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

Judy Blume- Starring Sally J. Freedman as herself

Posy and Sam- Ruth Silcock

and has anyone read Which Witch by Eva Ibbotson??

Wind in the Willows
The Hobbit
Minnow on the Say
Just So Stories
all the Flower Fairy books for their beautiful pictures
The Borrowers books

Oh and The Sheep Pig and Dick King-Smith's Sophie books!

Oh and loved Ramona Quimby too

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Matilda
Dogger
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
any book featuring Alfie and Annie Rose
The Secret Seven
5 Minutes Peace
Are you there God? Its Me, Margaret
Super Fudge

Am I really showing my age to remember loving my copy of Tootles the Taxi

We have a first edition here, in a very well loved condition.

Greensleeves - thank you so much for mentioning The Silver Crown by Robert C O'Brien this book has stuck in my mind since I was 10 I am now 45 -- I could not remember the title but remembered the cover. I cant wait to get it for my daughter. Anyone remember Una and Grubstreet by Prudence Andrew or "Across the Barricades" about Kevin and Sadie from either side of the tracks in Belfast?

The Chronicles of Narnia
A Wrinkle in Time
The Diamond in the Window
The Agaton Sax books
The Doctor Who novels
Trillions

'Over Sea, Under Stone' was the first in a series of 5 books by Susan Cooper called 'The Dark is Rising' (and IMO the weakest), which I loved. In order they are:-

Over Sea, Under Stone
The Dark is Rising
Greenwitch
The Grey King
Silver on the Tree

Fabulous, fabulous books. They made a film of the second book called something like 'The Seeker' and it was SO disappointing - having a transplanted American boy playing Will. I hated it as much as the film of 'The Little White Horse' which was (I think) 'The Secret of Moonacre' and wrecked the book entirely! It was the most hideous and least like the original book of any film I've seen. Room 101 should contain script writers who take a fantastic children's book and produce a truly diabolical film of it!

Thank you Dawndonna love the Owl Service etc didn't know about The Mabinogion will add to Christmas wishlist check it out...x

OH and I forgot! Oscar Wilde's short stories -
The Selfish Giant
The Happy Prince
(With Charles Robinsons illustrations - soooo beautiful - I have the prints on my walls)
and The Velveteen Rabbit By Margery Williams
BLUB - When I read those I am asked 'Mummy why are you reading in a funny voice?' as I fight back the tears!

My favourite hasn't been mentioned yet (I don't think) A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin - Wizard school and dragons way before and better than Harry Potter! (although I love those too)
My DS has also been enjoying Shel Silverstein's poetry. I loved his poems as a child and Runny Babbit is the funniest book ever! He switches the letters around at the beginning of the words and makes funny poems even funnier. It's really helped DS with his reading as they really made him think!

The wishing chair/magaic faraway tree - Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton's St Clare's and Malory Towers series
Francis Hodgson Burnett - The secret garden
Little lord fauntleroy
A little princess
Monica Dicklens - Follyfoot and Kizzy
The chalet school books - Elinor M Brent-Dyer
Judy Blume - Are you there God> It's me, margaret

Grimble. My favourite ever book.

Loads of great ideas on here. Books I have read to dd1 (7) which she's loved:

Read when she was 5:
First 3 Harry Potters - edited bits
The Hobbit - edited the end as quite a few dwarves die...
Narnia - but not the Last Battle

More recently we've been in a classic book mode:
Black Beauty
The Secret Garden
The Railway Children
The Water Babies

I will pinch some titles from this thread for dd1 and add to her wishlist!

'Eloise' by Kay Thompson (for girls about 6/7) about a crazy girl who lives in an hotel in the US and spends her day causing chaos & imagining adventures - my Great Aunt sent it from the States in 70's and it is currently on a continuous loop with Clarice Bean and Dr Seuss with DD1.

'The Little Bookroom' by Eleanor Farjeon (we have my mum's copy) - lots of lovely short stories, the one with the fairy & the lady who can't decide what colour bedroom she wants is imprinted on my mind.

We have the 'Giant Jam Sandwich' - didn't have it as a child but been passed down by a godmother.

'The Eagle of the Ninth' - fantastic adventure. 'Ballet Shoes'.

Enid Blyton & Frances Hodgeson Burnett & CS Lewis.

Also Mary Norton, The Borrowers

Yes that's the one, A Little Princess

5speckledreindeer, that sounds like A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (who also wrote The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy). A lovely book.

I loved Rumer Godden's 'Kizzy', especially when it was made into TV series and also 'a pair of Jesus bits' which was also tv series. The one with girl sent from India to boarding school was also a tv series but can't remember what it was called! Maybe something about a princess?

*servant not serpent! That would be a completely different story!

Mandy and Dawn cross posted!

My copy of the owl service was my mum's, she kept it for me and I'm keeping it for dd (and retreading occasionally!)

Aww feeling all nostalgic now. This thread has reminded me of so many books I love [misty eyed emoticon].

The Weirdstone of Brisigamen series
The Moondial
The Owl Service (inspired me to read the Mabinogion)
The Snow Spider (I tried to persuade dh that Arianwen was a good name for dd. he wasn't having it....)
Ballet shoes
Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Does anyone remember a book where a little girl is left at a boarding school and then her father dies. The mean teacher makes her live in the attic and the man next door sees and sends his serpent over with all sorts of lovely thing? I can't re ember what it was called but loved that one.

Not a children's book but read it as a child - twopence to Cross the Mersey series.

Toms midnight garden
Howls moving castle

And so many more!