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

Just reading the thread. How could I have forgot

Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry - amazing, was so emotional reading it all those years ago.

This is a long shot but I read a book about a little girl who goes to live with I think her aunties not long after the war. She seems to sense a presence or ghost perhaps of another child who was maybe in a concentration camp and had her feet tortured/burned or something. I can't remember anything else really but it was very sad and haunting and I've always wanted to know what it was.

inly = only, sorry

So far the inly recommendations of mine that's been followed is DD1 did read my favourite book from my teens

(Ken Follet, Man from St. Petersburg - definitely not a children's book)

I loved reading as a child, but I have boys who also love reading but won't read my old favourites.

What Katy Did
The Little Women Series
Green Gables
Little House series by Laura Ingals Wilder
Anything By Enid Blyton
the Chalet School
Noel Streatfields Books
The Trebizon School series by Anne Digby
Paul Zindel's Books for teenagers
the Awakening Water by J R Kesteven
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
the Tripod Trilogy by John Christopher
Mary Stewart's Arthurian Legend series (The Crystal Cave)

I'm going to get an audio book of Black Beauty.

My DDs will not read it.

I'm going to take them in a long journey without their iPods' and make them listen to it!

Wow! You're all reminding me of books I adored but forgot about! Will copy and paste for future reference!

Thank you to the poster upthread who mentioned "Mrs Frisby and the rats of Nihm". I remember that book made a big.impression on me but would never have remebered it did!
Judy Bloom for me in those awkward teenage years.

The Chalet School books
The 'Anne' books
Ballet Shoes
The Secret Garden
Little Women / Good wives
I do hope DD likes them too!

Anne of Green Gables/ Willow Farm
Secret Garden
Anything by Enid Blyton.
Edward Lear/ Nonsense poems.
Pippy Longstocking
Kizzy (Gypsygirl)
Tom's midnight Garden
Hobbit
Five Children and It
Stig of the dump
Black Beauty
OMG there's loads

Monica Edwards Punchbowl Farm series and her Rye Harbour Series too.

Loved them!

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

"One hot summer in Itching Down,
Four million wasps flew into town."

John Vernon Lord and Janet Burroway wrote it.
(We always used to wonder what happened to the rest of the loaf.)

I would like to add The Borrowers, and Teddy Robinson, and all the Ramona books (Beverley Cleary obviously remembers well what it was really like being a child), Just William, all Roald Dahl, Aesop's Fables, Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, The Wind In The Willows, E Nesbit, Catherine Storr's Marianne Dreams (and Clever Polly & The Stupid Wolf), Penelope Lively's Carrie's War, Mrs Pepperpot, Milly Molly Mandy...

I don't think my DS is going to be all that impressed with my choices, he tends to like stuff about vehicles mostly. Hopefully his imagination will develop over time.

I loved The magic faraway tree, Malory Towers and Famous Five series' by Enid Blyton, Stig of the Dump, The Wind in the Willows and the complete Shirely Hughes collection at varying ages as a little one. My DD is 3months and already has a bookshelf full of books I hope she gets as much enjoyment from them as I did as a little girl.

I loved Roald Dahl when I was younger so am overjoyed that all mine love him too. DS3 & 4 are really into him right now.

I never like Enid Blyton that much, but DS1 went through a phase of loving all the Famous Five, Secret Seven and Adventure books. I read a couple and they were ok, but still not my thing.

My all time favourite is the Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper. I bought it for DS1 and he didn't like it. I'm hoping my others will when they are old enough - DS5 bloody well better like it, he was named after 2 characters in the book!

What Katy Did - but I don't think my boys would be into them, though I re-read them recently.

Oh I could list forever! Here are those I loved.

Joan Aiken books, particularly 'The Wolves of Willoughby Chase'
'The Dark is Rising' series by Susan Cooper
'Weirdstone of Brisingamen' by Alan Garner
Noel Streatfield - particularly Ballet Shoes
Diana Wynne Jones books, particularly Charmed Life, the first I read.
Bogwoppit
The Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge
Moondial
The Narnia books
Little House on the Prairie
Children of Green Knowe
Antonia Forest school stories
Sue Barton nursing books
The Bagthorpes
Saddlers Wells' series of books
The Three Investigators series
Pullein Thompson pony books
The Machine Gunners, and anything else by Robert Westall
Flambards - K M Peyton
Tom's Midnight Garden
Malcolm Saville 'Lone Pine' series
Enid Blyton
Roald Dahl
'The House with a Clock in the Walls' John Bellairs
'The Swish of the Curtain' Pamela Brown
'Knock Three Times' Marion St John Webb

Phew....I could add lots more. Eldest DCs are now late teens/20 and have read lots of these (rejecting some - how could they???). Youngest DS and I are currently re-reading Milly Molly Mandy and Roald Dahl.

I lost interest after Wolves, but loved Midnight Is a place, and the short stories. There were some awfully bleak and depressing ones, though. Something about a child called Emmeline and the end of the world?

The ordinary princess by mm Kaye. I loved that book.

Also lots of books mentioned here which have reminded me which is great.

Just bought the faraway tree for my niece and nephew!

Black beauty

Joan Aiken. This is a great website...www.joanaiken.com

I remember Charlotte Sometimes!

Just marking place to read and comment tomorrow

(was it Rosie m Banks who wrote Great American Birds, or was she the romantic novelist?)

All our 'classics' are as they were. So we do have Laura shouting 'I WANT THAT INDIAN BABY' etc.

When I was at school, I remember reading a book from the Book Corner called "Charlotte Sometimes". I read it and was completely haunted by it. I bought it for my son and despite it having a pink cover (!!!) he loved it. My daughter is now about to read it because she read the blurb on the back. Jsu one of those books that stays with you.

Great thread! Lots of my favourites have already been mentioned..as a child, my desert island authors would have included Noel Streatfeild, Joan Aitken, Lorna Hill, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Elizabeth Goudge. I have found most of my old favourites on Ebay and Amazon....money well spent! People have already mentioned the changes made to modern editions of Enid Blyton...I found out recently that 'The Little White Horse' has been changed to include 'The Men from the Dark Woods', and the new paperback edition does not have the lovely illustrations of the older editions . Anyone know of any other changes to modern editions of classic books?

And both mine loved Polly and the Wolf long after a reasonable age, almost as much as I loved reading it aloud.