A look back through childhood (Top Ten Childrens Books)

Member Name: jennikitten

Product:	Top Ten Childrens Books
Date:	11/09/08 (50 review reads)
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Advantages: A trip down memory lane

Disadvantages: Expensive!

My top ten children's books, in no particular order are...

1. The Famous Five - yes this is cheating a bit because it's a series, but I grew up reading these adventure stories and I love them! Real nostalgia here.

2. The Jolly Christmas Postman - I remember reading this one with my mum! I love all illustrations and the little opening envelopes and letters from the various characters. It's really expensive now though.

3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - I love the nibbled away bits of fruit and the way the story progresses. Maybe we need more books like this to make children eat healthily?!

4. The Illustrated Mum - This Jacqueline Wilson classic is a must for older children/teenagers. It deals with family issues and mental illness told from a child's perspective, and is a gripping read without being disturbing.

5. Back Home - This is often looked over in favour of Goodnight Mister Tom, and in my opinion is very underrated. It tells the story of a girl returning to England after being evacuated to America during the second world war, and how she doesn't fit in back home.

6. The Other Side - An old-style Jacqueline Wilson classic, without any of her now favoured colloquialisms, this is written in a much better style and deals with dreams and mental illness, and a family split up in various directions.

7. The 3 Investigators - Again another series; one of them in being made nito a film. Edgy mystery stories featuring 3 boys - there are lots of twists and turns and they are never predictable and always ingenious.

8. Malory Towers - Another series of Enid Blyton classics. They are, but in an amusing kitsch way.

9. Spot - Who doesn't love the little cute dog?! My favourites were the pop ups.

10. Thomas the Tank Egine - I was obsessed with these small hard back books when I was small. Even though looking at them now, they all seem to have the same story but with different trains!!

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Summary: I will have to fish them out again!