What books from your childhood do you wish you could read to your toddler

[JoggingJemma]

I saw a battered copy of a Blackberry farm paperback that bought back some lovely memories of my mum sitting on the side of my bed reading to me.

Can also remember Topsy and Tim being a favourite.

What books do you remember?

[JoggingJemma]

anyone?

[Jammyrella]

I would love to read Roddy the Roadman to DD, but I gather that it quite an expensive 2nd hand purchase. It was great, the road signs came to life at night and had great fun.

[Jammyrella]

But I do have a reprinted version of Tootles the Taxi to read to her

[JoggingJemma]

Just been browsing Ebay and your right, some of the prices

[EmilyStrange]

Oh my gosh blackberry farm books were my absolute favourite, I had them all but noone else seemed to remember them too. I udes to eat, sleep and eat Rosie, Posie and Christopher. I tried to get my DC to love them too bus sadly cbeebies character books elicited more excitement. It is now a regular dissing on me as most of my childhood favourite books get given short shrift in favour of more current tosh. This must be how every generation feels when their teenage music gets trashed by their own teenagers. Speaking of which my dd pronounced Blondie a dreadful noise [sigh, sigh and sigh again].

[EmilyStrange]

I am officially a grimpy old woman "bah humbug those young ones don't know anything"

[Wigeon]

The Elephant and the Bad Baby

Phoebe and the Hot Water Bottles

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

My mum kept them and now I read the very same copies of these books to my toddler! Love love love them.

[EldonAve]

Smiler's Pram Ride

[smokinaces]

I kept most of my favourite books from my childhood - in fact DS1's favourite are my original nursery night time stories and the Puddle Lane series my mum found! DS2 loves the original Thomas books. We also rebought my altime favourite of Peepo along with Hungry Catepillar and Each Peach Pear Plum.

The main one I want to get is the original My Naughty Little Sister stories. My copy is very battered and torn.

[smokinaces]

excuse the spelling errors there!!

also loved Dogger and Tiger who Came to Tea, rebought those too!!

[JoggingJemma]

I have rebought the tiger who came to tea. DD loves hungary catapillar, one of her favourites!

Wow this thread is bringing back memories, I remeber the characters Rosie posie and christopher but cannot remember what the books were called?

Oh puddle lane! I loved those books and had completely forgetten about them.

I had so many book but they have been lost with time I'm going to try and re buy as many as I can, the problem is remembering them all!

[PortBlacksandDweller]

Emily the Goat
Rusty the sheep dog
George the naughty kitten

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Ernest the owl



IMO the Christmas at Blackberry Farm story should be de rigeur every year for every one.

What was the chick called - who got covered in flour???

and poor Mr Bunny with the tree on his leg
and Mrs Squirrel and Hazel who were soooo poor compared to the bunnies ...

[PortBlacksandDweller]

oh, oh and Lucy Mouse and Marcus, then they had Len and Sid.....

[JoggingJemma]

yy dogger!

[JoggingJemma]

I heart blackberry farm

[PortBlacksandDweller]

Wlater the Duck

R, P & C were the bunny babies who, i believe caught measles under a patchwork quilt once.

[PortBlacksandDweller]

Walter obv...

[JoggingJemma]

thats right! I knew I remembered them from somewhere, thanks port

[liliputlady]

The Hungry Caterpillar
The Magic Faraway Tree ( well a bit too old for a toddler, but I thought it was SO magical as a child!)

[meltedmarsbars]

this book I recently found it in our mobile library, but the dc's weren't impressed.

Btw, why was it banned at some point?