Best Children's Books Ever

Possibly my favourite series ever, and I have just noticed that two were published after I and my siblings became too old for them. I need to find some kids to read to.

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Okay this thread is like catnip to me but don't we have about four of them already?

So why not one more? When I have a conversation down the pub I don't break out a recording of every previous discussions on the topics brought up so why should we on ILX?

This implies you are in fact recording every previous discussion on the topic.

That's true, Ed, but it just means a lot of people will be repeating themselves here.

James Thurber - The 13 Clocks

Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth

I want to be the Gollux when I grow up (and not a mere device.)

Indeed, which I rarely do, however there should be no reason not to proliferate threads these days and besides more recent threads might be more welcoming to those of us who aren't grizzled oldtimers.

Sorry, first comment was unduly snippy.

xpost to ned, my first comment that is

The Giving Tree

The Little Prince

Charlotte's Web

'mrs dalloway'

Here's the canon:

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Little House on the Prarie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Giver by Lois Lowry
James and the Giant Peach: A Children's Story by Roald Dahl
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder - Laura Ingalls Wilder Webquest
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Stuart Little by E. B. White
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

The number of those that I didn't read until I was in my mid-20s is pathetic. So is the number of them that I still haven't gotten to.

Thanks, remy, for getting that out of the way. :D

The House at Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston!

(We still need to do a country walk there!!!!)

Michael Rosen's entire oeuvre pretty much.

Also Terry Pratchett's later Kids Books, Amazing Maurice and the Tiffany Aching books go down very well with kids of the right age. Some of the very few i have actually read aloud to kids.

I do love the Tiff Aching books x 3, I just recommended them to Virginia Plain.

The House at Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston!

(We still need to do a country walk there!!!!)

Definitely - I was just thinking that the Green Knowe books had been missed out.

I'd also add: the complete works of Helen Cresswell.

The iron Man seems to be missing from that list too.

where the wild things are was my favorite for a long time because the kids name is max

I will not lie, the lonely doll books were my favorite when I was very very young. The photographs are still beautiful, but the writing itself is very creepy and depressing.

When I was a kid, these are the books I liked and remember strongly:

The mouse and his child
The little wooden horse (this one really put tiny little n_phay through the emotional wringer)
The wind in the willows (I still dig many of the descriptive passages in this, esp the walk through the village in the snow)
famous five books.

Of the stuff I read to our kid these days, the famous five ones are the most enjoyable. The writing manages to convey a sense of the places the people are in quite convincingly somehow.

(LOL, I nearly posted this to that harry potter thread by mistake)

favorites of my near 2-year old:

The Sleepy Sleepy Book
I Am A Bunny (my personal favorite)
Maurice Sendak books (his pop-up book "Mommy" with monsters, in particular, but also "In the NIght Kitchen" which is druggy and weird!)
Guess How Much I Love You? (which is very sweet and made me cry the first time I read it aloud, now I'm just annoyed that the bunnies are named "big nutbrown hare" and "little nutbrown hare" because it takes too long to say)

'Make Way for Ducklings' and 'Blueberries for Sal'

'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'

'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day'

All 'Winnie the Pooh'

All Dr Seuss

The MISTER MEN books

'The Five Chinese Brothers'

'The Jolly Postman'

'The Fourteen Bears in Summer and Winter'

And yeah 'The Iron Man' is probably my all-time favourite.

I like reading the "Olivia" books (by Ian Falconer) to my daughter.

One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey is also great.

And Homer Price. The donut story = all-time classic.