Childhood books you would introduce to kids?

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




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@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)
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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.
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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
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