Roald Dahl tops the list!

Roald Dahl’s Charlie & the Chocolate Factory has been voted top of a list of books teachers consider that all children should read before they leave primary school in a new poll conducted by the Times Educational Supplement and the National Association of Teaching English.

500 teachers compiled a list of what they considered to be the best children’s stories, resulting in the following top ten:

1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
2. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
3. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
4. Matilda by Roald Dahl
5. The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
6. The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis
7. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
8. We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
9. Dogger by Shirley Hughes
10. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

For more information and to view the complete list, visit the Times Educational Supplement website.