| Cinderella Is Favourite Children's Book |
Cinderella was yesterday named as Britain’s favourite children’s book. The classic folktale of the kind but downtrodden housemaid who overcomes her ugly sisters and a wicked stepmother to find her prince was voted ahead of Winnie the Pooh and Little Red Riding Hood.
JK Rowling’s magical Harry Potter books, despite being a best-selling worldwide phenomenon, came in at number 11.
None of top 10 favourites was written after 1950, according to the survey of 1,016 adults by Fox’s Cubs.
But the pressures of modern-day life are turning storytelling into a dying art form, researchers also found after questioning 333 parents with children aged up to 10.
They discovered that 31% of parents rarely or never read their children a story while 37% thought it difficult to make up a story for their children.
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Even if they were given the chance of spending unlimited time with their child 24% of parents said they would sit down and watch television or a video.
Nationally, 28% of people read to their children every day compared to just 9% in Scotland and 47% in the Midlands.
The survey was commissioned as part of National Children’s Storytelling Day on April 23.
The top 10 children’s books voted were:
1. Cinderella, Charles Perrault, 1697
2. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne, 1926
3. Little Red Riding Hood, Charles Perrault, 1697
4. Sleeping Beauty, Charles Perrault, 1697
5. Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, 1865
6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis, 1950
7. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter, 1902
8. Peter Pan, JM Barrie, 1911
9. Goldilocks and the Three Bears, John Hassall, 1904
10. Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, 1908
Source: Scotsman
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The first ever children's book published by Wills & Hepworth was entitled 'The Fairies' - published in 1915, there were only 6 copies printed |
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