His Dark Materials has been voted best children's book in 70 years: agree or disagree?

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I would have gone with The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe myself.

oh I positively ADORE Tom's Midnight Garden. Was absolutely magical for me when I read it as a child. Completely opened my mind.

Where was the vote compo?
HDM is a masterpiece but so many other writers would vie with Philip Pullman, as others have said: Philippa Pearce, Lucy M Boston, Rosemary Sutcliff (if we are talking sombre fiction for older children The Eagle of the Ninth is up there in my top ten), Diana Wynne Jones, Catherine Storr, Penelope Lively, Alison Uttley, Michael Morpurgo....

and what do we have now

bloomin Jordan

for enid

I am boycotting those books. I know, I'm a total sourpuss because I bet dd would love them but I hate the whole marketing thing. Really pisses me off.

the first book is brilliant but again the second two are pretty turgid

has he tried teh silmarillion (sp)

We don't have to though Enid, we can keep carpet-bombing our children with Eizabeth Goudge and Antonia Forest

ME TOO FOXY

I cannot get my head around it

they are totally banned here (not that dd1 knows they exist yet)

at the Silmarillion. Once tried, never forgotten, eeek
I was right with C S Lewis on that one and I do like LOTR and The Hobbit

Snuggling up with Ulysses and Cloud Atlas chez moi dino

yes me too

I really begged my dad to buy it for me too

I lied and pretended I had read it

I love this comment from the guardien arts blog re katie price horse stories:

""Oooh, you bitch" neighed Tinkerbell as she was confronted with the sight of Moppet enjoying a clopping romp in the meadow with her cheating love-stallion Blazer."

lol @ cloud atlas - me too

and that d c pierre one

i have done ulysees [smug]
actually its not too bad once you give yourself over to it

Marina I read it in The Sun
It said it was voted for last night but didn't give any more details

I quite enjoyed Ulysses (but haven't even got past the first page of any of the others)

lol enid - I loved that comment. I also reckon that sort of book, written by Jordan, would outsell all her pissy pony books put together.

Jordan's written a children's book? Oh...OK.

Am I the only one who didn't finish HDM then? I gave up midway through the third book (to be fair, I had just had ds2 and couldn't concentrate or stay awake).

Oh and A Heartbreaking Waste of Marina's Money by that pill Dave Eggars

lolol marina

Public vote for Pullman as all-time best winner of Carnegie Medal here you go compo

she has written a set of 'adult' books that were launched at the same time as the pony books

its all sick and wrong IMO

The moofala did for you too then moo
Agree with enid book three goes off spectacularly

I think if I had just taken a tab of acid it would have made perfect sense

I reckon his shed was closing in on him by book 3