'classic' books - can you help??

[scaredoflove]

Having a discussion today with my teens (15 - 20) and realised that many books I loved as a youngster, they haven't read. I have 2 prolific readers, both had sets of books and styles they loved and I tried to steer them to ones I liked but had no joy when they were younger. Now they have decided want to read them and I should have pushed what I liked on them!

I'm in my 40's and I am thinking of books I read in primary and preteen, nothing written in last 20 years. These are what I have come up with so far (I'm going to get them for christmas presents)

Tom's Midnight Garden
Secret Garden
Little Women & sequels
Wind in the Willows
Great Expectations
Alice in Wonderland
Black Beauty
Peter Pan

Can anyone help remind me of other books that I may have read, I know I read loads or any I didn't read but should have

[bodiddly]

Diary of Anne Frank

[pania]

All the E.E. Nesbit books.

Celery it wasn't Children of the New Forest was it? .... Probably not, since I think at least one was a girl, and it was set in the time of Oliver Cromwell - still, it's a good book anyway.

[Celery]

The Railway Children

Carrie's War

[Celery]

No, it wasn't Children of the New Forest. Am frantically googling at the moment.

[Celery]

Stig of the Dump
When Hitler stole pink rabbit.

[OliviaMumsnet]

Where is ANNE OF GREEN GABLES?!

[OliviaMumsnet]

Oops sorry Tidey has already listed.
As you were

[barbarianoftheuniverse]

Box of Delights and The Midnight Folk- John Masefield
Treasure Island RL Stevenson
Coral Island (Ballantyne -I think)
Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday -Steinbeck
Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love- Nancy Mitford
David Copperfield
The Little White Horse

[Sandy22]

Enid Blyton books:

All the mystery series
Famous Five series
St Clares
Mallory Towers

I loved these books read them over and over

[choosyfloosy]

Lots of the above plus:

Betsy by Dorothy Canfield
Eight Cousins and An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa M Alcott
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken
A Necklace of Raindrops and the other Joan Aiken story collections
Molesworth
the Gemma books and White Boots by Noel Streatfeild
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Sword in the Stone
Stuart Little
The Cricket in Times Square
Walkabout
The Princess and the Goblin
I am David

Oh God this is joy. Having to stop for a bit.

[Bettymum]

Noone's mentioned The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. My favourite books as a child.
Also The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley was one that stuck in my mind for years.
Tom's Midnight Garden is another beautiful book.
Lots of fab books mentioned above!

[nickelbabe]

My family and other animals - gerald durrell
emil and the detectives - erich kastner
mrs frisby and the rats of nimh - o'brien
ballet shoes and all those books by noel streatfeild
flambards - k m peyton
the house in norham gardens - penelope lively
the little bookroom - eleanor farjeon

[AvengingGerbil]

K M Peyton's Pennington series

[AvengingGerbil]

Oh, and I can't remember the author, but I loved the 'Drina Dances...' series (I'm thinking Estoril, but may be wrong) and two books by Linda Blake called Ballet for Laura and Laura's Summer Ballet, which I still love though they are out of print and I've never met anyone else who read them.

(Have you been following Lucy Mangan's column in the Sat Guardian on building a children's library? Or are you LM looking for your next suggestion )

[lavenderkate]

My friend Flikka

The green grass of Wyoming.

Such wonderful stories that for a forthcoming big birthday I plan to round up cattle on horseback on those Great Plains.

[mrsgboring]

celery it wasn't the forest but cd you be thinking of the machine gunners? robert westall