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??

elf, amazon has some good versions of the Grimm book.

I think amazon is going to do really well out of me this weekend - I feel all inspired I am just so fed up with Maisy and books about friggin diggers called doug.........

...and don't get me started on Thomas the Tank Engine - Marx had a more flowing writing style than the Rev. that wrote the original books!!!! And I love trains

Bigmouth - Thomas ban in our house! (well at least unless and until DS gets wind of it). He has train toys and train books but I'm going to put off having to read that drivel for as long as I can.

We have a friend with a child called Thomas who actively gets him all the Thomas stuff. Talk about rod for your own back.

I love this thread, it's so true that if we look back, even a very long way back, we can find some fantastic books for our children that poo all over many (though not all) of today's offerings.

dinosaur, I want ds (also nearly 8) to read The Dark is Rising series too. Also Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.

The Swallows and Amazons books.
DH is particularly keen as he wants another go at doing the camping/sailing stuff in a big gang of kids.... unfortunately he hasn't taken into account the fact in the books they didn't take their dad with them

Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott.

Snow I wish I could ban Thomas in our house ... ds has doting GP's (my dh is an only child) who indulgently equipped my ds with enough tthet products to recreate the island of sodor in our living room. DS of course loves it all so i am stuck. I am looking forward to age making ds more discerning and I will be slipping in new stories to engage him as time goes on. I have avoided my dd being typecast with any particular toys, so she is mine

love Mem Fox as a children's authors and my two are now getting to an age we can have some of them....

Koala Lou
WHere is the green sheep - saw that as a performance - FABULOUS
Boo to a Goose - my two love that - shout out the line - Boo to a Goose!!

loved all the hardy boys, nancy drew, trixie Belden books

famous five and secret seven

beatrix potter

when they are much older:

to kill a mockingbird
Diary of Anne Frank
John Marsden series
Kiss the dust
Lion, witch and the wardrobe
picnic at hanging rock

bigmouth not sure how old your kids are but Mem Fox is fab

this one

My two also love: Jeanette Rowe books we have:

Bums
Whose knickers are these
Whose Poo

here

Just some ideas...

forgotten little women and the little house on the prairie series.

Where do I start, Arthur Ransome, enid Blyton, AA Milne, roald Dahl Lemony Snickett, At this rate I will still be reading to her when she leaves home

DD is 6 months old, and already we love sharing books together. Lots of people have recommended "The Gruffalo", and I can't wait until she is old enough for this.

When she is a teenager, I want to share 3 books that I am passionate about and have been since my own teenage days:

Jane Eyre
Katherine - Anya Seton
I Capture the Castle

And then there is Flambards, What katy did etc, Anne of Green Gables,

101 dalmations - loved the sense of urgency and anticipation the whole way through. And the happy ending

The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden. The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (Penelope Lively?) and The Bagthorpe Saga and The Bogwoppit by Helen Creswell.

Narnia, Harry Potter, Hans Christian Anderson & Magic Faraway Tree.