Dragons, magic and dystopia crowd out real world tales in survey of UK children's favourite reading
Fantastic success … Harry Potter fans buying copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Photograph: Frank May/EPA
From The Hobbit to the Hunger Games and Harry Potter, the list of books that the UK's children loved the most last year is almost entirely stuffed with fantasy novels.
Early findings from the biggest annual survey of UK children's reading habits were released today, showing a marked preference for dragons, magic and dystopia over novels set in the real world. According to the What Kids Are Reading report, the most-loved books of last year were JK Rowling's tales of a magical schoolboy, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which came in joint first place in the list, together with Suzanne Collins's Catching Fire, the second book in the dystopian Hunger Games trilogy.
Joint fourth place went to Christopher Paolini's tale of dragons and battles, Inheritance, and Rowling's Chamber of Secrets, with three more Harry Potter titles in joint sixth place, alongside JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring, Rick Riordan's The Lost Hero – starring the children of the Greek gods – and Veronica Roth's story of a dystopian future, Divergent.
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Early findings from the biggest annual survey of UK children's reading habits were released today, showing a marked preference for dragons, magic and dystopia over novels set in the real world. According to the What Kids Are Reading report, the most-loved books of last year were JK Rowling's tales of a magical schoolboy, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which came in joint first place in the list, together with Suzanne Collins's Catching Fire, the second book in the dystopian Hunger Games trilogy.
Joint fourth place went to Christopher Paolini's tale of dragons and battles, Inheritance, and Rowling's Chamber of Secrets, with three more Harry Potter titles in joint sixth place, alongside JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring, Rick Riordan's The Lost Hero – starring the children of the Greek gods – and Veronica Roth's story of a dystopian future, Divergent.
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