Which author will win the battle for the Best Children's Book of the past decade?

The viewers of the BBC series Blue Peter and programme [British spelling] editor Tim Levell will be deciding which children's book of the past decade is the best.

Luckily, this will not be another People's Choice award fiasco, where four of the five choices were Harry Potter stars, and the fans spread the votes out among the four with the end result of losing to the only other nominee. In this case, the vote is strictly for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

The boy wizard takes on David Williams's Mr. Stink, and Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider Skeleton Key, Jacqueline Wilson's Candy Floss, Francesca Simon's Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy, Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful, Charlie Higson's Silver Fin, and John Grisham's Theodore Boone.

Be sure to head over to the website right here and vote now.

MuggleNet's Top Trivia Winners for January

Are you playing MuggleNet's daily trivia challenge? Do you think you have the dedication and knowledge of the Harry Potter series that will set you apart from the rest of the fans? Give it a shot and find out!

Each month we are resetting the points and announcing the trivia leaders. So be sure to visit the site each and every day, login to your MuggleNet account, and answer the three (3) trivia questions to the best of your ability. You will earn ONE point for each correct answer and TWO points for each correct answer every Friday. You will get recognized if your knowledge and dedication are tops, as long as you are not gaming the system.

Join us in congratulating the January winners: Mike, Elizabeth, Maegahn, Carroll Jackson, Slytherclaw, Michelle Tsai, Diana Mayhall, and Michael Stiger.

Feel free to email me directly at keith@staff.mugglenet.com if you have any comments or concerns with the trivia questions or the results as announced.

Good luck to everyone who plays in February!

MuggleNet's February birthday reminders

We would like to extend a very Happy Birthday wish to the actors, actresses, characters, and MuggleNet Staff members that make the Harry Potter series so successful today.

February birthdays:

3rd - Warwick Davis - Professor Filius Flitwick, Griphook (DH)
6th - Arthur Weasley
8th - Carolyn Pickles - Charity Burbage
8th - John Williams - Composer
9th - Ciaran Hinds - Aberforth Dumbledore
12th - Afshan Azad - Padma Patil
17th - Bonnie Wright - Ginny Weasley
17th - Emerson Spartz - MuggleNet Founder/CEO of Spartz Media
18th - Rosie Morris - MuggleNet Fan Fiction Staff member
19th - Luke Newberry - Teddy Lupin (credited)
21st - Alan Rickman - Professor Severus Snape
22nd - Julie Walters - Molly Weasley
23rd - Kelly MacDonald - Helena Ravenclaw
25th - James Phelps - Fred Weasley
25th - Oliver Phelps - George Weasley
26th - Rohan Gotobed - Young Sirius Black
27th - Timothy Spall - Peter Pettigrew
28th - Alfred Burke - Armando Dippet (COS)
28th - Georgina Leonidas - Katie Bell (DH)

May all of your birthday wishes come true.

Is your birthday in the month of February? Do you share a birthday with someone on this list? Let us know in the comments below.

Reading 'Harry Potter' helps college students with the classics of literature

Colleges and University professors from all over have begun teaching the literature of J.K.Rowling's Harry Potter series in the classroom. And for those who grew up reading the seven book series, professors are finding that students are able to better understand and appreciate the classic literature of Charles Dickens, according to a Washington and Lee University English professor.

Suzanne Keen has struggled in the past to educate college students on classical pieces by Charles Dickens, whose 200th birthday is on February 7th, and with the exception of the infamous tale A Christmas Carol, found that students from six or seven years ago did not enjoy other works by the author, like Little Dorrit.

"It seemed that students were losing their connection to Dickens," Suzanne said. "That was alarming, because, amongst the Victorian novelists, Dickens is the most popular, the most fun, the easiest to read - right up there with Jane Austen."

Today, the students entering colleges and universities grew up reading the Harry Potter series. Consequently, said Keen, "they get Dickens." Apparently, reading Harry Potter is like taking a crash course in reading Dickens because "it's got humor, it's got the caricatured names, it's got multi-plots, it's got the really long stories that you read for hours and hours and hours, and you enjoy the fact that they're long."

Suzanne goes on in the article that she gives all of the credit to J.K. Rowling for priming the younger students with a kid's book version of a Dickensian world. A generation that enjoys reading long books, talking about books with other students, and better appreciating classical English Literature with the likes of Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.

Do you feel that reading the Harry Potter series has given you a greater appreciation towards reading classical works that you might not otherwise have enjoyed as much? Let us know in the comments below. Discussions are welcome.

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Matthew Lewis is ALL grown-up in these photos from MTV News

Here are some new photos of Matthew Lewis - the actor who portrayed our favorite sword weilding Neville Longbottom - that MTV News grabbed from the one-time Hump Day Hottie looking very grown-up.

These photos were taken by London-based photographer Idil Sukan, who was the official photographer for the British Independent Film Awards.

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Matt has just wrapped up the filming on a major BBC TV project called The Syndicate and is set to begin work on a new film called Wasteland at the end of the month.

What future type of film would you like to see Matt in next? Let us know in our new comment system below.