Books you loved as a child and hope your children will love too.

A slight tangent as I'm realising what a small proportion of my childhood books in the late 80s/early 90s were contemporary - E Nesbit, Just William, Milly Molly Mandy, Enid Blyton, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Anne of Green Gables, Jennings and Darbyshire, Swallows and Amazons, Little Women, What Katy Did, Alice in Wonderland... I used to get more modern ones out of the library but my shelves at home were full of the old ones. I wonder how much children now are happy to read old books or whether new authors displace them.

Does anyone remember a book called 'The Giant Jam Sandwich'?

Pozzled - Willard Price has been reprinted recently (except Cannibal Adventure - wonder why?? and one other). Saw them in Waterstones and they were on the Book People with a big reduction too.

Love this thread.
Agree with so many and would love to find (when time) many of the ones I have heard of but never seem to have read. (Have just got the Magic Faraway Tree out of the library).
For me..The Secret Garden, the Jill books, the Lorna Hill books, Milly Molly Mandy, Malory Towers, the X of Adventure (by Enid Blyton), Biggles, Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the Prairie, Caroline and her Friends, Smokey House (Elizabeth Goudge), the Narnia books, I am David, the Painted Garden, Black Beauty.....Harry Potter (obviously!)
Look forward to hearing about more here.

My Mum saved all of my childhood books, pretty much all of them have been mentioned. They're all on DD's bookshelf waiting for her .
I've got loads of my old Ladybird Books too.
Also the original Topsy & Tim books with their adopted brother & sister Tansy & Teddy. They're not in any of the more recently published ones .

So many good ones here already!

I'll add The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark.

And:
Bread and Jam For Frances
The Tiger Who Came To Tea
Each Peach Pear Plum
Peepo

Pozzled, we had a few of those books. Infact, I'm sure my mum still has some in the loft.

I have two DSs, so: The Chronicles of Narnia, Watership Down, Roald Dahl (particularly James & the Giant Peach, The Twits and Charlie & the Choc Factory), The Hobbit, The LoTR, Swallows & Amazons, Harry Potter, The Box of Delights....

TallulahTinsel, strangely, I went to school with the star of the TV adaptation of, The Children of Green Knowe...

For me, it has to be:

Little Miss Pepperpot
Milly Molly Mandy
Six dinner Sid
The bear under the stairs

Many of those already mentioned plus
The velveteen rabbit or how toys become real
Carrie's War
Stig of the dump

Love this thread!
I've just finished reading The Magic Faraway Tree to my DD and it was my original copy, so Dick and Fanny ... I have bought her The Enchanted Wood for Christmas ... I'll be gutted if Dick and Fanny have morphed into Rick and Franny :-( in fact my 5yo didn't bat an eyelid at the names i giggled like a child everytime I read them

Moondial
Tom's Midnight Garden
The Ghost Of Thomas Kempe
and
The Famous Five, which, unlike the Enchanted Wood books, is still happily full of Dick and Fanny

beatricequimby I had forgotten Willard Price and Dicey Tillerman. I loved both those series, thanks for the reminder!

Great thread.

For me, many of the classics already mentioned:

Anne of Green Gables
Little Women
Heidi
Narnia
Also Pollyanna

His Dark Materials and Harry Potter
(read them as an adult but still can't wait to share them!)

And another very random one which DD1 already enjoys- The Blob Books. Anyone remember them? They were all different colours e.g Primrose Yellow, Poppy Red, Fizzy Orange. They all lived in Paintboxland, there were about 12 books in total but I've never found anyone outside my family that remembers them!

Willard Price adventures
Four Storey Mistake
Harriet the Spy
Dicey Tillerman Series
A Sound of Chariots by Molly Hunter
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Stig of the Dump
Jennings (although I sadly think they may be too dated? All those Latin references, but so funny, even as an adult)
Plus most of those everyone else has mentioned

All Noel Streatfield's, especially the 'Shoes' books
The Lorna Hill Sadler's Wells Ballet books
Charlotte Sometimes
Rebecca's World
Five Children and it
The Enchanted Garden
The Lost Prince
The Little Princess
The Tree That Sat Down
The Stream That Stood Still
The Mountain of Magic
The Whispering Knights
All Terry Pratchett's

Recently read Rebecca's World by Terry Nation to dd. Very relieved that she loved it as much as I did. Not so with King of the Copper Mountain.

Ones I have successfully introduced to the DCs:
Paddington books
My Naughty Little Sister series
Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf series

Ones I have tried and (so far) failed with:
Green Knowe books
Watership Down
Phantom Tollbooth
My Family and other Animals
All the Diana Wynne-Jones books
Joan Aiken
E Nesbit

I will try DD (10) with some of those again, but DS is 14 and has graduated from children's books. Strangely, I am having more like getting him interested in the adult books I liked as a teenager: he is currently reading Kafka...

Moomins all the way. Dh read them to Dd when she was tiny, then she read them herself, then she asked him to read them to her again.

Anne of Green Gables

Magic Faraway Tree, Wishing Chair, Tom's Midnight Garden, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, Malory Towers and St Clare's.

I also liked the Drina stories,
A Little Princess, although I loathed Little Lord Fauntleroy

Grinny totally freaked me out.

Ramona the Pest
what Katy did
Mildly Molly Mandy
The Chalet School Books
Mallory Towers
St Clares
Little Grey Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
Winnie the Pooh
Tilly and Tessa