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

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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.

Bogwoppit
What Katy Did (& Next)
Rufus
Mr Meddle series (Enid Blyton)
Mrs Pepperpot
Paddington

ooh i love mrs pepperpot - kids don't find her as funny as i do for some reason!

You could try Amazon or Play.com. Also, you can search on Ebay. I have found some which were missing from my sets this way. I was very lucky though, as I made my parents keep all my childhood books boxed up in their loft when I left home (because I didn't want to have to re-purchase them when I had children). Now I have tons & tons of them in our loft ready for my dds to grow into. Every so often I sent my DH up to get me some boxes down to sort through. I just can't believe how many horse books I managed to amass too.

Did anyone ever read The Moffats, Rufus M, and the Middle Moffat?
Or The Children Who Lived In a Barn?
There was something wonderful about that book. I think it was the haybox.

Lots of old favourites mentioned, a few to add that I haven't seen yet part way through the thread -
Judith Kerr's When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and the sequels,
several Scandinavian writers including Astrid Lindgren (Pippi books, The Bullerby children) and Anne-Cath Vestly's Aurora and Socrates books - Aurora's dad is a student and stays at home with the kids while mum goes out to work
Jill Murphy's The Worst Witch
Catherine Storr, various but my favourites as a kid were probably those about Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf
I'm also sad that as I'm expecting a son many of the books I've clung on to probably won't appeal

Oh, and Joan Aiken's Dido Twite/other characters series and her short story collections were all big favourites for me too
And Gillian Avery - I gather she wrote more books about some of her characters than I've seen and I'd love to get to read some of the others
Ruth Sawyer, Roller Skates, about a girl meeting lots of interesting people in late 19th century New York City - written in the 1930s

Babe: try Abebooks - good for out of print items. It's a database of bookseller's catalogues. I managed to find a complete set of O Douglas novels from obscure booksellers in Humberside - but that's another thread