100 BOOKS YOUR CHILD MUST READ - what are your nominations?

[TillyBookClub]

Childhood books stay with you forever. Whether Roald Dahl's dark humour or the derry-do of Hardy Brothers, the earthy anarchy of Stig of the Dump or the magical excitement of The Secret Garden, they have a lasting effect on how you approach the big wide world.

What book do you think children MUST read before they leave home?

And while we're at it, what book should every adult read?

(My children's nomination: The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
My adult nomination: 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Need a reminder of the all-time classics? This Daily Telegraph list brings back the memories...

Black Beauty
The Root Cellar
Pumpkin soup

The Phantom Tolbooth by Norton Juster - for every child and every adult. It's very funny!

The Velveteen Rabbit

I loved the Phantom Tolbooth! Must get it for dc too.

Did anyone ever read The Ship that Flew? I dont know the author but I can remember it was a wonderful story when I was about 8.

Babar (the original 5 or 6 by Jean de Brunhoff).

Kensuke's Kingdom
As much Roald Dahl as possible
Spike Milligan's poetry
Holes
The Iron Man
The turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler (I think that's it!)
Rose Blanche

The KAtie Morag books
Alfie and Annie Rose series
The Hungry Caterpillar
The tiger who came to tea

All of the Narnia books - I read them again and again.

Young Children: The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear by Don Wood

Older Children: Back Home by Michelle Magorian

All Narnia.
All The Dark Is Rising.
All Earthsea.
All Noel Streatfeild.
All Rowling.
All His Dark Materials (even tho, I'm not sure what a child would make of them, having only read as an adult).

For younger kids, the Gruffalo is simply a must have.

For adults? I think I would say Testament of Youth, That Lady, and the works of Jane Austen.

Any woman ought to read the Woman's Room and some Marge Piercy...

Mill on the floss
Passage to India
Jude the Obscure
To the Lighthouse

Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf (about the best book for yr1 and 2 I reckon)

The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy
A NEcklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken

Huckleberry Finn (sp?!) by Tom Sawyer.

Danny the Champion of the World
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory both RD of course.

Anne of Green Gables, um, can't remember author but I loved that one.

Charlotte's Web (with a box of tissues)

Oh, God, and Narnia.

The "Little House" books - all of them. I've read them many times.

"Pippi Longstockings".

The "Narnia" books.

"Down with Skool" and the rest of the Molesworth books - hilarious.

As an adult - I love books by Margaret Atwood, Rose Tremain, Helen Dunmore.

I really don't like the title of this thread, reading should be a joy, not a "must".

TH White, Once and Future King/Mistress Masham's Repose
E Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle/Railway Children/Five Children and It

lijkk perlease.....

the perks of being a wallflower
the sea lady
good behaviour molly keane

The Phantom Toolbooth.
Box of Delights.

Pollyanna

• The Haunting - Margaret Mahy
• The diary of Anne Frank
• Alice in Wonderland
• Fungus the Bogeyman
• His Dark Materials trilogy
• Gormenghast trilogy - Mervyn Peake
• A childs history of Noodle Island - Annette Tison & Taylor Talus