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Which children's books sum up the decade they were published?

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, April 29, 2015 | 3:18 AM

Brandon Robshaw (AKA the dad in Back in Time for Dinner) picks out the children’s books from the 1950s to the 2000s that seem to sum up each decade.

Tell us the children’s books you think represent the decades, and predict which book may come to symbolise the 2010s on email childrens.books@theguardian.com or on Twitter @GdnChildrenBks

You may have seen a BBC2 TV programme that my family and I appear in, Back in Time for Dinner. In it, we live life first as a 1950s family, wearing 1950s clothes and eating 1950s food in a 1950s house – and then the following week we’re in the 1960s, and the week after that the 1970s, and so it goes up until the start of the 21^st century. It was a wonderful experience for us, and it brought home just how much food and lifestyles have changed within living memory.