What really stands out when you think of your childhood books?

Can't believe I've only just remembered Angela Brazil! The Naughtiest Girl in School series in particular. I was telling a friend how she got into the school in the first place (I won't go into details so we don't need a spoiler alert!) at the weekend and it reminded me I must add it/them to this thread!

I think I read The Lost Prince. Wasn't Frances Hodgson Burnett more famous for writing Little Lord Fauntleroy? I definitely read that, but didn't enjoy it particularly.

Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Lost Prince. I've never met anyone else who's read it.

I have my grandmother's copy. I haven't actually read it, though ...

Yes, definitely!

Sorrel, I have! But fairly recently as all her works are free on Kindle. Wish I'd read it as a child. I think Enid Blyton must have, don't you?

So, so many of the above, especially the Noel Streatfeild's (natch) and the Lorna Hills.

Also, Beverley Nicholl's series: The Mountain of Magic, The Tree That Sat Down and The Stream That Stood Still, The Wickedest Witch In The World. Quite dark and scary, especially the unabridged versions.

The Silver Crown by Robert C O'Brien (author of Mrs Frisby and ...)

Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Lost Prince. I've never met anyone else who's read it.

Not sure I'm a fan...influenced by, yes..

I was terrified by An Enemy At Green Knowe.

I loved A Stranger apart from the end.

Another Earthsea fan here. DP got the DVD in Sainsburys - the whitewash one. I made him take it straight back.

I Loved the Children, but hated An enemy, although I can still repeat the spell to get rid of her.., Dr Melanie D Powers,

Avaunt, hence, be gone, Melusine Demogorgona Phosphor
Vaunt, hence, be gone....

Diminishing by one syllable each time.

A stranger was slightly odd.

So glad to find another Earthsea reader..

I think I mentioned The Children of Green Knowe in my 1st post, I certainly meant to. Unusually for me, though, I don't think I read the series, just that one. Themodern Yy to Wizard of Earthsea.

Anyone mentioned te Green Knowe series?

Humourless US, Ursula Le Guin A Wizard of Earthsea and its scary successors. If you didn't like the Weirdstone of Brisingamen you won't like these.. Beautifully written, but seriously scary, Attwood for children in dystopia.

Well its taken 2 weeks but I've finally remembered the name of the book - it was Flyfree by C S Adler.

Oh yes! How to be Topp and also Molesworth & Co - loved the illustrations. Have just remembered the Village School books by Miss Read. I loved them so much I had to read them all, even though I don't think they were written for children.

Themodern, nope don't remember that bit, just that I adored reading the book. I do remember the boy and Stig meeting up at the beginning and appreciating the way they were such an unlikely couple, but they became close friends. That unlikely coupling thing has become a bit of a theme for life!

Oh, How to be Topp. I loved that! Had completely forgotten it.

Just William and PG Wodehouse used to make me laugh

I remember Kenneth Williams reading Agaton Sax on Jackanory.

Someone mentioned Agaton Sax above - I loved those, too. Nils-Olaf Franzen.

Swallows and Amazons
The Snow Kitten
The Tree that Sat Down & The Stream that Stood Still
The Almost All-White Rabbity Cat
Arthur & the Great Detective
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Arthur & the Great Detective
How to be Topp

Ooh yes, Masha, The Meindert de Jongs, just made DH read The Warden's Niece and his response was to buy all the rest! Not so good IMV.

Elidor freaked me out completely. The Weirdstone was bad enough and set locally to my home so it was a bit eerie..

My sister tried to get me to read a series by a humourless US writer about a wizard at the end of the world. V famous, v chilling. Hated so much I have tried to forget.

Cheap, do you remember the party in Stig where Lou, I think it is, faces off the cheetah who is somewhat surprised? And the burglars who plead to be taken away? I keep meaning to go to Ash and then Kits Coty House, where it was set.

Only read one Melendy but enjoyed it.

Stig of the Dump - Clive King
Yy to Laura Ingalls Wilder & all the Little House on the Prairie books
The Winter of Enchantment by Victoria someone-or-other about a boy called Sebastien. It had beautiful drawings which were also by the author and I remember thinking how fortunate she was to have 2 great talents.
The Family From One End Street
The Treasure Seekers, 5 Children and It and pretty much anything else by E N Nesbit
A book of short stories, the 1st of which was about a sandcastle which set like concrete when the tide came in, rather than get washed away.
The Borrowers

Many, many of those above - also Elizabeth Enright's Melendy Family series. Plus I had a book by EB White, who wrote Charlotte's Web, but it was another title - will have to check when I'm back home.

Loved KM Peyton - Flambards was good, but preferred the ones about Ruth Hollis (Fly-by-Night etc), Pennington and Prove Yourself a Hero, as well as the various historical ones.

Margaret Mahy - particularly the Changeover.

Someone mentioned GR Kesteven above - the one I reread a few times was the Pale Invaders.

Rosemary Manning - the Green Dragon series

Ruth Manning-Sanders - all her fairy story books, but they have to have the Robin Jacques illustrations.

Roger Lancelyn Green's Tales of the Greek Heroes is mainly responsible for me taking Latin to A-level (Greek wasn't an option.)

Ernest Thomson Seton.

Kipling's Just So Stories, with the great grey green greasy Limpopo river.

I went to the Snowy Mountains when I went to Australia purely because of Elyne Mitchell. I did see wild brumbies, though not a silver one.

One day, I shall go to Prince Edward Island for LM Montgomery and also Rocky Ridge for Laura Ingalls Wilder.

I read loads of Enid Blyton, Diana Wynne Jones, loads of those mentioned above, especially pony and ballet books and adventures. We didn't have a TV, so I read loads (including stuff handed down from parents and grandparents.) And my first job was Saturday girl in the library.

Rupert the bear annuals

One book that stands out in my memory wasn't a child's book, but it was an abridged book done about the size of a ladybird book, and at some point someone (probably df going by size,rather than anything else) had put it in with them.
Me, aged about 7 or 8 came searching for something new to read, and chanced upon it. Spent the afternoon reading it, and the evening asking questions of dm who had a bit of a shock...

Book was called"Corrie", shortened down from Corrie ten Boom's autobiography.
Imprisoned in a concentration camp during WWII for hiding Jews.

Two bits stand out for me. Where she is released and limps out and goes to a house, who doesn't know her, but takes her in and brings her some very plain biscuits to eat, explaining that her stomach won't be able to cope with anything rich, and she's just overcome with emotion that they care enough to think about such things.

The other is after the war, she's been speaking about her experience, and at the end someone cones up to thank her, she goes to take their hand, and looks into their face and realises it is one of the guards from the concentration camp.

The book had disappeared the next time I went to look for it (must ask some time where dm put it) and I've often thought about getting the full version to read. I guess part of me wonders if I would find it such an amazing book again.

I remember Seven Little Australians, Merrylegs. We had a box set of four hardbacks (A4 kind of size) when I was growing up - one was Seven Little Australians, one was Swiss Family Robinson and I can't for the life of me remember what the other two were. They were lovely editions, with full-page colour pictures which was quite unusual back then for anything other than Ladybird books! I don't remember the TV series though.

Alan Garner's books really freaked me out too morningtoncrescent, though I enjoy them now. The Owl Service and Elidor were terrifying. There's another, called The Stone Book I think that's just as well written but not at all scary.