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The inclusion of "My First Travel Book: Angelic Airline Adventures" is a little strange. It doesn't seem to fit the list, and yet it has more than double the number of votes of the (currently) next-most-popular book on the list. Many of the voters who voted for that book voted only for that book and none of the others on the list. Perhaps the author sent out a mass email asking friends to vote for it, but it's in the wrong place in my opinion.

Looks like an author ring, at least in part.

Many of these books are not for the 5-years old crowd. Damn insecure authors who feel the need to mess up each and every list. Are their insecurities so large they feel the need to invade even a list geared toward good books for the smallest of our young readers? Yuck!

Love Clifford...one of my daughter's favorites. :)

I suggest removing the following books from this list:


Switch! The Lost Kingdoms of Karibu
My First Travel Angelic Airline Adventures
Turtle Wish
Fruzzle's Mystery Talent: A Bed Time Fantasy Story for Children ages 3-10

This is really unremarkable literature, deriding the term ‘fantastic’ and the illustrations border on ‘repulsively hideous’. Let’s not clog up the list with second rate material, but give space to the titles the readers themselves chose, namely Charlie Bucket, Winnie-the-Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, Hobbit, Wind in the Willows, etc.

A great collection of stories for children. A nice mixture of established authors and fresh new perspectives from the independently published. I am glad to see some of my favourites populating the top five as well. Well done :)

Peter wrote: " ... fresh new perspectives from the independently published. I am glad to see some of my favourites populating the top five ..."

Alright Peter, since you specifically refer to the four top titles that have been spammed onto this list by an author review circle group, but don't mention any quality books, would you mind explaining to us what exactly it is that makes these four books your favorite books?

I ask because none of the readers I interact with seems to like them, and no wonder since the books seem genuinely uninspired not to mention the illustrations which look as if they were drawn by a six year old ...

As far as I can see they're really out of place here and artificially driving up the rankings of books with organized voting campaigns on lists created by readers is not in the spirit of Goodreads TOS.

Fjóla wrote: "Peter wrote: " ... fresh new perspectives from the independently published. I am glad to see some of my favourites populating the top five ..."

Alright Peter, since you specifically refer to the f..."

That's a good question. Firstly these are not my favourite books, they are some of my favourites. The truth be told, as I am not the target audience I couldn't tell you exactly what the appeal is about them because I am rating them on the reaction of my nieces when they read them. The fact that these books very quickly grabbed their attention and, after reading, they recommended them to their friends at school speaks for itself in my opinion.

Matt wrote: "The inclusion of "My First Travel Book: Angelic Airline Adventures" is a little strange. It doesn't seem to fit the list, and yet it has more than double the number of votes of the (currently) next..." It's a delightful travel book for young children and describes the wonders of faraway lands.

Wanda wrote: "Many of these books are not for the 5-years old crowd. Damn insecure authors who feel the need to mess up each and every list. Are their insecurities so large they feel the need to invade even a ..."

Simon wrote: "It's a delightful travel book for young children and describes the wonders of faraway lands."

Perhaps it is, I haven't read it. But it seems unlikely (to the point of being suspicious) that it has gathered more votes than classics like Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, and the Wizard of Oz. It smells of a ballot-stuffing campaign to me.

Fanscan vote for their fave books as far as I am aware.

Simon wrote: "Fans can vote for their fave books as far as I am aware."

Of course they can. Perhaps you missed my point. I'm saying that it seems unlikely that these 4 relatively unknown books have more fans than the classics I mentioned, unless there was an organized campaign to encourage those fans to vote here.

Oh, no! The list has been hijacked again, this time by the author of Nanny and Me, the bulk of the voters for which only have this one single book shelved on GR. And even if the votes weren't author circle votes, I really don't see the "fantasy" connection, does anyone ... ?

Do you want me to remove that? That book, from the blurb, is not a fantasy novel.

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "Do you want me to remove that? That book, from the blurb, is not a fantasy novel."

Hi Susanna, yes--if you can remove it I think that is the right thing to do. It does seem to be there because it was promoted, and not because of organic votes. Thank you!

Done.