A World Book Day poll has found that Harry Potterâs wizard adventures are the books we would most like to pass on to the next generation.
JK Rowlingâs Hogwarts series came top of a poll commissioned for World Book Day asking readers which books of the noughties they would give to youngsters.
Dan Brown âs best-seller The Da Vinci Code came second, followed by some choices which are more surprising.
They include a collection of scientific conundrums titled Why Donât Penguinsâ Feet Freeze? and the 9/11 Commission Report by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States.
You Are What You Eat by Scottish diet guru Gillian McKeith came in at No.8, above Barack Obamaâs autobiography Dreams From My Father.
More than 1,000 people aged 16 to 64 were surveyed and Scots were revealed as the most generous with their books, with almost 65 per cent saying they had given one or more as a present in the last 12 months.
World Book Day 2010 is a celebration of reading and literature, with sponsored ‘readathons’, book giveaways and promotions across the country.