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I loved the "What a mess" books as a child, but never see them anymore.

My absolute favourite book as a small child was Dogger. I'm not sure I even know why it was but it definitely one that every child should read. The pictures, and the way the big sister swaps her new teddy so they can get tatty old dogger back. I guess I knew that if I'd lost my teddles I'd have done anything to get him back too. It's also full of beautiful, yet simple illustrations.

Then as an older child it was all about Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield. Oh how I wanted to be Posy Fossil! To me it's a real reflection of how much love can do. The 'boarders' loved the Fossil girls enough to provide free lessons, dance classes and loans of money that were needed. It's a beautiful classic tale that all children should read.

If I could choose a set of books it would have to be anything written by Shirley Hughes as I adore her writing style and the illustrations. My favourite single book at the moment though is one that I'd never heard of until I recently got it from the library to read to DD. It is called The Snatchabook and is simply lovely. The illustrations are beautiful and the words are so well rhymed and a joy to read. It also has a lovely storyline and a nice moral lesson. We loved it so much we bought our own copy straight away and I'm still not bored of it. Will be one to hand down to DD for sure.

My favourite books were Enid Blyton famous five and secret seven. I also love Noel Streatfield ballet shoes .

I loved The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge when I was a child. I was completely transported by a story which was written years before I was born. I remember picking it off the shelf in the bookshop because it had a horse in the title and on the cover, and I was a pony mad child and I just fell in love with it. I wanted to be the little girl in the story, with a bedroom in a tower and a mysterious white horse.

It is one of the few books I kept from my childhood and I read it to my own daughter when she was about 8. I wondered whether I would still enjoy it (as I could barely remember the story from reading it as a child) and more importantly whether my daughter would like it. She loved it as much as I did. It was a joy to read it again.

Reading to my DD I have loved Dear Zoo, New Shoes Red Shoes and the Velveteen Rabbit.
As a child I loved Tom's midnight garden, the little princess, the secret garden and stig of the dump.

Incidentally - Wordery are a very helpful company.

I ordered Papercutting, Old and New (you know - the delicate filigree paper craft) and they sent me The Homeowner's Complete Guide to the Chainsaw, by accident - and when I emailed them, they sent me the Papercutting book, and said I could keep the other one! Great service.

Many of mine have been mentioned here, but one hasn't -

The Land of Green Ginger by Noel Langley - it is a very funny sequel to the Aladdin story, and has a flying back garden, a magician who has accidentally turned himself into a button nosed tortoise, villains called RubDub Ben Thud, and Tin Tack Ping Fu, and a donkey that sits on a pin.

Roald Dahl has got to be my favourite children's author - how can anyone not love the wit, cleverness, originality?

My favourite book as a child was Georges Marvellous Medicine - I'm so looking forward to reading it to my children when they are a little bit older.

'George's Marvellous Medicine' by Roald Dahl. I remember reading this when I was about 7 or 8 and couldn't believe a child could do something so fun and naughty. A quintessential Dahl classic.

'Brother in the Land' was one I distinctly remember from my teens. It was much first foray into dystopian fiction and had me hooked. I will always remember that baby!

My favourite has to be 'Dogger' lovely lovely story and beautiful illustrations!

I have always loved reading and still have the original series of Noddy books. I read Enid blyton avidly especially the faraway tree books which dd 2 is now reading.

The secret garden, black beauty and Winnie the pooh are also treasure books from childhood which I still have.

Grillpan Eddie is a book I have read to dd 2 over and over, we love it because it rhymes, it's funny and sad and we can read it together.

I used to love the Sweet Valley High books. I lost whole weekends lying on my bed reading the stories. I remember looking at them in my local library and trying to decide on the ones I wanted. The characters grew up throughout the books and I grew up with them. My girls are a bit too young to read them but I will show them to them when they are older l.

The Tiger That Came To Tea is the one I was most excited about reading to DS
as I loved it so much as a child. I loved the excitement at the thought of a tiger turning up at my house, and the suspense as it ate it's way through the contents of the larder. I was always disappointed that it never came back, I can just imagine the little girl checking wistfully, hoping that it would appear and eat the tiger food that they had bought for it. It's a true classic.

