Books you read as a child/ teenager that you would love to read again!

Oh yeh, just seen someone mention Rosemary Sutcliffe and Susan Cooper.

Joan Aiken - Wolves series and Whispering Mountain series
Alan Garner - Weirdstone of Brisingamen series
Lord of the Flies just blew me away.

And more recently I wish I hadn't read the Philip Pullman trilogy yet. I would love to have the experience of reading them all for the first time again.

And I think the Lemony Snickett books are FANTASTIC writing and I love reading them with my dd.

Yes, I'll probably go and see DiR as well, though I realise I might live to regret it...

I'm so glad now that dh and I have kept all our children's books. We're expecting our first baby any time now (actually two days ago ) and have moved all the children's books into the nursery. Even though it will be at least five years before he's old enough to have any of them read to him .

Another one I didn't read as a child but was introduced to by DH is The Once and Future King by TH White - really magical.

So many of my favourites are mentioned on this thread. I think one of the great joys for me of having children is having an excuse to buy and read and share the books I loved as a child. I have also discovered that some of the books I loved were part of a series - I hadn't realised how many Anne of Green Gables books there were and have really enjoyed catching up with grown-up Anne and her children. I also found a wonderful book by Elizabeth Goudge recently called Linnets and Valerians. And I have amassed every single Rosemary Sutcliff and Henry Treece that I can lay my hands on.

Does anyone remember a book of (bad)children's poems, a bit 1950s-ish, or early 1960s, with illustrations, including these fragments:

'Tom, Tom Tomato
Down the Red Lane
We won't see old Tom Tomato again'

And (in a poem about the months over the year)

'We ate them all, yes every one
Those blackberries, sweet blackberries.'

(Longest of long shots.)

Did anyone else have a passion for Beverley Nichols - The Tree that Sat Down, The Stream that Stood Still, The Wickedest Witch in the World? I think they're out of print now but were wonderful - as are his adult gardening books, but that's a different thread entirely.

Marianne Dreams has been adapted for stage and is on this December at the Almeida in Islington if any of you Catherine Storr fans are London types. We've got the programme in the office and it says it's suitable for 7 yrs and above. The adaptation is by Moira Buffini who (IMO) is v talented so it will probably be fab. My dds are too small but I might go on my own anyway! Those stones were SO scary.

I read The Chrysalids by John Wyndham when I was about 10 and loved it. DP bought it for me a few months ago, and it was interesting which bits I had remembered and which parts went totally over my young head

madamez. Sorry that you didn't find your past favourite. I can't recall it either, sounds quite a strange book!

Anyone remeber a book about a boy detective called Dick who finds a sign on a train window like -E rotated clockwise 90 degrees. The sign is repeated wherever he goes and leads him into adventure. I read it in the 70's and would love to find it again.

Vlugar: did actualy try Booksleuth for my mysterious train story, but no response Oh well, one day I'll at least identify it. I recall quite clearly a picture of the train with a frightened face, going along the rails into a wood with bats flying out...

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and the Moon of Gomrath....these were some of my favourites too.

I remember The Giant Under the Snow too. weren't there some baddies called the leathermen or something?

My special favourite book was "The children of Greene Knowe'. Recently I bought all of the books off Ebay and enjoyed them all although the first one was the best. The house was magical.

Recently I discovered Marianne Dreams. Can't wait to read it to DS when he's older or indeed any of these titles.

loved "When Marnie was there" too. Re read this recently to.

if there are any children's book you remember vaguely but don't remeber the title or author, try "Booksleuth" on www.abebooks.com. I've rediscovered lots of faves this way.

Enough blurbling on now, off to bed.

Spotted The Swish of the Curtain in a shop the other day (has been out of print for years) and grabbed it. DD still too young for it, but reread it myself - still fab. Also just started reading Anne of Green Gables to DD. Had forgotten how wordy it was - quite difficult to read, but good fun.

Donk..I'd forgotten about the Weirdstone of Brisingamen and the Moon of Gomrath....loved those.

Does anyone remember a book called How to Eat Fried Worms? I read it in first year of high school and it was hilarious.

I just found out I can get The Giant Under the Snow from Amazon

That would be dark obv.

am shamefully rereading the drak is rising series as we speak. No snakes .

Lorna Hill Loved them soooo much.

The Eagle of the Ninth. Re-read it recently. Just so hope my own children like Rosemary Sutcliffe.

Not just the Owl service - I loved the Moon of Gomrath and the Weirdstone of Brisingamen as well.

I don't recall anyone else but me having them: Tales of The Little Wood and Adventures OF The Little Wood (for young DC). Oh, and who remembers The Owl Service? Excelent way of introducing 70s-era pre-teens to class issues and sexual tension

am currently reading all the roald dahl books to ds now he is 5 - loved all of them my dad would read us some every night and we still have the actual books from we were little

also wouldn't mind reading hello god it's me margaret again

We are currently reading the Carbonel series at bedtimes (Barbara Sleigh), which I remember loving when I was my dds' age. I also enjoyed the Moomintroll series and any horsey books, particularly the Three Jays series by Pat Smythe (passed down to me by my neighbour) and those by the Pullein-Thompson sisters.

Fortunately, I made my Mum keep all my books in her loft for when I had children, so now we are ploughing through them all again.

Warrior Scarlet
Stig of the Dump
Dark is Rising books.
The Silver Brumby Books by Elaine Mitchell
Citizen of the Galaxy (Heinlein)- this hooked me on SciFi for life!
All the Lord Peter Wimsey books by Dorothy Sayers - I loved them as a kid.
All the Sherlock Holmes stories
The Chronicles of Narnia
Out of the Silent Planet
Voyage to Venus (Perelandra)
That Hideous Strength - it terrified me, but a re-read it several times!
The Princess and the Goblins
The Princess and Curdie (anyone remeber it on Jackanory, or am I showing my age?)
The Prince in Waiting trilogy

Plus lots more I remember with great fondness!

I've just re-read 'The Demon Headmaster' as it was on my MIL's book shelf - rivetting!

Daisy: I've still got The Giant Under The Snow. Brilliant, creepy, classic 70s kids book. I also recently managed to bag a copy of Marianne Dreams from a junk shop (did anyone else enjoy the film even though it departed hugely from the book? I mean, I loved the book and spent about half my childhood drawing houses and stones with eyes. but loved the film because of its freaky adolescent-awakening/confusion vibes).

I am a Chalet School nut as well, also the Jill books and (showing my age something awful here) the Peter Dickinson Changes trilogy, which was televised in the 70s.

Now, I do have a query here so please help, Mumsnet. There is a kiddy book that I would love to get hold of again but can't remember title or author. It featured an anthropomorphized train (which definitely wasn't Thomas or any of his ilk, as it was red and yellow) which, at some point, had to go into a scary wood full of bats and witches to rescue someone. I think the wood might have been called Witch Wood or Haunted Hill. THis would have been out in the mid to late 60s.