Books every child should read

[meditrina]

Inspired by the Gove thread today.

If you were making a list of 50 books all children should read before they leave school, what would you put on it?

I'd start with:

The Narnia books
The Little White Horse
The Indian in the Cupboard

(And the racism!)
I'll slink off now....

The Way to Sattin Shore/Tom's Midnight Garden
Moondial
Any of Jan Mark's books
Any Jill Paton Walsh's books
The Little Princess
Most of Noel Steatfeild's
Agree with "A Traveller in Time"
The Family from One End Street

I can't wait until DD can read....

Oh Rudyard Kipling just so stories

Flat Stanley

Sheep Pig

Charlottes web

Noel Streatfield

Are there racist bits in the Narnia stories?! I was looking forward to reading them to DS. (I don't mind the Christianity as we are Christians.) But racist stuff, no way!

Ludo and the Star Horse by Mary Stewart.

For me:

Little House On The Prairie Series
Ann Of Green Gable Series
Little Women series
What Katy Did Series
Enid Blyton
The Challet School series
The Weird Stone of Brisingamen
Carries War
Huckleberry Fin
Tom Sawyer
Roll Of Thunder hear My Cry
Anything by Noel Streatfield
The Tripod Series by John Christopher
Anything by Paul Zindel (though more teenage)