To ask your favourite classic stories?

[AragornsManlyStubble]

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.

[JellieTot]

Little Women
The secret garden

[rattieofcarcassone]

Narnia
Harry Potter
His Dark Materials (though wait until late primary at least!) I'm rereading these at the moment, love them!
Old school Goosebumps

[ollieplimsoles]

I'm a Jacqueline Wilson girl! Even in my late 20s my kindle is full of them.

Dahl has a very special place in my heart.
Stig of the dump
Flat Stanley
Old goosebumps

[CeramicLettuce]

Narnia
Anne of Green Gables series
Little Women series
Charlotte Sometimes
The Children of Green Knowe
Moondial
The Little Broomstick
Ballet Shoes, Curtain Up, White Boots, Apple Bough, Gemma series - Noel Streatfeild
Chalet School
Enid Blyton
Northern Lights Trilogy
Harry Potter series
Tom's Midnight Garden, The Way to Sattin Shore, A Dog So Small
The Amazing Mr Blunden
The Sadlers Wells ballet series
The Drina ballet series
Jean Ure - A Proper Little Nooryef, Plague 99, Come Lucky April
When Marnie Was There
The Hobbit
Charlotte's Web
Anything by Dick King Smith
The Secret Garden, A Little Princess
The Borrowers
Swallows and Amazons
The Phantom Tollbooth
Treasure Island
Stig of the Dump
Bridge to Terabithia
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Black Hearts in Battersea
Come Back Lucy - scary!!
Lois Duncan - Stranger With My Face, Locked In Time, A Gift of Magic - older children
Norma Fox Mazer - Taking Terri Mueller, After the Rain, A Name Like Bunny, Silver - older children
Granny Was A Buffer Girl, Dear Nobody - older children
Goodnight Mr Tom, Back Home and anything else by Michelle Magorian
Robert Westall - anything

[keeplooking]

I loved all these series of books -

Malcolm Saville - 'Lone Pine'
Anthony Buckeridge - 'Jennings'
Barbara Euphan Todd - 'Worzel Gummidge'

[ChickyChickyChoccy]

Edith Nesbit- three Children and It etc
The Phantom Tollbooth
Andrew Lang Fairy stories
Orlando the Marmalade Cat
Eleanor Farjeon- anything
Elizabeth Goodge- Little White Horse
Uncle the Elephant by JP Martin illustrated Quentin Blake
Flower Fairies- Cicely Mary Barker
Biggles
Eagle Annual
Bunty Annual (lol)
Wynken Blynken and Nod
The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Browning
Anything by Noel Streatfield
I could name quite a few more including some poetry anthologies...
( PS I am a poet and writer)

[tonightonight]

@ollieplimsoles I LOVED Jacqueline Wilson!!! The illustrated mum was one of my favourites!

[Andrewofgg]

The Wind in the Willows. I was given it when I was six and read it over one long glorious day. And I still have that copy and read it again from time to time.

[LeaderoftheAteam]

I loved Swallows and Amazons, Adrian Mole, and lots of others but can't think just now

[hels71]

Ballet shoes
Swallows and Amazon's
Goodnight Mr Tom
Just William

[RiversrunWoodville]

Oh hog I loved Willard Price, I had loads.
Moonfleet was another great book

[bertsdinner]

I loved:
Kizzy/The Didacoi by Rumer Godden
Peppermint Pig, Nina Bawden. I think she did another book about some children who found/helped/hid a German airman who's plane crashed in WW11.
I loved The Children of Greene Know/Knowle
Ballet Shoes

[goose1964]

Heidi
The wolves of Willoughby chase,
The carpet people trilogy by Terry Pratche,Johnny and the bomb, Johnny and the dead ditto

[hippadoppaloppagorillapig]

Mrs Pepperpot

[hippadoppaloppagorillapig]

Oh and any of the Bastable series by E. Nesbit - The Story of the Treasure Seekers is the first one. Great stuff.

[tigercub50]

Lovely memories! I must have read The Borrowers a hundred times. And I had forgotten about The Little Princess with truly horrid Miss Minchin! Has anyone said Little Women? I also remember books by Ursula Leguin (sp) about the ancient world.

[YouTheCat]

The Worst Witch series is very good.

Love Harry Potter.

My favourite story, however, is the Story of Kitty Kitty Puffball III: the Kitten Who Lost his Nose.

[Rachel0Greep]

Some good ones in this link;
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/childrens-classics

Now I am going to go back to read all of the posts and savour all of the recommendations.

[AragornsManlyStubble]

Thank you all so much! Loads of books I've not heard of ( and will look forward to reading!) and lots of ones I'd forgotten I knew. Lots of trying to track them down on eBay I think!

[YourWinter]

Black Beauty
A Hundred and One Dalmatians
Lassie Come Home
What Katy Did
Little House On The Prairie
Jump For Joy
Jill's Gymkhana
Riding With The Lyntons
Three Ponies and Shannan
(and most of the Pullein-Thompson sisters' books)
A Pony and His Partner
National Velvet
The Call of The Wild
Just So stories
all the Famous Five books
the Mallory Towers books


I still have most of my favourites, though many were borrowed over and over again from the little village library.

[Witchend]

Mystery at Witchend of course (and all the other Lone Pine books)
The White Riders and others by Monica Edwards
Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease
Narnia
Famous Five

[Orangedaisy]

A little princess

[RussellTheLoveMuscle]

A Traveller In Time- Alison Uttley

[QuimReaper]

Ceramic I thought Drina was out of print?

[ladybird69]

Winnie the Pooh
The velveteen rabbit