Children's books you still love..

[SereneGoose]

Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series...

It's still as magical and relevant today, 50 years later..

What's yours?

Agree with so many of these, particularly the love for Charlotte Sometimes.
I enjoyed Robert Cormier and Paul Zindel, mentioned earlier.
I will add my favourites Rebecca's World by Terry Nation and Keeper of the Isis Light by Monica Hughes.
Oh for the days of being utterly lost in a book.

Oh for the days of being utterly lost in a book.

Yes, being lost in a book to the obliviousness of all else is something that seems to disappear with adulthood - or at least, it has for me.
Why is that, I wonder?

I haven’t read DLL for at least 30 years but suspect as others say that it’s aged badly. Loved it at the time though.

This is such a lovely thread which has renewed my faith in Mumsnet at a time when I’d virtually given up coming here! So many wonderful books being discussed. Other favourites from my own childhood/teen years include Joan Aiken, Jean Ure (particularly the ballet books and Play Nimrod For Him), Anne Fine, Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden, Adele Gerasʼ Egerton Hall trilogy, and the US authors Lois Duncan and Mary Downing Hahn. Lois Duncan wrote I Know What You Did Last Summer, which was (pretty loosely) adapted into the film of the same name.

@bookworm14 I still have almost all these books. As you know!

I had the Eyes of Karen Connors by Lois Duncan but swapped it on a book swap site years ago!

I can still do this occasionally. That is why my house has more dust than it should 😉

The Flambards trilogy, anything by Penelope Lively, Carries War