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Jack and the Beanstalk for the adventure!

I love all the Roald Dahl books but The Twits is my favourite. When my nephew was little I used to read it to him & turn his toy monkey on its head & pretend it was a Mugglewump, he always loved it no matter how many times I read it. Now he has a little girl of his own & I do the same with her & she loves is too.

I loved the Narnia books, I liked the idea of stepping through a portal somewhere to a land of adventure:)

Has to be Peter Pan - a magical book as popular now as it was 100 years ago when written

When I was a teenager I loved to read the Sweet Velley High books.

I love The Secret Garden by frances hodgson burnett

The Silver Sword, which DS now loves too.

Mine loved all the disney stories and then progressed on to Harry Potter! So we have slowly gone through those

I loved the Narnia books when I was growing up and my dc have all loved them and the associated films.

One which they have introduced me to is the Land of Stories. It is kind of Narnia meets Grimm fairy tales. We are eagerly awaiting the final book and first film.

It has to be the gruffalo. I spent many nights reading this to my boys at bedtime. The pictures are so captivating and the rhyming words just roll off the tongue. The book also created many imaginative adventures searching for the gruffalo in our local woods!!

Mine was Thread Bear so cute I used to love all Mick Inkpen books

the mr men series

The magic faraway tree books by Enid blyton - am now reading them with my kids.

The BFG was my fav and i read it over and over

One of our favourite books is 5 minutes peace. As much as I would love 5 minutes it's become a game where I pretend to moan but then we all pile in for hugs :)

To Catch A Star by Oliver Jeffers

With DS1, my favourite book has been Dr Seuss 'Green Eggs and Ham', with DS2, its 'Stick Man' by Julia Donaldson and with DD, probably Peepo.

As a child, I loved Milly Molly Mandy, anything Enid Blyton, Ian Serralier's 'The Silver Sword', Roald Dahl, The Borrowers and the little house on the prairie series.

Loving this thread. Loads of books I loved have been mentioned, and I now want to read A Traveller in Time!

I love reading old faves to my DD. We still have all our old Topsy and Tims, and we get her to sleep on When We Were Very Young poems. They transport me back to being four or five every time.

I am currently reading to her the Teddy Robinson and Mary Mary books by Joan G Roberts. They make my DD howl with laughter and I chuckle along, almost knowing every next paragraph. Like me she just wants to read and re-read them.

We are also reading Ramona and Aurora. I love how ahead of its time Aurora is, Daddy staying at home etc, and it has a dry humour which makes me chuckle a lot. Plus it is set in sixties Norway so pure escapism. I can vividly remember reading Ramona. I love passing on books which defined me.

When DD is older I will introduce her to Charlotte Sometimes and The Children of Green Knowe, both of which used to send shivers down my spine, as did The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy when I was older. The Peacock Spring by Rumer Godden and A Little Love Song I thought the most fantastic love stories. Also loved The Outsiders when I was about 14. although can only read it in a welsh accent thanks to my English teacher

Love discovering new children's books -and reading them myself!

My favourite book as a child was Mervin mouse. I learned all the verses before I could read.
Years later I was reminiscing with my dm about how good it was and she managed to find a copy for me to read to my children.

Their favourite book is
Dd - the night before Christmas
Ds - stick man (which I think is very sad!)

I've just looked through the whole thread and no-one else has mentioned it - and then its in two consecutive posts! So funny!
I also loved "The Dark is Rising" by Susan Cooper - it was just so different from anything I'd read before and the Anne of Green Gables series, and the Chalet School series and the Famous Five and Secret Seven and Mallory Towers and Noel Streatfield. I read anything and everything I could get my hands on! As a younger child I loved the Medici books - I don't know if anyone will remember them? The Molly Brett Picture Book and the Margaret Tempest Picture Book and The Runaway Fairy and all this really fantastical and magical stuff! Lots with little animals in clothes too! Little Grey Rabbit of course!

Oh and the Canongate Kelpies! Kathleen Fidler and Mollie Hunter. I loved Kate Crackernuts because I was a Kate too! All historical fiction - I just thrived on it as a child!

And you CE0D!

Wow! I can't believe the last post before me was also "A Traveller in Time"! I'd only seen the first page before posting! Great taste, heritage warrior!

"A Traveller in Time" by Allison Uttley - this book fulfilled all my dreams and wishes as a young teenager. I will never forget how I felt as I read it :)

My favourite childhood book is 'A Traveller in Time' by Alison Uttley. Not only is it a fabulous, atmospheric and exciting story, but I would go so far as to say that reading it changed the whole course of my life. My current job (which I love and derive enormous satisfaction from) I owe to this book. I work in the heritage sector and get to go to all sorts of fabulous historic sites and properties. I wanted to do this role because I firmly believe, because of this book, that one day, I will round a corner whilst on a site visit and find myself back in Elizabethan England. It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive......!

I loved reading the Silver Brumby books by Elyne Mitchell, it always made me curious about Australia and the strange place names.

I read Under Plum Lake in one go, reading under the bed covers until 9pm! That was past my bedtime then

Dick King Smith, especially The Fox Busters - I liked that the girls were the heroes.