Favorite children's novels/series

[The_African]

My Teacher Is An Alien series-Bruce Coville

Aliens Ate My Homework series- Bruce Coville

Animorphs series-K.A Applegate

Fear Street Saga trilogy-R.L Stine

etc.

I feel no shame admitting that I still love this stuff.

[philoSCIFI]

Everworld - K.A. Applegate

[HoopyFrood]

I also read the Animorph series when younger. Used to always get them from the library. Tobias was my favourite POV, then Marco, Ax, Jake, Cassie, then Rachael. I got up to about mid-twenties (and a couple of the early forties, I think) and grew very tired of them...Cassie got right on my nerves and everything was just getting weird. I wikipedia-ed the end, just to see how it did all turn out. I was also surprised to see the extent of the ghostwriting in the series, but in retrospect, I shoudn't have been all that surprised.

I also really like the Artemis Fowl books, particularly the early ones, and definitely The Eternity Code. There's a newer one, isn't there, about...werewolves? The one after The Opal Deception. I haven't read that.

Ah, and I read so very many Goosebumps books when I was younger, and all the random inspired series (like...

...good gods, that's just taken me ages to track down. The Creepers series. Which I think had scarier concepts than the Goosebumps (except for that damned dummy), like the Ghost Writer one were the kid kept dreaming that he was trapped in a room and suffocating. Or the scarecrow in another that crept closer to the house).

[Mouse]

I used to read Colin Dann's stuff. Beach Dogs, and The Animals of Farthing Wood. Then I moved on to Brian Jacques Redwall books.

[philoSCIFI]

Artemis Fowl! Yes! I still have to read The Opal Deception. And actually, I think there are 2 more after that one - The Time Paradox and The Atlantis Complex.

Thanks for the reminder! I might get back into the series after I finish The City of Ember books. Oooh, City of Ember. I actually saw the movie first and just knew I'd fall in love with the book. And I did. I can't wait to finish them this weekend!

[gully_foyle]

The Tripod series by John Christopher (City of Gold and Lead, The White Mountains, etc). I really need to find them and read them again.

I loved the Magic Faraway Tree and the Wishing Chair by Enid Blyton and am getting great joy out of rediscovering these with the kids.

There and Back Again, or at least I think that was its name. I'm also having trouble remembering who it was by.

[Anne Lyle]

I'm showing my age here, but:

* The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper
* The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, by Alan Garner
* Fire and Hemlock, by Diana Wynne Jones

(OK, so I read that last one as an adult. But it's still a terrific retelling of the legend of Tam Lin)

[Teresa Edgerton]

I've just moved this to the YA book forum -- partly because I think that's where it belongs, and partly because that will put it in the vicinity of a lot more threads that might be of interest to those who have posted in this one so far.

Showing my own age (but not really, because they're classics), I agree with you, Anne, about the Cooper and the Garner. But my favorite retellings of Tam-Lin are The Queen of Spells by Dahlov Ipcar, and The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Pope.

I have so many favorites, I could never list them all. Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones, also her Dalemark books. The Seventh Swan by Nicholas Stuart Gray. The Changeling Sea, by Patricia McKillip.

Narnia, of course, for younger children. The Prydain books by Lloyd Alexander. The Box of Delights by John Masefield. Anything by Leon Garfield. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and Nightbirds on Nantucket by Joan Aiken.

And I've found a lot of new favorites: the Oracle series by Catherine Fisher; the Seeker Chronicles by Betsy James; The Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick, and the sequel The Dark Flight Down; Storm Thief by Chris Wooding ...

I better stop now.

[HareBrain]

Originally Posted by Anne Lyle

I'm showing my age here, but:

* The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper
* The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, by Alan Garner

Same authors for me (same age?) but different books:

Susan Cooper's The Grey King (still within the Dark is Rising series, but the best of them in my opinion)

Alan Garner's The Owl Service (and Red Shift, though this probably isn't a children's book).

And more recently, Darkhenge and Corbenic, both by Catherine Fisher, which in my opinion, reading as an adult, are even better than the above.

[The Ace]

The Dark is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper. "Over Sea, Under Stone," written as a stand-alone is a little weak, but I enjoyed the others.

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. The allegorical message is a magnet for detractors, but they're still excellent stories.

[Rosemary]

Originally Posted by Mouse

I used to read Colin Dann's stuff. Beach Dogs, and The Animals of Farthing Wood. Then I moved on to Brian Jacques Redwall books.

Do they still write The Animals of Farthing Wood, Mouse? I used to love those, so long ago! I still had a small set when my Granddaughters were growing up, so I gave the books to them to enjoy as well.

I know if I had copies on my shelf of The Chronicles, I would still read them!

[Mouse]

I don't think so, Rosemary. Last one was written in '94. Colin Dann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I adored Colin Dann though, read most of his stuff, even the books about cats! I do still have some of my Farthing Wood books... tempted to read them again now.

[starrypawz]

Let's see when I was younger I liked
Black Beauty
The Secret Garden
The Railway Children
Treasure Island
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
The 'Animal Ark' Series
and a whole bunch of books by Jacqueline Wilson

[Beamer]

So hard to choose lol. But some that would have to be on the list would be.
Vault of the Ages Poul Anderson
Have Space Suit, Will Travel, Rocket Ship Galileo, Starman Jones, and The Star Beast Robert A. Heinlein
Too many titles to mention by Andre Norton
The Winston Juvenile Science Fiction set that was published in the 50s by multiple authors some of the greats. Still trying to complete my set of those.
The Lucky Starr books by Isaac Asimov (Paul French pen name)
The Flinx books by Alan Dean Foster

Just to name a few.

[starrypawz]

Oh yeah, not sure if they count as these are comics but I also spent a lot of time reading 'The Adventures of TinTin' and 'Asterix'