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redbutterfly · Joined: 27 Oct 2008 Posts: 1098 Location: London

Have you ever read this book to your class? Mine was "The Magician's Nephew" by CS Lewis, am reading it now to my class, they are loving it.
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fccwidow · Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:00 pm Post subject:

The magic farraway tree

tui · Joined: 16 Nov 2008 Posts: 3317 Location: New Zealand

Milly Molly Mandy.

The book belonged to my mother. My daughter loved the stories as well. They are so quaint now.

jaybee baybee · Joined: 29 Oct 2008 Posts: 2344

I read Heidi over and over again!

tui · Joined: 16 Nov 2008 Posts: 3317 Location: New Zealand

oh yes Heidi. i loved that as well.

jaybee baybee · Joined: 29 Oct 2008 Posts: 2344

I read it to my Year 2 children not so long ago - they were spellbound!

wotsitagain · Joined: 28 Oct 2008 Posts: 3911

I read I am David (my fave book as a child) to my first class. I found it so hard not to cry when David first learns to smile and at the end.
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cherryblossom · Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:45 am Post subject:

Charlie and the choclate factory ... I havent read it to my current class, but I am reading the BFG at the moment . I love Roald Dahl and I love reading to my class.I do all the voices and everything ha ha
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cherryblossom · Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:46 am Post subject:

some good ideas here for class readers!
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posingpoodle · Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:49 am Post subject:

I adored Milly Molly MAndy too- I used to get the omnibus out of the school library every week. Also Pippi Longstocking! x
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smallholder · Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 7359

Black Beauty, Heidi and Treasure Island. Our ages are showing again.

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bevevans22 · Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:27 pm Post subject:

The Secret Garden (for a LONG time - still love it). It was then Little Women (both of my daughters have inherited the love of this).

As a teenager it became Wuthering Heights - still my fave and I read it again every year!!!!
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bluerose · Joined: 27 Oct 2008 Posts: 2675

Also loved Heidi and Famous Five books just loved collecting those and also liked Little House on Prairie when teacher used to read it to us.
Not sure any of those would hit the spot with our kids today though and there are such lovely books to choose from

Did like Secret Garden and little princess too but think may have watched those on TV first.

Wuthering Heights is a good choice as an adult Bev

kesunder · Joined: 27 Oct 2008 Posts: 1463

matilda- i still have the hardback copy i got for my 9th birthday, complete with 'love from mummy and daddy' written inside it & the kids love seeing it if i take it into school! have read it to classes in the past, but we did charlie and the chocolate factory this time as topic was 'chocolate' (i love that too though and still have my 'original' copy which i read to the children from).

also loved 'goodnight mr tom' when i was a bit older than that.

posingpoodle · Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:37 pm Post subject:

Moondial- helen Creswell
Nicobobinous- terry jones
the snow spider- jenny nimmo
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smileylady · Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:44 pm Post subject:

Silver Sword - Ian Serrallier. Absolutely adored it- to the extent that I swore my first child would be called Bronja! (Daddy didn't think a suitable name for a boy!)
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redredrobin · Joined: 01 Nov 2008 Posts: 1336

I loved the magic faraway tree, milly molly mandy and the laura ingalls wilder books. My children now enjoy all of them too.

magpie nic · Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 7483 Location: Tyneside

I liked too many to choose from so will pick a favourite author instead- Enid Blyton, Secret Seven books, Mallory Towers, Wishing Chair, Faraway Tree etc.
Milly Molly Mandy is fab!
As I got older I also liked Nancy Drew books.

Ones I still like now that I liked as a child are the Water Babies, Peter Pan, Stig of the Dump and The Machine Gunners.

thehawk · Joined: 01 Nov 2008 Posts: 1986 Location: here