Enid Blyton’s ‘Famous Five’ voted most loved children’s books of all time

A new survey’s revealed Enid Blyton’s ‘Famous Five’ to be the most loved children’s books of all time.

Camden Market has revealed details of their poll just in time for today’s World Book Day which sees many young people head to school dressed as their favourite characters, including in Carlow and Kilkenny.

The majority of 2,000 respondents selected the British author whose titles have sold over 600million.

Her writings were followed by CS Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’, Roald Dahl’s ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, ‘Winnie the Pooh’ by AA Milne with Kenneth Grahame offering ‘The Wind in the Willows’ completing the top five.

Full list:

1. The Famous Five series
2. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
4. Winnie The Pooh
5. The Wind in the Willows
6. The Hungry Caterpillar
7. The Jungle Book
8. Mr. Men and Little Miss books
9. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
10. The Railway Children
11. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
12. The Secret Garden
13. Black Beauty
14. The BFG
15. Peter Pan
16. Treasure Island
17. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
18. Matilda
19. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
20. A Bear Called Paddington
21. Watership Down
22. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
23. The Gruffalo
24. James and the Giant Peach
25. Little Women
26. The Tiger Who Came To Tea
27. The Hobbit
28. Hansel and Gretel
29. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
30. We’re Going On A Bear Hunt
31. Fantastic Mr. Fox
32. The Cat In The Hat
33. The Twits
34. Charlotte’s Web
35. The Witches
36. Spot The Dog
37. Room On The Broom
38. Stick Man
39. The Golden Compass
40. Where The Wild Things Are
41. The Story of Tracy Beaker
42. Each Peach Pear Plum
43. A Squash and a Squeeze
44. Gangsta Granny
45. The Little Prince
46. Billionaire Boy
47. Girls In Love
48. The Illustrated Mum
49. The Paper Dolls
50. Moominland Winter