To ask what your favourite children's book is/was

[LaVieEstBelle159]

The book or books that bring back comforting and happy memories.

Mine are Magic Faraway Tree, Mallory Towers and St Clares, all by Enid Blyton.

What are yours?

The Secret Garden.

The market square dog & swallows and amazons

Shirley Hughes books
Laura Ingalls - Wilder books
Another vote for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory

@BasiliskStare

I capture the Castle and The Hobbit

But I love are you their Margaret - we have a dog and I often say to him - Bertie are you basking in the garden without asking. @Raindancer411 [flowers ]

Love it :)

Oh I forgot about Nancy Drew!! Also I read the series called making out series or something. I need to go google it

My favourite book was an American book called cracker Jackson . Not very comforting but it was about a boy who's babysitter is in a dv relationship - but bleak but was well written, think I would've loved Jaqueline Wilson if I'd been a generation younger! . I loved all the Judy blumes as well. Adrian mole I read aged about 11 and it's still one of my favourite books of all time but I guess is not officially a kids book

@midsomermurderess Was it Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr?

My favourites were:
Chronicles of Narnia
The Ingalls Wilder Books
The Emily Books by LM Montgomery
The Melendy Books (The Saturdays, The Four-Storey Mistake, Then There Were Five, and Spiderweb for Two) by Elizabeth Enright
As I got older, I really enjoyed Lois Duncan's supernatural thrillers, like Stranger With My Face and Summer of Fear.
Katy books as pps have mentioned

As a parent:
Dogger (but the kids hate it!)
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell and Lillian Hoban
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

I loved the little house on the prairie series, chalet school and most books by Enid blyton

All the Enid Blyton books already mentioned. Little Women. The Three Investigators. Nancy Drew.

I loved Diana Wynne Jones, Noel Streatfield and Arthur Ransome.

@DaisyWaldron - Fire and Hemlock?

The Sadlers Wells books by Lorna Hill, The Owl Service by Alan Garner, the five find outers series by Enid Blyton and the Jennings books by Anthony Buckeridge

Oh, and yes to The Little House on the Prairie books. It really grieves me that my 11 year old won't read.

All the Brumby books
Hardings Luck, and the other E Nesbit books
C S Lewis
Tolkien
Jill pony books
Monica Edwards Punchbowl Farm books
When I was very little Mr Twink the cat detective books
Alan Garner
Eagle of the Ninth

The Secret Garden - forgotten about that!
Narnia Series
Five Children & It plus others by the same author ( E Nesbitt?)
Land of Green Ginger
I loved the James Herriot books as a teenager

Great thread OP - feeling all nostalgic now

I was a child in the late '40s and 50s and remember my favourites were 'What Katy Did' and 'What Katy Did Next'.

As a child I loved Nancy Drew and Babysitters club.

Now I really like "Oh the places you'll go". Also Timmy Failure books are quite fun to read to my DS.

@BasiliskStare

So lovely to see all these books - when I was young - yes the Weirdstone of Brisingamen and the Dark is rising series. The Owl Service was properly hairs on the back of the neck for me.

Have got this right "What Katy did " and "what Katy did next " as I recall she went to Naples when there was an illness there.

Yes, she went with a friend and the friend's daughter Amy. Amy contracts a fever in Naples and has to have her head shaved. Katy falls in love with the friend's brother.

Big yes to Jennings and Saddlers Wells.

I really liked the Far Distant Oxus and sequels. I also liked a lot of Blyton, which in hindsight, is not so good!

Oh my goodness Bread & Jam For Frances - DM told me I absolutely loved that as a small child.

Mrs Frisby and the Rats if NIMH
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
All the Jude Blumes but especially Tiger Eyes
Nancy Drew series
101 Dalmations
Heidi books
Danny the Champion of the World

Mallory Towers, St Clare's, Famous Five, Secret Seven, Naughtiest little girl, I read them over and over again.

Ferocious The Puppy Dragon
The Borrowers

The Mr Meddle stories by Enid Blyton.
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner.

@midsomermurderess

The Three Brothers of Ur. And a peculiar, creepy book about a girl, in the language of the times, an invalid, living in a house on a remote area, and as she drew the house, the house became alive. That's my hazy recollection. Does that ring any bells with anyone?

@midsomermurderess would that be Paperhouse? I've not read the book, but I remember the film in the 1980s.

Forgotten about Mrs Frisby & The Rats of Nimh