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The Birthday Unicorn by Janice Elliott. A most wonderful tale and beautifully illustrated.

Late for Halloween by Camila Fegan, superb writing and illustrations.

I could lose myself for hours in the Mallory Towers series. I yearned to be at boarding school, have japes, strong friendship groups and midnight feasts and go home for long hot summers of freedom.
My DD hasn't yet started reading them, but I am so excited for her - you know that feeling when you wish you were seeing or hearing something for the first time and could recreate the wonder of it.

Swallows and Amazons (and the other 11 books in the series) - I loved these as a child in the 70s, dd and lots of her friends loved them just as much when they read them in the 2000s. They're also good in that they're such realistic stories, which makes a nice change nowadays when so many children's books are fantasy/adventure.

I have very fond memories of dd and her friend age 8 or so being Titty and Susan in a pretend boat :)

Guess how much I love you. How can you not fall in love with this book. Little Nutbrown Hare is so desperate to out love Big Nutbrown Hare but doesn't quite get there.
One of my favourites to share with all of my children.
"I love you to the moon and back "

I read The Borrowers by Mary Norton when I was about 10 and loved it. The whole notion of little people who lived under the floorboards being the reason I could never find a hair clip really appealed to me! I'm now reading it, a chapter a day, to my 3yo DD who is growing to love it too

I loved Jacqueline Wilson's Tracey Beaker- thought her writing was very fresh and direct.

DD is a bit young for her though, but we are enjoying the Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. Lots of interesting characters, a bit of drama and plenty of picnics!

I loved and still do Charles Kingsley - The Water Babies. Evocative, imaginative and a true classic.

My favourite book from my childhood was called Pondus the Penguin.

It is the story of the biggest and fattest penguin in the Zoo. I remember him always wearing his red scarf. I can hear my mom reading it to me now

Pondus visited the other animals as he walked around the zoo with the Zookeeper. I still have this book which holds so many memories.

'The Velveteen Rabbit'. My soft toys were always real to me as a child. Oh, I so felt that little rabbit's heartbreak. I have kept that book for years, and it is safe on my bookshelf for when the DC are old enough for it.

"You Choose" has given my DCs and I hours of pleasure. I think it is because it is a book which needs sharing, and promotes conversation and sharing feelings, ideas and dreams. It helped me learn about my children and for them to find out about my memories (of clothes and houses) and hidden talents.
It develops a joy of books before children even have a clue about reading words. And because the flow of ideas is so free (and sometimes surreal), there isn't really an upper age limit, my 12yo still enjoys reading it with her little brother, 9 years after she first read it with me.

I always loved the Enid Blyton 'Barney' books, for some reason they don't seem as well known as the Famous 5 and Secret 7, but I adored them. Even now, if I'm poorly or feeling a bit sorry for myself, I snuggle up nostalgically with one of them. They feel like a big hug...