#favechildrenslit
When I posted the original tweet,
I didn’t expect the outpouring of love for Children’s literature that happened. It was purely posted with the desire to be nosey and to find out some twitter friends favourite books. There wasn’t any rhyme or reason to it. What surprised me more were the discussions that went alongside the choices, people’s reasons why they chose books. Many were intensely personal, including mine (I blogged about this previously here Books Glorious Books). They weren’t just books they were cherished memories of people, places and times.
The books themselves however had one thing in common, the simple fact that the person who recommended them, loved them, nothing more, nothing less. For many they were the key part in the journey to being a reader.
This isn’t a canon of must read classics (though many are) Instead it’s a collection of loved reads and that for me at least makes it even more important. We have to make sure children have the opportunity to find books they will love. This list should be wildly different in 20 years time, if it isn’t I think we are doing something wrong.
This however is the bit people really want I think, the list of books. It has already made me start exploring / revisiting and re-evaluating. The wider discussion about books is never-ending.
Sorry the list isn’t sorted (any suggestions for how to do that would be gratefully received)
I transferred all the tweets to word, this list so far is only a 1/3 of the way through that list so there will be more to follow. (356 pages left to go)
I have also taken picture books out of this and and will create a separate picture book list. #favepicturebooks
If a book has a numbered bracket next to it, that is because more than one person recommended it. Explore, discover and most importantly talk about them. There are old and new. I’m pretty sure there is something for everyone to cherish.
“…Children’s literature gives them narratives on which to build their own…”
#favechildrenslit book list part 1
(Order is chronological based on when the appeared on the #hashtag)
Animal Farm by G Orwell (not strictly a children’s book but I was read it in Year 4)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (9)
Pax by Sara Pennypacker
Varjak Paw by SF Said (3)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (2)
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by JK Rowling (7)
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (2)
Matilda by Roald Dahl (5)
Stig of the Dump by Clive King
The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton (2)
The Magicians Nephew By C S Lewis
Journey to River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
Holes by Louis Sachar (5)
Skellig by David Almond (4)
Artichoke Hearts by Sita Brahmachari Savvy by Ingrid Law
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
Beauty and the Beast by Marie Le Prince de Beaumont
Dustbin Baby by Jaqueline Wilson
The Twits by Roald Dahl (2)
The Princess and the Captain by Anne Laure Bondoux
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
Peter Pan by JM Barrie (2)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling (5)
George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl (2)
Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken (2)
Ruby and the Smoke by Philip Pullman
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (3)
Once by Morris Gleitzman (2)
Then by Morris Gleitzman
Now by Morris Gleitzman
After by Morris Gleitzman
Nicobobinus by Terry Jones
Legions of the Eagle by Henry Treece
Boy on the Porch by Sharon Creech
The Uncommoners by Jennifer Bell
Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness
Mr Galliano’s Circus by Enid Blyton
I am David by Anne Holm
Toby Alone by Timothee de Fombelle
Slog’s Dad by David Almond
Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
The Folk in the Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
The Crowstarver by Dick King Smith
A Girl of Ink and Star by Karen Millwood Hargrave (2)
Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
The Queens Nose by Dick King Smith
Vlad the Drac by Ann Jungman
The Whitby Wolves by Robin Jarvis
The Warlock of Whitby by Robin Jarvis
The Whitby Child by Robin Jarvis
Love that Dog by Sharon Creech
Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
Heartbeat by Sharon Creech
First term at Mallory Towers by Enid Blyton
Five on Treasure Island by Enid Blyton (3)
The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton
Mr Stink by David Walliams (2)
Gangster Granny by David Walliams
The Imaginary by AF Harrold
The Many Worlds of Albie Bright by Christopher Edge
Uncle by JP Martin
When Hitler Stole my Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (2)
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Clockwork by Philip Pullman (5)
The Minpins by Roald Dahl
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights by Geraldine McCaughrean
You’re a Bad Man Mr Gum by Andy Stanton (2)
Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomey (2)
Beetle Boy by MG Leonard (2)
Phoenix by SF Said
Skullduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
Flour Babies by Anne Fine
Northern Light by Philip Pullman (3)
The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Nancy Drew Mysteries by Carolyn Keene
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norion Juster
Gentleman Jim by Raymong Briggs
The Story Giant by Brian Patten
Just so stories by Rudyard Kipling
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (3)
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (2)
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
Mercedes Ice by Philip Ridley
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Danny The Champion of the World by Roald Dahl (2)
The Secret of Terror Castle by Alfred Hitchcock
The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall
The boy with the Bronze Axe by Kathleen Fidler
The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
The Witches by Roald Dahl (2)
Please Mrs Butler by Alan Ahlberg
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve (2)
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend
Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh
Roof Toppers by Katherine Rundell
The Hounds of Morrigan by Pat O’Shea
All Mallory Towers books by Enid Blyton
All Magic Faraway tree books by Enid Blyton (2)
Five Children and It by E Nesbit
Chalet School Books by Elinor M Brent-Dyer
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (2)
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jackie Woodson
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman (4)
Watership Down by Richard Adams (2)
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy by Penelope Lively
Howls Moving Castle by Dianne Wynne Jones
Sideways stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DeTerrlizzi
The Little Grey Men by BB (DJ Watkins Pitchford)
The Children of Green Knowe by LM Boston (2)
The High Deeds of Finn MacCool by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes (2)
BFG by Roald Dahl
Jules Verne (absolutely anything and everything)
Land of Stories by Chris Colfer
Pea’s book of Holidays Susie Day
Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
How not to be Weird by Dawn McNiff
Light beyond the Forest by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Devil in the Fog by Leon Garfield (And many more)
The Giraffe Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl
The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper (3)
Once and Future King by TH White
Power of Five series by Anthony Horowitz
Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken (2)
Lemony Snickett series by Lemony Snickett
Goosham Grange by Anthony Horowitz
Wonder by RC Palacio (3)
The Diamond Brothers books by Anthony Horowitz
The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
My Naughty Little Sister by Dorothy Edwards
Fairytales by Hans Christian Anderson
The Runaways by Ruth Thomas
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
Traction Cities Quadrology by Philip Reeve (2)
Oh, how lovely, I’ve just come to this (via your pinned tweet) and it looks fabulous. I asked Twitter for favourite children’s books earlier this year and added the replies to a “Twitter Moment” — you can do this per tweet by clicking on the elipses and it saves them all in an online list which can be embedded into blog posts etc, in case that’s of interest?
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