BBC's Online Network suggests in their online article entitled Education the Books Children are Reading (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/293337.stm) that children's interests and desires have the potential to change significantly over a series of decades.
Top 10 Books for 12-year-olds in 1971
The article states that "children are reading more books than their parents in the 70's" and it also suggests that children are reading nonfictional types of literature like the morning paper. This is thought to be the cause of the modernization of the literature being read which undoubedly calls for the expanding of the child's mind. It can be inferred that these nonfiction reads are driving children to more current literature. Although the stories are fictional, it cannot be argued that stories like The Babysitter's Club series, and Jurassic Park are taken place in the present
Top 10 Books for 12-year-olds in 1971
- Little Women by Louisa M Alcott
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Heidi by Johanna Spyri
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- The Secret Seven by Ian Serraillier
- Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Top 10 books for 12-year-old children in the '90's
- Point Horror by various authors
- Sweet Valley series by Francine Pascal
- Babysitter's Club by Ann M. Martin
- Matilda by Road Dahl
- The Witches by Road Dahl
- The Twits by Road Dahl
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Road Dahl
- Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
- What Katy Did series Susan Coolidge
Top 10 books for 12-year-old boys in the '90's
- The BFG by Road Dahl
- The Witches by Road Dahl
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Road Dahl
- Point Horror series by various authors
- Adrian Mole series by Sue Townsend
- Asterix series by Rene Goscinny
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- The Twits by Road Dahl
- The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The article states that "children are reading more books than their parents in the 70's" and it also suggests that children are reading nonfictional types of literature like the morning paper. This is thought to be the cause of the modernization of the literature being read which undoubedly calls for the expanding of the child's mind. It can be inferred that these nonfiction reads are driving children to more current literature. Although the stories are fictional, it cannot be argued that stories like The Babysitter's Club series, and Jurassic Park are taken place in the present
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