Books you read as a child/ teenager that you would love to read again!

oh and The Wosrt Witch, have coneverted one child to the book and working on the other two with the new series from the telly!

Famous Five books
Chalet School books
Gobbolino The Witches Cat
Swallows and Amazons
Enid Blyton's Adventure series - Island of Adventure, etc.
Children of Green Knowe
Anne of Green Gables
Pippi Longstocking

i was a memebr of three libraries in different boroughs, so most of my favourite books were returned to said libraries, but my favs were:

Nancy Drew
Famous Five (i didn't like Secret Seven either)
Black Beauty (used to read this every holiday as it was a small book to pack)
Malory Towers
Ghost Stories
James Herbert (hated Stephen King - yawn)

books i'd wished i had read:
LOTR
Swallows and Amazons
Just William

Making up for it now...
Peter Duck is my next book!

Katie and the Nurgula

and

The Trouble with Magic

Both given to me by a beloved cousin who had had them for many years, I have read them lots of times and still have them on the shelf ready to read to my DC's when they dont need a picture with each turn of the page to keep thier interest.

Very dogeared and tatty now, but all the best books are!

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Faraway Tree even if it isnt very PC these days.

Jill Has Two Ponies.

The Silver Brumby series of books.... set in Australia.

hey all - great thread.

i've reread al my fave kids books recently, well worth doing. interesting to see which stand up and which don't.

goodnight mr tom (and also back home, also by michelle magorian) def worth revisiting.
similarly, carrie's war is a lovely way to spend a sunday

happystory - terrible temptation is by honor arudel, she's great. not in print, v hard to find her stuff anymore, but if you do - nab 'em

lol to paula danziger and lois duncan remembering. anyone remember the lukemia one by lois duncan - remember weeping in bed reading that aged 11!

evil returns! hehe... a lorna hill collector! i loved 'em all, 'cept the caroline spanish dancing ones!

and dianna wynne jones is just about best authord ever. even now i'm 30!

ahh, mrs pepperpot! i just got a compendium of those stories for 20p from the charity shop "for my DD when she's older".....(sneaks it into bedside bookpile)

My dd1 and I recently read the Diddakoi at bedtime - fab book! I loved it as a child.

Over the summer I re- read Rosemary Sutcliffe's novels abotu the Romans in Britain - Eagle of the Ninth, Silver Branch, Lantern Bearers - and loved them even more if possible!

Kizzy is the same as The Diddakoi - I still read this, and the end makes me cry every time.

lol at the Sue Barton books! They were hilarious. But fab nonetheless.

RosaL - my teacher read me The Ghost of Thomas Kempe and I remember being on the edge of my seat. I read it to my year four class and I am afraid most of them felt the same way as your dd. Perhaps it was my delivery...

We have just started reading Enid Blyton with dd1, I loved Amelia Jane when I was little. Also...

Mrs Peeperpot
All Roald Dahl
Littlenose
Kizzy.........Does anyone else remember this one?
Stig of the Dump
Famous Five

I had all the Jill series of books, Jill's Gymkhana, Pony Jobs for Jill, Jill and the Perfect Pony....there were several more. I still have a couple in fact but haven't read them in years.

It was Anne Digby. I have got most of the Trebizon ones but I want to track down some others she wrote which were apparently sequels to Enid Blyton's Naughtiest Girl books.

I forgot the Chronicles of Narnia!

Were they the school stories about the girl who was very good at tennis and got taken to the commemoration ball by her best friend's brother? Loved those ones

Does anyone remember a set of books about a girl called Jill Robinson? It was by the same author who wrote the Trebizon boarding school books (Malory Towers for the 70s). They were great. Who was that author (am off to google)

Had forgotten about Sue Barton - I read all of those. She had a sort of Anne/Gilbert relationship with a doctor didn't she? And a friend called Connie who I thought was impossibly glamorous.

KTPee- I also loved the SE Hinton books..
Also Paul Zindel-My Darling My Hamburger, The Pigman and others.
There was a real dearth of books for adolecents in the seventies/early eighties and these along with the classics such as Catcher In The Rye helped me through those hormonal years.
Also remember enjoying some dull tales about a nurse called Sue Barton.

I picked The Ghost of Thomas Kempe up secondhand a while ago Pondus. I really enjoyed it but DD1 got two chapters in and abandoned it.

Almost forgot about Roald Dahl, my fav was 'Danny the champion of the world'.

Yes, NKF, Lily-Rose, Kate, Jo, Peg, a baby called William and twins, both with names beginning with J. Their Mum ran a laundry and their Dad was a dustman!

Did anyone read Shadow the Sheepdog?

It might have been by Enid Blyton?? It was probably trash but I read it a million times and always cried at Chapter 7 ('Bad Days on the Farm'), when the dog was blinded by barbed wire.

The Wishing chair by Enid Blyton I LLOVED this as a child in primary school our teacher used to read it to us. When I had my 2 DS I went to library to read it to them but found time had changed me and I was disappointed. But at age 8, 9, 10 ab fab

Does anyone remember books about a rather down-at-heel family who had loads of pretty low key adventures? The Family At One End St perhaps. I liked them too.

swallows and amazons

the gerald durrell ones

tom's midnight garden

those ones all seemed completely magical at the time - I remember staying inside reading swallows and amazons for days on end