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Top five children's books of all time

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RosaLuxembourg · 24/09/2007 18:58

I want to get in first!
So what are your five items of children's literature?
Mine are:
Rosa wanders off to ponder...

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Marina · 25/09/2007 20:15

Corwumph, bink! The ozard cubed oik
Douglas Adams is such a perennial little boy writer isn't he, funny, clever, charming man though he was
Poor ds had to snatch the book off me as I failed several times to read Jennings' first letter home without corpsing utterly
(Ds loved Molesworth this hols btw)

Bink · 25/09/2007 14:09

I've got the first Jennings just waiting & waiting for ds ... but dh went'n' gave him Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and the omnibus edition, moreover) instead.

UnquietDad · 25/09/2007 14:07

If you do that again, then I'll... then I'll... Well, you'd better not do that again!

Kathyis6incheshigh · 25/09/2007 14:05

Doh! You silly little boy.

UnquietDad · 25/09/2007 14:04

Fossilised fish-hooks, Marina!

Marina · 25/09/2007 14:02

Ds loves Jennings UQD. As did I

haychee · 25/09/2007 11:10

Charlie cooks favourite book

Saturn74 · 25/09/2007 11:10

Black Hearts Over Battersea
Gobbolino The Witches Cat
The Folk of the Faraway Tree
Susan Cooper's 'Over Sea Under Stone' series
Cherry Ames Nursing novels

At least they are the ones that I enjoyed reading the most when I was young.

From my DC's perspective I would say

Wolf Brother
Here be Monsters
Paddington
Eragon
Magyk

UnquietDad · 25/09/2007 11:08

I find it hard to choose a top five, but of the books I read as a child, those which stick in my mind the most (TV & film tie-ins aside) are Richmal Crompton's "William" books, Anthony Buckeridge's "Jennings" series, the "Three Investigators" books, Rosemary Sutcliff's "The Eagle of the Ninth", and of course "The Hobbit". I read "Watership Down" quite late but still loved it - "The Plague Dogs" too.

haychee · 25/09/2007 11:07

The gruffalo

seeker · 25/09/2007 11:05

Professor Branestawm

Bink · 25/09/2007 11:02

As I am randomly adding items on the other thread, without care or concern for the Rules About Only Five, I'm dropping in here to add

My Friend Mr Leakey, J B S Haldane - some ideological oddities hanging around there (Haldane a strong apologist for Soviet Russia, I believe, plus the influence of genetics-focus = some moments which furrow one's brow a bit) but even with those flaws something unique. I did like one-offs - just like Phantom Tolbooth, and Land of Green Ginger.

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Hels67 · 24/09/2007 22:15

My favourites were (are!):

  • The Chalet school series by Elinor M Brent-Dyer

  • My family and other animals - Gerald Durrell

  • What Katy did (& the other books in that series)

  • Ballet shoes

  • The famous Five by EB

Love the mention of When Hitler stole Pink rabbit - that is a great book, if not actually one of my favs

seeker · 24/09/2007 21:42

Trease - I think I mean!
The Summer of the Great Secret.
White Riders.

seeker · 24/09/2007 21:41

Crown of Violet was Geoffrey Treace - he was alos Cue for Treason. Henry Treece was Viking Sunset, the Road to Miklegard and Viking something else. SOOOO glad to see another vote for The Land of Green Ginger!

lillypie · 24/09/2007 21:41

The Little White Horse

The Silver Brumby

White Boots

February's Dragon

What Katie Did

hotcrossbunny · 24/09/2007 21:38

When Hitler Stole Pink rabbit - Judith Kerr
Diary of Anne Frank
Ballet Shoes
Charlottes Web
swallows and Amazons

Bink · 24/09/2007 21:34

RosaL - no sooner agreed with than provided: here

princessmel · 24/09/2007 21:31

oooh ramona.

PippiLangstrump · 24/09/2007 21:31

although glum, I loved the Andersen and Grimm fairy tales.

PippiLangstrump · 24/09/2007 21:30

Pippi Longstockings (obviously) /
The Wizard of Oz / Frank L. Baum
Ozma of Oz / Frank L. Baum
The Island of the Blue Dolphins Anna of Green Gables
The Famous Five
Watership Down (sorry!)
Heidi, (Fennel we have got all 20 tapes and I cry so much when Heidi is in Frankfurt and sees a painting of God and the pastor and thinks is the grandfather and Peter). I am 33 and still watch it religiously!!
Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking Glass.

NotAnOtter · 24/09/2007 21:28

rebecca of sunnybrook farm

MamaPyjama · 24/09/2007 21:24

The Dark is Rising Series (I am taking the Omnibus Edition which only counts as one book...)
Little Women
Writing on the Hearth
Boy with the Bronze Axe
The Earthsea Series (another bumper edition)

I'd add Northern Lights, Harry Potter and the Abhorsen Trilogy, though I was all grown up when I read them...

I don't think I can stop at 8.
My Naughty Little Sister.
Ramona.
Cherry Ames and her amazing nursing adventures.
Sue Barton series.
all of the Oz books.
Roald Dahl.
Danny Fox.
Polly and the Wolf.

[Stops for breath and presses post before she can burble on any more.]

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RosaLuxembourg · 24/09/2007 21:24

I would love some pointers on teenage books - I don't know if there was much around in my day - I pretty much moved straight from children's books to adult fiction (via Agatha Christie) but our local library was not that good.

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