Voted Five Children and It partly because I haven't read very many of these books, but also because it was such a milestone in children's literature. Children's lit was barely there before E. Nesbit came along, and she wrote books that treated kids as kids - not little angels or cautionary tales, but real kids who had their own lives and interests. Before her, children's fantasy was mostly psychedelic dreamscapes. She invented the kind of children's book where something magical intersects with the real world, so that the characters have to fit time travel or wish-granting sand-fairies into their regular lives, with all the practical problems that would entail. That's a huge leap forward for children's lit and for fantasy in general.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 6 September 2020 19:52 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 7 September 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1903
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 7 September 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link