Is Lewis Carroll’s tale really about sex, drugs, and colonialism? Some say yes. Others argue it’s about eating disorders or the Wars of the Roses. Hephzibah Anderson takes a look.

The recent titles that made it into BBC Culture's 100 greatest children's books reveal how storytelling for children is evolving in exciting ways, writes Hephzibah Anderson.

BBC Culture polled 177 experts from 56 countries to find the greatest children's books ever. From Where the Wild Things Are to Haroun and the Sea of Stories, here's the top 100.

We polled 177 experts from around the world for their greatest children's books of all time. Here are their votes in full.

What do the global critics and experts who voted in our poll have to say about their top picks?

Where the Wild Things Are is number one on BBC Culture's poll of the greatest children's books. Imogen Carter explores its appeal.

Roald Dahl was an unpleasant man who wrote macabre books – and yet children around the world adore them. Perhaps this shouldn’t surprise us, writes Hephzibah Anderson.

For many Germans, The Cloud remains the ultimate "catastrophe book". But did it empower generations of children or leave them traumatised for life, asks Sophie Hardach.