[DevilsDuck]

Anthing by Roald Dahl....

[Yudster]

We are going through the Famous Five stories - all 23 of them - with baby Yudster at the moment. He loves them, although I have to say when I was a kid I preferred the Mallory Towers and St Clares stories by Enid Blyton. I also loved the Cherrytree Farm and Willow Farm books she did.

Outside of Enid, I loved the Swallows and Amazons books by Arthur Ransome, I loved Roald Dahl, and American childrens literature, Louisa May Alcott and Susan Coolidge particularly - but I read a lot of "grown up" books. I used to like RF Delderfield and Howard Spring, and I began my love of 18th and 19th century novels when I was about 10. I blame a combination of my mother and Radio 4.

[Nicola_Red]

I liked Enid Blyton too, but I cringe when I read her stuff now, it's so awfully middle-class, I can't imagine why it appealed to me. I also liked Richard Scarrey and Beatrix Potter, and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, that's a classic. And the Mr Men! My bro was OBSESSED with a book called Moo, by Roger Hargreaves, from his Timbuctoo series - so much so that my mum and I could recite the story to him off the top of our heads. Eventually I hid the book, and he got over it.

[Yudster]

I remember I had a massive big heavy Richard Scarry book - that was good.

[MK Chris]

Roald Dahl every time! George's Marvellous Medicine, The BFG, The Vicar of Nibbleswicke, The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me, not to mention Charlie. Brilliant. I also had a big heavy Richard Scarry book, which I liked.

[Yudster]

I recently read Danny, the Champion of the World with baby Yudster. I must have missed it when I was a kid because it was new to me - and its my absolute favourite Dahl ever.

[MK Chris]

Ah, I forgot that one.

[pjordan2000]

My favourite is Fantastic Mr Fox closely followed by The Faraway Tree

[John22]

The Tiger who came to Tea.

Enough said.

[foot-loose]

The Tiger Who Came To Tea wins.

[Yudster]

Thats a picture book though. What about books you read for yourself when you are a bit older?

[foot-loose]

Sorry, I didn't realise there were rulez?

[MK Chris]

Don't forget he's a Scot - I doubt he's moved on from The Tiger Who Came to Tea yet...

[Boboff]

Judith Kerr, When Hitler stole pink rabbit.

I also loved the Roddy the roadman series, havn't seen them again though.

*cough Harry Potter... * Cough Golden Compass trilogy.......

* cough, do they count if you read them as an adult.

Oh and of course my favorite large print with lots of pictures, has to be Moyles!

[Yudster]

Of course it isnt rules, I was just sad that people's enjoyment of books didn't apparently extend beyond having the damn things read to you when you were two.

[jocky85]

Enid Blyton's Secret Seven for me aswell. I bought my American cousin the 1st 6 for Christmas a couple of years ago. I never liked Famous 5, I think it seemed at the time you had to choose 1 or the other.

Roald Dahl is a classic and I loved a series of books called Silver Skates by an American Author but I can't remember her name.

[Yudster]

Silver Skates - is that the one set in Nineteenth century Holland? That was by an American woman, Mary something. I vaguely remember it - and now I want to read it again! It wasn't a series though so I'm guessing not. It had the original story of the little boy who plugs the dyke with his finger *waits for smutty comments*.

On the other hand - do you mean The Silver Blades series by Melissa Lowell?

[newsbeat]

Loved Roald Dahl, and Horrid Henry

[catherine]

I'm going to sound really young here and say if I was going into a shop where I picked the book I wanted It would be Jacqueline Wilson and later moved on to Louise Rennison. I didn't like adventure books really, still read them though if I had run out of books, but I didn't get new books bought for me very often so just used to read my older sisters old books.

[DevilsDuck]

my eldest loves Julia Donaldson books e.g. The gruffalo and yesterday we bought him a signed copy of her new book tabby mctat.

I am reading the dahl books to him at the moment. He loves fantastic mr fox. Going to read him danny the champion of the world next. Loved the book when i was younger and remember the really good film with jeremy irons as dannys dad

[MK Chris]

From what I remember the film was good. It's a shame Roald Dahl died before any decent film adaptations of his books came out (that, Matilda and James and the Giant Peach), because he hated the ones that were made before he died.

[jocky85]

Silver Skates - is that the one set in Nineteenth century Holland? That was by an American woman, Mary something. I vaguely remember it - and now I want to read it again! It wasn't a series though so I'm guessing not. It had the original story of the little boy who plugs the dyke with his finger *waits for smutty comments*.

On the other hand - do you mean The Silver Blades series by Melissa Lowell?

It was neither I'm afraid. I dg out 1 of the books and the author is Barbara J. Mumma.It followed a girl called Claire (probably why I read it to start with!) and her journey of going from a skating club to a full skating school trying to get to the Olympics. Might have to read them again now I've found them!

[kendra k]

I can't remember any kids books other than Roald Dahl. I never heard of Enid Blyton until about 10 years ago, then again I'm a simple American.

The only non-Dahl books I seemed to like as a child were the Lloyd Alexander Prydain Chronicles. Oh, and all the Ramona books.

[Yudster]

my eldest loves Julia Donaldson books e.g. The gruffalo and yesterday we bought him a signed copy of her new book tabby mctat.

I am reading the dahl books to him at the moment. He loves fantastic mr fox. Going to read him danny the champion of the world next. Loved the book when i was younger and remember the really good film with jeremy irons as dannys dad

The Gruffalo books are great. Reading to very young children is always brilliant when the text is in really well written verse, and Julia Donaldson is brilliant. The Hairy McClary books are fabulous to read to toddlers too. But of course there is no beating the daddy of them all - Dr Seuss. The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham are exceptional.

[DevilsDuck]

I love hairy McClary from Donaldsons Dairy! So does the little un.

We do have The Cat in the Hat and it was the only book he wanted for a while, but he seems to have gone off it at the moment.

He has just found the Thomas the Tank Engine library that someone bought him for his christening and I think I read him about 45 Thomas books this weekend