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Children's Books you still love to read today.

The Wizard of Oz series. I just got the full series(15 books) in one volume for my birthdya last month! It's really pathetic how obsessed I am with Oz. . .I just saw Wicked on tour this year too(the musical was waaaaay better than the book!). :rolleyes:

Peter Pan. I think that I read this about once a month, cover to cover, in one night. There's just so much you cna learn from the boy who never grew up!

Anything by Meg Cabot. She rocks!:eek:
 
A Light In the Attic: Shell Silverstein
Where the Wild Things Are
James and the Giant Peach
THe true story of the three little pigs as told by the big bad wolf

Goodnight Moon
 
Books I loved that I've read to my daughter:
Chronicles of Narnia
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath (both Alan Garner)
The Adventure books of H. Willard Price
Moomintroll books

Children's books I've discovered as an adult or through reading to her:
The Hounds of the Morrigan (very near top of any list!) by Pat O'Shea
Harry Potter
His Dark Materials

Books she won't take to that I remember fondly, or some we just haven't got around to:
The Little House books
Everything by Noel Streatfeild, especially A Vicarage Family and Ballet Shoes
The Thirteen Clocks and The Wonderful 'O' by James Thurber

Mind gone blank, there must be so many!
 
I remember picking up a copy of The Enchanted Woods by Enid Blyton when I was about 8.
I've loved her since then.
Not so much the Famous Five but...

The Circus Series
The Magic Faraway Tree Series - definitely
The O'Clock Series - that's not as popular
The Amelia Jane Series - I don't know if that's what it's called, but I remember it being a series
The Wishing Chair - I forget how many books in that one

And I think that's it... Oh! And Noddy... And Peter Rabbit...

There are more, but Enid Blyton is definitely most of it...
 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was the first book I ever read and still love to read it to this day. I still pick it up from time to time and just read a few pages at a time. Usually during a bio-break.
 
"The Westing Game," by Ellen Raskin. I picked it up not to long ago, remembering absolutly loving it, and wondering how stupid it really was (as it usually the case with old books of mine). I reread it to discover it was every bit as good as I remembered it, if not better. I then gave it to my mother, to see if it could stand up to an adult reader, who was equally taken. The book is great. The main character is the reason I had very long hair worn in pigtails for most of my childhood, and I can never read the last few chapters without getting teary eyed.
Ellen Raskin also wrote a book called "The Tattooed Potato and other clues" that I read when I was little. I loved it, and I'm hoping I can get to reread it soon. (If I can ever find it. The library never has it when I'm there. A conspiracy!)
 
Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew and anything Enid Blyton. In fact, I've been picking up second hand copies - and sometimes new - Enid Blyton just so I can read them aloud to my children (ages three and one) when they get older just so I can revel in them all over again. I've also got Narnia and Harry Potter sitting on the bookshelf waiting........
 
Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys books... I haven't tried the other books of this syndicate type... (Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, etc); A lot of what I read is actually YA or childrens stuff. I just stumbled across the Rowan Hood stories by Nancy Springer and they're a lot of fun.
 
The Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald Sobol - I started reading these about 35 years ago, and still read through them once in a while. They are still wonderful.
The Three Investigators series (which passed through two or three authors) - this series cemented my interest in mysteries at an early age. I still read them, too.
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling - in the final analysis, they are just good stories well told.
Either of John Bellairs' series - I only discovered these about 10 years ago, but they have a nice, dark tang to them.
Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy - I hardly like to call these kid's books, but I guess they are.
 
Harold and the Purple Crayon

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Anything by Susan Cooper & Arthur Ransome

Just discovered Goodnight, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian -- a real tearjerker
 
Nancy Drew books, Harry Potter books, and almost anything by Roald Dahl and Esther Holden Averill.
 
Let's see, books I read as a child that I've enjoyed introducing to my own kids:
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet-Eleanor Cameron
Wonderful series.

Little House books by Laura I. Wilder
The Little Girl with Seven Names by Mabel Leigh Hunt
Benji's Hat-Mabel Leigh Hunt
Yonnie Wondernose- Marguerite DeAngeli
Henner's Lydia-DeAngeli
Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin-Marguerite Henry
The Courage of Sarah Noble-Alice Dahgliesh
The Bear Went Over the Mountain-A. Dahgliesh
Indian Captive-Lois Lenski ( I know I read it at least 10 times between fourth and sixth grades)
Island of the Blue Dolphins-Scott O'Dell
A Wrinkle in Time-Madeleine L'Engle
Carry On, Mr Bowditch-Jean Lee Latham
Indians-Holling C. Holling
Those are just the chapter books I can think of off the top of my head. Picture books are a whole 'nuther post. Home schooling my kids lead me to all kinds of wonderful authors and illustrators in that genre.
 
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