Ok bookworms help me out here.

[dingdongmeggymooonhigh]

Having seen a few threads recently about much loved and cherished memories of wonderful books read as a child has made me a little envious.

I was never read to as a child or encouraged to read ever which I can't do anything about now other than having a go at reading some of those books now!I'm thinking of making up for lost time.I don't know where to start though.

I have really made every effort to get ds interested in books which is working, he is hooked!

Could you recommend something to get me started, just one thing, Harry Potter doesn't really appeal I was thinking of something more old school that I could get my teeth into?

Charlie and the chocolate factory
james and the giant peach

I would try ....

Brontes' stuff
Louisa Alcott (Little Women Little Men and so on)

Blimey that was quick and has made me smile. Thanks Collision.

How old is he?

How about:

THe wind in the willows
Just william

Oh Oh, I'm going to start a list!

Sorry kids stuff you want??

OK....

Noel Streatfeild,Enid Blyton and Laura Ingalls Wilder.

I read it too quickly and thought that you wanted books for ds!! Sorry.

Definitely read Little women and Anne of Green Gables was always a favourite of mine!

Actually BBB It's for me to start with and I'll be building up a library for ds for when he is older.

Very old school:-
The Narnia chronicles C S Lewis
Swallows & Amazons series Arthur Ransome
Mallory Towers series Enid Blyton
(Showing my age)

How old is he? My mum read Watership Down to me when I was 7 and I LOVED it.

Sorry, also read it as being for DS

Watership DOwn still great though - want to reread it!

A Little Princess - I love that too.

That's ok HM, I don't think I made my post very clear.

DO you want to read stories out loud to ds (that was how i understood your post!)

Or read for yourself wonderful books that we cherished

Cos im thinking your ds wont like Anne of Green gables as much as a girl

OK...lets start again.

Books for Meggy

Anne of Green Gables
Little Women
Narnia Books

Narnia sounds wonderful. So do alot of the suggestions - brill.

Narnia sounds wonderful. So do alot of the suggestions - brill.

Ahhhhhhhhh posts crossed!

There are some great ones published by Paragon books - cheap to acquire to give you the chance to find out which you like and which you dont

IMHO some are rubbish! Peter pan and Jungle book for example! Just my opinion!

Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden and The Little Princess
Lucy M Boston: the Green Knowe series
Philippa Pearce: Tom's Midnight Garden and A Dog so Small
Catherine Storr: Marianne Dreams
Penelope Lively: Charlotte Sometimes
Alison Uttley: A Traveller in Time
Dodie Smith: I capture the castle (for when you hit your teen years catch-up Meggy
Nina Bawden: Carrie's War
Judith Kerr: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Rumer Godden: The Diddakoi
Richmal Crompton: as many Just Williams as you want
Erich Kastner: Lotte and Lisa and Emil and the Detectives
Gerald Durrell: My Family and Other Animals

Discovering these and lots of other classics is going to be such a treat for you Meggy and it is never too late to start

Oooh The Little Princess' hunker!! Yes!!

(Although in retrospect the message it sent out is pretty dodgy lol.)

You obviously have to read 'The Secret Garden'.

Charlotte's Web

My name is David

Stog of the Dump

Animal Farm

I still sometimes even now just for fun read through:-
Enid Blyton - Famous Five, Malory Towers, St. Clare's series
Arthur Ransome Swallows & Amazons series
Diana Wynne Jones (Witch Week is my favourite)
Roald Dahl - The BFG, the Witches.
The Paddington books by Michael Bond
Beatrice Gormley wrote a few fun books - Wing Order Wings, Focus Pocus
E. Nesbit (The Railway Children, Five Children & It, The Wouldbegoods)
Other lesser known school story books if you liked Enid Blyton's (and these are far better)- The Trebizon series by Anne Digby, and Antonia Forest's Autumn Term, Winter Term, etc etc
Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
ooh there were a few books by Gwen Grant called Private Keep Out & One Way Only.
Am sitting next to my bookcase Have inspired me to read a few again, oh the choices!

i used to love the Trebizon books.

must dig them out

i am enjoying reading Enid Blyton books to ds at the moment

E. Nesbit...love love love her!!

I'd go with all those mentioned plus The Silver Sword (Ian Serraillier) and anything by Rosemary Sutcliff (fantastic historical fiction). Happy reading

Ooh yes Marina had forgotten about most of those!

Have remembered a few more -
the Jennings books by Antony Buckeridge
Helen Cresswell's another great author - esp Moondial
oOh and E Nesbit also wrote the Phoenix and the Carpet, actually my favourite of - hers yes?

Catherine Storr also wrote Clever Polly & the Stupid Wolf books
Penelope Lively also wrote A Stitch in Time
The Song of Pentecost by W.J. Corbett oh my god i cried so much at the end, I don't think I've ever read it a 2nd time actually. Similar to Watership Down though I haven't read that, just seen the film.

and let's not forget the genius that is Winnie the Pooh. America ruined him.