DON’T GET CAUGHT: Lucy Mangan’s list of indispensable children’s fiction is… worth fighting.

I love The Borribles more than life, and I think Mangan makes the case for them in her arm’s-length review. The third volume is skippable, but The Borribles and The Borribles Go for Broke are somewhere beyond children’s classics.

She’s made me really want to read Rumer Godden’s A Doll’s House,