There are a lot of books that enchanted me in childhood that do so to this day ... Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Dark is Rising Sequence (older kids ... pre-teens probably), The Jungle Books,The Green Knowe books, Island of the Blue Dolphins, My Side of the Mountain, Black Beauty, The Black Stallion books and about a thousand other books about horses.
There are a lot of great children's books out there, not all of them are Caldicott or Newbury winners.
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