Best childrens books?

[InsaneApache]

In light of the Parry Hotter thread...who do the patrons think is, in their opinion, the 'best' childrens books.....

Anyone putting Enid Blyton down will be shipped off to the west-country and be force fed cup cakes with lashings of ginger beer!!!! ~D

Personally I loved the 'William' books when I was a nipper...(and they still make me laugh out loud today...30 years later :embarassed: )

http://www.sharpsoftware.co.uk/william/

there you go....

[King Henry V]

Yeah, I like Just William a lot too.

[Beirut]

My nine year-old is on (about) book 13 of the Series of Unfortunate Events books. She loves them. She's on the second Harry Potter as well. The Goosebumps books are good, she likes those too.

For my part, I enjoyed Stuart Little and the Winnie the Pooh books very much.

[Ronin]

my list of favourites:

1. You Are Different and That's Bad
2. The Boy Who Died From Eating All His Vegetables
3. Dad's New Wife Robert
4. Fun four-letter Words to Know and Share
5. Hammers, Screwdrivers and Scissors: An I-Can-Do-It Book
6. The Kids' Guide to Hitchhiking
7. Julie Was So Bad Her Mom Stopped Loving Her
8. Curious George and the High-Voltage Fence
9. All Cats Go to Hell
10. The Little Sissy Who Snitched
11. Some Kittens Can Fly
12. That's it, I'm Putting You Up for Adoption
13. Grandpa Gets a Casket
14. The Magic World Inside the Abandoned Refrigerator
15. Garfield Gets Feline Leukemia
16. The Pop-Up Book of Human Anatomy
17. Strangers Have the Best Candy
18. Whining, Kicking and Crying to Get Your Way
19. You Were an Accident
20. Things Rich Kids Have, But You Never Will
21. Pop! Goes The Hamster...And Other Great Microwave Games
22. The Man in the Moon Is Actually Satan
23. Your Nightmares Are Real
24. Mamma's on crack and I don't care
25. Eggs, Toilet Paper, and Your School
26. Why Can't Mr. Fork and Ms. Electrical Outlet Be Friends?
27. Places Where Mommy and Daddy Hide Neat Things
28. Daddy Drinks Because You Cry

[Azi Tohak]

~D ~D

Ronin that is horrible! I love it!

What a dreaful list. Did you come up with all those or did you find them somewhere?

My favorites when I was growing up (for non-fiction) were Brian Jacques Redwall series. Heck, I still like those.

Azi

[Al Khalifah]

The Lord of the Rings. Please make children read these books before their minds are polluted by those dreadful films.

[Ronin]

~D ~D

Ronin that is horrible! I love it!

What a dreaful list. Did you come up with all those or did you find them somewhere?

My favorites when I was growing up (for non-fiction) were Brian Jacques Redwall series. Heck, I still like those.

Azi


naw...i didn´t come up with it....it´s an old list that was making the email circle over here some time ago ~D

[Marcellus]

I used to love anything by Roald Dahl, especially the BFG.

[Togakure]

Two that I can still remember despite the obscuring gray mists of time and adult life are: "Where the Wild Things Are," and "Harold and the Purple Crayon." I think both had a profound effect on developing notions of imagination and creativity for me as a youngster.

Dr. Seuss books were a big deal when I was very young. Green Eggs and Ham, of course, was a major favorite.

As I grew up a bit, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Chronicles of Prydain (set in fantasy "Gwynedd" which first got me interested in Wales), and all of Tolkien's Middle Earth books were favorites, which I still go back and read ccasionally as an adult.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

A lot of the newberry honor and medal books are good. Arthur Ransome and Edith Nesbit were two of my faves when I was a kid. Can't think of the others just now.

R.L. Stevenson
King Solomons Mines


Winnie the Pooh was my fave when I was real young.