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?

I second/third/forth nearly all the books already mentioned, plus
"The Battle for Gullywith" by Susan Hill.
The Historical House series (published by Usborne IIRC) I've only read one but they all look good. I think there are 6 of them, by 3 authors. They are all about the same house but at different tines in history.
And I read another one recently that was really good but I can't for the life of me remember the name of it or find it

Also "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

Tom's Midnight Garden
The Peppermint Pig
What Katy Did

Oh and the Fizzlebert Stump books by A.F Harrold although they are aimed at younger children rather than teens. Brilliantly written though.

All the Antonia Forrest Marlow books
All the Anne of Green Gables books
All the Noel Streatfield books
More modern ones... I like Cornelia Funke's Inkheart series and I loved Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book

Has anyone mentioned Diana Wynne Jones yet? I loved her books as a child and still read them now. Reread "Time of the Ghost" recently and got much more out of it as an adult. My top favourite of hers would probably be "Fire & Hemlock"

Just bought Elsewhere :)

Ooh yes Diana Wynne Jones I loved The Ogre Downstairs and all the Chrestomanci books

I heard DWJ give a talk once at a literary festival, she was ace!

I've just remembered North Child by Edith Pattou and Alone on a Wide Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo - enjoyed both of these too.

LRD - You are definitely not annoying me by repeat posting!

I really appreciate everyone's recommendations. I'm so spoilt for choice. I don't know what book to start with.

Sabrielle

Anything by Diana Wynn Jones

The Charlie Bone series

The Wester Game

Another one for the Book Thief. The film is out next month.

I loved the Just William books when I read them in my mid-20s. I wonder if 7yo DD1 is too young for them yet as I've got a pile of them up in the loft .

Many of the above, especially Goodnight Mister Tom and His Dark Materials trilogy.

Also many books for younger children. Most books by Roald Dahl, The Tiger who came to tea. I even love books by Rod Campbell like Dear Zoo and I won't bite.

Yy Joan Aitken

Yy K M Peyton. I particularly love the Pennington series. the Beethoven Medal is my favourite.

Children of morrow by h m Hoover

Ah, thanks jelly. Was just checking - you see I'm wandering around my bookshelves.

This is a wonderful thread, thanks so much for starting it.

I don't know if anyone has heard of Paradise Lane by William TAylor, an Australian author.

It haunted me as a teenager and I still think about it often and have a re-read. I cry every time.

Themes of love, redemption, being different, mental illness, child sexual abuse alluded to. It was so powerful but so simple. At heart a love story between two young people. I've got a lump in my throat just writing about it!

Going upstairs for a kindle frenzy....I have anxiety and find reading good children's literature really helps.

Hope you enjoy it thegreylady!

Oops. New Zealand not Australia

Marcos and the Pendulum plus the sequel.

The Last Wild

Charlie Bone Series

I'm currently reading The BFG to my 5 year old, I'm enjoying it more than he is I think

Sorry it is The Westing Game not wester. By Ellen Raskin.

Marcus Sedgwick's My Swordhand is Singing and Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone are another two I'd recommend. In fact anything by those writers, but especially those ones.

And Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons is a lovely, quirky funny/sad book.