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.

Omg that was it I can't belivee she wrote I know what you did last summer as well! Stranger with my face was far superior!

I re-read "The Dark is Rising" series once or twice a year, and have done since I was in the final years of primary school. I even named DS after one of the characters in "Over Sea, Under Stone."

I also read Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice which I suppose aren't strictly novels for children but I think of them as such because I first read them as a child.

I've also just bought the "School at the Chalet" to start collecting the series again after I lost most of the copies I had previously. I'm also after "The Sword in the Stone" and am really pleased and excited to learn in this thread that it is part of a trilogy.

I've also read "Anne of Green Gables" etc quite recently and would love to read "Ballet Shoes" once more as that was really one of my favourites as a child. I wanted to be Petrova.

Would love to get hold of a copy of "what Katy Did..."

Some of Terry Pratchett is actually written for children - of the discworld ones, the Tiffany Aching trilogy & Maurice & his educated rodents were written with children in mind, and then there's the Johnny & the dead books and the Bromeliad trilogy as well as the Carpet people.
But the mainstream discworld I would call adult books.

Chalet school- collected some of the old paperbacks but have been buying the new reprints (unabridged!!!!)
Enid Blyton -Mallory Towers/St Clares
Gillian Cross

New kids books I read

Anthony Horowitz- Power of five/Alex Rider
Artemis Fowl

Agree about the other Sword in the Stone books Rustybear.

Swallows and Amazons books
The Dark is Rising Series by Susan Cooper
Heinlein's children's books: Citizen of the Galaxy, Space cadet etc.
Andre Norton - especially The Beast Master. (never could get into her adult fiction though)
Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh.
Stig of the Dump
My friend Mr Leakey by JBS Haldane

Chalet School series here - had nearly got them all when they seemed to go out of print and they seem to sell for quite a lot on Ebay . Unfortunately I'm not sure my DS will appreciate them lol.

Also Enid Blyton - esp The Enchanted Wood etc. and the Children of Cherry Tree Farm.

any rosemary sutcliffe

laura ingalls-wilder

the earthsea trilogy (Ursula le Guin)

and loads more. Kids are pretty discerning so kids books tend to be very good I think

Chalet chool and many others are being reprinted by GGBP but even those sell quickly and go for loads on ebay!.

The Borrowers

Narnia

Crikey - £10.99 a pop? Think I'll have to keep on trawling the charity shops. I think I'm only missing about 15 of them - mostly the later ones. Perhaps I'll have to shell out to get some of the rarer ones though.

This is a super thread - thank you Katy Mac fro reminding me of Flambards. I was totally in love with the aeroplane loving brother and of course marreid someone just like him! (no really!).

Does anyone remember the Tanglewood stories (very moral) but rather sweet? Sort of int he mould of Lark on the Wing but later and younger.

Anyone remember Elidor?

And DK Broster?

Twinkle-its the later ones that are more expensive .I've just sold an old copy of Challenge for £45 and that has been reprinted lately (making the old one cheaper!) Redheads,triplets adrienne are all similar prices.Try Abebooks too (at least it'll get you an idea of prices)

Winnie the Pooh
The Wind In The Willows.

Oh add Narnia on my list too and Harry Potter!

Treasure Seekers, Little Princess, Secret Garden, Tom's Midnight Garden - will think of more, I'm sure! Oh, yes, Narnia.

Choca,I loved Elidor.
Also most of what has been mentioned in this thread which I managed to procure despite growing up on a tiny tropical island in PNG in the 70s.
Guffaw at A little Princess being a Changing Rooms for Victorian scullery maids.

It is a source of a fair amount of torment to me that because i speak Welsh with my children,I won'tbe able to read these books to them.

Watership Down, Railway Children and Little Women!

I used to enjoy sobbing when I was a child, clearly...!

Can't you read them stories in English, MD?

Ok not a great classic but just thinking about books I used to read, does anyone remember reading the baby sitters club series and there was another series about twins in America, one good twin and one twin that liked to party Set in their high school - was it sweet valley high?

Oh god it is all coming back to me now!

I loved the The Dark Is Rising, goblino the witches cat, paddington, the famous five, swallows and amazons....sure there are loads more. I love going to my parent's house and re-reading all my books!

I read something once about a younggirl and her brother who came across this strange but kindly elderly brother and sister with a house full of automatons.
American I think.
Elderly brother was called Pilar.
God I loved it but can't remember what it was called and would sooo love to read it again.
Came out in mid 70s I think (I am 39)
Anyone know??

I could Hunker (and indeed do but with something like that,it would seem too complicated somehow..probably because I had such an intense relationship with all these books,in a way that brings tears to my eyes.)

I wil try...they are only little at present thus probably not ready to take on board Alison's contretemps with Mam'zelle.

The Bobbsey Twins series were another fave as a direct result of hanging around with the children of American missionaries.

oh this is great

I loved The Little White Horse too!
and I read all the Anne books about once a year

also still love my pony books. The Jill series and all the Pullein Thompson books. And Flambards. and A Pattern of Roses.

also love Noel Streatfield. Reread the Gemma books not so long ago

and recently really enjoyed the 'Alex' books - NZ ones about a swimmer; aunt gave me the first 2 years ago and /i finally bought the last 2

there'll be loads more too