Good books for kids

Good books for kids as suggested by Tom Hodgekinson in "The Idle Parent"

1. The Ahlbergs
2. JM Barrie - Peter Pan
3. William Blake
4. Enid Blyton (cuurently reading thesebut finding the overt moraistic messages somewhat tedious!)
5. Raymon Briggs
6. Lewis Carroll
7. Roald Dahl (oh yes:)
8. Daniel Defoe
9. Dickens - A christmas Carol
10. Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holms Mysteries
11. Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows
12. Grimm Brothers - often a bit too grim when I try them..
13. Joel Chandler Harris - Uncle Remus
14. Charles Kingsley - The Water Babies
15. Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book
16. Edward Lear - (oh yeah)
17. C.S. Lewis
18. A.A. Milne -Pooh and Now we are six (delightfully offset by "Now we are sixty" ;)
19. Beatrix Potter (been there, done that, started the collection)
20. Tales from the Thousand and One nights

so there

and a couple more I found in a suggestion list:
Emily Rodda - Deltora Quest
Paul Jennings (Round the Twist series are fun but like Emily, for older children once they've read the Enid Blyton..)
Of course
JK Rowling
Eoin Colfer is very popular but can't say I've read any..
John Christopher's Tripod series is great.
Old but the Secret Garden as well - Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Best for last: , "Bottersnikes and Gumbles" by SA Wakefield.