Books every child should read

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meditrina · 22/03/2011 13:59

Inspired by the Gove thread today.

If you were making a list of 50 books all children should read before they leave school, what would you put on it?

I'd start with:

The Narnia books
The Little White Horse
The Indian in the Cupboard

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cazzybabs · 22/03/2011 14:43

the thing is about lists like this they would need to updated to reflect modern books coming out to appeal to all children.

I would put on it paddington bear, the wind in the willows - but this may be too white middleclass for some and put lots of children off. I mean about boys - they are not going to like some of these

Niecie · 22/03/2011 14:39

Michael Murpurgo too.

Difficult to chose one or two.

Niecie · 22/03/2011 14:37

Roahl Dahl - all of them
Harry Potter - all of them
Paddington Bear
Wind in the Willows

frasersmummy · 22/03/2011 14:33

the famous five

talkingnonsense · 22/03/2011 14:32

Anything by:
Diana Wynne Jones
Margaret Mahy
Anne Fine

barmbrack · 22/03/2011 14:04

Not Narnia on my list (too quasi-religious)

Winnie The Pooh
Swallows and Amazons
Alice in Wonderland
All the Roald Dahl ones!

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