Enjoying children's classics

A wrinkle in time
from the mixed up files of mrs Basel e frankweiler
phantom tollbooth
watership down
most of Ronald Dahl
holes
bridge to terabithia
my side of the mountain

Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr

When Marnie Was There by Joan G Robinson.

I knew I’d forget some!

The Moomin series by Tove Jansson, especially Moominpappa at Sea, Moominland Midwinter and Moominvalley in November
Mardie’s Adventures by Astrid Lindgren,
Hugo and Josephine series by Maria Gripe,
The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert de Jongh,
All Rosemary Sutcliffe,
All Cynthia Harnett,
Charlotte’s Web by EB White,
Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer,
Elizabeth Goudge’s children’s books, especially The Little White Horse, Linnets and Valerians and Henrietta’s House
John Christopher’s Tripods series and Empty World

Not sure whether this would appeal to you, but there have been some excellent more recent books that are very much in the school of old children’s classics. I loved Five Children on the Western Front, Skylark’s War, Princess and the Suffragette, Midnight Guardians, When the Sky Falls, Tyger. Loads more too. Children’s literature is very much in a golden age if you can get past the wall of celebrity nonsense and find a decent library or bookshop with some proper choice.

The Amazing Mr Blunden - Antonia Barber
Come Back Lucy - Pamela Sykes
Marianne Dreams - Catherine Storr
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkein
Mary Poppins series - PL Travers
The Dolls House - Rumer Godden
The Greengage Summer - Rumer Godden
All Antonia Forest’s Marlows series, beginning with Autumn Term
The Green Knowe series by Lucy M Boston, beginning with The Children of Green Knowe,
Green Smoke - Rosemary Manning,
The Five ‘Find Outers’ Mystery series - Enid Blyton,
All E Nesbit,
Edward Eager’s Magic series, beginning with Half Magic,
Carrie’s War - Nina Bawden
The Peppermint Pig - Nina Bawden
Penny’s Way - Mary K Harris
All Noel Streatfeild,
All Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgeson Burnett
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgeson Burnett,
The Voyage of QV66 - Penelope Lively
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe - Penelope Lively
Smith - Leon Garfield
Devil in the Fog - Leon Garfield,
All Diana Wynne Jones
Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising sequence
Jonathan Stroud’s Lockwood and Co series

The 'Adventure' series was always my favourite E. Blyton series - Island of, etc.

And The Faraway Tree and The Wishing Chair series are surprisingly well worth re-reading, considering they're aimed at younger children.

We Couldn't Leave Dinah by Mary Treadgold was one of my absolute favourites. Ponies and Nazis.

All the E. Nesbit books.

Monica Edwards - ponies. I preferred the Romney Marsh series to Punchbowl Farm.

Lorna Hill - ballet or ponies, depending on which ones you read.

And of course the Chalet School, at least up to the point when they depart for Switzerland!

I loved Malcolm Saville as a child, but not so much on re-reading as an adult.

Ignore me ... I'm clearly too tired to read properly

Famous Five

The Dark is Rising series, Redwall and the Joan Aiken ones - Wolves of Willoughby Chase etc.

Not sure if read much in this country but The Little White Horse, that the BBC series Moonacre was based on. Also Linnets and Valerians by the same author. The Eagle of the Ninth and various others by that author.

Thanks to PP for reminding me of Robin Jarvis and Carbonel. The Whitby one was the Whitby Witches.

Miss Happiness and Miss Flower
Carbonel Trilogy
The Little Broomstick
The Phantom Tollbooth

If you liked horse stories, in addition to the Pullein Thompson pony books as mentioned above, there’s also The Saddle Club and Jinny at Finmory books.
I’ve just re read all Nancy Drew’s

Oh and Nancy drew

A lot of great books also-
Ballet shoes
When hitler stole pink rabbit
Famous fives

Don't know if they come under classics but I also loved Judy Blume and Catherine Cooksons Mary Ann series.

The Dark Is Rising Sequence

Tom's Midnight Garden

The Secret Garden

Moondial

Enid Blyton's Barney books

Oh and of course the 20th century classic, Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner

The Bullerby Children by Astrid Lindgren
The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren

Same author very different books

The deptford mice trilogy by Robin Jarvis. There was a Whitby series too, can't remember what it was called but they were great!

The Long Winter was my favourite ‘Praire’ book

Black Beauty
What Katy Did
Little House On The Prairie
A Hundred and One Dalmatians
All the Pullein-Thompson sisters’ pony books

Black Beauty
What Katy Did series
Little Women series
Anne of Greene Gables series
Little House on the Prairie
The Silver Sword
Around the World in Eighty Days
Paddington

Noel Streatfield: Ballet Shoes, Apple Bough etc.
Alan garner
Wizard of Earthsea books
Ramona!

Yes to Charlotte Sometimes

also Cold Christmas by Nina Beachcroft - maybe a few week time?

The Emma books by Honor Arundel starting with The High House

secret garden
moondial
little women
anne of green gables
what Katy did
the borrowers
adrian mole!

Anne of Green Gables!