The definitive list of books every child should read

[TheNightIsDark]

As chosen by you! They don't have to be masterpieces literary speaking but brilliant stories, strong characters etc

I'll start:

The Railway Children
Junk (older teen though!)
Harry Potter
A Little Princess
The Gruffalo

Percy Jackson and the lightening thief.

One of the horowitz Alex ryder

Professor Branestawm

Holes

Winnie the Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner

The Laura Ingalls Wilders

My Friend Flicka

101 dalmations

Sherlock Holmes short stories

The London Eye Mystery

The Good Master

Tarka the Otter
The call of the wild
The jungle book
Kim
Captains Courageous
The children of the new forest
The adventures of the little wooden horse
Gobbolino the witch's cat
The Eagle if the Ninth
The little white horse
A hornblower
Moonfleet
The Midnight Folk

Children on the oregan trail was a favourite of mine at about age 10. Joan Lingard books, across the barricades etc. I loved the babysitters club books too.

Dad's favourite books so far are anything by Julia Donaldson, and her current favourites are the rainbow magic series written under the name daisy meadows.

Percy Jackson and the lightening thief.

One of the horowitz Alex ryder

Professor Branestawm

Holes

Winnie the Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner

The Laura Ingalls Wilders

My Friend Flicka

101 dalmations

Sherlock Holmes short stories

The London Eye Mystery

The Good Master

Tarka the Otter
The call of the wild
The jungle book
Kim
Captains Courageous
The children of the new forest
The adventures of the little wooden horse
Gobbolino the witch's cat
The Eagle if the Ninth
The little white horse
A hornblower
Moonfleet
The Midnight Folk

Percy Jackson and the lightening thief.

One of the horowitz Alex ryder

Professor Branestawm

Holes

Winnie the Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner

The Laura Ingalls Wilders

My Friend Flicka

101 dalmations

Sherlock Holmes short stories

The London Eye Mystery

The Good Master

Tarka the Otter
The call of the wild
The jungle book
Kim
Captains Courageous
The children of the new forest
The adventures of the little wooden horse
Gobbolino the witch's cat
The Eagle if the Ninth
The little white horse
A hornblower
Moonfleet
The Midnight Folk

The owl who was afraid of the dark
The way to Sattin Shore
Carrie's War
I'm the King of the Castle, which was very dark but read as part of GCSEs

The norse myths
The Greek and Roman myths
The arthurian myths.

Roger lancelyn green did them all, but they are a bit dated.

Also some Brer Rabbit.

What did I do wrong with the title?

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Sorry for double posting, bloody phone.

Children of the Oregon trail is harrowing! The final chapter....

Ronja Robber's Daughter
The Brother's Lionheart
Pippi Longstocking

all by Astrid Lindgren

My husband 5 year old currently immensely enjoys the Axeman www.amazon.co.uk/Urgum-Axeman-Kjartan-Poskitt/dp/1407102575/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388784331&sr=8-1&keywords=urgum+the+axeman

Urgum the Axeman

Another vote for the What Katy Did/At School/Next books with the addition of Clover as it ties up some lose ends nicely. (Don't bother with In The High Valley though).

The diddakoi
Anne of green gables
Phantom tollbooth

Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?
Adrian Mole diaries
Dr Seuss, any of them
Charlottes Web
A Christmas carol
The snowman
Malory Towers series
Just so stories
Owl and the pussycat (CS Lewis) and Chronicles of Narnia
If reading Hobbit, also Space Trilogy by CS Lewis
Darren Shan
The borrowers
Triskillion
Biggles collection
Back Beauty
Marjory Blackmore books
Where the wild things are
Robinson Crusoe
Demon Headmaster
Gulliver's Travels
Railway children
Five children and it
Tiger who came to tea
Beatrix Potter books
Phillip Pullman books
Wind in the Willows books
Hound of the Baskervilles
Watership down
TS Elliot books
Mr Majeika
To kill a mockingbird
Winnie the pooh and others by AA Milne
Dark Towers series
Worst witch
Anne Fine books
Gansta Grannie and other books by David Walliams
Enid Blyton
Dick King-Smith books
Grimm Tales
Water Babies
Pippi Longstocking
Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer
Jacqueline Wilson books
The Earth Giant
Skellig
Anne Franks diary
Treasure Island
The scarecrows (teens)

Ooh ancientbuchanan I loved the Roger Lancelyn Green mythologies. DD1 doing Ancient Greeks next term, will be so delighted if it grabs her.

So many brilliant suggestions on this thread - makes me want to read all of my childhood favourites again! Particularly Narnia, Indian in the Cupboard, the Hobbit....

Thought I'd add: anything by Dick King-Smith, particularly George Speaks, the Sheep Pig and the Queen's Nose.
The Asterix comics (do they count in this thread?) - I loved them as a kid and read them all.
Favourites as a little child: There's a Hippopotumus on our roof eating cake
The best nest
(both of these now loved by DS too)

YY to

The Phantom Tollbooth
The Laura Ingalls Wilder books
Charlotte's Web.

And my daughter loved 'There's A Hippopotamus' Plate. Good reminder!

Funny, none of 3 dc like Harry Potter, Winny the Pooh.
I myself also not keen on Swallows and Amazons (well some better than others).
Great fan (dc less so) of Astrid Lingren.
Eragon

Yay to children of the new forest and Adrian mole.
Has anyone mentioned The Swish of the curtain? I must have read that 20 times when I was a young teen.
Also, the children who lived in a barn

Just thought of one

Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt. The first in the Tillerman series.

Just thought of some more

Diary of a wimpy kid
Artemis fowl
Millions
Adventures of Tintin
Private peaceful
Terry Pratchett books
Tracy Beaker
Hunger games
Madeline
Percy Jackson series
Its not everyone cup of tea, but Horrid Henry books
OZ the complete collection
Coraline
Vampire academy series
A wrinkle in time
Heidi
Velveteen rabbit
Bridge to Terabithia
Sweet valley high
Rudyard Kiplings books
Nancy drew series
Sherlock Holmes series
Polar express
Little red hiding hood
Arabian nights

Chances are I will be back with some more

I donated all my sweet valley high and babysitters club books. They made me angry I wasn't a blonde cheerleader living in America.

I frequently get angry I didn't get an American childhood like books made it out to be

I recently got DD1 some TinTin and asterix which she really enjoyed.

Also - The Silver Sword she really liked, and Charlotte Sometimes which is pretty creepy.

Fir younger readers, Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf had them in fits of laughter.

And everything mentioned above,really.

And yes Swallows and Amazons - booooooooring

Dd1 really likes Jacqueline Wilson, lemony Snickett , horrible histories, micheal morpurgo...

Also Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves