can we have a list of classic/ best/ favourite/highly recommended childrens books please...

[AstroPup]

My family was never bookie so, although I have enjoyed reading and discovering books since I was 12 or so, I feel I have missed out on the whole childrens literature thing, and I love how people reminisce and seem to really have taken their childhood favourites to heart.
I really want this for my DC but dont know where to start.
What do you recommend? What did you love?
(start from as young as you like, I have an almost 3yo)

TIA

Winnie the Pooh

Roald Dahl,
Wind in the Willows (for older kids),
Beatrix Potter

The Gruffalo is the modern classic IMO.

Second My Naughty Little Sister

anything by Enid Blyton - sod the PC police.

i have a 3.6 so will give his greatest:
mog books - judith kerr
gruffalo / room on the broom / stick man (but no others) - donaldson and axel someone
richard scarry anything

have you got a good library?

Where the Wild Things Are
-Maurice Sendak

Peepo by Janet and Allan Ahlberg is lovely, with the most adorable baby you ever saw

In no particular order, tho some will be too 'old' for your DC yet...

Everything by Shirley Hughes
Gruffalo and others by same authors
anything by Quentin Blake
anything by Janet and Allen Ahlberg
ditto Helen Oxenbury
ditto Judith Kerr
ditto Dorothy Edwards (Naughty little sister books)
ditto Roald Dahl
ditto Joan Aitken
Katie Morag stories
Pippi longstocking
Charlottes web
The Borrowers
Mrs Pepperpot stories
Lion the witch and the wardrobe...

We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury is fab too. DD (aged 2.4) loves it at the moment. We were on a country walk a couple of weeks ago and she started spontaneously chanting some of it - "swishy swashying" through the grass and "squelch, squerching" through the mud

"weslandia"

this is a good start

Charles Perrault fairy tales are great if a bit gruesome
Jean de Brunhoff (Babar)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar

If you have boys, Big Brother Little Brother by Penny Dale.
The Alfie and Annie Rose series by Shirley Hughes who also illustrated the My Naughty Little Sister books
Anything by Dr Seuss but particularly The Cat in the Hat.
I Want My Potty by Tony Ross, the illustrations are hilarious.
Come On Daisy by Joan Simmons.

Moomins
Pippi Longstocking
Peter Pan
EachPeachPearPlum, Peepo
Gruffalo, Gruffalo's child
Paddington
Mary Poppins
Percy the ParkKeeper

For a 2-3 yr old, Billy's Beetle, the Blue Balloon and lots of others by Mick Inkpen (Kipper is his best known character, but I think less funny than his other books).

In a bit, Milly Molly Mandy, dated but perfect to read to a little girl maybe a bit older than your DD (say 4.5 plus).

Anything by Lauren Child

Where The Wild Things are - a total classic; I love it.
We're Going On A Bear Hunt

Pass The Jam Jim

Lullabyhullabaloo - in fact, anything by Mick Inkpen who is a genius as far as I am concerned!

Alice In Wonderland

The Winnie the Pooh stories - and the Christopher Robbin poems even more so

The Alfie and Annie Rose books

The Large family books - especially A Quiet Night In and A Piece Of Cake

Tom's Midnight Garden

The baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed

leo the late bloomer

For primary school aged girls:
What Katy Did/What Katy Did at School/What Katy did Next
Those Pamela Brown books about children running their own theatre
Noel Streatfield

Winnie the Witch - the picture book ones not the chapter books, the pictures are just fantastic and lovely stories too.

littlies: Elfrida Vipont: The Elephant and the Bad Baby.
Barbapapa series - very unlikely to find these now - they are a 70s tv spinoff and fetch ludicrous prices on amazon! but they are still great and so lovely and hippy and peaceful.

older but still great to read aloud: Rudyard Kipling: the Just So Stories.
Milly Molly Mandy
Orlando the Marmalade Cat

to read to themselves:
Rumer Godden: Miss Happiness and Miss Flower Joan Aiken: A Necklace of Raindrops.
CS Lewis: the Narnia stories
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, also An Old Fashioned Girl and Eight Cousins.

Just keep taking them to the library and let them loose - they will find their own loves...

Oh I love "A Necklace Of Raindrops" - I still remember my primary school teacher reading it to us!

Have stuck to picture/books early reading only. DS (3) also loves fact books (space, dinosaurs, trains, planes fire engines etc etc -well he is a boy) but these are the ones I have read to him for my own enjoyment which he seems to have liked too-even though my choices are a little bit girly!
Classics
Where the Wild Things Are
The Tiger who came to Tea
Madeline Ludwig Bememelmans
Babar Jean de Brunhof
Dr Seuss
Richard Scarry
Roald Dahl-have only done C and the CF so far
Peter Pan JM Barrie-illustrated version
Shirley Hughes-Alfie
Pippi Longstocking