Wimpy Kid wins.
From a story about a new study in the Guardian...
Harry Potter, with his wand, spells and broomstick, would undoubtedly beat Wimpy Kid Greg Heffley if the pair were ever to face off, but American author Jeff Kinney's creation has nonetheless bested JK Rowling's boy wizard be named the surprise winner of the best children's book of the decade.
The 10 bestselling fiction books of the last 10 years for five-to-11 year olds, including Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and books by Anthony Horowitz, Jacqueline Wilson, Francesca Simon, John Grisham and Charlie Higson, were all in the running to be crowned Blue Peter's best children's book of the decade. But children, voting online, went for Kinney's illustrated diary about the life of bullied computer game obsessive Greg, as he struggles to survive school, siblings, girls and friends.
Blue Peter editor Tim Levell admitted that Diary of a Wimpy Kid's triumph was a "bit of a shock": Rowling usually tops every children's book poll going. "The accident-prone American upstart has snatched a bit of the boy wizard's magic," he said. More than 15,000 children voted in the poll, which only included the top-selling book per individual author.
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