I have shrunk my children’s early childhoods to 6 books

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Our attic floor/bedroom ceiling partially collapsed earlier this week, and we’ve had a bit of a clear out. I’m not much of a hoarder, except when it comes to books, and especially the bedtime books I used to read the DC. We genuinely don’t have a lot of room for nostalgia. I’ve kept the books we read over, and over and over again.

Monkey and Me - Emily Gravett
Lost and Found - Oliver Jeffers
The Amazing Book Eating Boy - Oliver Jeffers
Knight Time -
The Little Engine That Could
The Usborne Book of Stories for Little Boys/ there a study about a little boy training to be a knight, which inspired DS’s love of archery. 10 years later he is a qualified archer and regularly shoots in “normal” times.

The Giving tree
Hairy Maclairy
Room on the broom
Peace at last
A couple of Aussie ones sent by an auntie in Sydney; Hunwig’s egg and There’s a sea in my bedroom

The Giving tree was originally given to my 24 year old DS as a child but he passed it to his sister who loved it just as much, I’ll never part with it. It’s one of my most precious possessions

The book with no pictures
The gruffalo
The day the crayons quit
Meet the parents - Peter bently
Pip and posy
Mog the forgetful cat

This is a lovely thread. My only DS is 15 and we still have shelves and shelves of children’s books, cannot bear to part with them but if I had to:
Kiss Goodnight Sam
Fix it Duck
The very noisy night
Dogger
That rabbit belongs to Emily brown
Pumpkin soup

Where the Wild Things are.
I took the Moon for a Walk
Have you seen a Little Bear?
Each Peach Pear Plum
The Toymaker
The Hidden House
The Baby’s Catalogue

From my own childhood it’s

Bye Bye Baby (the ahlbergs)
This is the Bear
Come Back Hercules
Molly Molly Mandy
My Naughty Little Sister
and that one about the witch on top of the phone box while the girl was on her way home from school......?

Happy memories 😍😢

Oh wow! this thread took off while I wasn't looking.

I should have probably said that my DC are 9 and 12. The book Ive kept are a combination of some DH and I've particularly loved, some DS particularly loved and some DD particularly loved. they've each got a story about how they came to us. But as this thread shows there are so many wonderful children's books out there.