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?

Thank you to the poster upthread who mentioned "Mrs Frisby and the rats of Nihm". I remember that book made a big.impression on me but would never have remebered it did!
Judy Bloom for me in those awkward teenage years.

Wow! You're all reminding me of books I adored but forgot about! Will copy and paste for future reference!

I'm going to get an audio book of Black Beauty.

My DDs will not read it.

I'm going to take them in a long journey without their iPods' and make them listen to it!

I loved reading as a child, but I have boys who also love reading but won't read my old favourites.

What Katy Did
The Little Women Series
Green Gables
Little House series by Laura Ingals Wilder
Anything By Enid Blyton
the Chalet School
Noel Streatfields Books
The Trebizon School series by Anne Digby
Paul Zindel's Books for teenagers
the Awakening Water by J R Kesteven
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
the Tripod Trilogy by John Christopher
Mary Stewart's Arthurian Legend series (The Crystal Cave)

So far the inly recommendations of mine that's been followed is DD1 did read my favourite book from my teens

(Ken Follet, Man from St. Petersburg - definitely not a children's book)

inly = only, sorry

Just reading the thread. How could I have forgot

Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry - amazing, was so emotional reading it all those years ago.

This is a long shot but I read a book about a little girl who goes to live with I think her aunties not long after the war. She seems to sense a presence or ghost perhaps of another child who was maybe in a concentration camp and had her feet tortured/burned or something. I can't remember anything else really but it was very sad and haunting and I've always wanted to know what it was.

I remember reading 'tooth fairy' and 'balloonia' by Audrey Wood and being captivated by the pictures and story, so bought them for DC as soon as they were old enough for books. They love them too! In fact they still fight over them even though they are way past the picture book stage (9 and 11)

Also loved Janet and Alan Ahlberg books and all the Shirley Hughes books there's something about them that's timeless.

Did anyone ever read "Over sea, under stone" by Susan Cooper?

Roll of Thunder. I made my dd read that last year. Its a bit sad at the end.

Coram Boy has not been mentioned. It is as good as piece of literature that you could ever find.

I love Lucy Maude Montgomery books, eg Anne

I love the little women books.

But really Jean Webster, please google her.

So so many, I might possibly be stockpiling them all on my Kindle in preparation

Little Women, Secret Garden, What Katy Did, Narnia, Five Children and It, Stig of the Dump... I was an avid reader thanks to my mum, I hope to pass that on to DS. In fact I know mum deliberately kept books like What Katy Did for me to pass on to any DC's.

In the last few months before she died she told me she'd kept my collection of George and Matilda Mouse books for me to read to DS when he was born, and that it was her present to him.

Oh, so many wonderful books. My list would include the following:

Understood Betsy
Sensible Kate
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Dream of Fair Horses
Charlotte's Web ("No one was with her when she died." Sob.)

And all the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Louisa May Alcott, Antonia Forest (see username ), K.M. Peyton, Susan Cooper, Beverly Cleary. . .

BegoniaBampot, are you thinking of A Coming Evil by Vivian Vande Velde

So many but one I always loved and felt special and still does was the jolly postman. The stories in the story and the opening of all the different post. I think because I was always excited about getting post a whole book full was almost too much excitement to handle!!

"The twits" !

Oh, 'Green Smoke' about a friendly Cornish Dragon & 'Theatre Shoes' & 'Ballet Shoes'.
I keep remembering.
Waterstones occasionally do a Children's Classics display & I found a couple of books that I remembered but couldn't find!

Chalet school books, don't think it's going to happen.
Swallows and amazons. Ditto.

A Traveller in Time; The Secret Garden; When Marnie was There.

Black Hearts in Battersea - Joan Aiken.
Elidor - Alan Garner.
Little House on the prairie books.
Little Women etc.
Children of Green Knowe.
Tom's Midnight Garden.
When we were very young and Now we are six - A.A. Milne.

The Phantom Tollbooth.
Fungus the Bogeyman.
Magic Faraway Tree.

I've kept all the best books from my childhood so I just have to pull them out the loft as and when.

Anything by Enid Blyton or Noel Streatfield ..... I loved them all.

Also the Kissy books and Heidi series.

never ever read any Winnie the Pooh or Roald Dahl as a child. - just wasn't on my radar.

'BegoniaBampot, are you thinking of A Coming Evil by Vivian Vande Veldev'

Sparky - can see your connection as sounds similar but don't think that's it. The name Posie for some reason rings a bell.