What children's book did you first enjoy as an an adult?

There are themes here, aren’t there! I’m another one for Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and Garth Nix. Also the Artemis Fowl books, great fun although my favourite is the first.

Currently reading my way through Narnia with DS2 (7) who also has The Horse and His Boy as his reading book from school (which is slow going!). I’m enjoying rereading DSs my childhood favourites enormously.

Oh Sophie Anderson's books are beautiful 😍

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase after my daughter asked me to read it.It's a good book.She also asked me to read Rooftoppers ,Wolf Wilder and The Explorer as she loved them so much.Also very enjoyable

Forgot to mention Hunger Games, excellent series.

I do read quite a lot of middle grade/YA books. Sophie Anderson's books are fantastic. Enjoyed Charlie Higson's The Enemy series, never thought I'd like anything to do with zombies, but both DS and I were hooked. And Robin Stevens' Murder most unladylike series, though it is uneven, some books are better than the others. Loved Thomas Taylor's Malamander (the other books in the series less so).

When I was in my mid-twenties I went on holiday to a rented manor house in the middle of nowhere with a group of uni friends who were all voracious and indiscriminate readers.

One of them was doing babysitting in the evening to subsidise her PhD and turned up with a book and its sequel which we'd never heard of but she'd been reading to her charges as a bedtime story and highly recommended. All ten of us ploughed though the first volume in the course of that week and went on to read all six sequels: and that is why Jo Rowling is a billionaire.

Me too with this one! Have only read Northern Lights so far, but have on my list to read the others!

I've only watched a little of it, but it seemed so much darker. I absolutely love the old adaptation with Megan Fellows, I think it encapsulates the book perfectly.

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins (Divergent book and movie) Captivating and funny
I hoped they would make it into.a series or movie.

Don’t bother with Anne with an E. I’ve read all the books many times and hated it. Totally misses the spirit of the original and lots of changes. Hated it.

Good recommendation. Definitely a book for adults as well as kids.

I was astonished at how well-written the Narnia books are. We tend to think of them as kid's books, but they can definitely be enjoyed by adults. In places, the prose is beautiful – more beautiful than many adult classics. I was also struck by how demanding they are. Hard to imagine the average ten year old getting through them. Maybe children in Lewis' day had higher literacy levels.

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman. I remember being stunned by the arctic scenes, and the whole concept of daemons.

Also loved The Little House on the Prairie books as an adult. I think I would have found them a bit dull as a child, but I find the depictions of daily life really fascinating now. My favourite is The Long Winter.

Yes! The Long Winter is fascinating as is the one with the grasshopper infestation....on the Banks of Plum Creek. I read them to my boys and we were all . Very interesting.

I first read the Narnia books as an adult and loved. Harry Potter too, though to be fair, they weren't out when I was a child. Definitely continue with the Anne books.

I first read The Hobbit in my 30s. Well, to be honest, I listened to it on audiobook. God, I loved that book.

I also read (well, listened to) the Narnia books as an adult. Loved them too.

I'm a big fan of kids books. I keep meaning to read several of the classics: Winnie the Pooh, The Wind in the Willows, Black Beauty, etc.

The whitby witches trilogy and the wyrd museum trilogy by Robin Jarvis

The wind in the willows

A monster calls

The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton.
never read it as a child but I read it to dd and fell in love with all the characters and the story.

Charlotte Sometimes

Never read famous five as a child always read the secret seven. Read them in my early 30s and absolutely loved them. Although a bit rude, racist etc now I can see they were ‘of the time’

never read or watched Harry Potter but am keen to give it a try now.

I've read loads of children's books as an adult and enjoyed them. Recently for my family WhatsApp reading group we read October, October by Katya Balen. We all loved it so much. I also recently read The thing about jellyfish by Ali Benjamin Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah.

I’ve just finished the Harry Potters for the first time in my mid 50s. We’ve had them on audio for years and the DCs have “read” them that way without needing me to read with them, DD has been nagging me to read them for ages so I have just spent the last 6 months listening to them on audio. I’ve enjoyed them but not loved them.

I also tried the Percy Jackson's after DD loved them but just couldn’t get into them.

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. Life got in the way! Love it now.

Arthur ransome
Jacqueline wilson
katya balen
little house on the prairie

I was obsessed with The Little White Horse as a child, I made up my own tunes to all the songs and remember the scenery of the book as vividly as a real place, I spent so much time there in my head. I have very much enjoyed rereading it as an adult too.