Which of your favourites from childhood have you re-read recently?

Stubbornstains I saw the Moonacre film! It was a lovely film, worth a watch. I did have 'ishhoooos' with it - the story has been messed around with so that her Uncle is a moody scary bloke rather than a lovely cheerful chappy. There's hardly any bits with the vicar. Robin is an a*se most of the way through almost to the end. (Why?!! Why do this!) But it's still lovely to watch, I did enjoy it

I loved Ramona the Pest and now I read them to my dd1 (who reminds me very much of Ramona)
The Chronicles of Narnia, particularly the Voyage of the Dawn Treader- my favourite by far.
The Twits
All the Famous Five books- I used to seriously adore them, I wanted to join their gang and used to read four a day sometimes!
The Door in the Air by Margaret Mahy. Utterly gorgeous stories- still one of my favourite books as an adult. Stories about magic that aren't fluffy or girly, just beautiful.
Adrian Mole... How many of the jokes passed over my head when I read his diaries as an eleven year old!!

I've read them Charmed Life too, and then much to my pleasure ds started reading the other Chrestomanci stories, and is actually now reading The Lives of Christopher Chant to dd My most favourite is Howl's Moving Castle, although I don't think the two sequels are as good. In fact I haven't been really blown away by anything she has done recently, although I did enjoy the Pinhoe Egg, and ds loved Conrad's Fate.

Ooh, The Ogre Downstairs was one of my favourite DWJ, Charmed Life was the first I read and probably my other favourite. I still buy her new books, and I've discovered that one of my cousins does too.

Nine and ten, and we read the first one (The Ogre Downstairs) a year or two ago. She did write some books for younger children too, but they are not in my collection.

How old are your dcs Nooka? - looking forward to reading DWJ again myself

I don't hide my enjoyment of children's books. I have a whole bookcase full, both books I loved as a child and those acquired later. My absolute favourite author is Diana Wynne Jones. I'm reading Dogs Life to my dc at the moment, and then have the choice of the next Joan Aitken, or the next Earthsea or the next Dark is Rising.

I read 'Betsy' (also known as 'Understood Betsy') by Dorothy Canfield about once a year.

So many books I love and would really like to reread mentioned here. Only ones I've read recently are When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and the 2nd book in Judith Kerr's trilogy.

I've been buying Joan Aiken books though - I discovered there were two more about Dido and Simon etc, making a total of 11. I also bought the collected Armitage family stories that have been published last year, and secondhand copies of several story collections that I didn't have/didn't know about because they were published much later.

It's more of a teenager's book than a kid's but 'I am the Cheese' by Robert Cormier and it was as good as I had remembered it!

Today I bought 10 Sweet Valley High books from a Christmas fete

I have also been collecting the Drina Ballerina series, half of them are out of print and go for quite a lot on amazon. No one else has ever heard of them. I love them. Looking forward to reading stories with DD, like the Little House books.

I used to read the Ramona one too, I also loved Judy Bloom and Paula Danziger.

Awwwww! I thought I was the only child/adult in the world ever to have read and adored "The Little White Horse"! I recently heard they've made a film of it, though, called "Moonacre"- has anyone seen it? Is it any good?

If my baby was a girl I was going to call her Loveday....

I would vote "We didn't mean to go to sea" as narrowly the best Arthur Ransome.

If my baby was a girl I was going to call her Nancy...

I've just been re-reading my Narnia books.

My baby is a boy and his middle name will be Caspian!

Am currently working my way through the Anne of Green Gables series. Just got to Anne and Gilbert's 'House of Dreams'. My DH is lovely, but he'll never make up of the disappointment of not being Gilbert Blythe.

Other perenial favourites include the Chalet School, the 'Wells' series, I Capture the Castle, Little White Horse. Haven't read the Laura Ingalls Wilder series for a while. They were lost in a dramatic cull of my childrens' books about a decade ago, but I might need to start re-aquiring...

The Trebizon series by Anne Digby is still fab like a modern 80's version of Malory Towers

I throughly enjoyed the Fell Farm series myself thought they were very charming especially Fell Farm for Christmas. Albeit they are dated but would highly recommend them.

The Hundred and One Dalmations by Dodie Smith. Still so good after all this time.

The Upstairs Room, by Johanna Reiss. It is a very older child book though. God it is sad.

I can't wait to read Black Hearts in Battersea and all the other Joan Aitken books to DS. I do like Paddington too - I've tricked DS out in a duffel coat and trained him to like mardemalade.

The 'Uncle' books by J.P. Martin.

They've been out of print for ages (too middle class apparently) and sell for huge amounts of money on ebay.

Some US publisher has just started re-issuing them though.

We're reading Jules Verne atm, very much a blast from the past. I am having to revamp the author as ds shouts at him every time he refers to the natives as "savages" or talks about "civilisation". But we are both enjoying it and ds is really thinking about the story. Dh just reads them Jennings and has them in stitches.

I also used to like some books called Tim & Tobias which I read at school. I looked on ebay today out of interest & just one of the books had bids on at about 22 pounds!

White Boots is another of my favourite Streatfeilds. And Apple Bough. Now probably called Fiddle Shoes or something. It really irks me the way they have retitled so many of her books to fit the shoes theme.

I pinched dd's Ballet Shoes the other week. I used to love it but for some reason she was not impressed!

DD likes me to read the 'classics' to her so I've happily revisited loads - Narnia (leaving out The Last Battle), A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, Swallows and Amazons (not finished yet, Picts and Martyrs next), Treasure Island, Peter Pan, all of the Little Women series (dreadful to read aloud, crying through the sad bits!), Anne of Green Gables/Avonlea (will get more in due course). Recently finished The Water Babies which is a bit of an oddity in some ways. Currently on What Katy Did.

Hotcha, what about My friend Flicka and the green grass of Wyoming.
Loved those.