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...

[bigdeludedswainstrikesagain]

All adults should read Breakfast of Champions and Slaughter House 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

and The Blind Assasin Magaret Atwood

and The Magic Toyshop/ Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

[shonaspurtle]

Witch Week - Diana Wynne Jones
Charmed Life - Diana Wynne Jones (Hell, all DWJ's books)
Hounds of the Morrigan - Pat O'Shea (I loved this at 10, a really quirky book with lots of visual jokes & it sparked an interest in Irish myth & legend)
The Little House books - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Willard Price's Adventure books (The reason that I know how to escape if a giant clam grabs your leg underwater. I still maintain that it'll come in handy one of these days.)
Song for a Dark Queen - Rosemary Sutcliff (She wrote wonderful tales of Roman Britain which really brought history alive . This one's about Boudicca but they're all good. Outcast is another favourite.)
The Goalkeeper's Revenge - Bill Naughton (Master of the short story. These are fabulous)

I can't wait for ds to read some (all) of these. I'll be gutted if he doesn't love them as much as I did!

[fishiedewar]

mervyn peake - child and adult books

bogwoppit
family from one end street
milly molly mandy

[fishiedewar]

adults

saki
rosamund lehman

[RiaParkinson]

Mary Poppins great books

Fab film but great books first

[IwishIwasamermaid]

I'm sorry to ask this, but was Mary Poppins a book? I honestly didn't know that!

[weetimerousdizzybeastie]

The Hungry Catepillar and anything by Richard Scary

[RiaParkinson]

iwishiwasamermaid

It was a series of books iirc

Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins comes back
Mary Poppins in th Park

wondering if there is one about Closes the door but need to look

[weetimerousdizzybeastie]

All the Chronicles of Narnia
Anne of Green Gables and all the associated books

[IwishIwasamermaid]

I didn't know that!

[RiaParkinson]

Mary Poppins opens the door

[WinkyWinkola]

All the Willard Price adventure stories.

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr

Gobbolino the Witch's Cat

The Little Wooden Horse

Cannoball Simp

How Does a Czar Eat Potatoes

All the Asterix books

All the Tintin books

To Kill a Mockingbird

All the Maya Angelou books

[morningpaper]

Tom's Midnight Garden

[JulesJules]

Carbonel books - Barbara Sleigh
Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (and sequels) - Judith Kerr
Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
Anything by Rosemary Sutcliff, especially Eagle of the Ninth
Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House books
Narnia books
His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman
Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse
Anything by E Nesbit...

...and loads more...

Of course there is the tendency to just choose things you remember reading and loving as a child, all of the above except the Philip Pullmans fall into this category.

[Hassled]

Charlotte Sometimes
The Selfish Giant

For adults:
The Great Gatsby
Birdsong
To Kill A Mockingbird
Brideshead Revisited

[weetimerousdizzybeastie]

Goodnight Mr Tom - heartbreaking as it is its definately one that stuck in my mind from childhood

[flamingtoaster]

Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce

[MKG]

Just thought of another

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic

[grouchyoscar]

Answer to both questions is simple

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

[jtbgogogo]

Carrie's War
Blue Horse and Tilly
Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack
Dear Greenpeace
Under a War Torn Sky
Adventures of Mrs Pepperpot
Famous Five

for adults
The Time Travellers Wife

[andlipsticktoo]

Mr Monday series by Garth Nix

Larklight by Philip Reeve (and someone else..)

The Edge Chronicles by Chris Riddell and Paul Stewart

Roald Dahl of course

CS Lewis

Dr Seuss

Francesca Simon's Horrid Henry

[constancereader]

The Earthsea trilogy by Ursula le Guin

The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner

both for adults and children.

[dominiccooperswife]

the velveteen rabbit
beaver towers and sequels by nigel hinton

[mosschops30]

OMG I remember Dogger, loved it as a child.

For girls: Any Judy Blume, how would we have got through puberty without her.

ds loves all the Mr. Men as I did when I was his age.

For adults: gotta be 'This Book will Change Your Life' by AM Holmes, by far the best book Ive ever read, in fact I wish I'd never given it away would love to read it again

[stleger]

I still worry about the end of Dogger - will he be restored to his rightful owner!