The greatest children’s book ever written.

[Mad Doug Biker]

Ooh yeah!

I've always wondered if they are aware of the..... umm.... Educational Resource, they provide many kids with!


Anyway, moving SWIFTLY on!

 

[Yellow Fang]

Dragonfall 5 and the Space Cowboys.

 

[Primal Scream]

A wrinkle in time by Medaleine L'Engle and the Narnia stories.

My love of Fantasy and Science fiction persists to this day.

 

[Hacienda71]

Swallows and Amazons
The Weird Stone of Brasingamen
Most Roald Dahl
Tolkein both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
C S Lewis/Narnia
Elsa the Lion
Poor literature I know, but Willard Price Lion Aventure, Elephant Adventure and countless others.

 

[LarryDuff]

I thought the Swallows and Amazons books were the best; they caught my imagination and for years I was obsessed with the idea of boating around on Windermere. Maybe that's why nowadays when I do go I always hire a skiff and go for a row around Belle Island.

I never read Swallows & Amazons as a kid but I really enjoyed reading it to mine when they were small.

 

[Globalti]

When I was about eight I suppose my Dad came back from a day in town (Oxford) and summoned me downstairs. I remember standing on the stairs and looking down at him. In his hand he had a red cloth-bound book. He stammered out something awkward like "Er.... I think it's about time you started reading something a bit more grown up!" and handed me the book, which was Biggles in the Jungle by Captain WE Johns. Of course I loved it and went on to read all the Biggles books. That was the only time I can remember my Dad actually giving me anything or expressing any interest in my development, apart from tutting at my bad school reports.

 

[snorri]

Snorre Sel, the translated version .
http://martinklasch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/anti-nazi-seal.html

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Anyway, when I worked in a special needs school, I always liked 'The Tiger who came to tea', as the copy we had had furry bits on the illustrations of the Tiger, a lovely addition to have!

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I have read this to my son almost every day for the last year, along with Where the Wild Things Are and, more recently, The Cat in the Hat. He also like Tomi Ungerer's books a lot (Moon Man, The Three Robbers and Crictor, in particular). I love Ungerer's style, and he's also quite interestingly political...

 

[Hover Fly]

Sadly, all I can remember about fiction as a child is being bored rigid by the "classics". I was more likely to have my nose in the Ladybird nature books or similar.

 

[Archie_tect]

I used to save up my pocket money to buy a Ladybird Book when I could.... still got the one about Birds, which is why I can remember all about Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers and Lapwings [aka Green Plover or Peewit ... because of it's call, see still got it]. Ladybird Books were [are?] wonderful].