Top five children's books of all time

[RosaLuxembourg]

I want to get in first!
So what are your five items of children's literature?
Mine are:
Rosa wanders off to ponder...

rebecca of sunnybrook farm

Pippi Longstockings (obviously) /
The Wizard of Oz / Frank L. Baum
Ozma of Oz / Frank L. Baum
The Island of the Blue Dolphins Anna of Green Gables
The Famous Five
Watership Down (sorry!)
Heidi, (Fennel we have got all 20 tapes and I cry so much when Heidi is in Frankfurt and sees a painting of God and the pastor and thinks is the grandfather and Peter). I am 33 and still watch it religiously!!
Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking Glass.

although glum, I loved the Andersen and Grimm fairy tales.

oooh ramona.

RosaL - no sooner agreed with than provided: here

When Hitler Stole Pink rabbit - Judith Kerr
Diary of Anne Frank
Ballet Shoes
Charlottes Web
swallows and Amazons

The Little White Horse

The Silver Brumby

White Boots

February's Dragon

What Katie Did

Crown of Violet was Geoffrey Treace - he was alos Cue for Treason. Henry Treece was Viking Sunset, the Road to Miklegard and Viking something else. SOOOO glad to see another vote for The Land of Green Ginger!

Trease - I think I mean!
The Summer of the Great Secret.
White Riders.

My favourites were (are!):

• The Chalet school series by Elinor M Brent-Dyer

• My family and other animals - Gerald Durrell

• What Katy did (& the other books in that series)

• Ballet shoes

• The famous Five by EB

Love the mention of When Hitler stole Pink rabbit - that is a great book, if not actually one of my favs

As I am randomly adding items on the other thread, without care or concern for the Rules About Only Five, I'm dropping in here to add

My Friend Mr Leakey, J B S Haldane - some ideological oddities hanging around there (Haldane a strong apologist for Soviet Russia, I believe, plus the influence of genetics-focus = some moments which furrow one's brow a bit) but even with those flaws something unique. I did like one-offs - just like Phantom Tolbooth, and Land of Green Ginger.

Professor Branestawm

The gruffalo

I find it hard to choose a top five, but of the books I read as a child, those which stick in my mind the most (TV & film tie-ins aside) are Richmal Crompton's "William" books, Anthony Buckeridge's "Jennings" series, the "Three Investigators" books, Rosemary Sutcliff's "The Eagle of the Ninth", and of course "The Hobbit". I read "Watership Down" quite late but still loved it - "The Plague Dogs" too.

Black Hearts Over Battersea
Gobbolino The Witches Cat
The Folk of the Faraway Tree
Susan Cooper's 'Over Sea Under Stone' series
Cherry Ames Nursing novels

At least they are the ones that I enjoyed reading the most when I was young.

From my DC's perspective I would say

Wolf Brother
Here be Monsters
Paddington
Eragon
Magyk

Charlie cooks favourite book

Ds loves Jennings UQD. As did I

Fossilised fish-hooks, Marina!

Doh! You silly little boy.

If you do that again, then I'll... then I'll... Well, you'd better not do that again!

I've got the first Jennings just waiting & waiting for ds ... but dh went'n' gave him Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and the omnibus edition, moreover) instead.

Corwumph, bink! The ozard cubed oik
Douglas Adams is such a perennial little boy writer isn't he, funny, clever, charming man though he was
Poor ds had to snatch the book off me as I failed several times to read Jennings' first letter home without corpsing utterly
(Ds loved Molesworth this hols btw)

Funny - I was just thinking how Molesworth (and 1066 and All That, link being I'm not sure) were missing from this thread.

I think we should caucus a MN City/Bookworm meet-up in the Barbican Children's Library. Can you imagine the shrieks of discovery & delight, the near-hysterical bonding moments, & the utter bewilderment of the two (normally very tranquil) librarians?

Helo birds helo flowers sa Fotherington_Thoas who is a utter wet and a weed