Every Child's Bookshelf

[Twims]

Should hold which books?

I am trying to compile a list of fabulous books every child (any age) should have - so what's on your bookshelf, what do you love and what do your children love.

lynley dodd back catalog
tiger who came to tea
Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler back catalog
Dr Seuss

Agree with ingles about "you choose"

Anything by the Ahlbergs.
Everything everyone else says
The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark
The Worst Witch
Jennings
Gobbolino the Witch's Cat

loads more I haven't thought of probably

Most of my favourites for pre-school are on here!

For pre-teens:

Leon Garfield's 'Tales from Shakespeare'
Antonia Forest/K M Peyton
Diana Wynne Jones - Chrestomanci series

Oh & Philip Pullman 'His Dark Materials' - modern classic & FAR superior to Narnia.

Alan Garner- weirdstone of Brisingamen
Swallows and Amazons
Pippi Longstocking
EPPP and Peepo (natch)
Gruffalo, Tiddler etc
Some Fairy Tales
Hairy Maclary
Just WIlliam
So many good books on this thread already!

Another vote for "You Choose"- dd loves it and never tires of as she does with most.

Milly Molly Mandy
My Naughty Little Sister
Wishing Chair
Magic Faraway Tree
Heidi
Going On a Bear Hunt
Famous Five
Flat Stanley
Room on The Broom
Sharing a Shell
Hairy Maclairy
Blue Kangaroo
Topsy & Tim
The Story of the Mole Who Knew it was none of his Business

And how could I forget- Moomins!

Oh Mrs Boring,"The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark" is a LOVELY book.

For older children especially if interested in history I would reccomend Rosemary Sutcliffe.I LOVE her books even as a so called adult!!

Janet and Alan Ahlberg-definitely ,cannot believe I missed them out!!

To add to others - anything by Oliver Jeffers. Jolly Postman

DD favs :

Each Peach Pear Plum
The Gruffalo / The Gruffalo child
Guess How Much I Love You
Charlie Cooks Favourite Book
Dear Zoo
There Was An Old Lady
Various assortments of the classic fairy stories
The Velveteen Rabit
Tiger Who Came To Tea
The Hungry Caterpillar

I WILL be reading to her when she is older (whether she likes it or not!)

Narnia collection
All Roald Dahl
Charlottes Web
Goodnight Mr Tom
Little Women
The Railway Children

Gosh, so many. Some I still have from my childhood, some I need to get. Love reading to her

"Owl Babies" - one of my personal favourites; can't believe I forgot it.

For girls of a certain age and nature - Charlotte Sometimes.

The Alfie and Annie Rose books.

Maisy
Richard Scarry's books
Fairy tales (with different versions according to age)
Meg and Mog
Charlie and Lola
Any Astrid Lindgren, my fav being The children of noisy village
We are going on a bear hunt
Classics, like Little Women, Treasure island, etc
The Odyssey etc
Factual books
An atlas

Babies

animals
This little baby

toddlers:

cars and trucks and things that go
brown bear brown bear
This little baby
The very hungry caterpillar
Charlies cook favourite book
Guess how much I love you
Harry and the bucket load of dinosaurs
Hairy Maclary
tiger that came to tea

4 -10year olds

wind in the willows
harry Potter
Roald Dahl
Winnie the pooh
Goodnight mister tom
famous five
Charlottes web
Narnia
His Dark Materials
watership down
Beartrix potter (though i find them very dark!)
the moomins
tom's midnight garden
Alice in Wonderland
Tom Sawyer
the story of tracy beaker
Carries war
Just william
the one about a pink rabbit (and the war)
The secret Garden

for older kids:
to kill a mockingbird
Holes
Black and white
Millions
the hobbit
The diary of Anne Frank
Lord of the flies
1984
Curious incident...

ohhh me and DSS (12) enjoyed that!

My personal favourite is Babette Cole's The Trouble with Mum. I cried reading it

Hervé Tullet books a selection of but here is one

another fab one

Fantastic Mr Fox
Little House on the Prairie
And everything else everybody else has said

window great for stimulating children

Miffy
Some Dick King Smith
Michael Morpurgo War horse maybe or why the whales

All of the above and

Little Women
Asterix
101 Dalmatians
The Secret Garden
Artemis Fowl
All Diana Wynne Jones
The Happy Prince
The Little Prince
A Hat Full of Sky

there're more....

My 7yo is currently obsessed with Joan Aitkin The wolves of willoughby chase.

Stig of the Dump - we read that recently, it was better than I'd remembered.

Fennel those Joan Aitken are great and lots of them!

I agree with all the other posters - some really brilliant children's books!

I can't remember any of the names of the stories but when I was a child I read a number of books by a lady called Alison Uttley (think that's how it's spelt) and I really, really loved them.