Children's books for all to enjoy

These books have all been published as children's or in some cases YA books, but I enjoy them still, though my childhood is long gone! A good book is a good book.

[As I said before, there's no point in reiterating a lot of description - Amazon does it so much better than me; so I've provided links (the images, or text links where no image is available) to the appropriate pages in Amazon.]

Joy Chant

Red Moon and Black Mountain

Joy Chant has written others, and I enjoy them all, but for some reason this is my favorite. She's not well-known, but deserves to be. I was interested to see that although she doesn't have many reviews on Amazon, almost all of them give the book 5 stars!

Susan Cooper

The Dark is Rising

Over Sea, Under Stone

The Dark is Rising

Greenwitch

The Grey King

Silver on the Tree

I didn't read Over Sea, Under Stone until I'd read the others, and I'm not sure whether I'd have read the series if I'd started there. It's much more of a "children's book" than the others. If you're not a child, my recommendation is to start with The Dark is Rising - it's quite self-contained; it's not until Greenwitch that you connect with the events in Over Sea.

Ursula Le Guin

The Earthsea Cycle

A Wizard of Earthsea

The Tombs of Atuan

The Farthest Shore

There are more in the series, but this is the original trilogy.

Madeleine L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time

The first, and my favorite, in a series of several books about these people (not a series in the sense of a continuing story). Madeleine L'Engle has also written a lot of other books, especially at the YA level - ie growing up, adolescent angst type stuff; by which I don't mean anything offensive. I love that stuff, and my very favorite is:

The Young Unicorns