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.

OOh brilliant will order them tommorrow. I can't wait to read about Mr saucepan head, Moonface and topsy turvy land again.

Enid Blyton - St Clares and Malory Towers especially. And I loved the Family at Red Roofs (bought it on ebay not too long ago).

The Trebizon books - Anne Digby

Well what's my Island one then?

annoyingly new versions have Jo, Beth and Frannie (and cousin Rick), lol

yeah, that's brilliant too, Katymac

wish could remember the one I mean!

anyone remember the one with Alec and Red, the horse? The Red Stallion? beautifully written books.

I still read lots from my childhood;
Monica Edwards
The borrowers
Antonia Forest
The 'Moorland Mousie' books
Arthur Ransome
The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes
The land of Green Ginger
Carbonel
Half Magic, The Time Garden & others by Edward Eager

One series, not from my childhood, but DD's, which I particularly love is The Mennyms, by Sylvia Waugh - anyone else read these?

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, RB, Monica Edwards - Punchbowl Farm and Romney Marsh - swoon!

Antonia Forrest - The School at the Turrents - only one of hers I really liked - remember Stella?

Antonia Forrest - The School at the Turrents - only one of hers I really liked - remember Stella?

I loved those - when we were visitinf friends in Hastings, my friend & I dragged our DH's all over Romney Marsh, pointing out places where things happened in the books. I always wanted to got to Punchbowl Farm too, but have never got nearer than going round the edge of the Devil's Puncbowl on the A3

Are you sure that was Antonia Forest Swizzler - I thought I had them all, but i don't remember that one?

Angela Brazil

Always get them mixed up - don't know why

Ah, right

Does anyone remember a kind of pre teen fiction book about a girl with an eagle necklace and her twin (that she didn't know about) it was to do with out of body experiences etc and turned out her twin was in a hospital and was trying to steal her body?

This is giving me a warm glow - I loved The Little White Horse as a child but I was the only person I knew who'd read it. I've read it as an adult and it's still a lovely book.

Just skimmed the thread and I see many that I think are still a great adult read, including Arthur Ransome.

Has TH White "The Sword in the Stone" been mentioned? A sort of realistic telling of the Arthur legend. THe author has this great conversational tone, a bit didactic but with the sort of details children love, which makes me think he must have told amazing bedtime stories to his own children - if he had them.

The bit during the boar hunt with the dog still makes me well up.

Anyone know Clement Freud's "Grimble", My sis and I still quote it at one another now.

On the other hand I have 5 fingers.

David Sebastian Waghorn was a very funny boy.

I loved the Sword in the stone as a child, but never enjoyed the rest of the series until I read them as an adult, and I still prefer The Sword in the Stone to the others.

ledodgy - yes, I remember that. The girl was called Laurie and she lived on an island. The book was called something that escapes me but I shall google it...

Yes that was the one! wasn't it good!

does anyone remember books from the school library called

devils & demons
witches & warlords
goblins & elves
mermaids & wizards

These might not have been the correct titles but they were printed by the same publisher and often featured lots of different stories.

I would love to read them again.

i read pratchett which is considered child reading.

i dont think it is personally...ut there is is in the librabry in the teen section

ledodgy:

The book was called "Stranger with my face" by Lois Duncan - who also wrote "I know what you did last summer."

She churned out lots of teenage fiction and I read most of it...

I used to love Dorrie the Witch books when I was young anyone remember those?