king_pellinor | 50 Books Every Child Should Read meme

pellegrina made this up! Books selected for The Independent by Philip Pullman, Michael Morpurgo, Katy Guest, John Walsh, Michael Rosen. Meme rules: Bold those you read as aged 0-18, italicise those you read aged 19-now, underline those you started but didn't finish, strikethrough those you have never even heard of. Add remarks if you feel like it.

* Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.
* Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.
* Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner.
* Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome. Lots of times. I seem to remember being promoted from Roger to John when I was little, though the system broke down a bit given that the family didn't have the proper make-up.
* Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken. I think it did. The name rings a bell, but I have no idea what the story is
* The Owl Service by Alan Garner. Didn't understand it the first time. Still don't really :-)
* The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster.
* Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson. I like Moomintroll :-)
* A Hundred Million Francs by Paul Berna.
* The Castafiore Emerald by Hergé. I think. Certainly a lot of Tintin, as my uncle had them along with Asterx and Iznogoud the Grand Vizier. It was really odd that someone who must have been in his thirties had so many comic books.
* The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
* A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
* Just William books by Richmal Crompton. One or to of them
* The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde. I might have read it, but I'm not sure
* The Elephant's Child From The Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. Oh, yes. And How the Whale Became, by someone or other (Ted Hughes?) which is much the same thing.
* Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson.
* The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
* The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono.
* The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy.
* The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson-Burnett.
* Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah.
* Finn Family Moomintroll (and the other Moomin books) by Tove Jansson. See above. Why is that one singled out?
* Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. I think LoA has mentioned this, but I've been out of touch with the youth scene these last few years
* I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. I may wel have read this at some point since LoA started working in a library, but I really can't remember it
* The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
* The Tygrine Cat (and The Tygrine Cat on the Run) by Inbali Iserles.
* Carry On, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse.
* When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr.
* Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett. Pratchett hadn't been invented when I was under 18.. oh, actually, yes he had. I stole Colour of Magic from a friend when we were down (up?) in Oxford for the open day, so I would have been 17 then. But Moving Pictures was a few years later
* The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson.
* The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. Keep meaning to, but not all that hard.
* Mistress Masham's Repose by TH White.
* Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
* How to be Topp by Geoffrey Willams and Ronald Searle. And the others :-)
* Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz.
* Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo.
* Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer.
* The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier. I remember being very struck by the suggestion that the Boy's Brigade issued its members with rifles. Event the CCF didn't let you take them home with you :-)
* Animal Farm by George Orwell.
* Skellig by David Almond. Did I read this when LoA brought it back? Rings a bell, no memory of t.
* Red Cherry Red by Jackie Kay.
* Talkin Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah.
* Greek myths by Geraldine McCaughrean. Who is this person, and what has she done with Roger Lancelyn Green?
* People Might Hear You by Robin Klein.
* Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman.
* Einstein's Underpants and How They Saved the World by Anthony McGowan.
* After the First Death by Robert Cormier. I suspect this has informed my current Fools and Heroes character slightly. But then anything in which people die and other people get angsty about the fact has done so :-)
* The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd.
* Beano Annual. Also Whizzer & Chips, Battle, and especially Victor.