My childhood to young adult list is as follows:
- Eric Carle – Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- The Faraway Tree
- C.S.Lewis
- Roald Dahl
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm – Grimm’s Fairy Tales
- Jane Leslie Conly, Robert C. O’Brien – Rats of Nimh
- Steven Davies – Sophie series
- Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
- KM Peyton - Blind Beauty
- Lauren Brooke - Heartland
- Bennie Bryant - Saddle Club
- Nicolas Evans - The Horse Whisperer
- Tamora Pierce - The Tortall series, Circle of Magic series
- Dick King Smith - The Sheep-Pig
- Ann Brashares – Sisterhood of Travelling pants
- Marita Conlon-McKenna – Under the
- Carolyn Keene – Nancy Drew
- Astrid Lindgren – Pippa longstocking
- Ann M. Martin – Babysitters club
- Lucy Maud Montgomery – Ann of Green Gables
- Jill Murphy – The Worst Witch
- Edith Nesbitt – Railway Children, Phoenix and the Carpet
- Mary Norton – The Borrowers, Bedknob and Broomstick
- Jenny Oldfield – Homefarm Twins, Half Moon Ranch series
- Philippa Pearce - Tom's
- Dodie Smith - 101 Dalmations
- R. L. Stine – Goosebumps
- E.B.White –
- Jacqueline Wilson
- Garth Nix
- Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland
- Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
- Louisa May Alcott - Little Woman
- Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
- Johanna Spyri - Heidi
- L. Frank Baum - Wizard of Oz
- J. M. Barrie - Peter Pan
- Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows
- Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden
- Malorie Blackman - Noughts and Crosses
- Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials
- J K Rowling
- J. R. R. Tolkien – Lord of the rings
- V.C. Andrews - Flowers in the attic
- Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express, Poirot
- Jane Austen
- Charles Dickens
- Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl
