Top 3 favourite books read as a child.....

Pilgrims progress
lord of the rings
robinson corusoe

pilgrim's progress? thought that was a boring adults book.

nah really good john bunyan about aguy on the way to the celestial city

Lord of the Flies
The Miller's Tale
Charlotte's Web

animal farm first... the rest nowhere.

White Fang
Treasure Island
Robin Hood

I remember enjoying the science fiction novels written by Hugh Walters.

i know all about john bunyan mate. He's an honest bedfordshre boy, was in nick at bedford I think. His name is all over the place. never read the book though.

someof these books - animal farm, lord of the flies etc - i didn't read till i was 14 or more. was I a bit slow. I was talking books you read when you were under 10yo

Bottersnikes & Gumbles
Charlie & The Great Glass Elevator
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

jeez, under 10? i really enjoyed captain pugwash and the ghost ship but can't think of many others :)

I loved Animal farm but did that as part of my gcse's. still like it to this day, and have read most of orwell's books as a result.

Pappilon at 13!!
Treasure Island, read it 10 times and loved the treasure map.

well maybe 10 or 11 or 12. Sure i read all the famous 5 and narnia books by age 11ish.

animal farm great shout forgot that one

Tales Of Brer Rabbit
The Lion , The Witch And The Wardrobe
Stig Of The Dump

I read Lord of the Flies when i was ten.
Was ill in bed that day and couldn't stop reading. Obviously very affected by the shocking bits.

bloody hell. did lord of the flies as part of my gcse too. got to watch the film too.

The film was haunting to watch as a kid.
Especially the bit where the body floats away with the choir singing.

Animal Farm isn't a children's book. HTH

Neither is Lord of the Flies.

they were books read as chiildren though
which is what the OP actually said

HTH

That would depend on your definition of "child".
And Lord of the Flies is a children's book.

lets not get in a bigdiscussion about it.

Perm any Billy Bunter books with any Famous Five.

The Hobbit
Emil and the Detectives
Watership Down

Joan Aiken and**Garfield wrote some remarkable children's novels.

On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman
Lights, Camera, Sex - Christy Canyon

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Secret Seven Books
Mr Happy

The Silver Sword
Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe
Victor Annual!

Moonfleet
Great Expectations
The Hobbit

RESERVES

White Fang
The Cat In The Hat

Wind in the Willows (should be compulsorarily read in all schools to all children of all backgrounds).
Moonfleet (Great shout from Hoss).
All Bunter books.

ridiculous to say that animal farm is not a children's book. i can't have been any older than 13 when i read it, which i think legally means i was still a child, and i absolutely loved it. so what that i didn't understand the book's greater meaning? after muhammad ali, boxer remains my all-time hero!

the ghost of thomas kemp

Easter 1916, are you saying George Orwell is a children's author?

not at all but the book clearly works as a children's book, does it not?

Yes it's short and easy to read, but so is Siddartha, is that a chidren's book?

i dunno but if its as good as animal farm i look forward to giving it to my daughter next christmas!

charlie and the chocolate factory
mr tickle
penthouse

It is good, though she might give you a blank stare after reading it.
I think our definition of "child" might be different here.
I assumed the OP was referring to the under 10s, not the post-pubescent.

he did mean that slim, he said later. i'm honestly hard pressed to think of any i read. no lie, i used to have hamlyn's children's bible and i loved that as a very young kid. let's face it, that was all fiction. failing that i used to read those rubbishy michael hardcastle football books and lapped them up. and the famous five, ahem.

he did mean under 10*

I used to read Secret 7 books, and i seem to remember reading a Michael Hardcastle book too and i would definitely class them as kids' literature, not to be confused with Animal Farm.
By the time i was old enough to read Animal Farm i was also looking at porn mags, and that certainly wasn't for children (promise).

slimfast is always right :)

Would seem so :)
How many under 10s do you know who have read Animal Farm then easter?
Most people first read it at school when they are about 13. At the same time they read "a midsummer's night dream". Would you say that is also a children't book?

The 101 Dalmatians (nap)

dead heat between

All Enid Blyton stuff
The William books by Richmal Crompton