Which children's books do you STILL read and enjoy?

[Swizzler]

Am re-reading Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising sequence and yes, it is still good

So which children's books did you enjoy as a child and still read - read for your own pleasure, that is, not read to your DCs.

Am loving re-reading Ballet Shoes atm. A world of nurseries, children who are thrilled to be taught English and Maths by professors, measles and whooping cough, tarlatan dresses and being very, very poor, but still employing two full time maids and a cook.

Noel Streatfield - Thursday's child

A book called "Daddy Long Legs" - no idea who wrote it.

Riki Tiki Tavi - Rudyard Kipling (My granny always used to read it to me).

oh, all the Noel Streatfeilds - Curtain Up is superb, having to be home before the blackout and go by tram to save rubber.

Anne of Green Gables. It's my all time favourite comfort read - like literary mashed potato.

I have been thinking I would like to read Watership Down again.
Wont read that to dd's til they're a bit older tho.

Daddy Long Legs is Jean Webster - love that book

And Ballet Shoes is one of my favourite books ever. Petrova was my role model

Comfort food is probably right - not exactly challenging, but rather soft and fuzzy reads

Yesterday I was walking passed a charity shop and saw a copy of "Anne of Green Gables" So I purchased it for my daughter!! I also recently purchased the "what Katy did" books again!

Anne of Green Gables right through to Anne of Ingleside
Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elfrida Vipont: The Lark in the Morn and The Lark on the Wing
Rosemary Sutcliffe: Eagle of the Ninth

Most (not sure if all) Noel Streatfeilds
Any Anne books, even the grown-up ones
I am David
The Saturdays etc (E Enright)
E Nesbit

Oh and "The Little Princess" - Frances Hodgson Burnett - I love that book, must read it again.

can't get over how popular the Anne books are - I grew up not far from the red sands of PEI..... have visited her 'home' many times growing up , and as an adult as well! The movies are pretty good too, they were made for tv. still have my set for the dds should they ever be interested!

I got out some Little House on the Prairie books a few months ago to read to dd, they were a bit old for her, but I read them to myslef anyways

Sorry...A Little Princess.

Oooh and The Secret Garden of course.

Re-read Secret Garden and Little Princess recentluy - loved LP much more as a child but found SG much better as an adult (if that makes sense)

Not enough to call a child of mine Dickon though

Did anyone ever read Noel Streatfield's "A Vicarage Family". It was one of the later ones I think. I must dig out my copy. It was the first book that ever made me cry.

The one big thig I regret about having a boy is that he is unlikely to love the books I did - can't see Ballet Shoes having much appeal

I'll have to re-read them both now

Oooh Swizzler - is the Little Princess the one where her mother is French, her father dies out in South Africa thinking he's lost all his money in the diamond mines, and she ends up living as a servant in the school she used to attend?

If it is, I absolutely loved that story - desparately wanted to live in the attic!

Yes, that's the one . I loved it too, but found it all a bit much re-reading it.

I yearned to live in her posh room! With a real fire in it - swoon - and cake in a special cupboard!

it is littlefish, I loved that book too

Little Women, obviously (and the other ones, though not as good)

There is a bit when she is poor with a bag of warm spiced buns that seemed surreally vivid to me as a child.

This might get a bit long ..
Dodie Smith (my husband and I used to read this to each other every night)
Asterix
E Nesbit
Elizabeth Goudge
Philippa Pearce
KM Peyton
Green Knowe books
Alison Uttley
All Winnie the Pooh
Wind in the Willows
Lewis Carroll
Walter Farley
Mark Twain
Beatrix Potter
There's be more...

We have so many expressions in our family that come from these books that I love to read them and explain to my children. About to start the Railway Children with them - can't wait!!

and gives most of them to an even poorer child

how did I not end up a complete prig? Or perhaps I did