Favouite childhood books...memories!!

aaahh A Little Princess. I haven't thought of that in years.

ALso I used to have a book about fairies and trolls in woodland. I cannot remember what it was called, but I adored it.

Oh what a fantastic thread! I remember mty childhood books far better than anything I read now!
My list includes:
The Little House on the Prairie series too (have read them all about 50 times!)
Swallows and Amazons series
Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh (no longer seems to be in print but bought it secondhand for extortionate amount the other day so ds can read it)
Will think of more....

Heidi
What Katy Did
Enid Blyton )anything by her between about 8 and 11)
Little Women

And the sequels to these

But my favourite? Anne of Green Gables

I ahve all these put back for my daughters.

So I had three sosn.

And two nephews.

I have just re-read th Little House on the Prarie books in the right order and they are still fantastic now. I remember being terrified by her description of a wolf that stood as tall as her as I was the same age!

oh yes, i remember those fighting fantasy type books

Angela Brazil anyone?

and of course the wonderful Chalet School books ......

and the Pullein-Thomson horsey ones !!!

Dogger!!!!!

Still makes me all emotional!!!

Definitely, the Faraway Tree stories - just bought a hardback 3 in one special from WH Smiths for £4.99 - will be used for bedtime stories for dd - as she is only 6 months - I think I will have to wait.

Enid blyton - especially st clares and mallory towers.

Anything horsey - also read the jill books over and over again and the jinny books

Also Noel Streatfield - particularly Ballet Shoes and White Boots (Didn't realise he wrote one called Ballet Shoes for Anna - might have to go and buy it for DD, called Anna, She's only 12 weeks old but already has a fine collection of books !!

Also Paddington - I even read them now - v. amusing !!

Not to mention Grimble's method for boiling potatoes....I love that book, one of JK Rowlings favourites too, I read somewhere.

Also Ballet Shoes and Fly By Night (K.M. Peyton)

Grimble was great - clement freud. I loved Grimble's home toast delivery ervice. Wanted to call my first son grimble, but was banned...

Dahlia, I loved, loved loved A Traveller in Time! Lots of memories here...also the Little House on the Prairie series, all of the Anne books by L M Montgomery, Joan Aiken and Jan Pienkowski's beautiful classic A Necklace of Raindrops (stunning pictures), the Narnia Chronicles of course, the Fell Farm books (teenagers take their small siblings on huge Lake District camping expeditions on their own ), the One End Street books by Eve Garnett, Paul Berna's books about life in post-war France, all of Philippa Pearce and Lucy M Boston...not to mention When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit!

dogger

The velveteen rabbit....

Wolves of Willoughby Chase,
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen,
The Children of Green Knowe

definately the Great Glass Elevator (I am a vicious Knid)

Children of the new forest, Castle of Adventure (enid blyton again), Nancy Drew, I Am David

Mallory Towers
St Claires
Black Beauty (we had a big old copy that smelt all oldy booky)
Midnight Pirate
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark
Come to the circus (blyton again)
Faraway Tree ones
The Forgotten Bear
The Patchwork Cat
The Rare Spotted Birthday Party.

Famous Five and Secret Seven

I loved What Katy Did, Little Women, The Wizard of Oz, The Secret Garden and Amelia Jane.

and mandy, Bunty, and Judy annuals every Christmas!

"My naughty Little Sister"

Heidi - How badly did I want to move to a pasture in Switzerland and play with Peter in the sunshine!

The Little House books - So good, the tv series was such a let down.

Anne of Green Gables - Just fantastic, read the whole series tons of times.

Comet In Moominland - My absolute favourite and it is in my bookshelf rather than dts. I will read it to them soon as they love stories too.

Mog's Christmas - I recently bought dts a collection of Mog stories from the Book People. Of course Judith Kerr's other books were memorable too - Tiger Who Came To Tea, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.

I also liked Judy Blume and Roald Dahl but not at the same time! I kept all the books I could hide from my mother who enjoyed being generous with my things by giving them away! I only saved one Little House but it was my favourite, the others are either stored in the attic or on dtses bookshelves (except Moomin and Heidi which are on mine!)

Huge book of nursery rhymes. whan my parents seperated it got thrown and i was gutted. i wanted it to read to my ds, went out to buy another one and nothing compares to it. They don't make 'em like they used to (that makes me sound years older then i am)

Oh, Little House on the Prairie

I so wanted to be a homesteader...

Mallory Towers
Teddy Robinson
Blackberry Farm
The Lorna Hill books
The Lawrence ?Meynell books set in Australia
Peter and Ann/Susan travel books
Just William
The Long Winter, one of the Little House on the Prairie books
Little Women
What Katy Did