What's your favourite children's book?

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Probably "A squash and a squeeze" or "The dinosaur that pooped a planet"

We met Julia Donaldson when she was performing at the Edinburgh Fringe, and she was a very nice lady. Brilliant show also.

Timpu

Roald Dahl's "The Witches". I still have my knackered copy from when I was 8yrs old and have read it many, many times as an adult.

AndyBSG

Guess it all depends what ages you're looking at?

The Narnia books were the first ones I read that ignited my interest in reading but before those it would be the Magic Faraway Tree or Famous Five.

Spot The Dog, Fungus The Bogeyman, Asterix and the BFG are also among my favourites and one's i'll be reading to my daughter.

My absolute favourite although i'm not sure it's really a childrens book is 'I Am David' by Anne Hom

RAS

Agree on ages

I am David, Silver sword and Red Shift when I was 10/11.

Earlier - Ransome and Seredy. Our father decided that my sister and I could read to one another once she started school. My mother used to read to our brother so we got to love stig etc.

More recently Guess How Much I Love You still gets multiple members of the family

southoftheriver

The Selfish Giant - Oscar Wilde

kingfisherblue

Snow leopard, I'd forgotten about the Abbey girls books. I've decluttered a lot in the last year, and my aim is to tackle my loft by summer. I have my copies (along with, quite literally, hundreds of other books). So maybe by September I can read them again.

Onlyroz, James Patterson has written a number of books for young people who are reluctant to read. It might be worth looking at them for your son. I've not read any, but I enjoy his Alex Cross series for adults.

jjj1980

My greatest favourites were:


Roald Dahl
Mr Men books
A Summer Ghost


One that holds a special memory for me is The Christmas Mouse. It was bought as a treat from Waterstones, a shop we rarely went in when I was young on one of the Christmas lights switch-on nights. It was eventually passed on to one of my Mum's work friends for her children. Just before last Christmas, I spotted a copy in one of the charity shops on our local high street. I took my daughter in to buy it for her and when we opened the front cover, it had my name in!

pollypenny

Impossible to choose!

I was 'brought up' on Black Beauty', my father's favourite which he read aloud on numerous occasions .

For reading to my two, anything which is good to read aloud:

Madeleine
Stig of the Dump
Stan the Dustman

As they got older The Indian in the Cupboard and One of our Dinosaurs is Missing were favourites.

And not to forget, Tom's Midnight Garden. I was given this to teach to Y7 on my final teaching practice. I thought it would be too childish, but not so. The kids loved it and there were loads of issues arising to prompt written work.

bylromarha

I'm sorry. I just can't choose.

I teach Year 1, so there are loads loved in my classroom. On courses I go on, there are more and more fantastic kids books being pushed under my nose.

My own kids are avid readers, and so we've enjoyed at least a 1001 books together.

I LOVE kids + teen fiction myself, so have a whole raft of books I adore.

Can't even narrow it down to 10. Kids books are far far better than adult ones.

Lostinthenorth

Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce. I've read it many times since I first read it in the mid 70s.