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Who is top of your list of best children's books villain? Well Bloomsbury's Big Bad Read has been asking people to vote and now the results are in.
Number one is Lord Voldermort from J.K Rowling's Harry Potter series followed by Sauron form J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. No great surprises there - but there's some fabulous lesser known boo-hiss characters in the top twenty including the very scary 'The Other Mother' from Coraline by Neil Gaiman and Napoleon the Pig from George Orwell's Animal Farm. Off the top of my head some of my favourites include Charles 'Trout' Walker (nasty) from Louis Sacher's Holes, Muriel (awful) in the Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson and Tucka Mertslin (terrible but hilarious) from Michael Hoeye's Hermux Tantamoq's books.
Anyway here's the full list - let me know what you think about the choices and who else you would add to it.
1 Lord Voldemort Harry Potter series J.K. Rowling
2 Sauron The Lord of the Rings Trilogy J.R.R. Tolkien
3 Mrs Coulter His Dark Materials Sequence Philip Pullman
4 Lex Luthor Superman Graphic novels DC Comics
5 The Joker Batman Graphic novels DC Comics
6 Count Olaf A Series of Unfortunate Events Lemony Snicket
7 The Other Mother Coraline Neil Gaiman
8 The White Witch The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis
9 Dracula Dracula Bram Stoker
10 Artemis Fowl Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer
11 Magneto X-Men Comics Marvel Comics
12 Professor Moriarty Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
13 Zaphod Beeblebrox HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
14 Captain Hook Peter Pan J.M. Barrie
15 Napoleon the Pig Animal Farm George Orwell
16 Heathcliff Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
17 Miss Trunchbull Matilda Roald Dahl
18 Cruella de Vil 101 Dalmations Dodie Smith
19 The Wicked Witch of the West The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum
20 The Grinch How the Grinch Stole Christmas Dr. Seuss
J.K. Rowling said: "I am thrilled and honoured beyond words that Lord Voldemort has been voted best villain in the BigBadRead poll. I am not sure how he would react to knowing that he had won a Muggles' unpopularity poll. A mixture of pleasure that you recognised his power and menace, coupled with fury at your nerve at mentioning his real name, I think. His author, however, is absolutely delighted."
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