What did kids read in the 70s and 80s?

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KnitMeAUnicorn · 31/10/2016 07:48

Just that, really! It feels like all I can see in the shops these days is the constant Tom Gates/Harry Potter/David Walliams/Wimpy Kid stuff. DC have read loads of that and I want something a bit more 'classic for their Xmas. (12yo DS & 10yo DD). Any thoughts/ memories of what you liked reading back then? Ta

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BonusNewt · 31/10/2016 07:54

Oh so much. At that age I loved Diana Wynne Jones (Chrestomanci series), Noel Streatfeild (Ballet Shoes etc), E Nesbit (Enchanted Castle), Frances Hodgson Burnett (A Little Princess), Elizabeth Enright (The Saturdays etc), Alan Garner (Owl Service etc), Nicholas Fisk (Grinny, Trillions), Joan Aiken (Wolves of Willougby Chase)...

spacefrog35 · 31/10/2016 07:54

Judy Blume, Enid Blyton & things like Anne of Green Gables, Pollyanna, Little Women, Black Beauty & The Railway Children. I also started reading Tolkien around that age. Is DS old enough for Terry Prachett's discworld?

Narnian · 31/10/2016 07:53

I loved Enid Blyton. And when I was older, the same as mylittlephoney.

Hufflepuffin · 31/10/2016 07:53

Swallows and amazons (peter duck is the most daring and might be a good place to start for a 12yo boy), heidi, Anne of green gables, the saddle club, babysitters club (can you tell i loved books that came in series lol).

nothruroad · 31/10/2016 07:51

I loved Enid Blyton, Anne of Green Gables, What Katy Did.

mylittlephoney · 31/10/2016 07:50

At 12 it was all Judy Blume. Sweet valley high and S E Hinton for me.

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