Childhood books you would introduce to kids?

Recently I read "A Wrinkle in Time" and I was surprised to learn that it's a children book. And it got me thinking about all the books I read when I was younger that I either still have or remember fondly and which ones I would introduce to my future kids:

• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
• Goosebumps
• Harry Potter and Percy Jackson series
• The Phantom Tollbooth (I still have mine)
• The Wind in the Willows

What is one or more books from your childhood that you would introduce to children, either yours or not?

Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, How to Train Your Dragon, Enola Holmes, Charlotte's Webb, The Secret Garden, and anything by Shel Silverstein!

Charlotte's Web is a must. Other than that, My Brother Sam is Dead, Where the Red Fern Grows, Wonder (and the sequel), Hoot, and either Hardy Boys or The Boxcar Children.

@cherie, Charlotte's Web and Little Women were fantastic! And I never knew that Enola Holmes was a book! Is it a series or a standalone?

@Nate, I loved the Hardy Boys and Boxcar Children! And Where the Red Fern Grows film wrecked me (which is why I never read the book lol)

Also still have my Phantom Tollbooth. I hope I can introduce it at the right time so it hits right. That made me feel like I couldn't let it go.

My favourites aged 7-11 were always:

The Hetty Feather series by Jacqueline Wilson (any Jaqueline wilson book, really!)
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Born to Run by Michael Morpurgo
Ballet Shoes By Noel Streatfeild
The Faraway Tree series by Enid Blyton
Famous 5 and Secret 7 series, also by Enid Blyton
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
The Gone series by Michael Grant (not sure it was appropriate for a ten-year-old, but i love it lol)

and there's way too many more to list xd

A Wrinkle in Time remains one of my favorite books/series ever.

That aside, hi. I throw books at kids for a living.

My own favorites I get mixed reactions to, but they include anything by Tamora Pierce (I read it all. Still have some of it, but not all my favorites, and there's new graphic novel versions. I have Thoughts and Feelings, man), and Diane Duane's Young Wizards series.

I do have a soft spot for Nancy Drew, too, which is the only thing I can usually get my students to read of these. If we're going slightly younger, then Ella Enchanted, which spawned my fairy tale retelling problem at roughly 8. My copy was definitely bought at the book fair and I'm pretty sure it's in more than one piece I read it so much.

OH! Anne of Green Gables. Geez, Demeter (I didn't tag her, but I was tempted) and I spent so much time squeeing over how much we love everything L.M. Montgomery. I read it all before I was 13, so it counts, right?

On the other hand, mom's favorites (Nancy Drew aside) I tended to not enjoy as much. I don't think she's ever forgiven me for preferring Austen over Alcott.

I think looking back my favourite children's book is a German book called "Das Blaue vom Himmel" (The Blue of the Sky)
It is a play onto the German saying: "Das Blaue vom Himmel lügen" (which means lit. "to lie the blue out of the sky", basically to lie A LOT)
And it is about a wizard who keeps an entire planet ensnared in his lies, so that all the skies are grey (get it, bc the blue is gone?)
But the book is also about a twelve years old who does not want to be a futuristic gardner (until he realises it's the future and he makes a tomato dog happen that grows gigantic in the sun and tiny in shade. Also has a tail that grows delicious tomatos) but instead wants to build a rocket to save his older brothers.
Also there's a man in the moon. Three to be exact and they operate in years long cycles (MC's mom started asking them 3 questions every day for the past 20 yrs and today they have started answering, the first three, from 20 yrs ago)
Also there's a planet who broke in half because there were two tribes living on it, the ones who think too long to solve problems and the ones who don't think and cause problems and the latter, in order to fix the fast rotation of the planet, tried to explode a volcano while the former are still debating on how to stop them
Also the devil's grandma exists and she makes delicious onion soup in a metaphor for a system that runs only because the system needs to keep running. "we do x so we can do y, why do we need to do y? so we can do x!"

I adore the creativity because this plot is all over the place (my fav characters were always the smart female robot (who can make more of herself bc she is a girl obv) and the dumb male robot (who counts wrenches as separate instances if they come in different colours and HE IS ADORABLE) and ofc the basilisk pet of the MC who hatched from the egg of the annoying rooster that MC's grandpa got saddled with. And ofc the rooster has 10 pages of backstory, i'm surprised you need to ask

This is the book who interrupts a dramatic moment to tell the backstory of the MC's absolutely not plot relevant grandpa who ended up in a painting spiral because he couldn't find his dark keyhole on the the dark door which ended with him painting the night white and the day black bc this is this kind of book.

Also, in a random aside, two Tagediebe (literally "Day Thieves" which MEANS ppl who do nothing all day but ofc it also means lit Day Thieves) stole the entire Wednesday that one time and lost it hour-wise in their escape so the MC had to go collect 24 hrs from other ppl to fix it. (He usually got them from ppl waiting on public transport, if you are curious)

Have I mentioned I love this book?

[Yes I have also read normal books BUT LET ME RANT ABOUT THIS OBSCURE EAST GERMAN ONE FOR TEN HOURS]