Your Old Favourites?

Takver - yes I seem to remember that treacle featured quite heavily, although the details now escape me. I think he also had a servant called Old Monkey.

The first two books are still in print; my DS really loved them!

All the Noel Streatfeilds
All the Just Williams
Tom's Midnight Garden
The Midnight Folk
The Little Wooden Horse
Gobbolino the Witches Cat
Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass
Little Women et al
The Mary Plain series
C S Lewis
Alan Garner
The tree that sat down et al

I loved Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea and Malory Towers

John Christopher - I liked the Tripods books too - weren't they set in some kind of post-nuclear future? Or am I getting them mixed up with something else?

Scanty, I think they were just called the Tripods, the BBc did an adaptation of the first one or two, but then never bothered with the last.

I never had Trebizon and the Drina books (am too old)but DD1 loves them both - and actually I really enjoyed reading them too.
I also loved Rosemary Sutcliff (Eagle of the Ninth etc) and Henry Treece - my favourite was Hounds of the King.

And the Drina books too!

Does anyone remember reading a trilogy about mice? The first book was about a load of mice living in a house, and their enemies were the rats in the sewers, and the main baddie was a big cat that ruled over the rats??
They were quite scary books.
I loved them but cant remember name or author!

The Greengables books
Emily series by LM Montgomery
Pat series by LM Montgomery
The Little House books (currently reading them to DD)
Chalet school
Malory Towers
Famous Five
Adventure series by Enid Blyton
St Clares
Trebizon
Nancy Drew
The Secret Garden
The Dark is Rising series
Taran Wanderer series
Narnia series
Alan Garner books
What Katy did, and the sequels
Little Women and the sequels
Black Beauty
Pollyanna

Basically I read anything I could get my hands on!

Oh yes, Chalet School here, too. And everything by Joan Aiken - fab young heroines. And A Little Princess and The Secret Garden. Oh, and Elizabeth Goudge's The Little White Horse... I could go on...

Oh and Little House on the Prairie of course.
And Harriet the Spy.

Great Northern is good, but my fave is We Didn't Mean to go to Sea. Will have to try S&A on DD2 as DD1 has proved resistant to their charms.
I loved
The Andrew Lang Colour Fairy Tales
What Katy Did and sequels
Anne of Green Gables
All Louisa May Alcott's books but particularly Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom
Chalet School
Angela Brazil's school stories
The Sadler's Wells books by Lorna Hill
and I had some American books from the 1920's and 30's that my mother had had as a child - mainly Nancy Drew and the Bobbsey Twins but also the Two Little Women and Treasure House series and the Patty Series - bet nobody else has read them!

The Pope's seat.

Hmm seems a bit dodgy to me, Bucharest.

There was a book I loved as a child, read it once and could never find it again.
It was something about the Poper's seat having moved to Avignon. Maybe there were knights?

Swallows and Amazons - no one would dare look down on Captain Nancy!

I've been gradually reading these to DD (and other old favourites, some already listed , and E.Nesbitt) - only got Great Northern left.

wukter yes, Celia somebody. I read it, it was dire.
The teen one was brilliant though- all that angst and trauma and then he went and died on her.

Famous Five (never really got into any other EB series)
Blackberry Farm Books when younger - anyone remember these?
And from about 8 - Fighting Fantasy Books / Dungeons and Dragons stuff

Black Beauty. Poor old Ginger. I can't wait till DD is old enough to be read it.

That's interesting about PS< I Love You. Didn't an extremely well connected Irish chicklitter write a bestseller called PS, I Love You? The man died,it was sooo tragic and romantic...?

scanty-I loved books by Paul Zindel too-
My Darling My Hamburger, The Pigman etc-think they were a bit like a early teens Catcher in the Rye.

Wind in the Willows. Just lovely to think of all those creatures tucked up in cosy cottages! There are also a lot of follow up (or rip off) books by modern authors. I also loved The Borrowers books by Mary Norton. There are a lot of these. And the Moomin stories by Tove Jansson. Old fashioned and comforting. I have never been a fan of Enid Blyton and never read them too my sons. Too much sexism for me. Poor George. I wouldn't want my sons to think it's acceptable to look down on girls the way they do. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. I much prefer the older children's authors. Modern authors just seem to write to make money.

Didn't they involve treacle mines, jeffvadar? They're on my list to hunt out when dd's a bit older

I too read the Jill books and the Pullein Thompson avidly as a child, and various of the other pony book writers.

I also liked the Blyton school stories, especially Mallory Towers. The thought of going to boarding school in Cornwall was my idea of heaven aged about 10 .

But my favourites were the Uncle books by JP Martin; about an extrememly rich elephant who lived in a house the size of a small town, and who was constantly being hassled by Beaver Hateman and his gang. Very weird, with something of Roald Dahl about them.