For younger children, I'm going on a Bear Hunt and Where the Wild Things Are are my favourites.

My 'go to' books from my childhood are Ballet Shoes and The Painted Garden - both of which I've also now read with the dc. And Anne of Green Gables.

But my absolute favourite children/young teen book is the Philip Pullman trilogy - His Dark Materials. Utterly magical, deeply meaningful, and makes me sob and sob every time I read it. I've been keeping the dc away from it, but ds is now 11 and at secondary school and old enough to really enjoy it. He got it out of the library last week and I am watching him read it with so much pleasure!

Enid Blyton was my absolute escape - I loved everything, Magic Faraway Tree, Wishing Chair, Secret Seven, Famous Five, Adventure series the list goes on. No child should ever grow up without being introduced to these classics! I also adored Heidi and The Secret Garden.

My favourite book has to be Mog's Christmas by Judith Kerr (I love all the mog books with the exception of Goodbye Mog ). Wonderful story and fantastic illustrations . It was my favourite book when I was a child, and my 2yo dd loves it now

Has to be one of two (series of).
Firstly Little House on the Prairie - I read them over and over again I wanted to play in a creek, have wild snowy weather either visits from Mr Edwards and travel in a wagon sleeping under the stars. Laura Ingalls Wilder was the voice of my childhood imagination.

Also the Magic Faraway Tree - I wanted to go on the slippery slip
And eat pop cakes with silky and saucepan man whilst waiting for new lands up above. My best friend and I spent hours making up lands - I have had the pleasure of sharing that game with DS

There are so many amazing kids books! It's so difficult to choose. From my own childhood - 'Each Peach Pear Plum' is fab. I loved the bouncy rhythm and trying to remember the right order of characters. I still know it and recite it to DS to soothe him. I look forward to 'spying' the characters with him when he's a bit older! 'The Magic Faraway Tree' is also worth a mention, great for kids' imagination as who didn't try to imagine their own lands at the top of the tree?!

Newer books - Oliver Jeffers' books, particularly 'The Day The Crayons Quit'. I think all kids (and adults) should read R J Palacio's 'Wonder' as it's great for developing empathy. Also 'Anne Frank's Diary' is an accessible way to begin to understand the atrocities of WW2. Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers' for sheer fun. I really wanted the Borrowers to be real!

The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword, by Robin McKinley are probably my greatest favourites.

But I loved many others too - Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising, Swallows and Amazons, the Famous Five, Narnia, Diana Wynne Jones... and loads more, too many to choose!

DS's all-time favourite is Matilda, he is a bookworm too.

(Mimsy I remember Bottersnikes and Gumbles too!)

DS loved Aliens Love Underpants as a child. I'll be sad when I'm no longer reading the Gruffalo and the Gruffslo's child.

my fave book is Matila and Bfg.

I was a big reader so had lots of favourite books, I loved the Anne of Green Gables series and one that I reread even now was called Children of the Dust about the aftermath of a nuclear war.

DS(aged 10) loved the fact that I still have what would be described as children's books on my shelves even now as our taste in books overlaps now he is getting a bit older. He is reading the books by Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson series) and my copy of the Hunger Games trilogy in currently on his bedroom floor.

But if we are talking about books I like reading to the children, it would be books like What the Ladybird Heard, and Owl Babies.

I absolutely adored a book called The String Family by Patricia Cleveland-Peck. It really fuelled my imagination and I would collect odd assortments of string and pretend they also came to life in a similar way to the characters in the book.

I loved all the Enid Blyton books and really wished I could go to boarding school, it seemed to be so much more fun than my little village school.

The Worst Witch series was a great favourite and Ive now read them all again with DD - she is a big fan too.

I got a set of three books for my eighth birthday that I read over and over - they are out of print now sadly and second hand copies are £££s - they were by Beverly Nichols - The Tree that Sat Down, The Stream that Stood Still and The Mountain of Magic - does anyone else remember them?

My absolute favourite childrens book and one of my all time favourite books is Anne of Green Gables - Anne is one of the most engaging characters ever written. I am really looking forward to DD reading it when she is a bit older.