100+Best+Lists


 * 100 Best Lists Compiled by Betsy Bird (Fuse #8)**

Recently, Betsy Bird (who blogs under the name Fuse #8) polled her readers to determine the Top 100 Children's Novels.

Click here for a link to the complete list. Which books have you read? Do you agree with the top 10? Do you agree with the entire list?

Here are some follow up posts talking about books 101-120 on the list and posts about books that are missing completely here and here.

In this video clip from Scholastic, Betsy Bird talks about the list, the problems with the list (it isn't very diverse) and how it was compiled.

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Last year, Betsy and her readers compiled a list of the Top 100 Picture Books. The list is here. Again, what do you think of this list overall? What is missing? What surprises you?