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

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CariGransnet (GNHQ) Mon 01-Dec-14 10:58:24

One of our very favourite features is our annual round up of the best children's books of the year

This year we've featured you over 30 fantastic books for children of all ages, from babies and preschoolers - to young adults and teens. Great ideas for Christmas shopping. AND three lucky gransnetters get to win the lot...each set is worth over £350 and is sure to keep the family (and the wider family and the neighbours' kids...) happy for a very long time.

Full details on the page

To enter the draw - which will be made at midday on Tuesday 16 December - all you have to do is answer one simple question.

What's your favourite children's book of all time?

Maybe it's one that you loved as a child. One that you read to your own children. Or one that you read with your grandchildren. Old, new, classic or little-known...we look forward to compiling a list of gransnetters all-time favourites.

eddie494 Tue 02-Dec-14 21:30:04

Professor Branestawm - looking forward to seeing it on TV soon!

headsy12 Tue 02-Dec-14 21:09:15

James and the Giant Peach

annodomini Tue 02-Dec-14 21:08:12

AA Milne - Winnie the Pooh is great for reading aloud and my children enjoyed these books before they branched out and read for themselves.

rosesarered Tue 02-Dec-14 20:46:46

My favourite book to read to my children and grandchildren is always The Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton, there are several books [3?] in the set and are just lovely, plus adventurous and exciting.

jenn Tue 02-Dec-14 20:40:51

Ring of Brightwater by Gavin Maxwell, read it at school and have never forgotten it. When I was in my 30's I stayed in Knoydart in Scotland and it was as just as he had described, stunning!!

Isis1981uk Tue 02-Dec-14 20:32:50

I loved Carrie's War by Nina Bawdon, it brings back memories of my mum reading it to me.

mymy Tue 02-Dec-14 20:21:36

The three pigs was always my favourite

greenfinger5 Tue 02-Dec-14 19:40:52

That's a toughy! Enid Blyton - The Faraway Tree

Eleanorre Tue 02-Dec-14 18:43:39

Children of the new forest I loved it .

granh1 Tue 02-Dec-14 18:37:57

The only books we had in the house when I was a child were 'Romany' books. My favourite was Out with Romany by Meadow and Stream (by George Bramwell Evans). We lived in the countryside and I spent a lot of my childhood outdoor, so this book really interested me and was very relevant to my experience of childhood.

annsixty Tue 02-Dec-14 15:52:44

Only Enid,blush

annsixty Tue 02-Dec-14 15:51:23

I know they have been mentioned many times but it just makes me feel better at having loved Enid's Blyton's Famous Five books. I don't mind admitting reading and enjoying books which are frowned on now.

GrannyCaz1 Tue 02-Dec-14 15:19:54

Machine Gunners brilliant book and my children enjoy it also

nannyfran Tue 02-Dec-14 14:03:39

Winnie the Pooh, my Dad used to read it to me and do the different voices for all the characters. It was also a real hit with classes in school when I read it to them.

DylanCalderon Tue 02-Dec-14 13:57:13

Charlie the Chocolate Factory smile

grumppa Tue 02-Dec-14 11:50:44

The Arthur Ransome books then Rosemary Sutcliff, especially The Eagle of the Ninth.

Maggiemaybe Tue 02-Dec-14 11:36:59

So many, and it depends what mood I'm in, but today I'm wallowing in nostalgia, remembering just how much I loved Heidi.

Purpledaffodil Tue 02-Dec-14 11:31:00

Been said before, but Little Women has to be it. Reread the bit where Beth dies many times and sobbed! Recently reread it in full, not in the Regents Classics version I had as a child. Full version was even better!

Greyduster Tue 02-Dec-14 10:39:40

As a child, all the Famous Five books, particularly Five on a Treasure Island, and The Secret Garden. Anything really, I loved books. With my grandson, we liked Bob and Barry's Lunar Adventures, particularly A Right Royal Disaster, which is very funny. I have also been reading the Secret Seven books with him recently and he seems to enjoy them. We take it in turn to read a chapter!

Brendawymms Tue 02-Dec-14 08:19:04

The Arthur Ransome books. Swallows and Amazon. I did not read it until a teen as severely dyslexic. I was 12 before I could read with any comprehension and Swallows and Amazons was the first book I enjoyed reading. .

lizhar Tue 02-Dec-14 08:17:27

The Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton

Scooter58 Tue 02-Dec-14 08:14:37

Any famous five books,loved them,used to read under the covers with a torch after Dad said lights out lol

maggie1234 Tue 02-Dec-14 08:13:30

my favourite children's book is Alice in Wonderland. I had a copy as a child and constantly read it and marvelled at the weird illustrations.

Geraldine43 Tue 02-Dec-14 07:17:20

The Wind in the Willows opened a whole world of literature for me. We read it in class on Friday afternoons and I couldn't wait for the end of the week to come. Appropriately the teacher's name was Miss Read!

angiem32 Tue 02-Dec-14 02:56:15

Dogger! It was a favourite when I was younger and it is again now when I read it to children smile