Classic books you are looking forward to reading with your children

[mamapants]

Which books did you love as a child that you are looking forward to sharing with your children, whether reading to them or recommending and then discussing afterwards
Some of mine
Brambly hedge
Flat Stanley
Olga the polga
Iron giant
Snow spider
Joan Aiken
Roald Dahl
Potters
Dark materials

Ooh! We started on DS bookcase before he was born.

board books
Dogs - Emily Gravett
Baby Catalogue, Each Peach - Ahlbergs
Thats Not My....

picture books
The Great Dog Bottom Swap - Peter Bennet
Mog - Judith Kerr
My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes - Sutton
Jolly Postman - Ahlbergs
Any Oliver Jeffers

novels
Harry Potter
Moomins
Sabriel
The Hobbit

Small sample, times it by ten 😄

Yes to Roald Dahl 💚 mamapants I can remember howling with laughter reading the Twits.

Jolly postman is another fan one!
And completely forgot about hobbit and lotr.
Also forgot chronicles of narnia.
Princess bride another good one, although I didn't read this as a child myself

DS1 (nearly 9) has enjoyed some books I loved as a kid, but mostly read to him, such as Swallows and Amazons, Narnia, Black Beauty, and Over Sea, Under Stone, but I'm not sure he'd have persevered with them on his own. He has, however, read The Hobbit, all the Potters and vast amounts of Roald Dahl off his own bat.

Looking forward to some Joan Aiken here too!

Definitely add The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark - for the parental gags!

The velvetine rabbit

reading ballet shoes to my 8 year old DD at the moment. my favourite children book.