Recommend classic children's books for me to read

[starfish8]

Have a young DS (not even at school yet) and have been thinking about wanting to reconnect with some classic children's books I read/or didn't as a child myself. Will buy physical copies that can get reused by him over time, and I'd like to support him by being more familiar about the stories myself.

Can anyone add to this list....

Roald Dahl - BFG, Matilda, George's Marvellous Medicine, The Twits, The Witches - List goes on
Harry Potter - Haven't read any of these
Worst Witch - A real favourite as a child
Malory Towers - Another favourite for me when I was little - Ok, probably not one for my son!

Also, read Wonder by R J Palacio last year and really enjoyed this youth novel. Can anyone recommend any must read recent modern young fiction novels too?

Thanks!

[LotsofDots]

Swallows and amazons
Definitely Harry Potter!
Little house on the prairie
Some of the David Walliams books are excellent for newer ones
Charlotte's web
Wizard of Oz
Young adult recent books - the hunger games

[SerenityReynolds]

The Narnia Chronicles
Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

[Lurkedforever1]

Owl who was afraid of the dark
What Katy did books
Heidi
Little women
Under the hawthorn tree
Tom Browns schooldays
Chalet school
Trebizon
Clever polly and the stupid wolf
My naughty little sister
101 Dalmatians (dodie smith not Disney)
Tom Sawyer
Wolves of willoghby chase
The borrowers

Sure I can add lots more but just some of my favourites as a child across a few years of age range.

[SoMuchToBits]

Yes to Swallows and Amazons. My ds (now 15) keeps re-reading those!

Also, the 'Dark is Rising' series by Susan Cooper, and the Earthsea books by Ursula Le Guin, and anything by Diana Wynne Jones.

Hobbit is a classic too.

If you liked Wonder, you might also like 'Jake and Lily' and 'Stargirl' by Jerry Spinelli.

[starfish8]

Wow! Messages within a few minutes thanks!

[SerenityReynolds]

Oooohhh, I loved The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark

[SoMuchToBits]

Stig of the Dump - Clive King
The Silver Sword - Ian Seraillier
Emil and the Detectives - Erich Kastner

[redhat]

A little princess

[SoMuchToBits]

For pre-school children, we also loved the Little Red Train books by Benedict Blathwayt (great illustrations), and the Blue Kangaroo books by Emma Chichester Clarke. And several of the Julia Donaldson books too.

[Equiem89]

The secret garden
The little princess
Black beauty
Little women
Pride and prejudice
Jane eyre
Any on this list www.listchallenges.com/50-books-to-read-before-you-die

[Potcallingkettle]

Diana Wynne Jones - the Chrestomanci books. Definitely Swallows and Amazons. The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M Boston.

[LotsofDots]

The secret of Nimh

[SoMuchToBits]

And The Secret Garden, redhat!

[Jaimx86]

The Far Away Tree
The Wishing Chair

Both wonderfully enchanting Enid Blyton books. Can't recommend them enough. At 8 years old I'd sit and read from start to end without moving!

[HarveySchlumpfenburger]

Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
The little White Horse
Black Beauty
His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman
Carrie'S War
Journey to the River Sea - Eva Ibbotson
Stig of the Dump
Goodnight Mr Tom
Ballet Shoes
Alice in Wonderland

[SoMuchToBits]

My ds also enjoyed a lot of books by Anthony Horowitz (the Diamond Brothers ones, then the Alex Rider series) when he was a bit older (9 upwards).

He also loved the Professor Branestawm books - classic, not currently very trendy, but they really made him laugh. We also enjoyed the Jeremy James books by David Henry Wilson, when he was about 8 or so.

[Creatureofthenight]

Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian
The Secret Garden (and A Little Princess, my favourite!) - Frances Hodgson Burnett

Newer stuff -
Anything by Frances Hardinge
His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Anything by Patrick Ness

[SoMuchToBits]

Oh, and Alan Garner - the Weirdstone of Brisingamen etc.

[HarveySchlumpfenburger]

x posts with a lot of people as I scanned the bookshelf

[BeaufortBelle]

Thomas the Tank Engine by the Rev W Awdry
Richard Scarry
Michael Morpurgi - all
Lemony Snicket
Michele Paviour
Flat Stanley
Dr Zeuss
Alan Ahlberg (The Big Skeleton and,The Little Skeleton)
Each, Peach, Pear Plum

What others have said. Oh, what an exciting stage xx

[Equiem89]

Loving this. I'm going to read all my childhood books again

[Lurkedforever1]

More-
5 children and it
Children of the new forest
Railway children
Apricots at midnight
Treasure island
Judy Blume
Loads of pony stories too, but won't bore you with lists unless it's an interest.

[Moln]

Are you intending to read them to read them to him?

If it's the former then I would suggest you certainly read Roald Dahl (some of the smaller ones go down well with preschoolers too) and David Walliams has a similar great fun/gross/sad thing going on.

Along with

The Secret Garden, A Little Princess - both Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Women (and subsequent books) - Louisa May Alcott
Charlotte's Web - E B White
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
Winne-the-Pooh (all of them)
Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Watership Down -
Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson

I'm pretty sure there's more - I'll think more

Modern wise 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' is great.

[PigeonPie]

Yes, to most of these, but also the Borrowers series.

[HarveySchlumpfenburger]

I'm starting a list myself equiem. I started 'Over Sea Under Stone' last week but there's loads here I want to read again and I few I haven't read at all.

Might need to find my library card, too.