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

282 replies

Swizzler · 11/04/2007 19:10

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.

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Pannacotta · 12/04/2007 23:18

Aloha, can you remember now the name of the book about time travel / Mary Queen of Scots? I read that too and now its bugging me as I can't remember waht it's called, just that it really stuck in my mind....

Aloha · 12/04/2007 23:22

A Traveller In Time! Just remembered it!

Pannacotta · 12/04/2007 23:24

Ah that's it, thanks! Dont suppose you remember who wrote it? (will check amazon too)
Dont think I have a copy anymore....

Aloha · 12/04/2007 23:25

Alison Uttley - it was really enjoyable to read it again.
Also like The Owl Service and A Pattern of Roses. Marianne Dreams is my favourite for spookiness.
I want to read John Wyndham again. NOt really a children's writer but I read them all as a young teenager.

Pannacotta · 12/04/2007 23:26

Just found it on Amazon, its Alison Uttley who wrote the Little Grey Rabbit books, weird!

Pannacotta · 12/04/2007 23:26

whoops x post, thanks though!

Pannacotta · 12/04/2007 23:27

and agree that John wyndham books are great, but bit spooky for kids. Have you read Chocky? That title sticks in my mind for some reason...

Aloha · 12/04/2007 23:37

I read everything he wrote! The Kraken Wakes kept me awake at night for ages. V scary.

welliemum · 13/04/2007 04:08

i think my favourite John Wyndham is still "The Chrysalids" (about telepathic children in a post nuclear, fundamentalist society).

Great story, and really made me think about "What is normal" - and still does even now.

badelaide - I think the green ink message is my favourite moment, along with the comment about "disgruntled" meaning "somewhere between all right and angry".

FrannyandZooey · 13/04/2007 08:57

LadyG - the hall where I run my groups was the original "Blue Door" hall in Swish of the Curtain

theprecious · 13/04/2007 12:16

I can't believe no one has mentioned Joan Aiken (or maybe someone has and I missed it). The series with Dido Twite, and also the Bridle the Wind Trilogy.

She's fab - great role model for girls, she does it all herself.

StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 13/04/2007 16:23

Chalet school books.
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.

filthymindedvixen · 13/04/2007 16:44

oh Franny, I adored those books...i wanted to be Maddy.

my mum has original copies, very mildew smelly and falling to bit-sy which I always read when I go 'home'.

I also love Worzel Gummidge books.

And a fabulously funny series about a boy called Jack and his dog Zero - the Bagthorpe Saga.

FrannyandZooey · 13/04/2007 18:18

I love Bagthorpes, too

v funny

Chocadora · 13/04/2007 19:12

the precious - did you read the nantucket one - an all time favourite of mine all about telepathy between triplets

babster · 13/04/2007 19:26

I loved Mrs Pepperpot and couldn't wait to buy it for dd1. My favourite story as a child was Mrs Pepperpot and the Bazaar - where she wades through the snooty ladies' layer cake and smashes the tea service. A must-read for PTA-phobes

colander · 13/04/2007 19:27

Anything by Antonia Forest - all my copies have fallen apart but GGBP are reprinting them all (slowly) which is fab.
Loads of the others mentioned too, and also some great lists which have made me want to dig out the books I haven't read for ages. So thank you for a great post!

mummyhill · 13/04/2007 19:56

Elizabeth Beresford Stephen and the shaggy dog was a nice change from the wombles which I also liked.

suejonez · 13/04/2007 19:57

Sue Bartin - District Nurse (all 7 of them)

becaroo · 13/04/2007 20:06

I loved all the roald dahl books, Georges marvellous medicine was my favourite and I could read it again today. Also the moomin books. Emil and the detective was a fave too.

Marina · 13/04/2007 20:19

colander - GGBP - can you give more info about the Antonia Forest reprints?

Ash80 · 13/04/2007 20:22

I absolutlely loved the 'The magic faraway tree' by Enid Bylton!!!

MrsJohnCusack · 13/04/2007 23:34

I just reread the Bagthorpes including a couple I hadn't read before that I found in a charidee shop

genius

MrsJohnCusack · 13/04/2007 23:34

I just reread the Bagthorpes including a couple I hadn't read before that I found in a charidee shop

genius

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