Which British children's book character did you adore most growing up?

Michael Bond's polite bear from darkest Peru has been charming readers since 1958. A hard stare, a suitcase, and a sandwich under his hat — pure cosy comfort.

A clever little girl with telekinetic powers and a fierce love of libraries. Matilda taught a generation that reading is its own kind of magic.

J.K. Rowling's bespectacled hero made millions of kids check their letterbox on their eleventh birthday. Hogwarts forever changed bedtime reading.

Roald Dahl's Big Friendly Giant gave us snozzcumbers, frobscottle and a vocabulary all of his own. Gobblefunk at its finest.

A.A. Milne's honey-obsessed teddy and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood are the gentlest corner of British childhood. Pure, unfiltered cosiness.