What's your favourite children's books that you have read (or reread) lately?

[LadyGlencoraPalliser]

For your own reading pleasure, not that of your DCs.
I read We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea (one of the Swallows and Amazons series) this weekend and it was so wonderful it made me seriously question why I bother with adult fiction at all.

Charlottes Web

Narnia books

Little Women/Jo's Boys

What Katy Did/What Katy did next

The Magic Faraway Tree and The Enchanted Wood

I re-read goodnight mister tom

what an amazing book

I love Antonia Forest too,and regularly reread them,also The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper.And I reread Anne of Green Gables,and Little Women recently and was surprised by how much I enjoyed them.

I have been working my way through my box of childhood books down from the attic (just to check their suitability for dd of course ), but I've also discovered through dd The Ordinary Princess which I never knew as a child and which I think is a lovely story.

me too re Antonia Forest and Laura Ingalls Wilder, Elizabeth Enright's whole series about the Melendy family (starting with The Saturdays) is brilliant. The Family from One End Street and its sequels too, I love the town child discovering countryside theme of Further Adventures ...

The treasure seekers, phoenix and the carpet, 5 children and it.

Ballet shoes, white boots, etc

the little house books

anne of green gables series

winnie the pooh

swallows and amazons series

family from one end st

oh lots. i loved the phase where they were old enough to understand older childrens books but young enough to want me to read to them.

i miss reading to them.

The Smartest Giant in Town

I just ordered Dogger and Funnybones for my DD. They are two of my favourites.

Howl's Moving Castle

Magyk

The Ordinary Princess

A Wrinkle in Time

Horse and His Boy

Mortal Engines

The Wierdstone of Brisingamen

lots more, but those are the most recent, have just re-read HP and the Deathly Hallows too.

I MUST get hold of A Wrinkle in Time. I so loved that as a child.

Oh, I'd completely forgotten about the Ordinary Princess.

Looking forward to re-reading:
The 13 clocks by James Thurber
My family and other animals
The 'uncle' books.
Anything by E. Nesbit.
The 'magic' books by Edward Eager.

I'd have to say 'We're going on a bear hunt'

I've managed to get hold of some copies of books that I loved when I was a child and I'm reading them over the holidays to dc.

They are

The Ship That Flew by Hilda Lewis
The Phantom Tolbooth by Norton Juster
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

So far we've only just started on the first one. Dc have been a bit mystified by some of the old fashioned references ie boys carrying penknives, being allowed out to the dentist on your own and 'old money'. But they' get the gist of it I think.

Any of Arthur Ransome's books.

Peter Pan.

The little prince.

I hated a Wrinkle in Time as a child, probably because it was one of our literature books in grade 8 at school.

Tsarchasm - can understand puzzlement at old money, but why boys carrying penknives? Do boys that you know not carry penknives? (Most of the older children I know are girls, but plenty of them have penknives . . .)

Apparantly not Takver..I was surprised too I admit, but no they don't seem to so much now, or at least the ones dc know dont have them.

All three dc picked up on the mention of the boy in the story using his penknife and I had to stop reading while they had quite a discussion about it and how it might not be a good idea to keep a knife in your pocket.
They didn't seem too sure what a penknife actually is.

I suspect school have told them about knives and not having one. Anyway, the consensus was that it wasn't ok. I haven't ever really talked to them about it, but they've picked up on a message from somewhere.

Personally I am more laidback about such things. But I know I hail from a bygone era and tend to apply values from there, so I don't think a boy or girl with a penknife used innocently is so bad.

Sadly another sign of the times I guess.

I've just reread What Katy Did today.
Fabulous andvery funny.
I actually wept by the side of the pool iwas sunning myself at. Humiliating to look up and see waiter with tray looking at me in confused fashion.