90 most awesome old-school children's books

[Heated]

Just been wallowing in nostalgia.

Do you remember any of these?

Oh, I loved and still love heaps of these.

I can't believe no one has mentioned Lucy M Boston for :
The Children of Green Knowe
The Chimneys of Green Knowe
The River at Green Knowe
A Stranger at Green Knowe
An Enemy at Green Knowe
The Stones of Green Knowe.

Or Barbara Sleigh:
Carbonel
The Kingdom of Carbonel
Carbonel and Calidor

Or Rosemary Manning:
Green Smoke
Dragon in Danger
The Dragon's Quest

Or Mary Stewart:
The Little Broomstick

Or EL Konigsberg:
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth and Me

Or Meindert deJong:
The House of Sixty Fathers

I had better go away and do something useful now.

What on earth are the Dune books doing in that list? They are adult sci-fi/fantasy. I mean I read them as a teenager, but none of the other books on that list were written for adults.

Moomintroll, the owl service , the weirdstone of brisangamen, the phantom tollbooth, those susan cooper ones,and
yes to carbonel, my ds loves this.
those are ones that spring to mind at the mo.

I didnt know there were other carbonel books.
V excited now.

God I loved the famous five, would love to read them again.

Also loved the worst witch and babysitters club, also point horror lol.

Does anyone remember the series about the brothers, hal and ?, who collected animals for their uncle?

I also loved sue barton, wasn't so much into the ballet and ponies, but was hospitalised at 8 and became obsessed with nurses/doctors lol.

I also vaguely remeber the susan cooper and ursula le guin ones. Tricksters? about 3 people? and also one with a girl/boy who gets a stamp on hand at fair? Ooh and one about a witch with itchy thumbs. Good memory me haha.

You are thinking about Margaret Mahy. The Tricksters and the Haunting

Abstract Mouse: YES! I remember the Willard Price (?) books, safari adventure, underwater adventure etc etc etc with ridiculously young adventurers Hal and Roger Hunt!

AbstractMouse - the stamp on hand one sounds like 'The Changeover' by Margaret Mahy - the little brother gets a stamp on his hand in a shop.

I've still got Susan Pulls the Strings!