Spotted a gorgeous booklist in the paper the other day. It was the top 50 Best Children's Books of All Time.
A poll of 4,000 readers was carried out by independent charity Booktrust to highlight its Bookstart initiative, which provides children with free books.
And they came up with some fascinating choices. Oxford's CS Lewis took the number one spot with The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, but there was no place for Tolkien, not even The Hobbit.
Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar came second. The picture book is thought to have sold one copy every minute since it was published in 1969.
In third place was Enid Blyton's Famous Five series of 21 books, which kept me gripped in the mid 1970s before I moved onto other things.
I was also pleased to see Blyton's The Faraway Tree in at 7, which my four-year-old has just polished off.
Roald Dahl titles got quite a few votes and another of my favourites, Clive King's Stig of the Dump, was included at number 21.
Jeff Brown's Flat Stanley series, which I only discovered recently, got enough votes to reach number 45 and the Mr Men series was at 17, although I have seen the funny books placed higher in other charts.
Shame there was no place for Rupert Bear, Tintin, or Philippa Pearce's Tom's Midnight Garden. And Ladybird Books, of course.
Have a look at Booktrust's list if you get a chance and let me know some of your childhood favourites, or your children's favourites.