By Tim Cornwel, Arts Correspondentfor the ScotsmanFROM Charles Dickens' OIiver Twist to the 2008 paperback Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear, a huge comic hit with reviewers last year, top British children's writers named their all-time favourites yesterday.
The 35 top titles named by the five "children's laureates" in a comprehensive list ran from Robert Louis Stevenson to Enid Blyton. But they ignored two writers whose works have transformed children's literature in the 21st century – JK Rowling and Philip Pullman.When Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson and Michael Rosen revealed their choices, there was not a Harry Potter adventure in sight. Even more surprising, one literary expert said yesterday, was that Pullman's Northern Lights did not make the list.
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