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

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

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.

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

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

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.

My son and my granddaughter both loved The very hungry caterpillar

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 water Babies

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.)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The What Katy Did stories I've recently been reading them to Kate aged 8 and she loves them just as much as I did when I was a girl. What Katy Did at school and what katy did next are coming up.

The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton

Pollyanna x

My favorite childhood book was called Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minark.Little Bear was a shy,Quiet,loving and curious brown bear always on the search for new adventures .He loved his Mother very much and always missed his father who was a Captain on a boat and always away from home .I use to remember reading Little Bear's stories and imagine myself in the story with Little Bear .Am now 37 years old and I was 8yrs old when I first stated to fall in love with Little Bear books and my children loves the cartoon series and the books.

My new favourite is Tabby McTat by Julia Donaldson ,after a recent stay at my son's where I read it to DGS every day at nap time.

With out a doubt The Tales of Narnia.
My father had died when I was 4 years old and I was very unhappy during my formative years.
Thankfully I passed my 11 plus and the wonderful teachers at my Grammar School read this book to me.
I shall never forget them or t

Rosemary Harry

Far Away Tree Enid Blyton
My aunt sent a book every year and I loved them.

The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe

the famous five

The Secret Garden - Colin was such a wimp!!!