I recently bought a copy of Tom’s Midnight Garden to read to my daughter at bedtime, but she’s still a bit young (Roald Dahl is about as much as she can manage), maybe later.
I am very surprised Stig of the Dump isn’t on the list!
I thought Narnia was “YA” or Young Adult in the libraries here. In the US we have the Caldecott winners. I guess it’s sort of similar. (Okay, I just did a quick look, and it is in JUVENILE fiction??)
I just thought of something else…at the county libraries, there is a “children’s picture book” section. Which is for children’s books…but not necessarily books that children could read on their own. They are books that would be read TO kids by parents or teachers or whatever. Then the Easy Reader section, which is children’s books that children who can read would read alone, or with some help as they learn to read. Then you get into Juv Fic, which is the chapter books & things. Are the Carnegie books picture books (that have wonderful illustrations, but wouldn’t actually be read by a child alone) or are they chapter books? That might explain the difference. And then YA (young adult) would be more of the Christopher Pike (well, back in my day anyway) and books that are more intense…maybe for highschool students, rather than middle school.
I read The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe in grade school. It was either in second or fifth grade because I skipped third and fourth. Fifth grade makes more sense. Excerpts of it were in our English school book, but the teacher had us read the entire novel as well.
