 | Anne of Green Gables by L. Montgomery
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £0.01 Read the whole series more than once
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 | Dream of Sadler's Wells : Veronica at the Wells (2 books in 1) by Lorna Hill
Buy used from: £3.47 Looks like the Sadler's Wells series is now out of print. A real shame. The series was my absolute favourite; read and reread the books dozens of times. Loved Sebastian!
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 | Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah Howe
Buy new: £3.12 / Used from: £0.71 A little-known but fabulous book.
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 | The Complete Borrowers: "The Borrowers"; "The Borrowers Afield"; "The Borrowers Afloat"; "The Borrowers Aloft"; "The Borrowers Avenged"; "Poor Stainless" by Mary Norton
Buy new: £6.69 / Used from: £3.38 Another absolute favourite series. The BBC adaptation was good too.
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 | Adventure Series: Island & Castle Bind-up: "The Castle of Adventure" , "The Island of Adventure" (Adventure (MacMillan)) by Enid Blyton
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.01 These in my opinion are the best of Blyton.
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 | The Fantastic Flying Journey by Gerald Durrell
Buy used from: £23.37 A beautifully written and illustrated book.
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 | The Treasury of Oz: "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", "The Marvelous Land of Oz", "Ozma of Oz", "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz", "The Road of Oz", "The ... Magic of Oz", "Glinda of Oz": 15-in-1 Omnibus by L.Frank Baum
Buy new: £16.20 / Used from: £15.30 There was more to Oz than the Wizard!
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 | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (New Windmills) by Mr Robert C. O'Brien
Buy new: £6.52 / Used from: £0.01 A great story.
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 | When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Armada Lions) by Judith Kerr
Buy used from: £0.01 A must-read. Plus its sequels.
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 | The Indian in the Cupboard Trilogy: "Indian in the Cupboard", "Return of the Indian", "Secret of the Indian" by Lynne Reid Banks
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £0.01 Loved these. Still can picture my 5th grade teacher reading them to us.
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 | My Teacher Is an Alien by Bruce Coville
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.35 Great fun.
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 | The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross
Buy used from: £0.01 I cannot stress enough how brilliant this is.
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 | Flossie Teacake's Fur Coat by Hunter Davies
Out of print. A travesty. Every girl dreams of magically been a grown-up. A reality for Flossie when she puts on the coat...
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 | The House That Sailed Away (Red Fox funny stories) by Pat Hutchins
Buy used from: £0.01 All Pat Hutchins' books are a treat. Hard to choose between this, The Mona Lisa Mystery and The Curse of the Egyptian Mummy.
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 | Unreal!: Eight Surprising Stories by Paul Jennings
Buy new: £3.47 / Used from: £0.01 Who could forget 'Wonderpants'?
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 | The BFG by Roald Dahl
Buy new: £3.95 / Used from: £1.67 Hard to choose, but my favourite Dahl-Blake concoction.
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 | The Witches by Roald Dahl
Buy new: £3.84 / Used from: £0.24 Another Dahl.
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 | Matilda (My Roald Dahl) by Roald Dahl
Buy new: £3.92 / Used from: £0.41 Who didn't try telekinesis after reading this??
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 | A Little Princess (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Better than the Secret Garden if you ask me. Lovely.
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 | The Chronicles of Narnia Box Set by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £22.95 / Used from: £15.86 Another world to get lost into.
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 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: AND Through the Looking Glass (Penguin Classics) by Lewis Carroll
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £2.46 Nothing else like it.
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 | The Phoenix and the Carpet (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by E. Nesbit
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 I (controversially) preferred this to the Railway Children.
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 | The 101 Dalmations by Dodie Smith
Buy used from: £10.95 So much better than any film/cartoon version.
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 | The Painted Garden: A Story of a Holiday in Hollywood (Puffin Books) by Noel Streatfield
Buy used from: £0.01 Any Noel Streatfield is great, but this one was my favourite.
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 | The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy
Buy new: £3.47 / Used from: £0.01 And its sequels. Brilliant.
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