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Every Child's Bookshelf

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Twims · 16/01/2009 20:26

Should hold which books?

I am trying to compile a list of fabulous books every child (any age) should have - so what's on your bookshelf, what do you love and what do your children love.

OP posts:
RiaParkinson · 16/01/2009 21:18

window great for stimulating children

FeelingLucky · 16/01/2009 21:18

Fantastic Mr Fox
Little House on the Prairie
And everything else everybody else has said

RiaParkinson · 16/01/2009 21:15

another fab one

RiaParkinson · 16/01/2009 21:14

Hervé Tullet books a selection of but here is one

francagoestohollywood · 16/01/2009 21:13

My personal favourite is Babette Cole's The Trouble with Mum. I cried reading it

noonki · 16/01/2009 21:11

Babies

animals
This little baby

toddlers:

cars and trucks and things that go
brown bear brown bear
This little baby
The very hungry caterpillar
Charlies cook favourite book
Guess how much I love you
Harry and the bucket load of dinosaurs
Hairy Maclary
tiger that came to tea

4 -10year olds

wind in the willows
harry Potter
Roald Dahl
Winnie the pooh
Goodnight mister tom
famous five
Charlottes web
Narnia
His Dark Materials
watership down
Beartrix potter (though i find them very dark!)
the moomins
tom's midnight garden
Alice in Wonderland
Tom Sawyer
the story of tracy beaker
Carries war
Just william
the one about a pink rabbit (and the war)
The secret Garden

for older kids:
to kill a mockingbird
Holes
Black and white
Millions
the hobbit
The diary of Anne Frank
Lord of the flies
1984
Curious incident...

ohhh me and DSS (12) enjoyed that!

francagoestohollywood · 16/01/2009 21:09

Maisy
Richard Scarry's books
Fairy tales (with different versions according to age)
Meg and Mog
Charlie and Lola
Any Astrid Lindgren, my fav being The children of noisy village
We are going on a bear hunt
Classics, like Little Women, Treasure island, etc
The Odyssey etc
Factual books
An atlas

janeite · 16/01/2009 21:08

"Owl Babies" - one of my personal favourites; can't believe I forgot it.

For girls of a certain age and nature - Charlotte Sometimes.

The Alfie and Annie Rose books.

ElfOnTheTopShelf · 16/01/2009 21:07

DD favs :

Each Peach Pear Plum
The Gruffalo / The Gruffalo child
Guess How Much I Love You
Charlie Cooks Favourite Book
Dear Zoo
There Was An Old Lady
Various assortments of the classic fairy stories
The Velveteen Rabit
Tiger Who Came To Tea
The Hungry Caterpillar

I WILL be reading to her when she is older (whether she likes it or not!)

Narnia collection
All Roald Dahl
Charlottes Web
Goodnight Mr Tom
Little Women
The Railway Children

Gosh, so many. Some I still have from my childhood, some I need to get. Love reading to her

spicemonster · 16/01/2009 21:04

To add to others - anything by Oliver Jeffers. Jolly Postman

wrinklytum · 16/01/2009 21:03

Oh Mrs Boring,"The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark" is a LOVELY book.

For older children especially if interested in history I would reccomend Rosemary Sutcliffe.I LOVE her books even as a so called adult!!

Janet and Alan Ahlberg-definitely ,cannot believe I missed them out!!

EachPeachPearMum · 16/01/2009 20:59

And how could I forget- Moomins!

weepootleflump · 16/01/2009 20:59

Another vote for "You Choose"- dd loves it and never tires of as she does with most.

Milly Molly Mandy
My Naughty Little Sister
Wishing Chair
Magic Faraway Tree
Heidi
Going On a Bear Hunt
Famous Five
Flat Stanley
Room on The Broom
Sharing a Shell
Hairy Maclairy
Blue Kangaroo
Topsy & Tim
The Story of the Mole Who Knew it was none of his Business

EachPeachPearMum · 16/01/2009 20:58

Alan Garner- weirdstone of Brisingamen
Swallows and Amazons
Pippi Longstocking
EPPP and Peepo (natch)
Gruffalo, Tiddler etc
Some Fairy Tales
Hairy Maclary
Just WIlliam
So many good books on this thread already!

ravenAK · 16/01/2009 20:55

Oh & Philip Pullman 'His Dark Materials' - modern classic & FAR superior to Narnia.

ravenAK · 16/01/2009 20:54

Most of my favourites for pre-school are on here!

For pre-teens:

Leon Garfield's 'Tales from Shakespeare'
Antonia Forest/K M Peyton
Diana Wynne Jones - Chrestomanci series

mrsgboring · 16/01/2009 20:54

Anything by the Ahlbergs.
Everything everyone else says
The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark
The Worst Witch
Jennings
Gobbolino the Witch's Cat

loads more I haven't thought of probably

ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 16/01/2009 20:52

Agree with ingles about "you choose"

ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 16/01/2009 20:51

lynley dodd back catalog
tiger who came to tea
Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler back catalog
Dr Seuss

Ingles2 · 16/01/2009 20:50

I don't know about fabulous but every child I've met has loved "You Choose"

wrinklytum · 16/01/2009 20:49

Age 0-2

Shirley Hughes Nursery collection
Rod Campbell Dear Zoo and others
Osborne first picture books
Mayo/Ayliffe "Dig Dig Digging" and "Emergency"
"Thats not my...." (HATE EM BUT KIDS LIKE EM)
"Hungry Caterpillar" and others by Eric Carle
Lots of lift the flap books.
That one about little owls
Going on a bearhunt
Each Peach Pear Plum
Guess how much I love you
hAIRY mCcLARY

Age 3-5

Anything by Donaldson/Sheffler.
More Shirley Hughes-Alfie,Dogger is a personal favourite
Funnybones
Harry and his buckets of dinosaurs
Beatrix Potter
Winnie the Pooh
Preston Pig and Kipper
Litle Bear books
Richard Scarry books
Traditional fairytales

Things I'm hoping to reaad to ds 5 soon

Roald Dahl
Narnia stuff
Wind in the willows

Theres loads more but brain in meltdown

Theres loa

KerryMumbles · 16/01/2009 20:48

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Ingles2 · 16/01/2009 20:48

Don't shoot me
Horrid Henry

Ingles2 · 16/01/2009 20:46

Swallows and Amazons
Biggles
Flat Stanley

bodiddly · 16/01/2009 20:45

Oh yes Emily Brown ... very popular in this house!

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