We're giving away more than a THOUSAND pounds worth of children's books!

l remember as a child reading and rereading The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen. It was my favoutite tale from a beautiful illustrated book of his tales. l don't know what it was that appealed so much to me but l still remember how l loved it.

When I was a girl my favourite book was Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. I cried over that book. I loved it. So sad in places. Told actually in the words of the beautiful black horse and how he is bought and sold, not always to kind owners, it is very moving. I am going to give a copy to my granddaughter aged 11 for her birthday as she loves horses and I am sure she will enjoy this book too.

Mary Mouse (a really small but long book)- I remember sitting on my mum's lap in a rocking chair near a coall fire reading it time after time.

From my childhood - Alison Uttley's tales of Little Grey Rabbit, read to me by my grandmother. With my children I loved - "Where the Wild Things Are".

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Both of my children loved this as have their children and one is using it in his French class at school

I used to love Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield. I read it again recently and gave it to my grandaughter who found it "nice"! I had ballet lesson as achild and felt some affinity with the three sisters Pauline, petrova and Polly Fossil!

Little Women. I also love The Secret Garden.

The book my children loved is 'Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy'. I am now reading it to my Grandchildren

I loved The Children of The New Forest by Frederick Marryat

My favourite book was What Katy Did, and I also loved Little Women.

The Borrowers. I received it as a school prize for being the best all rounder. Not only was i shocked at getting a prize, but I loved the book so much I still have it!

My favourite children's book is 'Tabby McTat' ! I love it and so does my granddaughter. It is wonderful!

My childhood books were quite predictable, Enid Blyton, Heidi etc but my children and grandchildren have much more exciting, unusual books! Wonderful books! The books I bought for my daughter stay in my memory and I trot out lines from them at any appropriate moments like "I'm a little black lamb, not white like the others!" and "Well never get home tonight!". We've still got them but I've no idea of the author at the time.

My own current favourite, and a big hit with my grandsons (age 6 and 3) is My Granny is a Pirate, especially as reading it involves lots of dressing up and acting out! It was written by Val McDermid. I´m a big fan of her adult books (Wire in the Blood etc), but this is her first foray into writing for children. I´d thoroughly recommend it for little ones.

Make Way For the Ducklings, an American picture book from the nineteen-forties, about a family of ducks for whom an Irish policeman holds up traffic so they can cross the road to the park; this was an award-winner

I discovered the Supergran books when my own children were small, in the 1980s. Before then, I don´t know that there was anything that portrayed such a fun, active, dynamic, truly adventurous picture of an older woman. I certainly hadn´t come across any. I remember how delighted my own Mum was to read the stories to her grandchildren, and how much fun I now have sharing them with my own.

I was a Famous Five devotee. My favourite book was Five go down to the sea.

My favourite book from my childhood is Now We Are Six by AA Milne. It tells stories about imaginary games, unusual people and foreign lands all in rhymes which are easy to learn. My grandchildren love them too.

Winnie The Pooh - so much laughter with my two children and now I can look forward to reading it to my grandson!

Definitely ' Heidi' by Johanna Spyri, I read it over and over joining her in my imagination in the mountains.
Followed closely by any magical Moomin book by Tove Jansson

I loved the Milly-Molly-Mandy stories ... now my grand daughters love them.

Little grandson loves The Hungry Caterpillar, but older boy loves Mr. Tickle, or Mr. Greedy [as he has a big tummy like Gramps].

I love Owl Babies! I've just started sharing it with my granddaughter, and she loves it too!!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the first book I bought my grandchildren, their Mum loved it so much.

For me it has always been The Railway Children and also The Secret Garden. I love a good ending.