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

I was always at the local library as a child and one day picked up "Molly Becomes a Librarian" (can't remember the author) and decided I wanted to become one too. I DID become a librarian, married a librarian and my daughter is now a school librarian working in a primary school! If I won these, they would go to my grandchildren and to the school library to share with other children.

My favourite book and one I remember reading over and over again was a book called The Patchwork Quilt, I think it was by an American author. The story was told by a grandmother to her granddaughter telling stories related to her life and remembered through each patch of fabric in the quilt. The story has remained etched in my memory over 40 years later.

Where the Wild Things Are
so many layers of meaning

The Lorax - Dr Seuss. My grandson is two and a half but he loves this book. Like many Dr Seuss books, it has a lovely rhythm, which makes it easy to read. It also very engagingly tells a story that, as children get older, will lead them to think about the importance of looking after the earth and all its creatures.

My favourite book was Meg and mog.

Treasure Island

The Wishing Tree by Enid Blyton

Heidi. I loved it as a child and still I remember almost word for word!

It has got to be 'Charlotte's Web' by E. B. White. This beautifully written book deals with issues that children will encounter in their young lives and
gently, through clever characterisation, readers will lose themselves in the story.

Elmer's Day, we used to read it at bedtime so that gd could say goodnight to Elmer. It made that the end of the bedtime routine.

Ballet Shoes by Noel Steatfeild

The Velveteen Rabbit for cosy cuddle reads with my children, and Struelpeter which was their favourite.

I loved reading the 'Alfie' books by Shirley Hughes to my children, almost as much as they loved hearing them.

toms midnight garden, loved the idea of slipping into the past and experiencing another world.

Black beauty. I loved it. Ginger was my favourite "character ". Read it countless times. Want my grandchildren to have the same love of books that I had.

There are so many...The Wind in the Willows for younger days, The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe for older ones.xx

Shadow the Sheepdog by Enid Blyton. Just wonderful!

When my son was a small his all time favourite book for us to read at bed time was "The Little Yellow Digger".
Most nights that chosen from the shelf and even though he must have known the story inside and out (as did I) he would still wait for the story to unfold.
Love this book very fond memories. x

It has to be 'Little Women', a book I read over and over again when I was a child and which I still have. Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy became my friends.

Owl Babies
Its so sweet, my kids used to love it and knew all the words off by heart. Lovely pictures too.

The Tiger Who Came to Tea It was a favorite of my children and now I read it to my grandchildren

It has to be
The tiger who came to tea

'Twas the night Before Christmas '
A lovely old fashioned rhyming story which was read to us as children every night on the lead up to Christmas day.

My girls' current favourites are the Bewilderwood stories having been there a couple of times, they recognising landmarks mentioned.

It has to be the "Roundabout Horse"! My children never tired of my reading it to them, it had something quite magical about it, and the illustrations were beautiful.