BOOK experts have selected 50 books all children should have on their shelves.
The Times, which sponsors the Cheltenham Literature Festival, has compiled a list of 50 books children should have red.
The books were picked out by a panel including Amanda Craig, children's books critic, Lucy Coats, children's books consultant and founder of Bookstart, Tom Gatti, Saturday Review editor, authors Anthony McGowan and Katherine Langrish and children's literature expert Nicholas Tucker.
Topping the list is JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit, which was adapted into a film released late last year.
Described as "the greatest children's book ever written", the book details the story of Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit from the Shire.
With the Cheltenham Literature Festival in just a few months, how many of the following books have you or your children read? Which books would top your list? Comment below to let us know what you think.
1. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
2. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
3. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
4. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
5. Tom's Midnight Garden – Philippa Pearce
6. A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula Le Guin
7. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
8. The Little White Horse – Elizabeth Goudge
9. The Iron Man – Ted Hughes
10. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen – Alan Garner
11. Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
12. Finn Family Moomintroll – Tove Jansson
13. The Sea of Trolls – Nancy Farmer
14. Just William – Richmal Crompton
15. Matilda – Roald Dahl
16. The Midnight Folk – John Masefield
17. The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
18. Each Peach Pear Plum – Janet and Allan Ahlberg
19. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
20. Stories for Children – Oscar Wilde
21. Hellbent – Anthony McGowan
22. The Mouse and His Child – Russell Hoban
23. Five Children and It – E Nesbit
24. The Magicians of Caprona – Diana Wynne Jones
25. The Tiger who came to Tea – Judith Kerr
26. The Sword in the Stone – TH White
27. The Eagle of the Ninth – Rosemary Sutcliff
28. The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter
29. The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
30. The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
31. The Cat in the Hat – Dr Seuss
32. How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff
33. The wolves of Willoughby Chase – Joan Aiken
34. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
35. The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle
36. One Dog and his Boy – Eva Ibbotson
37. The Silver Sword – Ian Serraillier
38. The Man whose Mother was a Pirate – Margaret Mahy
39. Stormbreaker – Anthony Horowitz
40. How to Train Your Dragon – Cressida Cowell
41. Coram Boy – Jamila Gavin
42. The Borrowers – Mary Norton
43. The Snow-walker's Son – Catherine Fisher
44. Holes – Louis Sachar
45. Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian
46. Kit's Wilderness – David Almond
47. Wolf Brother – Michelle Paver
48. Vice Versa – F Anstey
49. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
50. Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy – Lynley Dodd
