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

Chalet School series here - had nearly got them all when they seemed to go out of print and they seem to sell for quite a lot on Ebay . Unfortunately I'm not sure my DS will appreciate them lol.

Also Enid Blyton - esp The Enchanted Wood etc. and the Children of Cherry Tree Farm.

Swallows and Amazons books
The Dark is Rising Series by Susan Cooper
Heinlein's children's books: Citizen of the Galaxy, Space cadet etc.
Andre Norton - especially The Beast Master. (never could get into her adult fiction though)
Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh.
Stig of the Dump
My friend Mr Leakey by JBS Haldane

Agree about the other Sword in the Stone books Rustybear.

Chalet school- collected some of the old paperbacks but have been buying the new reprints (unabridged!!!!)
Enid Blyton -Mallory Towers/St Clares
Gillian Cross

New kids books I read

Anthony Horowitz- Power of five/Alex Rider
Artemis Fowl

Some of Terry Pratchett is actually written for children - of the discworld ones, the Tiffany Aching trilogy & Maurice & his educated rodents were written with children in mind, and then there's the Johnny & the dead books and the Bromeliad trilogy as well as the Carpet people.
But the mainstream discworld I would call adult books.

I re-read "The Dark is Rising" series once or twice a year, and have done since I was in the final years of primary school. I even named DS after one of the characters in "Over Sea, Under Stone."

I also read Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice which I suppose aren't strictly novels for children but I think of them as such because I first read them as a child.

I've also just bought the "School at the Chalet" to start collecting the series again after I lost most of the copies I had previously. I'm also after "The Sword in the Stone" and am really pleased and excited to learn in this thread that it is part of a trilogy.

I've also read "Anne of Green Gables" etc quite recently and would love to read "Ballet Shoes" once more as that was really one of my favourites as a child. I wanted to be Petrova.

Would love to get hold of a copy of "what Katy Did..."

Omg that was it I can't belivee she wrote I know what you did last summer as well! Stranger with my face was far superior!

I used to love Dorrie the Witch books when I was young anyone remember those?

ledodgy:

The book was called "Stranger with my face" by Lois Duncan - who also wrote "I know what you did last summer."

She churned out lots of teenage fiction and I read most of it...

i read pratchett which is considered child reading.

i dont think it is personally...ut there is is in the librabry in the teen section

does anyone remember books from the school library called

devils & demons
witches & warlords
goblins & elves
mermaids & wizards

These might not have been the correct titles but they were printed by the same publisher and often featured lots of different stories.

I would love to read them again.

Yes that was the one! wasn't it good!

ledodgy - yes, I remember that. The girl was called Laurie and she lived on an island. The book was called something that escapes me but I shall google it...

I loved the Sword in the stone as a child, but never enjoyed the rest of the series until I read them as an adult, and I still prefer The Sword in the Stone to the others.

On the other hand I have 5 fingers.

David Sebastian Waghorn was a very funny boy.

Anyone know Clement Freud's "Grimble", My sis and I still quote it at one another now.

This is giving me a warm glow - I loved The Little White Horse as a child but I was the only person I knew who'd read it. I've read it as an adult and it's still a lovely book.

Just skimmed the thread and I see many that I think are still a great adult read, including Arthur Ransome.

Has TH White "The Sword in the Stone" been mentioned? A sort of realistic telling of the Arthur legend. THe author has this great conversational tone, a bit didactic but with the sort of details children love, which makes me think he must have told amazing bedtime stories to his own children - if he had them.

The bit during the boar hunt with the dog still makes me well up.

Does anyone remember a kind of pre teen fiction book about a girl with an eagle necklace and her twin (that she didn't know about) it was to do with out of body experiences etc and turned out her twin was in a hospital and was trying to steal her body?

Ah, right

Are you sure that was Antonia Forest Swizzler - I thought I had them all, but i don't remember that one?

I loved those - when we were visitinf friends in Hastings, my friend & I dragged our DH's all over Romney Marsh, pointing out places where things happened in the books. I always wanted to got to Punchbowl Farm too, but have never got nearer than going round the edge of the Devil's Puncbowl on the A3

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, RB, Monica Edwards - Punchbowl Farm and Romney Marsh - swoon!