30 Must Read Books for Kids

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Milz" <absinthe at m...> wrote:
> http://encarta.msn.com/parents/features/mustreadbooksforkids.asp
> 
> No Harry Potter listed. Looking over the list, I read most of them. 
> Which brings this to mind. What were your favorite books as a child?

Mine are too numerous to mention - I loved all the usual suspects 
which crop up on this list - Susan Cooper, E Nesbit, CS Lewis, 
Tolkein, and perhaps, best of all, LM Montgomery.  Some Enid Blyton 
was good when I was just starting out.
Beverly Cleary - I loved Ramona the Pest - forgotten all about it 
until today.
Historical fiction always interested me - I enjoyed any Arthur books, 
anything by Rosemary Sutcliffe, Michelle Magorian's "Goodnight Mr 
Tom" anything set in the Victorian period.  I probably started 
reading stuff like Georgette Heyer far too young, but I've had an 
obsession going on with the Regency Period ever since.

Some things I have never heard mentioned on this list:
Did anyone ever read Lucy M. Boston's "The Children of Green Knowe" 
and the sequels?  I loved those.  

One of my cousins introduced me to a series of adventure books by 
Willard Price - about 2 teenage brothers whose father owns a zoo and 
they spend all their holidays on animal collecting adventures all 
over the world.  Really exciting, if a little far-fetched (one of the 
books is spent on an old-fashioned whaling ship with a captain who 
still advocates the use of the cat o' nine tails - my least 
favourite).

I haven't heard of many of the books on that list.  Are they 
predominantly by American authors?

Catherine