Winnie-the-Pooh emerges as most loved kid’s book

Winnie-The-Pooh has triumphed over modern titles such as The Gruffalo to be named the best-loved children’s book of the last 150 years.

AA Milne’s classic, published in 1926, was the first volume of stories about the likes of Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, and the “bear of very little brain”.

Lewis Carroll’s fantasy novel Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (1865) came second, followed by The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969) by US author and illustrator Eric Carle.