While children's books can be dark at times, they teach kids some of life's most valuable lessons
In Little Red Riding Hood, they learn never to trust strangers and in Watership Down, they discover difficult themes of death and conflict
And in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl warns children about the dangers of greed through a series of unfortunate incidents, including drowning a child in a chocolate river and turning one into a giant blueberry
But bestselling children's author Geraldine McCaughrean has hit out because she says such stories are no longer deemed acceptable for primary school kids
Read More Four surprising ways to get a good night's sleep - including reading a bedtime story She says: "With a book that's going to be sold into schools you get a list of things that are unacceptable — no witches, no demons, no alcohol, no death, no religion
"It really does cut down what you can write about." The 67-year-old, who received the CILIP Carnegie Medal, Britain's oldest book award, adds: "It's extraordinary because in preschool you can read fairytales in their original form and some of them are really scary and dark
"But you go to junior school and all of a sudden the fairytales that you read have been sanitised and cleaned up
" Under such rules The Worst Witch, The Hobbit and even Harry Potter would be banned from school libraries
But what about the lessons we can all learn from them? Here our columnists reveal the important morals they remember from the childhood book which may now be on the no-read list
Read More Top 50 feelgood movies to lift your spirits – after Forrest Gump wins nationwide vote Paul Routledge On my bookshelf is a copy of Tom Sawyer, the children's classic by American author Mark Twain
It's a harum-scarum story of growing up in a 19th Century Mississippi river town, with a murder, slavery, running away and playing hooky from school
I wanted to be like Tom: adventurous, getting into trouble, having best mates, pretending to be pirates and hiding in caves from the adults
Unfortunately, the book is a prize "for excellent work in Form IVA", so I didn't quite live up to the hero I so admired
I've tried to make up for it since, morphing into Huckleberry Finn. Brian Reade It makes me shudder to think of kids being deprived Roald Dahl's books because someone has deemed them too subversive or adult
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory opened my eyes at the age of nine to the brutal inequalities of life
The story of Charlie Bucket's family living off cabbage soup and sleeping on the floor of a tiny hovel while outside gluttonous types like Augustus Gloop had everything fall into their lap simply because they were accidents of birth, helped form political views which have never left me
And he did it with such a wicked humour. How could such genius be anything other than a golden ticket to early inspiration? Rachael Bletchly In Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 classic The Secret Garden, Mary, 10, is a sickly, withdrawn child living in India with her uncaring parents - until a cholera epidemic kills them and the servants, and she's left to fend alone
Cheery, eh? It certainly gave me nightmares when I was 10. Eventually Mary is found and sent to live with her cold, widowed Uncle in his miserable English home
So, unsurprisingly, the kid has issues. But this tale of misery blossoms into a story of hope when she discovers a secret walled garden, a pal, Dickon, and a crippled cousin Colin hidden in the back bedroom
Mary and Dickon wheel him into the garden which they tend until it blooms. Colin recovers, Uncle Archie's heart is healed and we all get a life lesson about neglect and death, love and nurture
Aaaaah. Kevin Maguire The Twits is a great life lesson that nasty people get their comeuppance when the world's turned upside down
I read Roald Dahl's classic to my kids and the spoiler alert is the heroes are a good samaritan Roly-Poly bird which didn't fly by on the side and exploited Muggle-Wumps monkeys
The villains are the Twit couple who come to a sticky end after receiving a taste of their own medicine
Like all nasty folk, they're fundamentally stupid. Living in a house with no windows because they think they're for looking in not out is a brilliant insight into closed minds
Parts are frightening but we learn from fear when goodness triumphs and the evil are vanquished
Siobhan McNally I say, chaps, this banning Enid Blyton in schools for writing about witches, an evil sandman and a Magic Faraway Tree is a beastly business
I grew up reading all of Blyton's books, and I think they're wizard. They never did me any harm… well except the time I blew myself up trying to make lashings of ginger beer, which taught me to never underestimate the active properties of dry yeast
I also learned valuable life skills about tuck boxes, midnight feasts and apple pie beds (never mix all three or you'll end up with crumble)
But most of all it taught me how to spot an absolute rotter, or Jacob Rees-Mogg as he's also known
Andy Dunn I'm in Russia at the moment where, in the time of my childhood years, Five Went To A Salt Mine if they read anything as subversive as an Enid Blyton book
Of course, Blyton is considered unsuitable reading by many at home, with some even reckoning her work is full of double entendres
Complete nonsense. My favourite, Five Go To Billycock Hill, address modern-day issues of espionage and the media's role in society
Honest. Anyway, life lessons you can learn from Enid? I've read her books to my daughter, who now has an inherent scepticism about posh kids
A valuable one, indeed. Sara Wallis When my six-year-old son took an interest in fairytales, I admit I worried he'd be waking me up in a cold sweat
Jack climbed up his beanstalk to face a giant who munched on little boys. Brer Rabbit was chased down a dark well
And don't even get me started on the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood. But surely sugar-coating everything hampers the imagination? I voraciously read CS Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia as a child a dark series about a kingdom ruled by the evil white witch with talking lion Aslan the hero
There was death and destruction and I probably never noticed the religious subtext
But it taught me about friendship, adventure and right and wrong. You can't feed the imagination without a few monsters under the bed
Ashleigh Rainbird I thought history lessons were "boring" at school, so my entire understanding of yesteryears came via the Horrible Histories series - and they were truly grim
Thanks to books such as The Terrible Tudors, I still remember that footballs were originally made from a pig's bladder, how Elizabeth I had rotten teeth, and I learnt how it took three blows with an axe for a clumsy executioner to behead Mary Queen of Scots - there were plenty of deaths covered in their pages
I am grateful to Terry Deary and his fascination with the gruesome for my knowledge of times past
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