What are the best Childrens books you know of?

[ILoveMRHMWogglebugTE]

What are (or were) the best childrens books you knew of from your childhood, and why? And what are the ones you read to your children (if you have any) today? Also how do they contrast the older generations?

[Rev. Rye]

Here are a few from my personal collection:

• Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  
• The Railway series by Rev. Awdry.
  
• The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
  
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
  
• Anything by Roald Dahl (except, of course, for his adult works)
  
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
  
• The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
  
• The Little Prince by Antoine St. Exupery