CHILDREN'S books you've enjoyed as an ADULT

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Looking for something nice to read that won't take up too much time or mental energy.

Has anyone read any children's books, as an adult, that they have really liked and would recommend?

I personally have read a book called Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin. This is aimed at young teens. It's a very sweet little novel about the afterlife (It' s not a religious book), and I found it very comforting whilst grieving.

So, what are your suggestions?

Tottie's House by Rumer Godden - I watched it as a kid and kept the book - the storytelling is rich and layered, I loved discovering it again.

Read 'The Hunger Games', very readable, also the 'Skulduggery Pleasant' books by Derek Landy are quite funny. My DH got me to read 'Eagle of the Ninth' by Rosemary Sutcliffe as he loved it as a boy - quite good.

I like 'A bit lost.'

Harry Potter (obviously), the Heidi collection, and am now wanting to reread Charlotte's Web.

Anne of Green Gables! All of them, one after each other!

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas? Or the Philip Pullman 'His Dark Materials' trilogy, starting with Northern Lights.

Anything by Sarah Dessen - her books make me sob!
Also enjoyed Love, Aubrey for the same reasons...

Philip Pullman's "Northern Lights" trilogy

Goodnight Mister Tom.

First read it aged 9/10 when I didn't actually have feck all clue about the war, London bombings, etc.

Now I've watched Blackadder and read the Horrible History books educated myself I can appreciate it more.

'This is how I live now' is great.

I read The Hobbit recently for the first time and rather enjoyed it

If you've got a kindle, I've just finished reading this: PsiCo Only £1 and a cracking good read. Written by a friend of a friend - he recently won a competition. It's a supernatural thriller, but I was gripped and couldn't put it down, despite just reading it initially because my friend recommended it!

I've also enjoyed the Anne of Green Gables stories as an adult, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, The Power of Five series by Anthony Horowitz, and The Knife of Never Letting Go series by Patrick Ness. All fantastic.

Artemis Fowl!

Malory Blackman's Knots and Crosses etc.
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Holes by Louis Sachar. Or There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom by the same author. And also Wonder by RJ Palacio. All three very uplifting.

The Percy Jackson books, Harry Potter, The Dragonsdome Chronicles by Lucinda Hare, and I recently skimmed though a Michael Morpurgo book (The Nine Lives of Montezuma) which I enjoyed.

Anne of Green Gables (the full series), the Little House books, Little Women, What Katie Did series, A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, Black Beauty. All available for next to nothing, whether a physical book or an ebook. Also, Michelle Magorian's books.

Well, I am guilty of really enjoying Teen lit. So here are few fun suggestions:

Divergent - Veronica Roth
The Hunger Games Books - Suzanne Collins
The Beautiful Creatures Series - Margaret Stohl and Kami Garcia
The Percy Jackson Series - Rick Riordan

I read C.S Lewis's Narnia Series as an adult after discovering Harry Potter and quite enjoyed (most of) them.

Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines series.

Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book

Eva Ibbotson's Journey to the River Sea and The Star of Kazan

....are some that spring immediately to mind.

I don't think its a teen book per se, but TheNuns suggestion of Neil Gaiman made me want to recommend to you "Neverwhere" by that author which is a fantastic and entertaining read.

The Wardstone Chronicles by Joseph Delaney are very good. They are a series though!

If I'm in the bath and have nothing new to read I will go and find the Faraway tree books :-)

All the Ottoline books are wonderful. And second Neil Gaiman, loved reading Fortunately the Milk to DD

Also, I just finish City of Ember and that was a fun and very short little read. I will definitely pick up the others in that series.

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Another vote for Anne of Green Gables. Also the What Katy Did books, all of Arthur Ransome if you want a bit of gentle adventure.

I love Goodnight Mr Tom. I've read The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas but found it harrowing.

Penelope Lively's The House in Norham Gardens. One day I'm going to travel to Oxford and read it from cover to cover in the Pitt Rivers Museum - if you've read it you'll know exactly why.