The Book List

I'm slowing up! That's the problem with having to pack all your stuff in between doing exciting holiday activities like going for walks and swimming in the sea: reading time is dramatically reduced. I haven't been on a train for five whole days!

Anyway, in the meantime, I've got a list of books I still need to acquire. If you have a copy of any of these books... please lend it to me! Email me, text me, send the book by carrier pigeon - get it to me somehow! (Otherwise, Noah might win - and then he'd be able to make pretensions to claiming that films have a modicum of superiority over books, which we all know to be fallacious).

The books:

Richard Adams, Watership Down

Lucy M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe

Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War

Helen Cresswell, The Bagthorpe Saga: 2. Absolute Zero

Helen Cresswell, The Bagthorpe Saga: 3. Bagthorpes Unlimited

Helen Cresswell, The Bagthorpe Saga: 4. Bagthorpes Versus the World

Helen Cresswell, The Bagthorpe Saga: 5. Bagthorpes Abroad

Helen Cresswell, The Bagthorpe Saga: 6. Bagthorpes Haunted

Helen Cresswell, The Bagthorpe Saga: 7. Bagthorpes Liberated

Helen Cresswell, The Bagthorpe Saga: 8. The Bagthorpe Triangle

Helen Cresswell, The Bagthorpe Saga: 9. Bagthorpes Besieged

Helen Cresswell, The Bagthorpe Saga: 10 Bagthorpes Battered

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

Cornelia Funke, Thief Lord

Jamila Gavin, Coram Boy

Rumer Godden, The Black Narcissus

James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small

Susan Hill, I’m the King of the Castle

Heinrich Hoffman, Struwwelpeter

Brian Jacques, Redwall

Erich Kastner, Emil and the Detectives

Edward Lear, Complete Nonsense

Jack London, White Fang

Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mr Tom

J. P. Martin, Uncle

J. P. Martin, Uncle Cleans Up

J. P. Martin, Uncle and His Detective

J. P. Martin, Uncle and the Treacle Trouble

J. P. Martin, Uncle and Claudius the Camel

J. P. Martin, Uncle and the Battle for Badgertown

Geraldine McCaughrean, Kite Rider

Spike Milligan, A Children’s Treasury of Milligan: Classic Stories and Poems

L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Jenny Nimmo, The Snow Spider

Marcus Sedgwick, The Book of Dead Days

Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

Sylvia Waugh, The Mennyms

Kaye Webb, I Like this Poem: Favourite Poems Chosen by Children

Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners

Kit Wright, Hoping it Might Be So: Poems 1974-2000