YOU'LL RUIN YOUR EYES, YOUNG LADY

Briatain's ten favourite children's novels (BH*):

1 Roald Dahl - Matilda
2 Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
3 CS Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
4 AA Milne - Winnie the Pooh
5 JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit
6 Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
7 Arthur Ransome - Swallows and Amazons
8 Roald Dahl - The BFG
9 Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland
10 Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden

*Before Harry

Source: BBC Waterstone's poll 1997