Books the Babyccino team love!

A few months ago I started an email asking the girls on the Babyccino team to list some of their favourite children’s books. I thought it would be a fun idea to share our favourite books with you! But it wasn’t as easy as it sounded! (The email string grew longer and longer, it would almost just be easier if I shared the email string with you!)

It was such a fab topic to start with each other and finally (!) I have grouped the books together and compiled a Top Thirty. So here goes, in no particular order, some favourites from the Babyccino girls:

Courtney’s childhood favourites are:

• The Boxcar Children series
• Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose by Dr. Seuss
• Who Sank the Boat by Pamela Allen
• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

I’m loving Esther’s list. A mix of English and Dutch titles and I too have a fondness for The Secret Garden.

• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Crusade in Jeans by Thea Beckman
• The Brother’s Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
• The Secret Seven series by Enid Blyton
• Ronia, The Robber’s Daughter by Astrid Lindgren

One day I’m going to sit by Emilie’s bookshelves with a pot of tea and talk and talk and talk to Emilie about her reading lists. It’s again been a hard choice for me to narrow Emilie’s down to five. The lists go on……..

• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Malenfer by Cassandra O’Donnell
• When Hitler Stole the Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
• Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
• Paddle to the Sea by Holling C. Holling

Nina’s love of Lindgren and Beskow’s books make them top on her list. I too love the illustrations in these books – so captivating.

• The children of Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren
• The Little Witch by Ottfried Preußler
• Lotta by Astrid Lindgren
• The Parent Trap by Erich Kästner
• Children of the Forest by Elsa Beskow

Helen’s favourites are rather nostaligic to my own childhood as we are both from England. I too adored Topsi and Tim, and Mog, Mog and Owl.

• The A. Mazing Monsters series : The Great Gulper by Jim Slater
• Meg and Mog Series by Helen Nicoll
• The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton
• Topsi and Tim series Jean Adamson
• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

And finally here’s mine. It’s so much fun thinking of your favourite books but when you have to narrow them down to only a few it’s such a difficult task! My list are books from my childhood. Books which really have left strong and happy memories for me. I have hundreds of others which I adore reading to my children but then we’d never get this post out to you!

• Mathilda by Roald Dahl
• The Tiger who came to tea by Judith Kerr
• Tom’s Midnight Garden by Phippa Pearce
• Charlotte’s Web by E B White
• The Bramley Hedge series by Jill Barklem

I’m pretty sure we’ve started a great discussion here and got you thinking of your favourites. I’d like to think we’ve also brought back some great childhood moments when you see these titles. Please share your favourites with us – we’d love to know!

Vanessa x

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