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

My favourite was/is Fungus the Bogeyman, it has always been a go to book for this family, I remember my sister being bought it when we were children and I loved it right from the first time I saw the cover.

I love Guess How Much I Love You.

Mine is The Lion, Witch and the wardrobe

Little Women - no contest!

Tom's Midnight Garden [although I think I probably read it as an adult ]. Visited Ely Cathedral for the first time this year.

The BFG WAS A FAVOURITE BUT MY GRANDAUGHTER LOVES ABIGAIL

The Tale of Peter Rabbit.. loved all of them but this was my favourite..

The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

Mine favourites were "The Silver Sword" and The Secret Garden"
I read a lot when I was young, Famous Five. Biggles and various other other entertaining stuff. School stories and girls and ponies. I was never really properly pointed in the direction of really good children's stories when I was younger.

I was late in getting around to reading books like The Secret Garden and the Silver Sword both of which I still love. In my later teens I discovered the Just William books.

My children were avid book fans and adored being read to. Shirley Hughes Alfie books, Judith Kerr and Mog the Cat books and the wonderful "The Tiger who came to tea." These are favourites of mine and my Daughter and now her two yr old son who loves looking at books and being read to.

Children's stories have improved greatly since the 1950s. Now stories are written about ordinary children living in ordinary families.
So many of the writers of children's stories during the 1950s seemed to write about families who were well off, they had a family cook or a friendly gardener, went to boarding schools and had amazing adventures in the holidays.
Writers now seem to have got to grips with what many children's lives are really like and now deal with many difficult family issues.
It must easier for children to engage with books whose stories reflect their lives.

That should read "My" favourites.

Definitely Heidi although Seven Little Australians comes a close second.

At the moment it had to be 'The Snail on the Tail of a Whale' by Julia Donaldson.

Now on grandchild number four I can still summon up enthusiasm and energy when reading this wonderfully written (and illustrated) book.

The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Both of my daughters loved it and now my grandchildren are enjoying it too.

I used to love the Enid Blyton books and it's hard to pick a favourite as I read them all loads of times - maybe The Magic Faraway Tree. As an adult I've really enjoyed the Harry Potter series and have read them a few times each too - old habits die hard and all that! Will be keeping my fingers crossed hoping for some luck now as reading to the kids or having them read aloud is something I love to do, and it's great to be able to pass on my love of books to my grandson and nieces and nephews.

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

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!

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.

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

The Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton

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. .

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!

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!

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

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

Charlie the Chocolate Factory