Which of your favourites from childhood have you re-read recently?

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I am lucky in that my DD is a voracious reader and often willing to try books I remember enjoying when I was a kid. This gives me the excuse to have them around the house and enjoy an indulgent re-read occasionally.

All the Malory Towers books have long been favourites, along with Secret Island, The Children Who Lived in a Barn and several Jennings books.

But most recently the old friend I rediscovered was Jill.

We had an old copy of "Jill and the Perfect Pony" and after reading it DD asked me if their were any other books about her. Well I could remember one or two others from when I was a kid but I did the research and found the full list (only 9 in total) and we were able to pick up secondhand copies of all of them fairly cheaply over Amazon Marketplace.

We are both having a bit of a Jill-fest at the moment and I am remembering how much I adored these years ago. I never had a pony or riding lessons but used to turn our back lawn in to an imaginary gymkhana with little jumps and pretend to be Jill!!

What childish delights do others like to read when noone much is looking?

So many books I love and would really like to reread mentioned here. Only ones I've read recently are When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and the 2nd book in Judith Kerr's trilogy.

I've been buying Joan Aiken books though - I discovered there were two more about Dido and Simon etc, making a total of 11. I also bought the collected Armitage family stories that have been published last year, and secondhand copies of several story collections that I didn't have/didn't know about because they were published much later.

I read 'Betsy' (also known as 'Understood Betsy') by Dorothy Canfield about once a year.

I don't hide my enjoyment of children's books. I have a whole bookcase full, both books I loved as a child and those acquired later. My absolute favourite author is Diana Wynne Jones. I'm reading Dogs Life to my dc at the moment, and then have the choice of the next Joan Aitken, or the next Earthsea or the next Dark is Rising.

How old are your dcs Nooka? - looking forward to reading DWJ again myself

Nine and ten, and we read the first one (The Ogre Downstairs) a year or two ago. She did write some books for younger children too, but they are not in my collection.

Ooh, The Ogre Downstairs was one of my favourite DWJ, Charmed Life was the first I read and probably my other favourite. I still buy her new books, and I've discovered that one of my cousins does too.

I've read them Charmed Life too, and then much to my pleasure ds started reading the other Chrestomanci stories, and is actually now reading The Lives of Christopher Chant to dd My most favourite is Howl's Moving Castle, although I don't think the two sequels are as good. In fact I haven't been really blown away by anything she has done recently, although I did enjoy the Pinhoe Egg, and ds loved Conrad's Fate.

I loved Ramona the Pest and now I read them to my dd1 (who reminds me very much of Ramona)
The Chronicles of Narnia, particularly the Voyage of the Dawn Treader- my favourite by far.
The Twits
All the Famous Five books- I used to seriously adore them, I wanted to join their gang and used to read four a day sometimes!
The Door in the Air by Margaret Mahy. Utterly gorgeous stories- still one of my favourite books as an adult. Stories about magic that aren't fluffy or girly, just beautiful.
Adrian Mole... How many of the jokes passed over my head when I read his diaries as an eleven year old!!

Stubbornstains I saw the Moonacre film! It was a lovely film, worth a watch. I did have 'ishhoooos' with it - the story has been messed around with so that her Uncle is a moody scary bloke rather than a lovely cheerful chappy. There's hardly any bits with the vicar. Robin is an a*se most of the way through almost to the end. (Why?!! Why do this!) But it's still lovely to watch, I did enjoy it