Really beautiful chapter books/classics for my 6yo DD?

[fuzzpig]

You'd think, as someone who works in a library, I wouldn't need to ask :o but I'm struggling to think of something really special to give DD this Xmas.

She's into chapter books now - I read her something at bedtime (mostly my old childhood favourites ), and very recently she has started reading easier chapter books to herself in bed which is great. Needless to say she has free reign at the library but as I don't actually buy books often I'd like to choose something really lovely IYSWIM?

I've got an A4 colour illustrated version of James and the Giant Peach (we already borrowed the George's Marvellous Medicine one so I know it'll go down well) but would like something else as well. Needs to have really good illustrations and preferably not an abridgement as IME they tend to be a bit 'meh'.

Any ideas?

Already got and/or have read:
Enid Blytons (she doesn't have a hope of escaping those :o)
Paddington
Worst Witch
Roald Dahl
Peter Pan
Alice in wonderland
Borrowers
Winnie the Pooh
Phantom tollbooth
Wizard of Oz (on kindle)

the twins at st clairs

my mum gave me hers when I was little. I loved it.

Heidi.
Pipi Longstocking.
Milly Molly Mandy.

Barefoot Books do beautiful anthologies of tales - we have the Scottish one, Jewish one and Indian one. I read them aloud to my 5yo.

Ballet Shoes
Pippi Longstocking
Moomins

WHy illustrations though? Surely it's all about the pictures in your head?

Not really a chapter book (it's verses) but I loved 'The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshoppers Feast' by Alan Aldridge and William Plomer when I was a child.

It's absolutely exquisitely illustrated.I still have a copy now and still look at and read it to myself and my DD's.

Charlottes Web
The Sheep Pig
The Wombles
The Five Find-Outers

I loved the Little House on the Prairie series.

my 6 year old is loving the how to train your dragon series (not a classic but they do make her giggle!).

I would second Charlottes web and Little House on the Prairie. Depending on how much you want to spend the Folio Society have a lovely Charlottes Web - I'm secretely wanting it for Christmas aged 40 plus !

The Secret Garden

The Narnia Chronicles

My Naughty Little Sister.

Anna Hibiscus books come as A4 picture books, or chapter books. Might not be considered classic but they are lovely.

The Sophie series by Dick King Smith.

Worth getting things for the future?

Agree all suggestions above plus
Aesop's fables illustrated by Rackham
Secret garden ,illustrated
A child's garden if verses, ditto
Babar
Madeleine
Ferdinand the bull
The adventures of the little wooden horse
A little princess
Miss bianca
Esio Trot
George's Marvellous Medicine
My friend Flicka
Black Beauty
Little Women
Rebecca if Sunnybrook Farm
A dog o small

A lb illustrated set if Greek and Roman legends.

And to read to herself, all the beatrix potter's. The book people do the complete set for about 30 l, as opposed to over 100. Judy the right size for six year old hands.

The Faraway Tree series Enid Blyton, I read it to DD age 6 and still her favourite now age 9, very magical.

I loved Heidi at that age, The Little Princess and the Secret Garden.

We got a lovely hard book edition of Pippi Longstocking, illustrated by Lauren Child (Charlie and Lola) a few years ago, and it went down well. I've also seen beautiful editions of classics like The Snow Queen and The Wind in the Willows in Waterstones - think they have a 'classics' or 'favourites' section in Children's Books generally. But by far the favourite with 6 year old DD is her pop up version of Alice in Wonderland by Robert Sabuda. The illustrations are lovely and the pop ups just incredible - lots of really clever details (like the roses being painted actually changing colour and a big concertina tube to look down to see the bottom of the well.) She adores it, and Santa will be getting another Robert Sabuda book to her this year!

Thanks for all the suggestions! Lots to look into.

And yes it needs to be one with lovely illustrations, she's got plenty of time when she's older to read pictureless books :o