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?

The Narnia books
Wind in the Willows
The Chrysalids

The Moomins, just discovered these as an adult and they are truly lovely.

Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie series) all fantastic.

Margaret Mahy, especially The Changeover are wonderful.

Charlotte Sometimes is a truly amazing book.

The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden. I must read the rest of her stuff, this one is beautifully written.

Elidor by Alan Garner is also wonderful
The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula le Guin. Ged was my first true love.

Your OP made me think of the book "The Heavenly Village" which is about a little village between Earth and heaven where departed souls can stay to finish their unfinished business. Very moving. It is Christian in nature and refers to God etc but I am not religious and I liked it.

I recently re-read Carrie's War. It was just as good as I remembered. :)

Diana Wynne Jones The Time of the Ghost is great.

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit is one of my all-time favourites. I might dig it out actually.

Number The Stars by Lois Lowry. Also deals with Jews during WW2.

I also read "Watch Over Me" (Daniela Sarcidoti) and "Burning Man" (Alan Russell) recently and although they are not children's books I found them easy to read - although they do of course touch on more adult themes.

Oh snatchoo that's one of my favourite books ever too.

Another vote for the Eartsea Trilogy - and I know where Earthsea really is......

The Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper should keep you going for a bit - just so believeable, if you suspend a wee bit of belief.

I'd forgotten when hitler stole pink rabbit! .....where's the kindle?

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo.

All mine are already on here!
Percy Jackson, Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness, Holes by Louis Sachar.

Also Blood Red Road is really good, have the second one ready to read upstairs!

Wow, this is brilliant!

Thank you everyone for your contributions. I wasn't expecting to get much of a response to this thread.

I've got a lovely little list so far....Keep your suggestions coming though! Thanks

Would second Goodnight Mr Tom. Also Back Home by the same author. Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer is one of my read again books too.

The William books by Richmal Crompton still make me laugh out loud.

I don't think it's called When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit anymore.

DD might be going to the bilingual free school that she was the patron of in September!

Oh, Back Home is excellent. Excellent.

• Michelle Magorian's others apart from Goodnight Mr Tom - A Little Love Song, Back Home and Cuckoo in the Nest especially - are great.

• The Sterkarm Handshakes (Susan Price)

• Cynthia Voigt's Tillerman trilogy

• Mildred D. Taylor's 'Roll of Thunder' series (be warned, they are children's books but very hard-hitting topic, it's about a family in the Deep South in the years not that long after slavery).

• Lucy M. Boston - Green Knowe series

I'll think of more, I love children's books/YA.

See I cross-posted with other 'Back Home' lovers.

I Capture the Castle- Dodie Smith.

Mariana- Monica Dickens.

Little Women- Louisa M. Alcott.

Rosemary Sutcliffe - pretty much anything but Eagle of the Ninth and Knight's Fee are lovely.

Cynthia Harnett - try The Wool Pack and Load of Unicorn

Clive King - esp. The Twenty-Two Letters

The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights by John Masefield. Just beautifully written. So lyrical.

Lemony Snickets - A series of unfortunate events.
I love them. Please don't laugh

Paul Berna - The Hundred Million Francs

Otfried Preußler - The Satanic Mill (easy to read but fucking scary if you are ten! )

Jill Paton Walsh - anything, but 'Grace' is lovely and 'The Flither Pickers' too.

Philip Pullman's trilogy- His Dark Materials

The adventures of Jack Brenin- the first one is called The Golden Acorn

Some others I've forgotten, will come back if the names occur to me!

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