 | The Owl Service by Alan Garner
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.50 Brilliant and suspensful, eerie and gripping
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 | Five Children and It (Puffin Classics) by E. Nesbit
Buy new: £0.39 / Used from: £0.01 Funny, endearing, and very original indeed
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 | Marianne Dreams (Faber Children's Classics) by Catherine Storr
Buy new: £3.24 / Used from: £0.01 Quite scary, be drawn into the other world in the dreams!
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 | Midnight Folk by John Masefield
Buy used from: £23.00 Real old fashioned adventure story
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 | Stig of the Dump (Puffin Modern Classics)
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.48 As children we loved the cave-boy's name and the whole concept
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 | Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £49.28 Three sisters, all talented, all different and all so true to life.
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 | What Katy Did (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Susan Coolidge
Buy new: £1.79 / Used from: £0.01 Can be a touch too good to be true but far too good to pass over
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 | Heidi (Puffin Classics) by Johanna Spyri
Buy new: £0.46 / Used from: £0.01 Gave me my first idea of how different another country can be: the mountains and clear air!
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 | Tarka the Otter (Puffin Modern Classics) by Henry Williamson
Buy new: £2.35 / Used from: £0.01 I still cry at the end. It started me on a quest to read everything H Williamson had written
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 | The Children Who Lived in a Barn by Eleanor Graham
Buy new: £9.18 / Used from: £12.45 The children's parents are missing presumed dead: the children fight to stay together
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 | Black Beauty (Young Reading Gift Editions) by Anna Sewell
Buy new: £1.24 / Used from: £3.85 Probably the first book that ever made me cry. Perfect book for horsey children
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 | The Children of the New Forest (Wordsworth Children's Classics) (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Captain Marryat
Buy new: £1.79 / Used from: £0.01 Really repays the little effort it takes to read. England in 1647 - Cavaliers and Roundheads
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 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.01 Opens the door to all the Narnia stories. My siblings and I fought over these books...
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 | The Borrowers (Puffin Modern Classics) by Mary Norton
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 An entire world below the floor boards, tiny people living out of sight and "borrowing" our things
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 | The Secret Garden (Puffin Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Buy new: £1.32 / Used from: £0.01 A boy encouraged to be an invalid coaxed out of his isolation by two other children
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 | The Phantom Tollbooth (Collins Modern Classics) by Norton Juster
Buy used from: £0.04 Might just encourage a reluctant reader to take an interest - so clever!
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 | The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton
Buy new: £2.79 / Used from: £0.01 When I was a nanny to two boys I lost my voice reading this. They never wanted me to stop readiing!
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 | First Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton
Buy new: £3.24 / Used from: £0.77 Hideous cover. But inside the wonderful old school yarns. Still charming now.
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 | Famous Five Slipcase 1-7 by Enid Blyton
Because as everyone knows....food always tastes better outdoors!
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 | The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £3.84 / Used from: £0.01 From here the way leads on, excitingly, to the Lord of the Rings...
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 | Biggles' Big Adventures - Biggles in the Baltic + Biggles Sees It Through + Biggles Flies North + Biggles in the Jungle by W.E. Johns
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £6.50 Old fashioned, but so what! Real action heroes for boys - and girls too
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 | The Just So Stories (Collector's library) by Rudyard Kipling
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.75 It HAS to be this edition, with the wonderful illustrations. Learn to write runes!
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 | The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.27 PLEASE get an edition with either the original illustrations or this one!
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 | Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by R.D. Blackmore
Buy new: £1.79 / Used from: £0.01 Surely the most exciting (and romantic) book a child could discover
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 | The Sword in the Stone (Collins Modern Classics) by T. H. White
Buy used from: £0.01 Even "doing" this at school couldn't spoil its charm
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