 | George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
Buy new: £3.44 / Used from: £0.01 Funny, disgusting, well written, everything kids love
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 | The Glass Slippers (Dressing-Up Dreams) by Jenny Oldfield
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.01 Whole series of these books are a modern take on fairy tales
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 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (My Roald Dahl) by Roald Dahl
Buy new: £3.95 / Used from: £1.97 Horrid kids get whats coming to them - kids love this
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 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £3.71 / Used from: £0.01 Start them on their lifelong love of fantasy with this classic
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 | The Twits (My Roald Dahl) by Roald Dahl
Buy new: £3.66 / Used from: £0.12 Who can go wrong with worms in spaghetti!
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 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £0.01 Not sure if the kids or the grown ups enjoy this most - probably both
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 | Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.82 So they enjoyed the Golden Compass DVD? Follow up with the first in His Dark Materials series
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 | The Hobbit (Essential Modern Classics) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 A classic they can take to later life with them
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 | The Secret Garden (Wordsworth's Children's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Apart from the first chapter being about typhoid and death, a very wonderful story, maybe better for slightly older ones
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 | Five Children and It (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by E. Nesbit
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Who wouldn't want a new wish every day, even if it did turn into sand after sunset
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 | Stig of the Dump (Puffin Modern Classics) by Clive King
Buy new: £4.72 / Used from: £0.49 Kids like to wonder what they would do if they found a caveman
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 | The Iron Man: A Children's Story in Five Nights by Ted Hughes
Buy new: £3.33 / Used from: £0.83 Set during the cold war but still very relevant
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 | Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Buy new: £4.13 / Used from: £0.01 They might have seen the movie so get them into reading with the original book
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 | The Best of Pippi Longstocking: Three Books in One by Astrid Lindgren
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.30 A wild girl whose life is as wild as it is sad - kid wonder do they envy her freedom or feel sorry for her lack of family
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