Every time we meet, someone mentions a particular book, and we all say "Oh, we MUST get round to that one ... " so here's the Must Get Round To List. We'll keep adding to it every month. So many books, so little time ...
- Something from the Jennings & Darbishire series by Anthony Buckeridge (1912-2004): DONE
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1877)
- Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken (1964)
- The Borrowers by Mary Norton (1952)
- Anything written by Mrs Molesworth (1839-1921) because her name keeps coming up: DONE (The Cuckoo Clock)
- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken (1963)
- Five Children and It by E Nesbit (1902)
- The Phoenix and the Carpet by E Nesbit (1904)
- House of Arden by E Nesbit (1908)
- Mistress Masham's Repose by T H White (1946)
- The Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
- The Wool Pack by Cynthia Harnett (1951)
- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1935)
- Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
- The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean by R M Ballantyne (1858)
- Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling (1906)
- Dragonfly by Julia Golding (2008)
- The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff (1959)
- Arthur: the Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland (2000)
- Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876)
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
- War Horse by Michael Morpurgo (1982)
- Polyanna by Eleanor Porter (1913)
- The Nicest Girl in the School by Angela Brazil (1909) or similar
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
- Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (1871)
- Down with Skool! A Guide to School Life for Tiny Pupils and their Parents by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle (1953) or How to be Topp! A Guide to Sukcess for Tiny Pupils, Including All there is to Kno about Space (1954)
- Numbers by Rachel Ward (2009)
- The Railway Children by E Nesbit (1906)
- Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones (1977)
- Any book by Henry Treece
- Bows Against the Barons by Geoffrey Trease (1934)
- Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce (1958)
- The Golden Treasury by Francis Palgrave and Alfred Pearse (1861)
- Carrie's War by Nina Bawden (1973)
- Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian (1981)
- The Arabian Nights
- The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Colludi (1883)
- The Box of Delights by John Masefield (1935)
- Any poetry by Roald Dahl
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
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