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Which of your favourites from childhood have you re-read recently?

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By Sun 20-Sep-09 16:54:43 Add message | Report | Contact poster

I am lucky in that my DD is a voracious reader and often willing to try books I remember enjoying when I was a kid. This gives me the excuse to have them around the house and enjoy an indulgent re-read occasionally.

All the Malory Towers books have long been favourites, along with Secret Island, The Children Who Lived in a Barn and several Jennings books.

But most recently the old friend I rediscovered was Jill.

We had an old copy of "Jill and the Perfect Pony" and after reading it DD asked me if their were any other books about her. Well I could remember one or two others from when I was a kid but I did the research and found the full list (only 9 in total) and we were able to pick up secondhand copies of all of them fairly cheaply over Amazon Marketplace.

We are both having a bit of a Jill-fest at the moment and I am remembering how much I adored these years ago. I never had a pony or riding lessons but used to turn our back lawn in to an imaginary gymkhana with little jumps and pretend to be Jill!!

What childish delights do others like to read when noone much is looking?

Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sun 01-Nov-09 08:20:46

The Trebizon series by Anne Digby is still fab like a modern 80's version of Malory Towers

Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 22-Oct-09 23:38:59

I throughly enjoyed the Fell Farm series myself thought they were very charming especially Fell Farm for Christmas. Albeit they are dated but would highly recommend them.

Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 21-Oct-09 21:52:31

The Hundred and One Dalmations by Dodie Smith. Still so good after all this time.

Add message | Report | Contact poster By Fri 09-Oct-09 21:43:27

The Upstairs Room, by Johanna Reiss. It is a very older child book though. God it is sad.

I can't wait to read Black Hearts in Battersea and all the other Joan Aitken books to DS. I do like Paddington too - I've tricked DS out in a duffel coat and trained him to like mardemalade.

Add message | Report | Contact poster By Fri 09-Oct-09 10:31:31

The 'Uncle' books by J.P. Martin.

They've been out of print for ages (too middle class apparently) and sell for huge amounts of money on ebay.

Some US publisher has just started re-issuing them though.

Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 07-Oct-09 08:37:19

We're reading Jules Verne atm, very much a blast from the past. I am having to revamp the author as ds shouts at him every time he refers to the natives as "savages" or talks about "civilisation". But we are both enjoying it and ds is really thinking about the story. Dh just reads them Jennings and has them in stitches.

Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sun 04-Oct-09 21:19:35

I also used to like some books called Tim & Tobias which I read at school. I looked on ebay today out of interest & just one of the books had bids on at about 22 pounds!

Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sun 04-Oct-09 18:05:24

White Boots is another of my favourite Streatfeilds. And Apple Bough. Now probably called Fiddle Shoes or something. It really irks me the way they have retitled so many of her books to fit the shoes theme.

Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sat 03-Oct-09 15:41:57

Oh yes Ballet Shoes! I loved this as a child and still do. So does DD.

Another Noel Streatfield that I always liked and finally managed to get second hand is The Circus Is Coming.

I don't think it has quite the same lasting appeal as Ballet Shoes but it is still entertaining.

Add message | Report | Contact poster By Fri 02-Oct-09 20:24:18

I pinched dd's Ballet Shoes the other week. I used to love it but for some reason she was not impressed!

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