The eleven greatest children’s books

BBC.com Culture’s Jane Ciabattari polled dozens of critics around the world about the best children’s books (for ages 10 and under) ever published in English. One of the top 11 on the list:Ursula K Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)

A young boy known as Sparrowhawk saves his village with a smattering of magic he learned from his aunt, a local witch. Apprenticed to the mage Ogion the Silent,