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round 2, poll 210

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which cover do you like best?

the pheonix and the carpet by e nesbit

荒野之狼 by Hermann Hesse. Original title Steppenwolf

Voting ended onMar 4

remember, you're voting for the cover, not the author or the book!

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five children and it - edith nesbit

The Railway Children / The Railway Children by E Nesbit

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There is nothing that delights my heart more than the way children are written in classic literature. I'm listening to Anne of Ingleside right now, and the fact that she refers to all five of her kids as "the babies" even though the oldest is 7 is simply TOO wholesome. There is also a line about chubby hands and knees and oh—

And Demi and Daisy in Little Women? And the way tiny Bess in Little Men rules the house as the little princess the boys worship? Or the pure, perfect innocence of Diamond in At the Back of the North Wind?

But even when the "cute factor" isn't the focal point, I just think classic books are better at depicting children. The Bastable children in Story of the Treasure Seekers? So good. The thought processes of Cyril, Anthea, Robert, and Jane in The Five Children and It books? They are *so accurately* the thoughts of kids. The insults Jem hurls at Anne and Gilbert when they won't let him go out with his friends, and how he gets angrier the calmer they are?

Circa 1850-1950 must have been the golden age of children's literature