This is a booklist - intended for Rachel, daughter of my much beloved @lisaansell.
Please add to it via the comments list with anything you or your children loved.
The Twits - Roald Dahl
Danny, The Champion of The World - Roald Dahl
Matilda - Roald Dahl
The BFG - Roald Dahl
Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfield
Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent - Lauren Child
I Will Not Ever Never Eat A Tomato - Lauren Child
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
The Children of the New Forest - Frederick Marryat
Der Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) - Heinrich Hoffman
Charlotte's Web - E.B.White
Hans Brinker/The Silver Skates - Mary Mapes Dodge
The Three Muskateers - Alexandre Dumas (pere)
Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Madeleine L'Engle
A Wind in the Door - Madeleine L'Engle
Ring of Bright Water - Gavin Maxwell
Tarka, The Otter - Henry Williamson
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Heidi - Johanna Spyri
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Lorna Doone - R.D. Blackmore
Lord of The Flies - William Golding
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
Moonfleet - J. Meade Falkner
The White Riders - Monica Edwards
Five Children and It - E. Nesbit
The Railway Children - E. Nesbit
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
White Fang - Jack London
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
What Katy Did - Susan Coolidge
At The Back of The North Wind - George MacDonald
Room on the Broom - Julia Donaldson
The Snail and The Whale - Julia Donaldson
The Gruffalo - Julia Donaldson
The Gruffalo's Child - Julia Donaldson
Zog - Julia Donaldson
*Anything by Julia Donaldson is going to be a winner!
You're a Bad Man Mr Gum! - Andy Stanton
The Children of Green Knowe - Lucy M. Boston
Carrie's War - Nina Bawden
Wise Child - Monica Furlong
I Capture The Castle - Dodie Smith
The Clumsies Make A Mess - Sorrel Anderson
Nicobobinus - Terry Jones
101 Dalmations - Dodie Smith
The Starlight Barking - Dodie Smith
The Little House on the Prairie - Laurie Ingliss Wilder
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott
Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
Jo's Boys - Louisa May Alcott
The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
The Church Mice At Bay - Graham Oakley
The Mousehole Cat - Antonia Barber
The Selfish Giant - Oscar Wilde
The Silver Sword - Ian Seraillier
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S.Lewis
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Stig of The Dump - Clive King
Legend of the Guardians (The Owls of Ga'Hoole) - Kathryn Lasky
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr
Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
The Cat in The Hat - Dr Seuss
Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
Finn Family Moomintroll - Tove Jansson
A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin
Swallows and Amazons (Series) - Arthur Ransome
Emil and The Detectives - Erich Kastner
The Reluctant Dragon - Kenneth Grahame
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Five on a Treasure Island - Enid Blyton
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
The Tiger who came to tea
ReplyDeleteAny book by Joan Aiken
ReplyDeleteMinnow on the Say
Little Grey Men by BB
Tom's Midnight Folk
R L Stevenson's Garden of Verses
Little White Horse Elizabeth Goudge
Love Henri x
Oh yes! I totally agree with all of those additions above!
ReplyDeleteThe Wolves of Willoughby Chase was one of my favourites as a child. Tom's Midnight Garden too. Arthur Ransome is still an author I turn to for some blissful escapism.
Keep adding chaps - let's give Rachel a library to be proud of!
Shrew xx
Swallows and Amazons series, and the Anne of Green Gables series
ReplyDeleteFamous Five
The night pirates
Carbonel
Gobbolino the witches cat
The owl who was afraid of the dark
Love Meg x
The Box of Delights by John Masefield
ReplyDeleteAny of Terry Pratchett's "Tiffany Aching" books - The Wee Free Men, Wintersmith, etc
ReplyDeleteWhat a great list - almost all my all time favourites on there!
ReplyDeleteDavid