Anyone still like re reading their old childhood books ?

The Little Grey Men and Stalky & Co - yes! I love those books. Never met anyone else who has even heard of them.

Oh I like both of those!
When DD was at primary we used to read to her every night and I often sought out some of my childhood favourites to read to her. Now I don't need any excuse to revisit.

The list includes many of those mentioned here (Malory Towers, Just William, Jennings, Ballet Shoes, Narnia books) But also all of the Jill books and one of my absolute favourites "The Children Who Lived in a Barn"

It goes two ways though because some of the newer books which DD "discovered" I have read and still enjoy. Obviously Harry Potter but also many of the Cherub series

@SharnaPax I would love to visit the Manor, is it easy to arrange?

@CountFosco I love the Children of Green Knowe, we went to visit the Manor last summer and it was brilliant. Lucy M. Boston's daughter-in-law does the tour, and you can recognise so many things in the books.

Beekeeper1, oh no, I didn't know that about William Mayne either!

Another Antonia Forest fan here. Love all of her books.

Another who used to read Enid Blyton as a child, I think she's aged very badly indeed and have no interest reading her now.

If I ever feel in need of feeling like a young me again I break out the Adrian Moles. God I loved them so much and still do. I can probably recite them by heart but it's so lovely to read them every so often.

Still love The Chalet school books. And I’m going to read the Little House On Prairie books again.
I find Enid Blyton boring and irritating now unfortunately, although I loved them as a kid.

Dottie I am re reading Elidor! It's so good!

@FranKatzenjammer, yes, third generation beekeeper, hence unoriginal username! However, having just googled William Mayne I no longer wish to read or have his books in my house - I had no idea a@nd feel uneasy that this person WAS one of my favourite authors. Ugh!

@Riddleofthesands, it sounds as though our literary tastes are very similar. 'Down The Bright Stream' is the sequel to 'Little Grey Men and I think you would enjoy it. Denys Watkins Pitchford wrote prolifically - not all children's literature to be sure, but 'Manka, The Sky Gypsy' and 'Wild Lone, The Story Of The Pychley Fox' may also appeal to you

Reread Carrie's War recently and it was still wonderful. Loved Children of Green Knowe but haven't read it for years, want to visit the house though. Will maybe buy for the DC, think DD2 will love. Can't cope with Alan Garner, freaked me out as a child, don't want to repeat that.

Love Alan Garner - Weirdstone of Brisingamen was just about my favourite book as a child (and the sequel Moon of Gomrath) though I can't bring myself to read his recent third book in the series.
Also love Antonia Forest - like to re-read Peters Room or Run Away Home at Christmas. She writes brilliantly.

Yes! Currently re-reading Anne of Green Gables after watching Anne with an E and remembering how much I adored it. Unfortunately my son isn’t that interested in a lot of the books I loved as a child and won’t let me read them to him

Beekeeper1, The Little Grey Men and Stalky & Co - yes! I love those books. Never met anyone else who has even heard of them. On my bookshelf and I read LGM aloud to my kids a couple of years ago (age 11 and 14), they loved it. I am going to look up your other reads as we have similar tastes. 👋🏻

I re-read The Children of Green Knowe and The Dark is Rising almost every Christmas. I wasn’t a child when Harry Potter was written but still reread the first three - I can’t be doing with the ones after that, way too long! I also reread The Enchanted Castle, A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, The Saturdays and Then They Were Five by Elizabeth Enright, The Railway Children, Ballet Shoes, White Boots, Camerons at the Castle, the Susan series (“Susan Rushes In), all the Narnia books except The Last Battle, probably loads more. Oh yes, Anne of Green Gables of course.

Ballet Shoes, Tennis Shoes, The Painted Garden, The Family at One End Street, Little Women, Good Wives, Jo's Boys, Eight Cousins, The Little House on the Prairie.

Loved a Little Princess too. So much so that it’s influenced my domestic furnishings aesthetic quite considerably (currently sitting in my living room looking at a deep red Indian carpet and some similarly inspired cushions as if an Indian well wisher has broken into my lonely garret and made it cosy for me).

Also still love to read the Railway Children. It’s perfectly written .

And I re-read Alan Garner's The Owl Service recently - super creepy!

Yes! I kept loads of my childhood books and re-read them often. Enid Blyton hasn't really agreed well enough to go back to, for me, but I still love Susan Cooper, Tamora Pearce, Anne Fine, Joan Aiken, Diana Wynne Jones and of course all the classics like Ballet Shoes and Heidi and What Katy Did...

Not just my old childhood books but newer ones too, there is some absolutely brilliant literature around for kids at the moment, I keep sneaking books from my children. My dd in particular is a total book worm and her shelves are heaving with wonderful books.

Beekeeper1 I recently reread A Swarm in May, presumably the source of your username? I work with boy choristers and there's no way I'd let them anywhere near a beehive- it would be a Health & Safety and Safeguarding nightmare! Also, my lot don't walk around quoting psalms at each other...

I re-read Winnie the Pooh books as an adult. Really enjoyed them.

I have a whole bookcase of childhood favourites in my spare room and regularly reread them!

I enjoy rereading the Narnia books, Under Sea Under Stone series, E Nesbit, Leon Garfield, Little House on the Prairie (and the others) and Rosemary Sutcliffe. But my all-time comfort read is A Little Princess.

I tried reading Enid Blyton to dd when she was younger with mixed results. We both loved the Faraway Tree books but the casual racism and snobbery of the school stories and the Famous Five really wound me up. I couldn't stand the way that upper middle class children spoke to working class adults. I hadn't picked up on that as a kid.