Enjoying children's classics

[Rayn22]

Rereading all my old favourites. Love getting cozy under a blanket with a cup of tea and a hob nob!
Just read;
5 children and it.
The railway children
Whole Narnia series

Just about to start Peter Pan.
Was an eighties child and having difficulty remembering what else I read.
Not the famous five as done them to death.

Any others you can recommend?

House of the Prairie series.
Secret Garden.
Wind in the Willows.
Little Women.
I Capture to Castle.
Swallows and Amazons.
Moondial.

Know all of them except capture castle. Bloody loved wind in the willows.
Thankyou

Charlotte Sometimes
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler
Moondial
A Traveller in Time

I was reminded of one of my favourites this week because it is available as a Folio Society edition: https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/the-neverending-story.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2LevM7v-gIVB7TtCh0RKgpzEAAYASAAEgIpBPDD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

It's going on my Xmas list!

Anne of Green Gables!

secret garden
moondial
little women
anne of green gables
what Katy did
the borrowers
adrian mole!

Yes to Charlotte Sometimes

also Cold Christmas by Nina Beachcroft - maybe a few week time?

The Emma books by Honor Arundel starting with The High House

Noel Streatfield: Ballet Shoes, Apple Bough etc.
Alan garner
Wizard of Earthsea books
Ramona!

Black Beauty
What Katy Did series
Little Women series
Anne of Greene Gables series
Little House on the Prairie
The Silver Sword
Around the World in Eighty Days
Paddington

Black Beauty
What Katy Did
Little House On The Prairie
A Hundred and One Dalmatians
All the Pullein-Thompson sisters’ pony books

The Long Winter was my favourite ‘Praire’ book

The deptford mice trilogy by Robin Jarvis. There was a Whitby series too, can't remember what it was called but they were great!

The Bullerby Children by Astrid Lindgren
The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren

Same author very different books

Oh and of course the 20th century classic, Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner

Enid Blyton's Barney books

The Dark Is Rising Sequence

Tom's Midnight Garden

The Secret Garden

Moondial

A lot of great books also-
Ballet shoes
When hitler stole pink rabbit
Famous fives

Don't know if they come under classics but I also loved Judy Blume and Catherine Cooksons Mary Ann series.

Oh and Nancy drew

If you liked horse stories, in addition to the Pullein Thompson pony books as mentioned above, there’s also The Saddle Club and Jinny at Finmory books.
I’ve just re read all Nancy Drew’s

Miss Happiness and Miss Flower
Carbonel Trilogy
The Little Broomstick
The Phantom Tollbooth

The Dark is Rising series, Redwall and the Joan Aiken ones - Wolves of Willoughby Chase etc.

Not sure if read much in this country but The Little White Horse, that the BBC series Moonacre was based on. Also Linnets and Valerians by the same author. The Eagle of the Ninth and various others by that author.

Thanks to PP for reminding me of Robin Jarvis and Carbonel. The Whitby one was the Whitby Witches.

Famous Five

Ignore me ... I'm clearly too tired to read properly

The 'Adventure' series was always my favourite E. Blyton series - Island of, etc.

And The Faraway Tree and The Wishing Chair series are surprisingly well worth re-reading, considering they're aimed at younger children.

We Couldn't Leave Dinah by Mary Treadgold was one of my absolute favourites. Ponies and Nazis.

All the E. Nesbit books.

Monica Edwards - ponies. I preferred the Romney Marsh series to Punchbowl Farm.

Lorna Hill - ballet or ponies, depending on which ones you read.

And of course the Chalet School, at least up to the point when they depart for Switzerland!

I loved Malcolm Saville as a child, but not so much on re-reading as an adult.

The Amazing Mr Blunden - Antonia Barber
Come Back Lucy - Pamela Sykes
Marianne Dreams - Catherine Storr
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkein
Mary Poppins series - PL Travers
The Dolls House - Rumer Godden
The Greengage Summer - Rumer Godden
All Antonia Forest’s Marlows series, beginning with Autumn Term
The Green Knowe series by Lucy M Boston, beginning with The Children of Green Knowe,
Green Smoke - Rosemary Manning,
The Five ‘Find Outers’ Mystery series - Enid Blyton,
All E Nesbit,
Edward Eager’s Magic series, beginning with Half Magic,
Carrie’s War - Nina Bawden
The Peppermint Pig - Nina Bawden
Penny’s Way - Mary K Harris
All Noel Streatfeild,
All Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgeson Burnett
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgeson Burnett,
The Voyage of QV66 - Penelope Lively
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe - Penelope Lively
Smith - Leon Garfield
Devil in the Fog - Leon Garfield,
All Diana Wynne Jones
Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising sequence
Jonathan Stroud’s Lockwood and Co series