I’ve recommended. To be honest, I prefer Ali Smith’s version to Sophocles’s. It’s a lot funnier, for a start…The crow narrator is a stroke of genius. He reminds me a little of Statler and Waldorf from the Muppets.” Read more...
The Best Classics Books for Children
Annelise Gray, Children's Author
Our most recommended books
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Danny Champion of the World
by Roald Dahl -
From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler
by E L Konigsburg -
Inventors: Incredible Stories of the World's Most Ingenious Inventions
by Robert Winston & Jessamy Hawke (illustrator) -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll -
Harry Potter: the Complete Series
by J.K. Rowling -
Carrie's War
Nina Bawden, Alan Marks (illustrator)