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What is your favourite children's book when you were a child,,?

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BabyBearRus · 01/11/2021 03:49

What is the best children's book of all time? Any reason why?

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Imissmoominmama · 01/11/2022 22:19

TeeBee · 01/11/2022 22:12

Danny The Champion of the World.

That’s DH’s favourite too!

TeeBee · 01/11/2022 22:12

Danny The Champion of the World.

houseargh · 01/11/2022 22:08

Linnets and Valerians, closely followed by the Little White Horse. Both by Elizabeth Goudge. Absolutely magical. I have read them many times and will do so again. Then once I hit the teenage years it was Lord of the Rings. That I have only read once - I would love to read it again but I'm also petrified that a second reading as an adult would sort of dilute the incredible intensity of that first experience reading it as a teen, and I don't want to risk that so maybe it has to be a once in a lifetime experience

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StruggleStreet · 27/01/2022 03:24

All Roald Dahl but mostly The Twits and a lesser known one called Esio Trot.

ouch321 · 27/01/2022 03:04

@StrychnineInTheSandwiches

Anne of Green Gables Tom's Midnight Garden

Even thinking about those two books give me warm feelings. Read them both so often they're etched on my heart.

Would love to own a first edition of both. Anne will forever be out of reach I suspect, but Tom is more accessible.

There's a v sweet version of Tom's Midnight Garden on Prime. Made in 1989.
garlictwist · 27/01/2022 02:47

I loved All About the Bullerby Children by Astrid Lindgren. I would get it out from the library pretty much every week.

I bought it recently on Amazon but they'd anglicised all the names and it didn't have the same Swedish mystique it held for me as a child.

I even did Swedish at a night class in my early twenties in homage to that book!

Nat6999 · 27/01/2022 02:26

The Chalet School books, I still read them & the new fill in books.
Mandy by Julie Andrews, the first book that made me cry.
Cherry Ames books about being a nurse from Student to qualified nurse in different settings.
The Harvey's see it through, it's a really old book that I bought at a book sale as a child & read it loads of times.
The secret Island by Enid Blyton
Six Bad Boys by Enid Blyton

HaroldSteptoesHorse · 28/11/2021 17:06

The hedgehogs feast, the blurb about the author says she’d drowned whilst out gathering nuts or flowers can’t remember.. it made me like the book even more

35andThriving · 28/11/2021 17:00

Too many favourites...I can't pick just one.

Anne of Green Gables
Heidi
The Borrowers
The Railway Children
Mrs Wobble the Waitress

Ariela · 02/11/2021 13:55

One I forgot was Mrs Pepperpot Omnibus. I still have my copy and I wrote my name and the date in so I know I was 5. I remember not being able to put it down after I opened iit on Christmas Day, and I finished it on Boxing Day. Sadly my daughter was less enamoured with it.

Snoopsnoggysnog · 02/11/2021 08:44

@StColumbofNavron

Goodnight Mister Tom is my older children’s favourite. I’ve read it a few times since we read it in school.
Please read and get them to read Back Home as well!
Snoopsnoggysnog · 02/11/2021 08:42

@StColumbofNavron

Kamla and Kate by Jamila Gavin.

I borrowed it regularly from the library. I felt it reflected my relationship with my best friend who was British Asian and me, sort of white.

I haven’t read this but I recently read another book by this author which was on my DD’s school reading list, about the Indian partition. It was brilliant.
Yusanaim · 02/11/2021 08:02

The magic faraway tree by enid blyton. Such a fun fantasy land.

DedalusBloom · 02/11/2021 07:59

Yes, god that one scared me!

StColumbofNavron · 02/11/2021 07:59

Goodnight Mister Tom is my older children’s favourite. I’ve read it a few times since we read it in school.

StColumbofNavron · 02/11/2021 07:58

Kamla and Kate by Jamila Gavin.

I borrowed it regularly from the library. I felt it reflected my relationship with my best friend who was British Asian and me, sort of white.

What is your favourite children's book when you were a child,,?
Hopeisallineed · 02/11/2021 07:50

@DedalusBloom Yes! Loved Alan Garner. Liked the one about the plates….The Owl Service?

LondonQQ · 02/11/2021 07:45

Another vote for the Faraway Tree books!

DedalusBloom · 02/11/2021 07:43

The Weirdstone of Brisengamen I read obsessively as a child.

I also loved what Katy Did and Little women

auberginefrog · 01/11/2021 21:28

Loved it so much - in my head The golden Compass just sounds so wrong! Currently impatiently awaiting the next instalment of Lyra’s grown up adventures…

StrychnineInTheSandwiches · 01/11/2021 21:13

@auberginefrog

Northern lights
that book came out two years ago. I refuse to believe otherwise.
auberginefrog · 01/11/2021 21:13

Northern lights

CalmConfident · 01/11/2021 21:00

A little princess
The family from one end street
Enid blyton adventure series
Nancy drew

BonnyEm · 01/11/2021 20:59

The jolly postman! Loved reading all the letters. Bought it for my dc. Ds who's nearly 10 was reading it the other day.
When I was older I loved Roald Dahl books. Especially BFG

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