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.

Anyone mentioned Huckleberry Finn?

helen was it the country girl?

Picture books:
vegetable glue

Dinosaurs or Aliens love underpants

Julia Donalson Tyranousaurus Drip

Shirley Hughes - esp Alfie and Dogger

Owl Babies

There's an ouch in my pouch

Mr Wolf and the Three Bear/ Pancakes / enormous turnip

Harry and his bucket

novels

Loved Family at One End Street Stories

Dream of Sadlers Wells books

Judy Blume is my favourite author (and I am now 35)

Grimble by Clement Freud, sadly now out of print.

seriously though, you have to have some Frances Hodgson Burnett.

grimble - i bought grimble at christmas in december

Yes Ria, I've just seen that it was re-issued in November and, dammit, I've splashed out on a signed copy! (Like I don't have enough editions already )

"Grimble" is better though.

is grimble not available anymore

you know... I live next door to the secret garden. really.

Sadly no, well, only 2nd hand copies for lots of money.

Really Ingles?

Current favs from dd's shelf (she is 2)
Owl Babies
Rosies Babies
Anything Shirley Hughes, I just love the real to life pictures too
Gruffalo
Rod Campbell flap books
My Cat Just Sleeps
Mog books
Peepo

I do. It's not open to the public anymore, but used to be on yellow garden days. Anyway, I went to visit it and the house for a PTA thing not that long ago and it was lovely,.. but not as lovely as I was expecting and not very secret either.

how wonderful Ingles

I model my garden on a secret garden because it has a very very high wall

I use a lot of ivy!

The Owl who was afraid of the dark
Goodnight Moon (I love this book)
The Busy Spider, The Hungry Caterpillar
Hairy McClary
Each Peach, Pair Plum
Guess how much I love you
Cuddly Duddly
Cat in the Hat books
Brown Bear, Brown bear, what do you see?
Eliphant Wellyphant/ Pants
Roald Dahl

and loads more!!

it's beautiful Ria and the house is Lutyens. I just read on Wiki though that all FHB's roses were pulled out during WW2 for dig for victory campaign. They grew leeks!

Ah, Ingles, these things are always best left to the imagination, aren't they?

We liked:-

Rod Campbell books
Little Red Train
Blue Kangaroo
Hairy McLary
Julia Donaldson books
(all these for toddler/preschool/reception age)

Now ds (aged 8) likes:-

Swallows & Amazons
Dark is Rising books (Susan Cooper)
Glory Gardens Cricket club books
Terry Pratchett Nomes books
Model Railway men books by Ray Pope (mostly out of print, sadly)
Professor Branestawm
Treasure Island
Dr Dolittle
Just started The Ghost of Thomas kempe by Penelope Lively

I also had lots of Lorna Hill (ballet) books as a child, also Alan Garner, later Ursula Le Guin Earthsea books, also like Diana Wynne Jones, The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

Cuddly Duddley is fab

The duck in the truck books

DS likes "you choose" but doesn;t really seem to get the premise and chooses the same things each time we look at it - ie always wants to be on the train, get the baby, be a train driver and eat the cake.

I have great fun choosing different things each time though!

Children's books are fab.

All Shirley Hughes Books
Bartholomew Bear
Hungry Caterpillar
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
Ballet Shoes
Narnia
The Hobbit
Phoenix and The Carpet
Professor Brainstawm
Mrs Pepperpot
Harry Potter
What Katy did[all of that series]
Most Roald Dahl
Hilaire Belloc[rhymes]
Michael Morpurgo
Artemis Fowl
Laura's Star
His Dark Materials
and various poetry ones
AND...Prob think of loads more in bed

White Boots

ingles there is a house called The Lutyens near us

Where are all the fab science and information books like:

• fabby Doring Kingsley picture books
• Usborne - see inside series
• Usborne - Red/Blue pocket science book

The terrific times table book
The wonderful world book

Ria

Took a long time to get back to you but had to switch pc off coz of weather yesterday. I remember that Alison Uttley wrote a few books and I read them all but have useless memory for retaining details, so don't remember the names - moved on from her to Enid Blyton Famous 5, Secret 7, then Nancy Drew, Agatha Christie.

I have never seen any of the Alison Uttley's in the shops and when I mention her name over here in NI no one has heard of her!