JKR's Top Children's Books list

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 157429

I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, so I thought I'd put it up as
a public service.  This is from the latest issue of the Royal Society
of Literature's magazine, which asked several authors, including JKR
and Philip Pullman, to list their top 10 books they recommed for young
people.  Here's JKR's list:

1. Wuthering Heights
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
3. Robinson Crusoe
4. David Copperfield
5. Catch-22
6. To Kill a Mockingbird
7. Animal Farm
8. Two Bad Mice
9. Catcher in the Rye
10. Hamlet 

Geez, "Animal Farm" AND "Catch-22" AND "Catcher in the Rye" AND
"Hamlet"?  I can see where Harry gets his Angst from!  Those adults
are all phonies, man, phonies!!  

"The Tale of Two Bad Mice" is class, though; I always hear thrash
metal in my head when they trash the dollhouse (oh, yay, you can read
it online!:  http://wiredforbooks.org/kids/beatrix/bm0.htm ).  And
hurray for Robinson Crusoe!

Final note-- dude, it's a bit rich for her to be cautioning the
kiddies against falling for Bad Boys, and then putting "Wuthering
Heights" at the top of her list for impressionable young minds. 

-- Sydney