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What are the most popular children’s authors for early years, infants and juniors?

Popular children authors include:

1. ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury
2. ‘Room on the Broom’ by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
3. ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell
4. ‘ The tiger who came for tea’ by Judith Kerr
5. ‘Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy’ by Lynley Dodd
6. ‘ The tale of Peter Rabbit’ by Beatrix Potter
7. ‘The cat in the hat’ by Dr. Seuss

Books play a big part in a child life, considerably more in the early stages where books tend to be used to send a child to sleep. All these Books categorised as being the most popular children books contain some element of an animal, implying that young children enjoy and are drawn to books containing creatures.  It triggers their imagination with many of the characters the animals play not being a true representation of the animal. I believe this has made these books a success as it takes a child’s into a fantasy world. Many of the fictional characters in these books have a toy out; greater expanding the publicity as well as the popularity of the books. ‘The cat in the hat’ by Dr. Seuss is an example of when a character has been transformed into a toy, as well as a film, giving evidence of how the film is so popular. By it being a film, created a bigger audience for ‘The cat in the hat’, from children to families. These stories also have a rhyming style to them, making the stories flow and be more exciting to read. This will increase the attention a young child will have towards the story as an infant will get easily distracted and get bored of reading simple sentences which sound the same.

When I was younger a book I loved was ‘Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy’ By Lynley Dodd because I liked how every different type of dog bread is unique and is being described with a rhythm behind it. I also liked how every time a new dog is being described, it is added to a list of the previous dogs which makes the book not only interesting, but a challenged as you take it upon yourself to remember the order of when the dogs get introduced. I think I remember this book because my parents also read this book when they were younger and it has been a book read by many people in my family. I think the title of the book also makes it catchy and easy to remember as it comes across as a bit of a tongue twister, making you repeat it to get it right and therefore it moves into your long-term memory.

In contrast, children get taught to read books using the ‘Biff, Chip and Kipper’ books with 80% of primary schools including them within their teaching methods. They have two types of these books; the Phonetic stories which are entertaining that focuses on giving children practice in letters and sounds, and On the other hand, you have the First stories that are motivating stories, helping children with their everyday language and to develop their vocabulary. There are 6 levels within these books, challenging the child the further along they go. This allows the child to create a connection with the characters throughout the whole time they are developing their reading skills which, implies a child learns more effectively when they have a connection with the book and can maybe relate to it. However, this does not broaden a child’s mind on the different genres of books there are available. With the ‘Biff, Chip and Kipper’ books al being an adventure genre, children are unable to explore genres such as romance, action and thriller (although thriller and horror genres not being very suitable for young ages).