Do you have a favorite book you cannot wait for your DC to read?

[JeffVadar]

I think that mine is probably Mikhael Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita. A book I go back to on a regular basis...

I hope that he will like it too! I mustn't give it too much of a build up.

The Ogre Downstairs by Diana Wynne Jones.

It was the first book I read that had a family I recognised in it; step parent, step children, the kids fight, the adults bellow up the stairs. After the famous five with their cooks and maids it was like a breath of fresh air.

It would still be in my all-time top ten now I am a grown up.

oooo harry potter of course... at the mo she is an avid reader and could easily read philosophers stone but at the mo she has no interest in it... i'm desparate for her to read it before she finds out the ending... or worse still watches the films instead! (i won't allow it!!!! )

Famous Five here

Also Pippi Longstocking and Milly Molly Mandy, but can't see those appealing to boys.

Dd is only three but I can't wait for her to read Matilda.

When I was 7 I accidently found all my Christmas presents. Matilda was the first present I saw. I took the book and hid it under my pillow. I then stayed up all night reading it under the blankets with a torch. The following morning I returned it.

I never looked at any of the other presents and only confessed to my parents what I had done when I was in my mid 20s

Still have the same copy of Matilda on my bookcase of favourite books.

Oh yes, that is a good book. Charlie & Choc Factory too. NOT The Great Glass Elevator - still sticks in my mind as one of the most disappointing reads of my childhood.

Ohdearwhatamess - your post made me smile.

We are reading Charlie to DD 3.8 at the moment and loving it. I was only thinking the other day what a terrible let down the "sequel" was, LOL!

The Phantom Tollbooth. I've been trying to get MrNC to read it since we met, but suspect I'll be reading it to him at A at the same time! It's back in print, too.

And 'My friend Mr Leakey'. Still out of print but the text is online, sadly without the Quentin Blake illustrations.

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian

I have a giant collection of Mandy, Judy, Bunty and Tammy annuals. I really hope dd enjoys them as much as I did.

On a more cerebral note, I loved Noel Streatfield books.

I have all my old books, but why in the 1970s was the print so small? I can see that they don't look very appealing to the modern child (or parent denying the need for reading glasses!).

Charlotte's Web ..I loved that book sooo much when I was a girl

DD is a non reader,so if she read anything spontaneously I'd be over the moon!But mine is The Dark is Rising - and I'm keen for DS to read the Eagle of The Ninth etc.(But still remember Mum building up her favorite book,and starting it to discover drowned monk on page 2 and death by consumption next - I so did not do that sort of thing as a child,and it made me pretty wary of taking her recommendations for a while!)

Lots of things including Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, Lord of the Rings, Roald Dahl, The Little Prince, the Abhorsen series and then things like Rebecca, East of Eden, Gone with the Wind etc.

Lots of the above mentioned, plus Narnia series and Swallows and Amazons...

Also, when DD is much bigger (teen, I guess?), Jane Austen - big fan here!

Another classic author I love: Rudyard Kipling.

(Sorry I keep popping back to the thread - it got me all excited... Hmmm, time to dust off some old faves for another read, I think!)

Loads - almost all the above-mentioned books. However, 4 DSs are confirmed non-readers, so it's extremely unlikely to happen at all.

Definitely the Dark is Rising. I named DS1 after one of the characters in "Over Sea, Under Stone." I also can't wait for him to read "A Silver Sword."

The Catcher in teh Rye

1984....I think they might find it useful...

How to eat fried worms was great
Had forgotten the dark is rising i loved those books. I found a box set in a charity shop about ten years ago and bought them for future dc

Just read Over Sea Under Stone with/to DS. I keep trying him with the Dark is Rising but he quite rightly thinks he should wait a couple of years - he thinks it's too scary for him. (Especially the bit near the beginning where the skylight pops open in the night...) Feel like a terrible parent for trying to make him read it too soon but I think it's brilliant so am a bit over keen. The writing is just fantastic.

Also saved up The Children Who Lived in a Barn for him - I was thrilled when he loved it as much as I did.

Oooh, so many.... (I hope DS likes reading)

James thurber - The wonderful O
it was reissued this week
and I got a copy and was still sniggering at it so many years on

The Dark is rising, of course (the series has also been reissued)
Howls moving castle, in fact most Diana Wynne Jones
The Hounds of the Morrigan
Merrymole the Magnificent

Agree about the Ogre Downstairs too!

At the moment I'm looking forward to Jane Austen with the DD but it will be a few years yet.

But she has loved Diana Wynne Jones - especially The Ogre Downstairs, Charmed Life and Witch Week. And The Dark is Rising series, CS Lewis and E Nesbit. All things I couldn't wait to share with her.