Beatrix Potter - especially the Tale of Tom Kitten and the Roly Poly pudding - and that picture of Tom Kitten rolled up in pastry ....aaah!
Enid Blyton's Famous Five series and the other 5 with a dog called Loopy or something - they were always allowed off to camp alone on islands and things and solved mysteries
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Rudyard Kipling Just So Stories
Wind in the Willows
Swiss Family Robinson
Lorna Doone
The Silver Sword (can't remember the author but about a refugee boy in ?Poland - I loved it)
Wild Life of Our World - a fantastic thick book on animals from the dinosaurs on - it enabled me at a very very young age to authorititevely assure my parents that the huge skeleton in the Natural History Museum was a Diplodocus - and to the amazement of my dad when we got to the signs - it was!
Actually I heard (and later had to read) most of the above mentioned.
But I really liked Karl May (LINK ), Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and all the girl's books my sister had.
Well one candidate would be "Half Magic" by Edward Eager, about a group of children who find a coin or talisman that gives you half of whatever you wish for. In general, he wrote about children who discover something magical, and was admittedly derivate of Edith Nesbit. Unfortunately, he died in his early 50s.
Anything illustrated by Eric Carle . . .
"The Hungry Caterpillar"
"The Grouchy Ladybug"
etc.
From kindergarten - 1st grade I also remember "James and the Giant Peach" and the Ramona Quimby series.
Anything illustrated by Eric Carle . . .
"The Hungry Caterpillar"
"The Grouchy Ladybug"
etc.
From kindergarten - 1st grade I also remember "James and the Giant Peach" and the Ramona Quimby series.
They were brilliant - John Burningham is another brilliant illustrator of that sort of era Borka the tale of goose with no feathers was brilliant and beautifully illustrated - made you sniffle too when the geese all flew away for the winter and she couldn't .... (it all ended happily though)
