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Harry and the Wrinklies by Alan Temperley, I read it to my daughter when she was about 10, although she was a free reader by that age ( I did all the different voices of the characters ) it is about a boy who goes to live with his aunts, it's exciting with interesting moral questions. I remember it as a real page turner and we both looked forward to the next chapters the next day.

I have very fond memories of my mum reading The BFG to my sisters and I on a train. She had the whole carriage enthralled.

Also loved Watership Down (first "big" book I ever read).

For little ones, The Very Hungry Caterpillar (my ds is only four months old and his reaction to the butterfly at the end is priceless.)

I always loved the hobbit. I can remember my dad reading it to us one summer holiday. I re read it a few times growing up. Having watched the films over Christmas I'm looking forward to reading it again soon. Of course I can't wait to read it to my kids too, when they are a bit bigger.

Judith kerrs mog series a good storyline with a great character, I am glad sainsburys brought back mog at Christmas so everyone can see just how great the books are. I am already reading mog and others to my 5 month old daughter hopefully they will become one of her favourites too

I think the Roald Dahl books are hard to beat but must say Room on the Broom is an excellent book x

Too many to choose from! Always loved the selfish giant. Still do

Eeek. There are so many. I have around 200 Enid Blyton books from my younger years. I can't wait until my dd can read them.
As a previous poster said the series with Barney and Miranda his monkey, they were all titled things like the sea of adventure I think. (Apologies if this is wrong)

I love love love reading on the night you were born to my dd

Her favourite has to be the singing mermaid by Julia Donaldson
And I also love the Artemis fowl series for older children.
I accept that's at least four, so I'll stop now.

My kids love Julia Donaldson books and always seem to choose them when we go to the library.
Her rhythmical and fun stories are a joy to read. The Gruffulo and the Gruffalo's Child are our favourites (along with the Scots adaptations)

My son absolutely loved 'Rumble in the Jungle' and 'Commotion in the Ocean' when he was little - but I think it was more to do with the way it was read to him originally by his granny, that made him love it (he would turn the page to stop us reading the scary lion poem and liked beating his chest to the gorilla poem)

When I was young it was the Noddy books. As I grew older The Famous Five kept me reading. But the book I re-read most times was Watership Down. The world from a rabbit's point of view had me hooked!

I loved the Fattipuffs and Thinnifers by Andre Maurois and The Borrowers by Mary Norton.My DS favourite book was You Choose by Nick Sharrat which has very few words but lots of brightly coloured and exciting pictures which prompted lots of chat. My DD always loved Six Dinner Sid and we used to borrow it regularly from the library.

My absolute favourite book when I was a child and I still re read to this day was When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr. I also loved Goodnight Mr Tom.
As an older child 27 year old married mum of two my favourite series has to be Harry Potter
The biggest hit in our house at the moment has been mentioned upthread, You Choose my 3yo and 7yo love it equally.

Guess how much I love you. I read this book to both of my children. Dd is 19 1/2 and DS is 1. Both love nutbrown hare. The story is divine. The characters so sweet.

When I get grandchildren I will read it to them too.

A couple of mine have been mentioned already - the Swallows and Amazons series, 5 Children and It and the sequels, and the wonderful Ballet Shoes.

The Moomins series. It's beautiful, atmospheric writing with wonderful attention to detail and very three-dimensional characters with all-too-(for want of a better word) human foibles and failings.

The Mrs Pepperpot stories - simple, vivid and writtn with a very humorous touch. My dc still remember and talk about them years after reading them with me.

As a child I loved The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden. It was very sentimental but incredibly touching and comforting - a true warm-glow book.

Of more recent books, Small Change for Stuart and the sequl Big Change for Stuart stood out for my boys. Very clever interesting plot with no indication of which way it would go - an exploration of magic beyond Harry Potter.

Each Peach Pear Plum is thoroughly enjoyed by all of us lot.

My absolute favourite book as a child was The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Gouge. It was so magical and exciting at the time and I read it over and over again!

The book DD and I have most enjoyed reading together is Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson. I would say it's a modern classic without any shadow of a doubt. She is the most fabulous storyteller and we're reading through all her other books now.

A trilogy rather than just one book, and definitely more towards older children, but the ones I read again and again (and still do) are the His Dark Materials books by Philip Pullman. They're just so vivid, I'd get lost in the alternative worlds and as I got older, I saw more of the underlying themes so continued to get something from them. I love them so much I decided not to watch the film that was made of the first book in case it changed what I saw in my imagination, something I've never done with any other film adaptation.

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield was the book I probably re- read more than any other as a child. I didn't have ballet lessons (or particularly wanted to) but loved reading about an unfamiliar world. I also loved the relationship between the three adopted sisters. I read this again as an adult whilst staying in a holiday cottage and fell in love with the story again. I can't wait for my ballet-mad DD to read it to see if she will enjoy it.

The Tiger Who Came To Tea is a childhood favourite which is just as wonderful to read to children as I remember it from my childhood.

I loved "What Katy did at school" as a girl. I used to think it would be lovely to be at boarding school and have a Christmas box to open (!). It just sounded so much fun.

My favourite to read with my young children is "a bit lost" by Chris Haughton. Beautiful illustrations, funny and a very gentle story. Lovely.

I loved loved loved 'Goodnight Mr Tom' and it sparked a lifelong interest in books about the World Wars. It made me laugh and cry and I can still remember passages of it as I read it so many times. I also liked 'A Little love Song' which was by the same author Michelle Magorian.

When i was young I loved all of the End Blyton's - Famous Five were my favourite but like Secret Seven and Faraway Tree too.

I also like the Chalet School and Mallory Towers and other school books (was there one called redroofs or something?) I was desperate to go to boarding school for a time!

Also there was a series about a girl who tamed a stallion - Ginny?? and a series about a young woman training to be a nurse... Going for a google - I'll be back!

Ooh It's a struggle to whittle them down to just one!!!!!

Probably Roald Dahls Matilda would have to have been my favourite as a child. DS2 (7) is just ploughing his way through the Roald Dahl books, he's currently reading Charlie and the chocolate factory ( which has been his favourite too!)

The tiger who came to tea by Judith Kerr s another beautifully written and illustrated book.

The one I best remember from my childhood is Five Children & It by E Nesbitt as my mum used to read it to me and my siblings when we were on holiday. It's got everything in it - adventure, magic and a grumpy foil to the children. I actually still love it now, but DD and DS are too young atm!

The other one from my childhood is Lucy and Tom's Christmas - it shows Christmas as it really is, with overexcited children falling asleep and having tantrums. Not to mention that the drawings are beautiful.

I could very easily go on as I am an avid reader and still love a lot of the books that I have from when I was a child!!

Mates, dates and inflatable bras by Cathy Hopkins. I know this is more of a teen book but it really helped me accept myself growing up; everyone feels the same and it is normal.

For those very early years it has to be "Each Peach Pear Plum" - absolutely loved this book, found it so clever, and fun to read.

For the not so young years, then it's the Varjak books - VArjak Paw and Varjak the Outlaw (SF Said)