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 Boy With The Bronze Axe. I read it when I was about 8 and it was one of the reasons I ended up reading Classics (and Bronze Age history) at University.

Ooh ...

- Young ones -

Where the Wild Things Are
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
The Hobyahs (if I can find the version I had when I was young)
The Hungry Caterpillar

- A bit older -

Rebecca's World (beautiful book, out of print I think though).
Danny the Champion of the World
The BFG
The Worst Witch
The Demon Headmaster
Marianne Dreams

- Older -

The Dark is Rising series
The Hounds of the Morrigan (thanks pingviner I'd forgotten about that one!)
Science fictions short stories e.g. Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Asimov

The Dark is Rising books
Little House on Prairie series
Little White Horse: I still re-read this regulalry!
DP read the Hobbit to DDs DD 4yrs thought the goblins scary but DD 6yrs loved it & is now hyped up waiting for the film.

Will have to check out my old books & see what else there is.

I loved Diana wynn Jones! still have a copy of The Homeward Bounders and another of Fire and Hemlock!

Also looking forward to re-reading Noel Streatfield's "Ballet Shoes"

And the Hobbit and LOTR

So many classics on here! I can't wait to introduce ds to

The Phamtom Tollbooth
The Dark Is Rising series
The Carbonel series
Rebecca's World - my all time favourite childrens' book

That would be Phantom obviously..

Kept loads of mine - still on shelves at my parents' house until recently. I have them now and am going through them. Haven't read anything "adult" for ages!

Best ones so far the Antonia Forest ones. Absolutely fab. Can't wait for dd to read. But I will hold back recommending, I was always strangely put off by adults saying "you must read this, it's great" and was very likely not to read it. Phantom Tollbooth one of those that I've never read because of that!

I had the Children who lived in a Barn. But I charity'd it recently - I thought it was incredible sexist when I re-read it - more than Swallows and Amazons for e.g.

My two daughters have never treated 'Ballet Shoes' with the passion and respect it deserves I feel.

They did appreciate 'Charlotte Sometimes' which I was pleased about.

Dd1 has worked her way through Jane Austen this year, in the space of a couple of weeks (aged 13/14) which pleased me no-end.

DD2 remains a concern as she is still refusing to read 'Skellig' even though I'm sure she would adore it (she started it a couple of years ago and got scared and has refused to go back to it) and she also dismissed Susan Cooper with a sniff. Grrrr.

One of my Year 11 pupils however, is working her way through loads of my recs and gobbling them up - bless her!

'Tom's Midnight Garden'. A classic 'time-slip' book and so, so beautifully written.

And when I was a bookish, history-loving 11 or 12 yo my favourite book of all was Alison Uttley's 'A Traveller in Time' - I found my copy the other day and I read it many a time but it's still in amazing condition, as I was so determined to treasure it. Hmm, can see that I was deeply into the idea of going back into the past....

Either of these would still be great for dcs today.

Gobbolino the Witch's Cat - haven't read it since I was seven but found a copy in a second-hand shop a few years ago and now really want to revisit it with the children. Also want to snivel through Charlotte's Web with them.

We are steadily working through all my old favourites - the Moomins, Narnia, Swallows and Amazons, The Jungle Book and Just So Stories. Easy when I am the one doing the reading (out loud, a chapter a night) but I have to use a little more guile when I want him to read them. But so far he has enjoyed most of my suggestions. Haven't tried Noel Streatfield or Lorna Hill though - much though I loved them that would be pushing my luck!

I just read Gobbolino with my dd and she loved it. I also bought Charlotte Sometimes but I think I'll have to wait until she's a bit older as it can be a bit unsettling in places.

dd and I have read and reread Ballet shoes many times. So I got the whole Gemma series from her from ebay (it's out of print). And she hates it I'm gutted as it is such a great series. Am trying really hard to get her to see the error of her ways....

Itching to get ds1 started on The Hobbit (imminent so v excited). Lots of others already mentioned but also Biggles, Jennings and Billy Bunter; they were fab. When he's a bit older the more adult Roald Dahl, assorted short stories so he really gets them as a genre, Tom Sawyer (still hutning down Bing Crosby reading TS - I had on tapes as a child and it was mesmerising), To Kill A Mockingbird - that's the ultimate one for me.

Yes - I have totally failed in getting either of them to appreciate The Hobbit and LOTRs, although, unlike me, they love TLOTRs films.

I never really got LOTR though adored The Hobbit.

V pleased that ds1 made it through all Harry Potter books before seeing any of the films and absolutely gutted that it won't be the same for ds2 (or 3 I suppose though the big age gap may work in our favour that way).

To my joy, dd (4) loves Milly Molly Mandy and Paddington, so things are looking up. Other books I can't wait to share:

The Dark Is Rising series
Any Noel Streatfield
Any Alan Garner
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
The Just So Stories

Reading this thread has made me remember some classics - The Ogre Downstairs is a terrific book, as is Charlotte Sometimes.

Oh, some great stuff here. I had completely forgotten about the Silver Sword! I loved that book as a child.

I also loved the historical novels by Geoffrey Trease, so I was quite excited when DS chose a re-issue of Cue for Treason for his free book from Puffin Post.

I'm afraid that I read almost exclusively pony books between the ages of 8 and 12, so for DS I am drawing on what my brother and DH were reading. I got him Phantom Tollbooth last summer and he absolutely loved it.

I'm keeping the Gormehghast books for a bit later, but I think he will love those too.

The master and margarta

Goodnight Mr Tom

Narnia Chronicles

but most certainly - The Alchemist

dd is 7 and has read some of my faves already

Little House series
Beverly Cleary's books (my namesake!)
Charlotte's Web
Island of the Blue Dolphins

is plowing thru HP now, she's on book 5

lots of books I don't recognise here, must have a look at them

dd is 7 and has read some of my faves already

Little House series
Beverly Cleary's books (my namesake!)
Charlotte's Web
Island of the Blue Dolphins

is plowing thru HP now, she's on book 5

lots of books I don't recognise here, must have a look at them

Reading Little House to DD at the moment - got through the first two and now on 'On the Banks of Plum Creek - DD very surprised at how 'good' children were then.

Just ordered 'The Borribles' - anyone remember it? Children go feral in London and fight giant rat creatures living on Wimbledon Common. Am certain it will appeal to DS1 (7) as a feral child living in Wimbledon...

I loved the What Katy Did series by Susan Coolidge (although they're a bit dullsville to me now).

And all of the Anne of Green Gables / Emily of New Moon books... I LOVED/LOVE them, but I only have a DS (at the moment ) so not sure he'll go for those...