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DD2 (9) wants to know what your best ever children's book is

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castille · 05/03/2009 12:10

She recently read Heidi and loved it, and wants to read some more "brilliant stories".

Any suggestions?

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psychomum5 · 05/03/2009 12:37

at that age I was reading narnia (still love that set)

malory towers

twins at st claires

swallows and amazons (which is actually from a set, but I cannot remember the other books names)

OrmIrian · 05/03/2009 12:37

Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge.
Green Smoke - Somebody Manning. Might be too young for her but a favourite with us. Ditto Dragon in Danger.

My DD is reading the Ingo books atm - Helen Dunmore. Loves them.

Lilymaid · 05/03/2009 12:34

What Katy Did/ What Katy Did at School/ What Katy Did next. First two better than last but I read all of these many times over when your DD's age.

mistlethrush · 05/03/2009 12:33

The house at Green Knowe and series
The lion the witch and the wardrobe
Wind in the Willows

Simplysally · 05/03/2009 12:28

Swallows & Amazons by Arthur Ransome.

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castille · 05/03/2009 12:28

Ah yes Katy and the Borrowers. Brilliant. She's not quite old enough for Jane Eyre I don't think.

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castille · 05/03/2009 12:27

She's half way through The Secret Garden - I loved that as a child. My sister was obsessed with Tom's Midnight Garden but bits of it are rather harrowing aren't they? She's a sensitive sort...

Little Princess, Anne of Green Gables - great, hadn't thought of those. Don't know Mistres Masham's Repose, but it sounds like her sort of thing. All going in my Amazon basket!

Any others? All my childhood books are still at my parents' house and my mind has gone blank

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Simplysally · 05/03/2009 12:25

The rest of the Heidi series for a start!

If she likes period books, how about What Katy Did/Did at School/Did Next? Little women? Jane Eyre?

Also The Borrowers series.

womblingalong · 05/03/2009 12:22

Mistress Mashams Repose - T.H White. About a little girl who finds Lilliputians living on an island in the lake of a house she lives in. Brilliant Story.

ButtercupWafflehead · 05/03/2009 12:20

Anne of Green Gables?

Second "Tom's Midnight garden"

ButtercupWafflehead · 05/03/2009 12:20

Anne of Green Gables?

Second "Tom's Midnight garden"

MayorNaze · 05/03/2009 12:13

not necessarily my best but...

secret garden

a little princess

toms midnight garden

any good for her?

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