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

Mandy Loved the owl service.
Have you read The Mabinogion? It's the begining of the tale!

I kept my copy of The Owl Service by Alan Garner from when I was a child in the hope that any future child of mine would love it too. Gave it to DS - and he hated it!

His grandpa kept all the old hardback Just William books to pass on to DS as well, and he didn't like them either!

As an adult I fell in love with the Titus Groan (Gormenghast) trilogy by Mervyn Peake and luckily DS likes them too - only on audiobook though. Neither of us has managed Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit

We were given a copy of The Giant Jam Sandwich last year for DS1 - I didn't realise it was an old story. (In our copy, the townsfolk queue up at the end to get a chunk of the remaining loaf.)

Loved Jill pony books, the Jackie pony books, and The Phantom Horse books. Was pony mad.) Also Joan Aiken short stories and Roald Dahl. And Joyce Stranger books - are they still around? They were always about animals but sort of adventure/mystery - I loved them.

Read Faraway Tree recently to DD and DS1. They loved them. Shhh, I thought they were repetitive and sloppily written [killjoy]. I loved the Mallory Towers books as a kid though.

For a while after reading Mog, DD kept asking me if burglars were going to come and steel our spoons

Secret Seven.
Famous Five and the other series about Fatty and the four children - all good !
David Walliams books seem to be good !
Foxy, My Friend Foxy and Foxy and the Badgers - you'll need to get them second hand.
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
Roald Dahl
Jiggy McCue books
For Christmas and for younger readers - SHirley Hues - Lucy and Toms Christmas, Percy the Parkkeeper - A Snowy Day, Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs

Brilliant thread, and I smiled a lot.

Real Grimm and Andersen fairytales, in all their uncorrected grimness.

Antonia Forest's Marlow books. Forest is the Jane Austen of children's lit. My children loved them too.l

I bought When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six for DD when she was a baby and she adores them.

I also used to love the Bobby Brewster books and the Magic Faraway Tree.

I also remember borrowing one from the library called Moira's Angel.

'BegoniaBampot, are you thinking of A Coming Evil by Vivian Vande Veldev'

Sparky - can see your connection as sounds similar but don't think that's it. The name Posie for some reason rings a bell.

Also the Kissy books and Heidi series.

never ever read any Winnie the Pooh or Roald Dahl as a child. - just wasn't on my radar.

Anything by Enid Blyton or Noel Streatfield ..... I loved them all.

The Phantom Tollbooth.
Fungus the Bogeyman.
Magic Faraway Tree.

I've kept all the best books from my childhood so I just have to pull them out the loft as and when.

Black Hearts in Battersea - Joan Aiken.
Elidor - Alan Garner.
Little House on the prairie books.
Little Women etc.
Children of Green Knowe.
Tom's Midnight Garden.
When we were very young and Now we are six - A.A. Milne.

A Traveller in Time; The Secret Garden; When Marnie was There.

Chalet school books, don't think it's going to happen.
Swallows and amazons. Ditto.

Oh, 'Green Smoke' about a friendly Cornish Dragon & 'Theatre Shoes' & 'Ballet Shoes'.
I keep remembering.
Waterstones occasionally do a Children's Classics display & I found a couple of books that I remembered but couldn't find!

"The twits" !

So many but one I always loved and felt special and still does was the jolly postman. The stories in the story and the opening of all the different post. I think because I was always excited about getting post a whole book full was almost too much excitement to handle!!

BegoniaBampot, are you thinking of A Coming Evil by Vivian Vande Velde

Oh, so many wonderful books. My list would include the following:

Understood Betsy
Sensible Kate
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Dream of Fair Horses
Charlotte's Web ("No one was with her when she died." Sob.)

And all the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Louisa May Alcott, Antonia Forest (see username ), K.M. Peyton, Susan Cooper, Beverly Cleary. . .

So so many, I might possibly be stockpiling them all on my Kindle in preparation

Little Women, Secret Garden, What Katy Did, Narnia, Five Children and It, Stig of the Dump... I was an avid reader thanks to my mum, I hope to pass that on to DS. In fact I know mum deliberately kept books like What Katy Did for me to pass on to any DC's.

In the last few months before she died she told me she'd kept my collection of George and Matilda Mouse books for me to read to DS when he was born, and that it was her present to him.

Roll of Thunder. I made my dd read that last year. Its a bit sad at the end.

Coram Boy has not been mentioned. It is as good as piece of literature that you could ever find.

I love Lucy Maude Montgomery books, eg Anne

I love the little women books.

But really Jean Webster, please google her.

Did anyone ever read "Over sea, under stone" by Susan Cooper?

I remember reading 'tooth fairy' and 'balloonia' by Audrey Wood and being captivated by the pictures and story, so bought them for DC as soon as they were old enough for books. They love them too! In fact they still fight over them even though they are way past the picture book stage (9 and 11)

Also loved Janet and Alan Ahlberg books and all the Shirley Hughes books there's something about them that's timeless.