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?

My naughty little sister and the Enchanted Wood when I was really young and What Katy Did and a Little Princess

Heidi
The Little White Horse
Linnets and Valerians
What Katy Did/What Katie Did at School/What Katy Did Next
Little Women/Good Wives/Little Men/Jo's Boys
The Mermaid's Daughter

The Twits

The the Far Away Tree

The Anne of Green Gables series.
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
Littlenose (especially when read out on Jackanory)
A Dream of Sadler’s Wells and No Castanets at the Wells.
The Little House in the Prairie books, especially The Long Winter
The Bullerby Children books by Astrid Lindgren
The Secret Island by Enid Blyton

Call of the Wild
Pinocchio
Moral lesson books I received for attendance at Sunday School :
Wish for a pony,
Doris finds the way,
Noel's Christmas Tree and my all-time favourite :The Key of Rose Cottage

The Phantom Tollbooth
Howls Moving Castle and
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
I know they’re product of the time, but it’s just a shame that so many are filled with colonialist attitudes that personally for me make them less enjoyable.

I'm remembering teaching The Silver Sword and choking when I got to the line 'Jan tucked his mangy cock under his arm'.

All of Noel Streatfield's books
Rilla of Ingleside - like Rilla better than Ann and it got me interested in history one WWI
Little House on the Prarie booms

Everything Diana Wynne Jones ever wrote
Everything Alan Garner wrote (did you know he wrote a sequel for adults to the Weirdstone/Moon of Gomrath series?)
The Prydain series by Lloyd Alexander (can't believe nobody has mentioned those!)

Flat Stanley

Stig of the Dump

Pippi Longstocking

The Faraway Tree

This is my favourite, too. I absolutely love it.

The Naughtiest Girl in the School books by Enid Blyton. I used to adore them and still love them now. They made me long to go to boarding school.

Children of Green Knowe was also an excellent tv adaptation.

I feel I want to go and buy decent hardback copies of most books mentioned here!

Loved the Melendy books by Elizabeth Enright (my mum had 2 and I managed to track the other 2 down later)
Susannah of the Mounties and Susannah of the Yukon
All the Noel Streatfeild books
All the Katy books (particularly "Clover")
The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery (plus Anne of Green Gables and Anne of the Island)
The Trebizon school stories
Charlotte Sometimes
All the Narnia books
The Sadlers Wells ballet books
The Secret Garden and The Little Princess

I would highly recommend "Bookworm" by Lucy Mangan as a great round up of many of the books we all loved.

Milly Molly Mandy
The children of Green Knowe- I re-read this every year
Toms midnight garden- I also re-read this every year too
The famous five
Mr Galliano’s circus
The lion the witch and the wardrobe
The borrowers
The railway children
The secret garden
A little princess
Heidi

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I couldn't remember the name of the Melendy books when I was thinking about this but had The Four Storey Mistake which was one of my favourites.

My DS loved books with maps and we read and reread Milly Molly Mandy over and over again.

Came on the thread to say The Silver Crown, I was obsessed with it (still am a bit), it's the strangest book.

Loved the “Gemma” books by Noel Streatfeild. Also loved loved The Swish of the Curtain (and the tv series!)

The enchanted forest
Point horror

A Little Princess is probably the one I would turn to time and again as a comfort read. Also loved Anne, Secret Garden, Heidi....

My dd is nearly 15 and Heidi is her comfort read.

Does anyone remember my friend flicks by Mary ohara?

A Little Princess - can still recite it verbatim
Black Beauty - ditto
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower
Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse
Famous Five
Malory Towers
St. Clare's

Heidi
Little Women
What Katy did

Yes. And the sequels. Was one called Thunderhead? I loved these. Still have a copy of my friend flicka