If you’re looking to escape for a few hours, it’ll be hard to beat losing yourself between the covers of a book.
Celebrating World Book Day tomorrow, Census Wide carried out a survey of more than 2,000 parents asking to nominate the books they loved and that every child should read.
Topping the list were favourites Roald Dahl and Lewis Carroll, with entries from Charles Dickens and J.R.Tolkien in amongst the list.
So did your childhood favourite make the list?
Here’s the top 50 children’s books everyone should read at least once in their life…
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl
Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe- C.S. Lewis
Winnie The Pooh- A.A.Milne
Black Beauty- Anna Sewell
James and The Giant Peach- Roald Dahl
The BFG-Roald Dahl
A Bear Called Paddington- Michael Bond
Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
Matilda- Roald Dahl
The Railway Children- E. Nesbit
Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens
Five on a Treasure Island- Enid Blyton
The Wind in the Willows- Kenneth Grahame
The Very Hungry Caterpillar- Eric Carle
The Jungle Book- Rudyard Kipling
Charlotte’s Web- EB White
The Tale of Peter Rabbit- Beatrix Potter
Watership Down- Richard Adams
The Hobbit -J.R.Tolkien
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- J.K. Rowling
Lord of the Flies- William Golding
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 ¾ Sue Townsend
Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
The Cat in the Hat- Dr Seuss
The Secret Garden- Frances Hodgson-Burnett
The Diary of a Young Girl- Anne Frank
The Twits – Roald Dahl
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz- L. Frank Baum
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
Anne of Green Gables- L.M.Montgomery
The Tiger Who Came to Tea- Judith Kerr
Green Eggs and Ham-Dr Seuss
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Bambi- Felix Selten
Tom’s Midnight Garden- Phillipa Pearce
Little House on the Prairie- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Funny Bones- Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Where The Wild Things Are- Maurice Sendak
Carrie’s War- Nina Bawden
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
The Magician’s Nephew- C.S. Lewis
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
The Story of Doctor Dolittle- Hugh Lofting
The Story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Curious George- H.A.Ray
Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
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