What were/are your favourite children's classic books?

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I'll leave it to you what constitutes a classic. I'm not the thread police.

I'm torn between Anne of Green Gables, Black Beauty and A Little Princess.

What were your favourites growing up?

I love these threads ! feel good memories

I was a bookworm and loved a lot of the classics listed here

Little Red Fox has a place in my heart too

The only Noel Streatfield I liked was Didicoi

Just googled and found it wasn’t Noel Streatfield

Anyone remember The Owl Service?

What Katy did series
Little woman series
Chronicles of Narnia
Mallory Towers
St Clare's
Famous five
Secret seven
Biggles
Come back Lucy
I Am David
When Marnie was There

And Charlotte’s Web!

Charlottes Web- the ending makes me cry every time. The most recent time was last week reading it with DNeice. I'm 40 🤣

Winnie the pooh
gobbolino the witches cat
tom’s midnight garden
anne of green gables
The Hobbit
swallows and amazons
The Weirdstone of Brisingemen….I know I’ve spelt that wrong!

Yes, loved Alan Garner. Wasn’t there a tv programme made of this?

I can't believe that I forgot The Black Stallion.

Black Beauty too

Not Now Bernard

Yes, we read the Owl Service at school (secondary). Its a great book.

Alison Uttley books.

The Birthday Unicorn.

Charlotte Sometimes.

Watership Down
The machine gunners
all the Narnia books
Wind in the willows

The Owl who was afraid of the dark and , Goodnight Mr Tom, absolutely loved this book.

The winter of enchantment - victoria Walker... I love this book
Ludo and the star horse - Mary stewart
The little broomstick - mary Stewart
The silver crown - Robert C O'Brien
charlotte sometimes
Linnets and valerians - Elizabeth goudge
The Lorna Hill ballet books with Veronica and Sebastian in them
At school with the Roundheads Elsie J Oxenham

Loads more!

Peter Pan, Heidi, What Katie Did, Ballet Shoes, Little House on the Prairie series, Anne of Green Gables, Tom’s Midnight Garden, which l think is one of the most beautifully written children’s books ever.

Oh, and the Carbonel books

I think all mine have been mentioned; some I read hundreds of times.
Mary Plain
Winter Holiday and We Didn't Mean to go to Sea by Arthur Ransome
all the Laura Ingalls Wilders but particularly The Long Winter
The Swish of the Curtain
Chalet School Stories
Anne of Green Gables
Little Women
The Silver Sword
as I got to be 9 or 10 I loved by Georgette Heyer

@hopeishere the school book with the falconry sounds like Antonia Forrest books - Autumn Term etc

I like the Weird Stone of Brisingamen too

5 children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet

The Wind in the Willows
Anything by Alison Utterly- especially The Country Child
The Borrowers
Carbonell
Gobbolino the Witch's Cat
Olga da Polga
Teddy Robinson
George-I can't remember the author, but he helped the children with their homework wore glasses and liked ice cream.

Archer’s Goon
The Falcon’s Malteser and other Anthony Horowitz novels
The Borribles

A Traveler in Time
Flambards
Heidi
What Katy Did/What Katy Did Next
The Secret Seven series
St Clare’s series
Malory Towers series
Jennings series

I’m off to the library!
glad to see the owl service mnetioned
the wierd stone of brisingamen too. I had a little cut glass gem from my granny, just like the heroines, and just like her I’d look into the magical lights in the middle.
I feel for children today. There was so much magic when you had less, and had to find magic in the weeds by the road.

Moomins
Tintin
Faraway Tree
Narnia books
Famous Five
Secret Seven
Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew
The Adventure Series by Willard Price