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

oh i still read m Trebizon books in the bath
still annoyed they stopped after the fifth form...

Oh, yes, the Jill books!

And oh, yes, Ramona - although I was quite old when I first met those - ditto Judy Blume's Fudge and Lois Lowry's Anastasia - all hilarious.

We had one Bobbsey Twins book when I was small ("at Big Bear Pond") - never met them again - did have the Fell Farm books though which I think included at least one set of twins.

Yes,will do Hunker.
Do Brat do story books?

I remember flicking through Judy Blume guiltily knowing they were too old for me...

God,also a bizarre series of 'teen' (very 70s that) books my sister had.One was about a girl whose mother was unspeakably horrible.She had a boyfriend called Terry who her mother banned her from seeing.Eventually kindly Terry managed to get the mother to tell him that the reason she hated her daughter was that she had accidentally killed her baby brother by reaching for a ball under his pram and dislodging the brake,sending it hurtling into path of nearest car.

I loved reading my 2 dds The Secret Garden. They have asked me to read it again to them.

Try, with something that doesn't mean as much to you to begin with. It would be such a shame if you couldn't share the books you loved with your children - I know what a massive part of my childhood books were.

Anyone read Trebizon books?

Cazzybabs, yes, Sweet Valley High - they made a tv series of it. Used to read were they Sweet Dreams books too - all about high school and sophomores and jocks called Brad And Judy Blume.

Anyone else read the Ramona books? She had a big sister she called Beezus, iirc.

Also, I remember reading a book about a girl who set an alarm clock and woke up at the age she set it. She went back to being a baby and told someone to piss off from her pram (which appealed to me!) and then it got a bit sad as she went to the future and saw herself as a downtrodden wife with a semi-abusive husband - but with two lovely children. She woke up back at her present and realised that she'd have to ditch her boyfriend (the future husband), but knew it meant she'd never see the son and daughter she'd got so fond of.

oh this is great

I loved The Little White Horse too!
and I read all the Anne books about once a year

also still love my pony books. The Jill series and all the Pullein Thompson books. And Flambards. and A Pattern of Roses.

also love Noel Streatfield. Reread the Gemma books not so long ago

and recently really enjoyed the 'Alex' books - NZ ones about a swimmer; aunt gave me the first 2 years ago and /i finally bought the last 2

there'll be loads more too

I could Hunker (and indeed do but with something like that,it would seem too complicated somehow..probably because I had such an intense relationship with all these books,in a way that brings tears to my eyes.)

I wil try...they are only little at present thus probably not ready to take on board Alison's contretemps with Mam'zelle.

The Bobbsey Twins series were another fave as a direct result of hanging around with the children of American missionaries.

I read something once about a younggirl and her brother who came across this strange but kindly elderly brother and sister with a house full of automatons.
American I think.
Elderly brother was called Pilar.
God I loved it but can't remember what it was called and would sooo love to read it again.
Came out in mid 70s I think (I am 39)
Anyone know??

Ok not a great classic but just thinking about books I used to read, does anyone remember reading the baby sitters club series and there was another series about twins in America, one good twin and one twin that liked to party Set in their high school - was it sweet valley high?

Oh god it is all coming back to me now!

I loved the The Dark Is Rising, goblino the witches cat, paddington, the famous five, swallows and amazons....sure there are loads more. I love going to my parent's house and re-reading all my books!

Can't you read them stories in English, MD?

Watership Down, Railway Children and Little Women!

I used to enjoy sobbing when I was a child, clearly...!

Choca,I loved Elidor.
Also most of what has been mentioned in this thread which I managed to procure despite growing up on a tiny tropical island in PNG in the 70s.
Guffaw at A little Princess being a Changing Rooms for Victorian scullery maids.

It is a source of a fair amount of torment to me that because i speak Welsh with my children,I won'tbe able to read these books to them.

Treasure Seekers, Little Princess, Secret Garden, Tom's Midnight Garden - will think of more, I'm sure! Oh, yes, Narnia.

Oh add Narnia on my list too and Harry Potter!

Winnie the Pooh
The Wind In The Willows.

Twinkle-its the later ones that are more expensive .I've just sold an old copy of Challenge for £45 and that has been reprinted lately (making the old one cheaper!) Redheads,triplets adrienne are all similar prices.Try Abebooks too (at least it'll get you an idea of prices)

And DK Broster?

Anyone remember Elidor?

This is a super thread - thank you Katy Mac fro reminding me of Flambards. I was totally in love with the aeroplane loving brother and of course marreid someone just like him! (no really!).

Does anyone remember the Tanglewood stories (very moral) but rather sweet? Sort of int he mould of Lark on the Wing but later and younger.

Crikey - £10.99 a pop? Think I'll have to keep on trawling the charity shops. I think I'm only missing about 15 of them - mostly the later ones. Perhaps I'll have to shell out to get some of the rarer ones though.

The Borrowers

Narnia

Chalet chool and many others are being reprinted by GGBP but even those sell quickly and go for loads on ebay!.

any rosemary sutcliffe

laura ingalls-wilder

the earthsea trilogy (Ursula le Guin)

and loads more. Kids are pretty discerning so kids books tend to be very good I think