Booktrust has announced the definitive list of 100 books to read before you’re 14 – and to celebrate we are giving away five books from the list.
Drawing from over 90 years’ experience recommending children’s books; Booktrust experts selected the final 100 from an initial list of 500 books and are now asking everyone to join the debate and vote online for their favourites on the list (www.booktrust.org.uk/cbw). The nation’s top books will be announced on November 25th so pick up a book, get reading and tell Booktrust what you think!
Booktrust are giving you the chance to win five books from the list in the (add age range or whole list) from the eclectic mix of traditional classics and modern greats that Booktrust believe are must-reads to fire children’s imaginations and turn them into life-long readers.
To be in with a chance of winning one of these fantastic books, all you have to do to enter is complete the Rafflecopter entry form below – Good Luck!!!
I loved The BFG and all of the other Roald Dahl books – I have read several of them to my children and look forward to when they can read them themselves!
love to read the topsy & tim books i had as a child to my boys 🙂
I used to love all things Enid Blyton, I know Ellie will love reading them as well.
Danny The Champion Of The World by Roald Dahl. The perfect father/son book. Wonderful.
The famous five, you just can’t beat it
Charlie and the chocolate factory
Meg and Mog! Completely forgot about that book until now.
i loved the secret seven
hungry catapiller x
I used to love the goosebump books which are still a huge hit today so i cannot wait for my children to get a bit bigger 🙂
all of the enid blyton books
I loved My Naughty Little Sister books! My big Sister was convinced they were written about me!
Hippo’s Go Berserk 🙂
the elves and the shormaker
shoemaker even lol
Carrie’s War was one of my favourite books and I read it over and over again. It’s a book I’d love to share with my step-children because it’s from an era they know little about. I hope it fires their imaginations like it did mine.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. I absolutely loved it and still do!
Cinderella
Anything by Dr Seuss, and my son loves them too!
Jolly postman was my favourite
I love Roald Dahl books, especially Matilda. Not quite from my childhood as I’m in my 30’s, but I also love Harry Potter and I can’t wait to read them to my daughter
My favourite was the Magic Faraway Tree.
Horton hears a who
Me and my little boy love getting new books! Meg and mog was one of my favourites from preschool!
jeames and the giant peach
Funnybones!!!
James and the giant peach is a big favourite in this house.
The tiger who came to tea:)
I used to love Old Bear!
Fantastic Mr Fox
Cinderella
Got to be little women 🙂
The paper bag princess
The Tiger who came to tea
Roald Dahl’s The Twits
All the Roald Dahl books – just read Fantastic Mr Fox with my daughter!
Grimms Fairy Tales and love to share them now
Adrain Mole
Loved the Famous Five books!
I loved Roald Dahl The Twits
The faraway tree
Miss wizz
I’ve kept lots of books from my childhood, hard to pick a favourite, I was a total bookworm!
When you give a mouse a cookie 🙂
Stick Man
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Charlie and the chocolate factory
The Magic Faraway Tree Books
Not now bernard 🙂
Magic Faraway Tree
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe was magical!
Hungry caterpilla
the bfg by roald dahl
The TWITS by Roald Dahl!
Folk of the Faraway Tree – Enid Blyton – she’s just started it!
I like reading Beatrix Potter stories.
the railway children
I’ve made a real point of buying my son copies of books I had as a child like Each Peach Pear Plum and Whatever Next! I can’t wait till he’s older and we can start enjoying Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl books together.
Famous Five
matilda
Anything by Enid Blyton!
secret seven by enid blyton – it was so much better than the famous five!
The BFG
More my teenage years but it’s the Harry Potter series
The magic faraway tree.
Enid BLYTON. X
i have just bought my son the famous five boxset for xmas, cant wait as i loved it, my grandad used to read it to me
I love Roald Dahl
The Family from One End Street – my mum read this to me and I’ve read it to my nieces
Richard Scarrys Busy Busy World
Matilda
when i was little my mum bought my all the miffy books and i loved them , im reading them now to my daughter and she likes them too , when she is a bit older i might start reading roald dahl or astrid lindgren
Meg & Mog!
I loved them when I was a child – I can’t believe she’s still around
The tooth fairy! 🙂
The Wind in the Willows
My favourite was The Jolly Postman, I also liked the Christmas special one too 🙂
I loved the Elves and the shoe maker i now read it to my son at bedtime who also loves it
The night before christmas is the greatest of all time ……. roll on christmas eve!
The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton was my favourite childhood book; I still have it somewhere to share with my grandchildren in the years to come.
The BFG
Enid Blyton brilliant author.
I love Fantastic Mr Fox! But not sure how long to wait as it is a bit scary?!
Winnie the pooh
Anything by Enid Blyton, particularly the Faraway Tree stories.
The first book I ever read for myself was Over sea under stone by Susan Cooper, which totally stunned my little mind back then and left me with a life long obsession with Cornwall!
I don’t have a favourite book but I loved the Secret Seven and The Chronicles of Narnia
i loved the secret seven
I loved all of the Enid Blyton books, but my big favourite has to be The Hobbit.
Cant wait to share the Mallopry Towers books with my daughter – she is 10 now, so about ready i think!!
My daughter has enjoyed the Meg and Mog books which I loved as a child and we have just moved on to chapter books. I have loved looking for books to read and they have brought back loads of great memories. We are reading The Worst Witch and have Pippi Longstocking, Milly Molly Mandy, My Naughty Little Sister and, my favourite Gobbolino, lined up ready to go.
the famous five – Enid Blyton my girls love her as well
The Jolly Postman
I loved James and the Giant peach 🙂
the roald dahl books, i still have all the books from when i was younger 🙂
I was obsessed with Enid Blyton and the Famous Five books!
i used to like the books goosebumps
All the Enid blytos x
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Swallows and Amazons
The Enchanted Wood and Faraway Tree Stories by Enid Blyton
I would have read the phone book as a child but my favourite was the witches by Roald Dahl
The Tiger Who Came To Tea
all roald dahl books and my 6 year old now reads them beautifully to me, although we are currently reading oliver twist
Watership Down
All of the Roald Dahl books
Lots of the series by Enid Blyton – ie Famous Five, Mallory Towers and Twins at St Clares – I loved all these books and hope to share them with my daughters and that they will enjoy them too.
The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe
Matilda
Alice in Wonderland 🙂
I loved anything by roald dahl
charlie and the chocolate factory
The wishing chair by Enid Blyton x
My favourtie book was Five go to Smuggler’s Top – which I have read to my daughter and we both loved it! We are reading all the Famous Five books and my dd loves them, although she always seems to solve the mystery quicker than the book!
I loved all the Roald Dahl books especially the twits
The Twits by Roald Dahl
I love the Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. Would have loved to have visited all the lands at the top of it.
Has to be the beatrix potter books – I had the whole collection, which is now my daughters 🙂