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

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien is my all time favourite ......
...... it may be read aloud to very young children, classes of children, and enjoyed by older children... (of all ages!) (even grannies and granddads enjoy it and even before any of the films were made of it.)

The water Babies

The Little Prince ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
So many beautiful quotes; just one: “Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”

The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Opened my eyes to reading. I didn't meet many mentioned here until my own children wanted to read.

A Christmas Carol was special because it was read to me in bedtime instalments, shortly before a Christmas that was a lot less commercialised then. There really was a tangerine and a proper lead pencil in my (home-knitted) stocking, and my brother would usually get a packet of sweetie cigarettes or a chocolate 'smoker's set' - so unacceptable now, if they even exist! So, this tale, apart from being so soul-stirringly great, brings back lots of happy childhood memories.

I loved Enid Blyton's Noddy books and a huge Famous Five (when I was old enough) fan. Now saved and ready for the next generation to enjoy. Can give most things away but books don't do anywhere.

chicken little as my uncle used to read it to me and my twin sister when we were little and put on silly voices, we loved it

Having been born during the war books were in short supply but mine was The Secret Garden

My son and my granddaughter both loved The very hungry caterpillar

It has to be Nancy and Plum by Betty MacDonald. As children my sister and I used to borrow this from the library. It's about two sisters who are orphaned and put into Mrs Monday's Boarding Home by their bachelor Uncle John. He thinks they are happy there but Mrs Monday is horrible to the children and all the gifts that Uncle John sends to them are given to her niece Marybelle Whistle.
I used to search in second hand bookstores for this book, then a few years ago my sister gave me a present. Inside I found a copy of Nancy and Plum that she had found online. I now read it to my grand-daughter who loves it as much as I do. We always read it at Christmas.

"Black Beauty" - such a mixture of joy and sadness !!.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. (And sequels.)

The Wind in the Willows. When I was 7 my teacher, Miss Preston, used to read an episode from it every Wednesday afternoon - providing we had behaved in the dance class preceding. I've loved it ever since and am going to have something from it read out at my funeral! I'm still 7 but, sadly, I now have to add a nought to it.

Orlando the marmalade cat.
(I have a feeling I have already done this but I can't find my previous post.)

My favourite book of all time has to be The Giraffe, the peli and me by Roald Dahl

The jolly postman and other peoples letters x

Has to The Secret Garden, it enthralled me as a child and I still love it now, when my grand-children are older I hope they will like it as much as me, it's a timeless story I think! Happy Christmas, and good luck everyonexx

I devoured the Secret Seven series and so wanted to be a member of the gang. Later I loved - and still do - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. As an adult the ones I've loved reading to my kids have been the Harry Potter stories - my daughter was exactly the same age as Harry everytime they were published and we read them aloud right up to her being 17!

Wind in the Willows.

Gumdrop my boys used to so love these books about a vintage car

My absolute favourite reading book was 'The Borrowers' by Mary Norton - all about the adventures of tiny Arrietty & her family who lived under the floor boards.

What a problem to pick only one ........................

Barry the fish with Fingers. This is my favourite at the moment as my grandsons just love it. They know what happens on each page, they giggle ( just love that sound), its colourful, matches food they actually eat !!!
The illustrations are wonderful, colourful, eye catching.

The book has rather a lot of magic tape keeping the pages together, but it is so loved.

My favourite book of all time is Wanted a King by Maggie Brown. It was my grandma's favourite as a child and she was born in 1885 and it has been read to my children and grandchildren.

The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier

The Wind In The Willows. We read it on Friday afternoons at school and I couldn't wait for it to come round every week. That book introduced me to a lifetime love of literature and the teacher's name was very appropriate - Miss Read!