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

War Horse. It felt like a really grown up book to me as it included characters dying and wasn’t about typically childish subject matter.
I also ADORED the Redwall books

I was also a prolific reader as child-this thread bringing back so many lovely memories- I am one to read and re-read a beloved book

The Little Princess
The Secret Garden
Little House on the Prairie series
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and sequels
All of the Shoe books-my unpopular fav was Dancing Shoes.
Anne of Green Gables series
Judy Blume-another that loved Are you there God it's me Margaret-was so chuffed to hand on to my own daughter
The Wizard of Oz books-there are loads and loads and books so different and wonderful and fanciful and I don't know anyone that ever read them except my Dsister and me
Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins comes back (again very different than the film versions)
What katy did
The Black Cauldron series
Harry Potter has to get a mention but I read that with my DC versus as a DC

I still have copies of most all of these and still pick up a comfort read now and again.
One of the great joys of motherhood was when DC got old enough to read and share my old favs.

When Marnie was there.

Another vote for Roald Dahl here.
Also loved the Worst Witch books and a bit later thought Lemony Snicker’s a Series of Unfortunate Events was absolutely brilliant!

All of the Mallory towers and the family at 1 end street!

Faraway Tree,
Marnie
The summer of the swans

Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House series. I have them still, and are my comfort reads.

Enid Blyton - Children of Cherry Tree Farm and Children of Willow Farm. Much of my knowledge of animals comes from the former.

Another Enid Blyton here, the adventure series was my favourite even though it was blatantly just the famous 5 with a parrot instead of a dog

I read pretty much non stop as a child, I can’t wait to share lots of wonderful books with DD, she’s only a baby still and we enjoy lots of lovely picture books but this thread has given me lots of inspiration for her bookshelves as she grows up.

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield
st Clare's books by Enid Blyton

Read them many times

My children loved The Faraway Tree. Other favourites are The Grotlin, George’s Marvellous Medicine and Billie and The Minpins. Some of the Roahld Dahl stories are available in colour edition which lots of illustrations in colour. They are really lovely books. My son also loved Fing by David Walliams.

Thumbelina and The Magic Porridge Pot were two of my favourites when I was really little.

Winnie the Pooh, and the 'Redwall' - the latter was absolutely fantastic, I adored it and it's probably what made me fall in love with proper reading as a hobby.

The magic faraway tree and the wishing chair. Then the famous five. St clares. All Enid Blyton! My mum used to buy me a book and I'd read it all in one day! Loved reading, I still do.

Yes exactly those books! Loved them! As was it Sue with her little pony?

That's the exact copy I have . Bloody loved it . I will always treasure it as part of my childhood/teenage years . Judy Blume absolutley nailed adolescents. Fabulous .

Mine are the Chalet School and the Anne books, I think.

Christmas on Exeter Street. Can’t really explain why, so absorbing. All the family children have loved it and are now reading it to theirs at Christmas.
Another called Harvey Angell. Most beautifully written book.

Both by Diana Hensley.

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I loved Linnets and Valerians too! Wearing their combinations all winter and the man who lived on the Tor. Though to be fair, even when I was ten I thought it might be a bit dodgy that a grown man waited for the heroine to grow up to marry her.

Famous Five
Worst Witch
Malory Towers

As well as many already mentioned here, I loved Anne-Marie and the Pale Pink Frock, Susannah of the Mounties, The Silver Sword, and especially The Emerald Crown by Violet Needham.
Later, I loved The Eagle of the Ninth and that whole series of stories linked by the farm estate on the South Downs and the emerald ring.
But my number one all time favourite is Biggles!

Any Enid Blyton, but especially Malory Towers. I had all the MT series and once I’d finished I’d go back to the beginning and read the whole series again and again.

When I got to about 9 or 10 I started reading the Sweet Valley Twins books too.

I imagined the Owl Man as being half-owl, half-human until I saw an illustration of him. I was a strange child.

Enid Blyton, especially The Five Find Outers and Dog, The Faraway Tree, Malory Towers, lots of Enid Blyton. Ones that stand out for me - A Little Princess. I loved the Secret Garden, but A Little Princess really stands out. Also adored Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators.

Loved famous 5. Also animal ark books. And a series called pony stories about a girl in the highlands. Happy days