Parents are raising their children with the classic they grew up with

NOSTALGIC bookworm parents are raising their little readers with the classics they grew up with, as many iconic titles continue to hold strong on the children’s top seller lists.

Five-year-old Aidan and three-year-old Alessia Siwak have a ball reading the classic book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, which has officially sold one million copies in Australia.

NOSTALGIC bookworm parents are raising their little readers with the classics they grew up with, as many iconic titles continue to hold strong on the children’s top seller lists.

For instance, popular picture book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt has just reached the milestone of 1 million sales — 24 years after it first hit the nation’s shelves.

It is ranked 35 on the country’s weekly children’s bestseller market list.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar — ranked 116th — has sold two million copies over the last two decades.

Meanwhile the Harry Potter series, which has more than 450 million books printed globally, has seven spots in the top 150.

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Charles Sturt University senior English lecturer Dr Mark Macleod said: “There is always nostalgia, one of the exciting things is that parents who rely on the classics want to share with children the books they enjoyed when they were young”.

“Some books last and some books don’t, the ones that do have to have an emotional connection with us.”