Favourite books from childhood?

[Rawr]

Hahaha funny PC friendly world.

[Mexicola]

Maybe you're thinking of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books, Mexicola? They were all like that and I loved reading them! It would ask you at the end of the chapter something like 'if you want to see what happens behind the yellow door, go to page 56.' Good times!

 

I've only just seen this. I don't think it was those ones I was thinking of, they do sound good though! In fact I think more books should adopt that style

[miltenburg]

Hello, very young my favourites were

Where the Wild Things Are~Maurice Sendak and

Dogger~ Shirley Hughes

 

Growing up the Nancy Drew series and all of S.E. Hinton, oh and the Sweet Valley High series:blush:

[Cookie]

My favourite auther as a child was Enid Blyton.

 

I loved The Magic Faraway Tree, The Famous Five, The Secret Seven...I can't remember what book it was in but I will never forget the time the golliwog went into the shop to buy some cigarettes!

[vinay87]

The Wind in the Willows

The Wizard of Oz

Peter Pan

And some Enid Blyton book about a flying chair or something. I really want to find the name of that book someday.

[Janet]

And some Enid Blyton book about a flying chair or something. I really want to find the name of that book someday.

The 'Wishing Chair' books (there are more than one - maybe two - but this is the first!) were about a flying chair.

 

I loved The Magic Faraway Tree, The Famous Five, The Secret Seven...I can't remember what book it was in but I will never forget the time the golliwog went into the shop to buy some cigarettes!

Blyton's 'The Second Holiday book' featured a golly who collected cigarette butts!

[chesilbeach]

My OH has been reminiscing about some of his favourite books, and we managed to find some on our local library website in the reserve archive, so I currently have the following books from the 60s and 70s to read:

 

Roddy and the Miniature Railway by Phyllis Arkle

Agaton Sax and the Diamond Thieves by Nils-Olof Franzen (illustrated by Quentin Blake)

Henry on Safari by Dora Thatcher

[vinay87]

The 'Wishing Chair' books (there are more than one - maybe two - but this is the first!) were about a flying chair.

 

OMG thank you!! It was my very first novel!

[Janet]

No problem. I knew straight away as it was one of my favourite childhood books.

[Vladd]

My OH has been reminiscing about some of his favourite books, and we managed to find some on our local library website in the reserve archive, so I currently have the following books from the 60s and 70s to read:

 

Roddy and the Miniature Railway by Phyllis Arkle

Agaton Sax and the Diamond Thieves by Nils-Olof Franzen (illustrated by Quentin Blake)

Henry on Safari by Dora Thatcher

 

Loved the Agaton Sax book, really enjoyed Kenneth Williams reading them on Jackanory

[Nicola Booth]

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis.

Famous Five and the Secret Seven Novels.

 

I also loved the point horror books in my teens.

[Laura-Jade]

When I was a kid, my parents used to read Enid Blyton to me .

 

I also loved the Babysitter's Club series and Nancy Drew. I credit Nancy Drew for my love of Agatha Christie now .

 

And I still adore Roald Dahl, I read his stories now to my young cousins.

[Lizreads]

I loved, loved, loved, Elizabeth Enright. Her books are absolutely wonderful, and timeless.

 

Well, there are the Nancy Drew books, too! And another all-time favorite are the Betsy-Tacy-Tib books by Maud Hart Lovelace.

Edited January 31, 2010 by Janet
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[Jessi]

I too loved the babysitters club but Goodnight Mr Tom is my fav book from my childhood and I still love it now (I read it again last summer and probs will this summer too!).

[Denise]

I remember clearly when I first got seriously stuck into books that my choice of reading then was Enid Blyton with The Secret Seven,The Famous Five,The Malory Towers series,The Magic Faraway Tree & The Wishing Chair series.

 

What was your's?

[Karsa Orlong]

I remember reading The Secret Seven and The Famous Five, too. And I remember my dad getting me hooked on the Biggles books.

[Kreader]

I remember clearly when I first got seriously stuck into books that my choice of reading then was Enid Blyton with The Secret Seven,The Famous Five,The Malory Towers series,The Magic Faraway Tree & The Wishing Chair series.

 

What was your's?

 

Those were my first childhood series books.

[poppyshake]

Yes, lots of Enid's .. especially 'Malory Towers', 'St Clares' and the 'Mystery' series .. also CS Lewis's 'The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe' .. which was probably the first book that I really loved.

[Ooshie]

Oh yes, all the Enid Blytons. And Narnia. And lots of horse stories; especially those by the three Pullein-Thomson sisters, Marguerite Henry, and the My Friend Flicka/Thunderhead/Green Grass of Wyoming series. Happy days.

[Coffin Nail]

As well as the Enid Blyton phases, I loved Roald Dahl, and the Danny Fox series by Eric Thompson.

I seem to remember Nancy Drew making a brief appearance as well.

[Ooshie]

I had forgotten about Nancy Drew, they were great too.

[pickle]

Ohhhhhhhh me too I had loads of them started reading them when very young loved them

[Kreader]

My next childhood series books were Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys and The Chronicles of Narnia series.

[arewenearlythere]

I was actually thinking about my childhood book whilst reading StoryBox and seeing all the bunnies hopping about.

 

I loved the Beatrix Potter stories because of the beautiful illustrations and the fantastical short stories; I especially loved Peter Rabbit and Miss Tiggywinkle! .

 

I also remember loving Ted Hughes The Iron Man, it was probably the scariest story I read when I was a child and I can't remember why!

Edited April 9, 2010 by arewenearlythere

[Cookie]

I saw a book on Amazon that I had completely forgotten about which I loved as a kid - Stig of the Dump. Does anyone else remember this?