Which children's books do you STILL read and enjoy?

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Swizzler · 11/04/2007 19:10

Am re-reading Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising sequence and yes, it is still good

So which children's books did you enjoy as a child and still read - read for your own pleasure, that is, not read to your DCs.

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shouldbedoingsomethingelse · 11/04/2007 19:23

Yesterday I was walking passed a charity shop and saw a copy of "Anne of Green Gables" So I purchased it for my daughter!! I also recently purchased the "what Katy did" books again!

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Swizzler · 11/04/2007 19:22

Daddy Long Legs is Jean Webster - love that book

And Ballet Shoes is one of my favourite books ever. Petrova was my role model

Comfort food is probably right - not exactly challenging, but rather soft and fuzzy reads

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BandofMothers · 11/04/2007 19:17

I have been thinking I would like to read Watership Down again.
Wont read that to dd's til they're a bit older tho.

DrMarthaMcMoo · 11/04/2007 19:17

Anne of Green Gables. It's my all time favourite comfort read - like literary mashed potato.

MrsBadger · 11/04/2007 19:16

oh, all the Noel Streatfeilds - Curtain Up is superb, having to be home before the blackout and go by tram to save rubber.

Littlefish · 11/04/2007 19:16

Noel Streatfield - Thursday's child

A book called "Daddy Long Legs" - no idea who wrote it.

Riki Tiki Tavi - Rudyard Kipling (My granny always used to read it to me).

Aloha · 11/04/2007 19:15

Am loving re-reading Ballet Shoes atm. A world of nurseries, children who are thrilled to be taught English and Maths by professors, measles and whooping cough, tarlatan dresses and being very, very poor, but still employing two full time maids and a cook.

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