What books are you looking forward to sharing with your children?

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My mum is moving and she has just brought over my copy of the complete illustrated works of Lewis Carroll - she has been looking after it for me since I left home for University.

I loved this book and it is a bit battered but I look forward to sharing it with my children. They are 1 and 2 so probably a bit young yet?!

I still know The Jabberwocky off by heart - I used to bore my parents with impromptu recitals (christ I must have been a pain)....

Anyway what classics are you MN'rs looking forward to introducing your children too??

anything and everything by roald dahl

esp danny the champion of the world

Tutter - I was going to say that!!

I am only now truly happy to share reading materials now ds is 13 and reads Private Eye and Viz with me tbh

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield when she gets a bit older. Vividly remember my mum reading it to me. Loved it (still do!)

Heidi

Magic Faraway Tree

The Railway Children

Tom's Midnight Garden

Narnia series

Harry Potter

All Roald Dahl ones esp Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The one by E Nesbitt about the funny carpet creature ...

five children and it?

The Search for Delicious by Natalie babbitt - loved it so much as a child and recently reread it.

Bigmouth, we have Jabberwocky in illustrated book form - just the poem with pics - and DS loves it - and he's not yet 2.

I would love that snowleopard - I was actually thinking of reading the poem to him at bedtime but an illustrated version would be fantastic.

My book only has the victorian line drawings from the original published works so are not designed to appeal to very young children. The pages are as light as tracing paper so it would last precisly 5 secs if the toddlers got hold of it!!

Anything by Roald Dahl especially the Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts.

Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

All the books like The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Princess and the Pea and Chicken Licken, I love all those.

The Jolly Postman

Beatrix Potter

There are quite a few options on Amazon - the one we have is illustrated by Graeme Base and it's brilliant, but I think out of print.

potter and also roald dahl - genius

Can't wait for them to discover reading themselves, I was forever with my nose in a book, LOVED it! Does anyone remember those books about two brothers who rescued animals, arctic adventure etc also I loved all the famous five, nancy drew things. Happy days I still love reading, pity I don't have much time for it now.

Georges Marvellous Medicine love it am sometimes tempted to settle down with it myself

We also had an illustrated colection of Brothers Grimm fairy tales with lovely heavy pages and colour plates (it smelt heavenly)... the stories are terrifying so as my ds keeps waking up saying there are monsters in his room (we have only read the gruffalo to him no other monster stories) I might save that for later....

I was looking at Roald dahl yesterday and wondering whether we could start now, but they are so frigging GRIM aren't they? Such a cynical world view

Ds has just leapt up a notch in books he can handle and we have been enjoying the Oz series together

can't wait for E Nesbit, Little Prince, Once and Future King

don't want to do them too early so he doesn't get them and gets put off

might try Bastables soon

actually maybe I should think twice about the jabberwocky...

Roald Dahl books, I loved him as a child and cried when he died. I plan to buy her the complete works.
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, I cannot wait to read her this.

She's only 19 months at the mo so got a while to wait. At the moment I'm making her suffer through The Hungry Catapillar and the like!

I think Dahl is perfectly in tune with children - life at school is pretty grim and adults can be remote especially teachers (maybe that was just my experience) - The Twits was one of my favs and that was evil James and the giant peach is quite sweet though

oooh, where did you get your "illustrated colection of Brothers Grimm fairy tales" bigmouthstrikesagain?

We used to be read fables and the like in school asessembly, I would love to find something like that for dd.

Sorry Elf my parents got it 30 odd years ago (probably 2ndhand)and I very much doubt it is print now - maybe try second hand book shops or charing cross road. Today I think the Grimms tales have been buggered about with by publishers making them more saccarrine and disneyfied uggggh. So I have no idea how to get hold of a more tradiional copy.

Das Kapital

I can't wait to read Tom's Midnight Garden with mine. I reckon they are nearly ready for it.

bigmouth, we have the big Grimm book. I just pick and choose the stories for the time being!

I'm also looking forward to mine reading some of the poetry books we have.

thats brave mole - i think i would start with early marx and then my way up to the heavier texts...

good point bigmouth