Fav kids books of all time - Whats yours?

**Floweryfields** · January 19th, 2013, 07:12 PM

My love of Enid Blyton has been squashed after I saw the movie of her life. She was horrible to her own children and never even made time to read them any of her books while she went out and read them to strangers children regularly. Shipped them off to boarding school and out of her hair at a very young age. Made me sad someone could write such tales of wonderful childhood adventures while her own children were having miserable childhoods.

**sangie** · January 19th, 2013, 07:27 PM

I never knew that about Enid Blyton, how sad. I adored her books

My kids love all the classics already mentioned (possum magic and all Mem Fox books especially) but also Julia Donaldson books 'what the ladybird heard' and 'the princess and the wizard'. They can recite both from memory. And 'dear zoo' is a definite fave as well.

**Heaven** · January 19th, 2013, 07:47 PM

The Gruffalo
Hairy Maclary
The Something-o-saur
The Very Itchy Bear (or cranky, or hungry. They like them all)
The Snail and the Whale

**phebee** · January 19th, 2013, 07:53 PM

The Magic Faraway Tree. I had The Enchanted Wood and kept it all these years, so its the original version, unspoilt by political correctness. I'd love to get my hands on earlier, non-PC versions of the other two for my DD.

**surprised** · January 19th, 2013, 08:02 PM

Hungry Caterpillar,
Whistle Up The Chimney (Nan Hunt)
Crusher is coming, Let's get a pup, oscar's half birthday - bob graham
The jolly postman
Wombat divine, possum magic - mem fox
Marmaduke duck and the marmalade jam
The way I feel/act - Janan Cain

Sorry for the lack of appropriate capitalization... It's late and I can't be bothered!

**~ Zarava Flutterby ~** · January 19th, 2013, 08:16 PM

Just bought 3 boxes of my books down from the roof - DD1's choice of book for the next couple of nights "Black Beauty"

**Chrispe** · January 19th, 2013, 09:13 PM

The poky little puppy.

**fionas** · January 19th, 2013, 09:35 PM

I'm a big reader but TBH most children's books give me the absolute irrits.

I bought DD1 an awesome book for Christmas though and I love reading all these stories:

The Railway Children (she loved it so much we got the movie too)
Secret Garden
Black Beauty
Heidi
Little Women

**BlackCat** · January 19th, 2013, 09:44 PM

Heidi was my favourite growing up.
Now we are all enjoying,
Where's god?
The very cranky bear
Any of the paddington books
Teddy bear, piglet, christmas and me
Race to bed

We seem to have moved past mem fox and Pamela allen books now and I could never read dr seuss myself lol.

**~ Zarava Flutterby ~** · January 19th, 2013, 09:46 PM

I'm a big reader but TBH most children's books give me the absolute irrits.

I bought DD1 an awesome book for Christmas though and I love reading all these stories:

The Railway Children (she loved it so much we got the movie too)
Secret Garden
Black Beauty
Heidi
Little Women

I just found all of these in the 3 boxes I had in the roof

**mummajj** · January 20th, 2013, 05:42 AM

Anything Enid blyton. Loved the school girl series, also the Brer Rabbit ones

I also loved The silver brumby <3

Harry potter,however I didn't read them til I was 25 lol.

**~~Snoogans~~** · January 20th, 2013, 06:21 AM

The Velveteen Rabbit

Chronicles of Narnia

and my favourite that I bought when I FINALLY fell pregnant was *Who's In The Loo* ... tehehe it always makes me giggle, and, er ... I don't need the book as I know it off by heart now

**Nai** · January 20th, 2013, 06:31 AM

Rebecca's World by Terry Nation (creator of the daleks)

**Rouge** · January 20th, 2013, 07:02 AM

Where the wild things are
Koala Lou
Possum Magic
The Magic Faraway Tree
The Lost Thing
Captain Finn and The Pirate Dinosaurs

This thread has made me realise how much I miss reading picture books to my kids

**LuluHB** · January 20th, 2013, 09:58 AM

I'm reading The Enchanted Wood to my girls at the moment and they're loving it (me too - I love snuggling into bed with them). Almost as much as the reading, I love it when I take DD3 off DH to get her into bed and he's saying goodnight to DDs 1 and 2, and I can hear them soooo excited telling him all about what Moon Face has just done, or what world the Joe, Beth and Frannie have just visited.

**phebee** · January 21st, 2013, 03:06 PM

I take DD3 off DH to get her into bed and he's saying goodnight to DDs 1 and 2, and I can hear them soooo excited telling him all about what Moon Face has just done, or what world the Joe, Beth and Frannie have just visited.

Ooble Ooble Ooble!

**AnyDream** · January 21st, 2013, 04:00 PM

One only? Too hard.

Some fave fave favorites: Picture books - Old hat, new hat (it was the book that told me I could read); The tiger who came to tea; The journey home (by Alison Lester). And about a million more.

Novels - Charmed Life (Diana Wynne Jones); Momo by Michael Ende. I also loved books by Joan Aiken but until recently they've been hard to get a hold of so haven't revisted any of them. Special mentions should also go to E Nesbitt (she of 5 Children and It fame), the Finn Family Moomintroll, and also there was a series of fairy tale volumes named after colours (eg the Red Fairy Book) which I adored and read every single one.