your most favourite children's story

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I won`t say these classics are my all time favourites because it is unfair to select a few from all the gems that I had come across during my childhood days but would rather list them as the ones which I had read more than when compared to other classic story books.They are:

1- Treasure Island
2- Five on a Treasure Island
3- The Happy Prince (short story)
4- The Secret Garden
5- Heidi
6- Anne of Green Gables

As a non-classic fiction short story, I liked The Dog Who Wanted to Die( author?)

There are lots of stories that I liked when I was a kid, but some of them are still my favourites; King Solomon’s Mines, The Lost World, Rostam and Sohrab, Alif Laila(One Thousand and One Nights), and a collection of Urdu tales Shahkar Kahaniyan.

Only one mention of The Wind in the Willows. Love it. So did my mum, and I read it to her when she was in a care home for the last months of her life. We both cried at The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

(Shuffle feet. I liked The Hobbit and preferred it to Narnia. But I don't care for the theology of the atonement in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.)

Wind in the Willows is still one of my favourites.

I think Violet Needham was probably my first "favourite author," but only a couple of her books would still be considered for my personal top 200 list.

Coral Island still cuts the mustard (whatever that means)

I only recently discovered Astrid Lingren, and I think her books are wonderful. They make my grandchildren laugh out loud.

Peter Dickinson's "Tulku" & "The Blue Hawk" should be on the list.

And why no mention of Nesbit or Joan Aiken?

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Originally Posted by cafolini

La hormiguita viajera, Platero y yo, etc., etc. Then I remember my paternal grandfather who invented a story for me. It was about a donkey who learned not to eat, and the problem was that a few days after he learned, he died. Then there were stories based on, for example, "...piden pan. No les dan. Piden queso, les dan un hueso y les cortan el pescuezo. But apart from this recollection and some others from my maternal grandfather, I was not influenced very much by them.

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hormiguita is that an animal/insect of some sorts?
Platero is that a long version of Plato in Spanish?

It's Roto Rooter in the fungus. LOL
Don't you dare commit suicide on LitNet.

Mine has always been The Wind in the Willows. I starting sharing this story with my children when they were quite young because it was a personal favorite.

I love The Wind in the Willows, but I didn't read it until I was an adult. Same with the Narnia books. I found The Silver Chair at my library and loved it, but had no idea there were others until I got to college. I felt rather cheated, I must say, but I quickly rectified the error.

Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls

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Originally Posted by qimissung

I love The Wind in the Willows, but I didn't read it until I was an adult. Same with the Narnia books. I found The Silver Chair at my library and loved it, but had no idea there were others until I got to college. I felt rather cheated, I must say, but I quickly rectified the error.

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I loved The Last Battle, The Magician's Nephew, and The Horse and his Boy.

I have no clue as to why The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe was so popular. I read them years ago, but from what I recall I enjoyed the above three works much more than The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. The only book in the series I either didn't read or completely forgot that I read was Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia.