To ask your favourite classic stories?

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Just that really. Your favourite books/authors from when you were a child. What's the one book you believe every child should read? I'm trying to build up a bit of a library for the dc's and need some inspiration.

Just so many, anything by Nesbit/Streatfield/Dahl/Rosen, Judith Kerr is amazing and modern classics like Skullduggery and Artemis Fowl. My DC devoured all sorts, enjoy!

The Land of Green Ginger, by Noel Langley.

The Secret Garden

Anne of Greem Gables

I have very fond memories of the Jill's pony books by Ruby Ferguson.

The Little House on the Prairie books, but I don't know if they're published any more.

Wind in the Willows
Watership Down
The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings
Alice in Wonderland/ Through the Looking Glass

Moondial
Tom's Midnight Garden
Children of Green Knowe
Children of Winter

The Faraway Tree books - probably the best children's books ever IMHO, absolutely magical.

All the Famous Fives (yes, I was/am a Blyton fan even though I know all the arguments against her writing these days....)

What Katy Did
I Am David
The Silver Curlew
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
The Signposters/The Beachcombers/ the Bagthorpe series(Helen Cresswell)

So many wonderful stories!

saucyjack oh yes, I loved the Jill books too! In my family we still say we were cooking 'until our eyebrows fell off in the soup' which was from one of them

Little house on the prairie books
Famous five
Secret seven
Anne of green gables
The silver sword
A town like Alice
Jungle book
Goodnight mister Tom
The secret garden

The Narnia stories.
Swallows and amazons
Famous five/secret seven
The Babysitters Club

Lots of ones I hadn't considered! Thank you! Keep the ideas flowing!!!

E Nesbit's The Railway Children and the Psammead trilogy.

Elizabeth Enright's Melandy books (Four Story Mistake, Spiderwebs for Two etc)

Penelope Lively's A Stitch in Time and The House in Norham Gardens.

The northern lights trilogy

The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Black Beauty
Jane Eyre (child's version)

The Silver Sword

Jinny and Shantih (My favourites!)

Famous Five

I also loved St Clare's and Malory Towers as a child

Mr Galliano's Circus

I also read Anne Frank as a young child (I was 8/9)

Anything by the Pullein-Thompson sisters
The Jill books

A Pony For Jean

Come Back Lucy

Bill's New Frock by Anne Fine is the best piece of feminist writing for kids I've ever read.

An indispensable modern classic.

I used to love Willard Price books. Also Enid Blyton.

I remember Bill's new frock!!! Definitely on the list!

Narnia are my all-time favourite, I still reread them occasionally.

The Narnia series, I still read them occasionally. The Mary Poppins books are also good, they're a lot more darker than the film. I also have a soft spot for Paddington Bear as well as the Famous Five and Secret Seven. Bill's New Frock is also a good read.

Enid Blyton definitely, the worst witch and my favourite was 101 dalmatians

Oh and the borrowers!

Wizard of Oz

Sophie's 7
Famous 5
Twins at st Clare's
Malorie towers

Another vote for all the Enid Blyton books and George's Marvellous Medicine by Dahl

For teens/preteens - it has to be the first two Adrian Mole books

Little House on the Prairie series. I still re-read them now.