The National Trust has published a list of 50 things to do before you're 11 and ¾, from running around in the rain and bug hunting, to setting up a snail race, damming a stream, flying a kite and making a mud pie. All the ideas are going to be featured in a free scrapbook in the newspaper on Saturday and it got us thinking about all the exciting tree-climbing, moor-roaming, wild-camping adventures characters get up to in our favourite children's books.

When I think of adventures books I think of the Famous Five. Open any Enid Blyton novel involving Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy and you'll find children sailing boats, exploring smugglers' coves and camping in the wilderness, free from the watchful eye of parents. With a mystery to solve and a host of villains to overcome, the books are obviously not a realistic picture of everyday life for kids now, or even then. But even though we might not get the chance to outsmart roguish smugglers and save our cousins from the hands of criminals, there are plenty of outdoor adventures to be had inspired by the Famous Five or other young, fearless fictional characters. When my brother and I were on holidays in Wales, our favourite thing to do was pretend we were on the run from imaginary baddies, jumping over rock pools and climbing up the cliffs (which at the time it seemed really high, but probably weren't at all!)

There are lots of adventure books like the Famous Five series: Swallows and Amazons, Fell Farm Campers, Willard Price's "adventure" series and more recently, Lauren St John's Laura Marlin mysteries, Helen Moss's Adventure Island series, or even the Hunger Games which take the classic outdoor adventure and add a darker, dystopian twist to it. All books that make you want to spend your time after school and at the weekends learning how to make dens and cook on a campfire.

The 50 Things to do before you're 11 and ¾ list has lots of things that you can find in these books. In the Hunger Games, Katniss climbs trees, builds a den, eats fruit from the wild and knows how to call birds.

What are your favourite outdoor adventure books? Which fictional adventure scene would you most like to take part in? Would you like to be able to do the outdoor things on the National Trust list, or are they only really for storybook adventures? We'd love to hear what adventures you've done, and what you're going to do! Email your thoughts to childrens.books@theguardian.com and we'll publish them below.

Your favourite adventure stories

Adam:
When it comes to children's adventure stories that are both wildly exciting and yet realistic enough that you can imagine them happening to you, Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons books are jam packed with examples.
Camping on a small island in a lake with no adults, sailing small boats and even wrecking one of them. How about exploring a tidal muddy estuary and mapping it. Or perhaps sailing across the North Sea in a small yacht when the only adult on board goes ashore and doesn't return and the boat drifts out to sea on the tide in a rising wind and fog.

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Has to be Bog Baby - a rich & magical story