Books you loved as a child and hope your children will love too.

[TheCortanaThatStoleChristmas]

Inspired by another thread.

I remember buying Dogger don't laugh at the title it's a lovely book! and All In One Piece before DS was born as I wanted to pass on the joy these books brought me.

He has recently read The Hobbit; Swallows and Amazons; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Treasure Island and Charlotte's Web. Books that made my childhood.

I hope he will soon find and enjoy the LOTR books, Hitchhikers Guide, Little Women, and Goodnight Mr Tom.

I feel real excitement at the thought of my DS reading lovely books and enjoying them the way I did. Got me wondering what I might have missed though, are there other books that are wonderful for children and deserve to go on a "Books Every Child Should Read" list?

What were your favorite childhood books, and will you buy/pass them on for your children?

So many good ones here already!

I'll add The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark.

And:
Bread and Jam For Frances
The Tiger Who Came To Tea
Each Peach Pear Plum
Peepo

My Mum saved all of my childhood books, pretty much all of them have been mentioned. They're all on DD's bookshelf waiting for her .
I've got loads of my old Ladybird Books too.
Also the original Topsy & Tim books with their adopted brother & sister Tansy & Teddy. They're not in any of the more recently published ones .

Love this thread.
Agree with so many and would love to find (when time) many of the ones I have heard of but never seem to have read. (Have just got the Magic Faraway Tree out of the library).
For me..The Secret Garden, the Jill books, the Lorna Hill books, Milly Molly Mandy, Malory Towers, the X of Adventure (by Enid Blyton), Biggles, Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the Prairie, Caroline and her Friends, Smokey House (Elizabeth Goudge), the Narnia books, I am David, the Painted Garden, Black Beauty.....Harry Potter (obviously!)
Look forward to hearing about more here.

Pozzled - Willard Price has been reprinted recently (except Cannibal Adventure - wonder why?? and one other). Saw them in Waterstones and they were on the Book People with a big reduction too.

Does anyone remember a book called 'The Giant Jam Sandwich'?

A slight tangent as I'm realising what a small proportion of my childhood books in the late 80s/early 90s were contemporary - E Nesbit, Just William, Milly Molly Mandy, Enid Blyton, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Anne of Green Gables, Jennings and Darbyshire, Swallows and Amazons, Little Women, What Katy Did, Alice in Wonderland... I used to get more modern ones out of the library but my shelves at home were full of the old ones. I wonder how much children now are happy to read old books or whether new authors displace them.

Too young to remember what titles were: What were the books with the elephant family? The mum couldn't sleep and ended up in the car in the garage.

Also, loved the one with the man who ended up cooking a giant jacket potato in his house after a fire and everyone came and had some.

Loved mog books and Not Now Bernard

Same here ninja. I think it's because my parents & grandparents gave them to me & I loved to read. I still re-read loads of my childhood books. I've just finished The Little House On The Prairie series & am reading The Box Of Delights to get me Christmassy!

I have a 7yo boy who so far has been unimpressed with most Roald Dahl, Gobolino the Witches Cat, The Little Wooden Horse. I have yet to try him with Joan Aitken. But I was a girl and he is a boy so chances are he will never like what I loved

The faraway tree. Plus Enid blytons book of fairies

I got the faraway tree for the Dd's ( who aint that keen ) but the book of fairies is not easy to find. Costs a fortune basically

DS has a very big mix. From school he tends to bring home newer titles such as the David Walliams books. From me he has inherited many books that were before my time, never mind his. From DP he is into Sci-Fi fiction, Black Library titles mostly.

DS has decided he either wants to be an author or a professional graffiti artist so we try to give him as many books as possible, thank goodness for second hand shops.

Sorry that was in response to Ninja.

mmmmmmmmnoodlesoup What were the books with the elephant family? It was the large family perhaps? All in one piece, Jill Murphey?

I've just read the three Faraway Tree books to DS and he cried at the end because there weren't any more. I read several of the Moomins books to him when he was a tiny tiny baby and it might be time to read them properly with him. I'm also looking forward to reading 'The Little Grey Men' with him in a few years - absolutely wonderful book.

Yes that's the one Cortana

Ah can't wait to read books to my boy!

Alan Garner (Wierdstone series) and Susan Cooper (Dark is Rising)... Fantastic British fantasy based on ancient myth; perfect and still read them.

I loved John Wyndham too...Day of the Triffids but think I was quite an advanced reader.

When I was really young it was the Famous Five, Swallows and Amazons etc...wouldn't recommend them though

The elephant one might be Peace at Last by Jill Murphy - or was that bears?

Jill Muphey also wrote about bears Spider about a bear that went to the moon in a box! The Peace at Last is the large family though.

Oh yes, the bear and moon one was lovely. My dad is digging out all my old books for dc in the attic :)

lots already mentioned but also ...
the children of cherry tree farm!

Can this thread be moved so it doesn't disappear?. I want to write them down for when dc are older

Over sea under stone

My naughty little sister
Enid blythe books
The worst witch
So many more. Still have them on my parents bookcase