What is your favourite children's book when you were a child,,?

[BabyBearRus]

What is the best children's book of all time? Any reason why?

All of the Mallory towers and the family at 1 end street!

Another vote for Roald Dahl here.
Also loved the Worst Witch books and a bit later thought Lemony Snicker’s a Series of Unfortunate Events was absolutely brilliant!

When Marnie was there.

I was also a prolific reader as child-this thread bringing back so many lovely memories- I am one to read and re-read a beloved book

The Little Princess
The Secret Garden
Little House on the Prairie series
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and sequels
All of the Shoe books-my unpopular fav was Dancing Shoes.
Anne of Green Gables series
Judy Blume-another that loved Are you there God it's me Margaret-was so chuffed to hand on to my own daughter
The Wizard of Oz books-there are loads and loads and books so different and wonderful and fanciful and I don't know anyone that ever read them except my Dsister and me
Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins comes back (again very different than the film versions)
What katy did
The Black Cauldron series
Harry Potter has to get a mention but I read that with my DC versus as a DC

I still have copies of most all of these and still pick up a comfort read now and again.
One of the great joys of motherhood was when DC got old enough to read and share my old favs.

War Horse. It felt like a really grown up book to me as it included characters dying and wasn’t about typically childish subject matter.
I also ADORED the Redwall books

The jolly postman! Loved reading all the letters. Bought it for my dc. Ds who's nearly 10 was reading it the other day.
When I was older I loved Roald Dahl books. Especially BFG

A little princess
The family from one end street
Enid blyton adventure series
Nancy drew

Northern lights

@auberginefrog

Northern lights

that book came out two years ago. I refuse to believe otherwise.

Loved it so much - in my head The golden Compass just sounds so wrong! Currently impatiently awaiting the next instalment of Lyra’s grown up adventures…

The Weirdstone of Brisengamen I read obsessively as a child.

I also loved what Katy Did and Little women

Another vote for the Faraway Tree books!

@DedalusBloom Yes! Loved Alan Garner. Liked the one about the plates….The Owl Service?

Kamla and Kate by Jamila Gavin.

I borrowed it regularly from the library. I felt it reflected my relationship with my best friend who was British Asian and me, sort of white.

Goodnight Mister Tom is my older children’s favourite. I’ve read it a few times since we read it in school.

Yes, god that one scared me!

The magic faraway tree by enid blyton. Such a fun fantasy land.

@StColumbofNavron

Kamla and Kate by Jamila Gavin.

I borrowed it regularly from the library. I felt it reflected my relationship with my best friend who was British Asian and me, sort of white.

I haven’t read this but I recently read another book by this author which was on my DD’s school reading list, about the Indian partition. It was brilliant.

@StColumbofNavron

Goodnight Mister Tom is my older children’s favourite. I’ve read it a few times since we read it in school.

Please read and get them to read Back Home as well!

One I forgot was Mrs Pepperpot Omnibus. I still have my copy and I wrote my name and the date in so I know I was 5. I remember not being able to put it down after I opened iit on Christmas Day, and I finished it on Boxing Day. Sadly my daughter was less enamoured with it.

Too many favourites...I can't pick just one.

Anne of Green Gables
Heidi
The Borrowers
The Railway Children
Mrs Wobble the Waitress

The hedgehogs feast, the blurb about the author says she’d drowned whilst out gathering nuts or flowers can’t remember.. it made me like the book even more

The Chalet School books, I still read them & the new fill in books.
Mandy by Julie Andrews, the first book that made me cry.
Cherry Ames books about being a nurse from Student to qualified nurse in different settings.
The Harvey's see it through, it's a really old book that I bought at a book sale as a child & read it loads of times.
The secret Island by Enid Blyton
Six Bad Boys by Enid Blyton

I loved All About the Bullerby Children by Astrid Lindgren. I would get it out from the library pretty much every week.

I bought it recently on Amazon but they'd anglicised all the names and it didn't have the same Swedish mystique it held for me as a child.

I even did Swedish at a night class in my early twenties in homage to that book!

@StrychnineInTheSandwiches

Anne of Green Gables Tom's Midnight Garden

Even thinking about those two books give me warm feelings. Read them both so often they're etched on my heart.

Would love to own a first edition of both. Anne will forever be out of reach I suspect, but Tom is more accessible.

There's a v sweet version of Tom's Midnight Garden on Prime. Made in 1989.