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emma_in_dream ([personal profile] emma_in_dream) wrote2015-07-17 07:51 pm

Top Kids Reads of 1898

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)

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