your favourite ever kids book

and WhatAMess!

ohh whaen hitler stole the pink rabbit.... fab!!!

I love "we're going on a bear hunt" - lots of fun words and images and it's really sad at the end when the bear is walking away with his shoulders down, like he only wanted to play...

Bit of a mish-mash actually, Franny&Zooey. I don't have Players & The Rebels - am waiting for the GGB reissue - and Marlows & The Traitor is an (authorised) photocopy. And I won't be buying at ABE prices either.

I still love the "guess how much I love you" book with the father and baby rabbit. My DD still has it on her bookshelf and she's eleven. I also have a hilarious book called "how are you peeling?" its made up of photographs of fruits and vegetables that have been cleverly made to look like they are alive with faces and the best expressions, and the book is all about different emotions, its excellenr, another one that she still has on her bookshelf, I get it out when I need cheering up. I also love to read DD's Jaqueline Wilson books, I read "the bed and breakfast star" in the school hols and it actually made me cry I'm 35 but still love a great girly story.

pretty much anything by roald dahl, but especially danny champion of the world and james and the giant peach. also - one about a wierd and quite scary nanny - can't remember the name but loved it as a kid.

I read the Weirdstone of Brisingamen and the Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner when I was 9/10 and loved them (magic and wizards etc). Tried to read them to my daughters but they werent interested so I gave up after a couple of chapters.

Agree Tiger who came to tea is great -love the audio tape of it too. And the Faraway Tree. Also for little ones the Dog that Dug - dh loves to read that out loud and also that book with the animals in it (cant remember the name) but its all about teh zoo sending inappropriate pets until you get a puppy at the end.

DS loves Pip the Puppy

Ds are Room on the Broom, Snail and the Whale, Gruffalo etc. for reading aloud. He also has The Empty Suit of Armour which he absolutely loved to read with his Dad and knew all of the words in no time.

and just have

The Phantom Tollbooth
Emily Climbs and Anne books
Secret Seven/Famous Five/Naughty little sister/Faraway tree
Moomins
Heidi
Pippi Longstocking
Charlottes Web
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
What Katy Did series
Pollyanna
Mary Poppins
Carbonel
Chrestomanci series

oh my god I could go on and on and on.......

Tiger who came to tea

William the Dragon ( would only eat roast potato!)

Ivor the engine

Narnia series

Charlotte sometimes.
Antonia Forest (in fact any school stories really).
Ballet shoes (especially Petrova the un-balletic).
The talking parcel.
Swallows and Amazons.
Narnia series.

eidsvold - Trixie Belden!!!! I bought them on holiday in the US when I was 9 and thought they were brilliant. I thought it was one of those books only I had read.

My favourite of all time is The Painted Garden - Noel Streatfield. Father runs someone over so the whole family decamp to the States for him to recover, children get discovered for their various talents...

For young children, I think Kipper is pretty fab. 'Kipper was very positive about snow'. Brilliant line.

oh yes, Charlotte's Web - wonderful
Albert Herbery Hawkins - the naughtiest boy in the world!
Flat Stanley (no idea why, having looked at it again with ds but strangely appealed to my youunger self)
whne hitler stole pink rabbit
carbonel & calidor
narnia
pippi longstocking

My god Matonic I am that you have the historical Forests, and from the sounds of it, the originals of the holiday ones.

Yes I think a boy would very much enjoy those ones, and (hopefully be so hooked he would read all the term time ones as well )

Hi I'm new (but been lurking for a bit)
Love this thread - lots of happy memories.

DD (3 1/2) and we have just had a holiday with repeated readings of Billy's Bucket. Marvellous.

remember being an avid trixie belden, nancy drew, hardy boys reader

charlotte's web - stayed with me forever

what katy did and what katy did next

Heidi

Famous Five
Secret Seven

Gumnut Babies

My dds love

No matter what
My Dad
Anything by Mem Fox
Wombat Stew
One Wooly Wombat

When I was a child, The magic Faraway Tree, in fact anything by Enid Blyton and I had a lovely Heidi book with lovely pictures and The Water Babies. Also loved Princess and the Pea.

My DD's love Each Peach Pear Plum, soembody else mentioned The Snail and the Whale which they also like, also have a book called Pollys Picnic, and they like the ladybird classic tales - Cinderella, Princess and the Pea etc

The Swish of the Curtain. It's about a group of kids who squat a theatre and put on shows. I was very influenced by this and when I was 25 or so I squatted an old office building with a bunch of friends, and put on shows!

..and the Moomin series and Noel Streatfield..just read the other posts.I am over excited and full of nostalgia.

And just saw..The Chalet School..they are brill

Yeay to The Land of Green Ginger.Also...The Ogre Downstairs,
Professor Brainstawm
A Little Princess
Mrs Pepperpot
The Faraway Tree
Just William
Gerald Durrel's Birds,Beasts and Relatives and My Family and Other Animals.

FandZ, I love Antonia Forest too, but I do wonder if my carefully hoarded collection will be wasted on ds ... too girly, do you think? I could start him on the historicals and the holiday books. (Mind you, he's only 4, so it's all a long way off.)

I'll also put a vote in for Land Of Green Ginger. Can't wait until ds discovers that, it's waiting for him in his bookcase.

My 2 year old sone loves The Tiger Who Came To Tea. It must be a strong favourite to win for small kids - we have 3 copies as I, my MOL and Dad all bought it remembering it from years gone by!

He also loves
Peepo (when he was very young he loved the rhyme and one of his first words was saying "Peepo" at the end of the rhyme and clapping excitedly'

I love The Hungry Caterpillar but he's not bothered.

His current favourite is "The Cat who lost his purr"

From my childhood I loved The Faraway Tree stories, The Owl who was afraid of the dark, Narnia (all time favourites), Enid Blyton - especially Brer Rabbit.