Top Kids Reads of 1898

[emma_in_dream]

According to *The Academy*'s survey of bookshops in 1898, the most popular children's books in England were in this order:

Alice in Wonderland (1865)
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books (1889)
Hans Christian Anderson (1845)
The Water Babies (1863)
Mrs Molesworth
Eric, of Little by Little (1858)
The Jungle Books (1894)
Grimm's tales (1823)
Treasure Island (1881)

Comments

[heliopausa]

If they were surveying bookshops, those weren't the most popular, they were only the ones most bought.

[emma_in_dream]

True. Though at that time books had to be circulated through libraries before they went to bookshops, so only the ones that were taken out of libraries a lot made it into bookshops.

Though possibly the children liked others that were not bought for them - penny dreadfuls.