What books from your youth would you love to re-read?

[Fairyjuice]

I've just finished reading Under the Hawthorn Tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna and it's every bit as good as I remember it as a child. Summer of My German Soldier is next on my list, though I suspect I might not be so doe-eyed this time round. Would love to read the Across the Barricades books too.

What are yours? so that I can add them to my list

The Diddakoi
The whole Borrowers series
Worzel Gummidge
The Gift From Winklesea
The Faraway Tree series
The 101 Dalmatians

I’ve reread all of these in the past few years and although I love them all, they’re just not the same as when you are a child!

These are bringing back some lovely memories

Secret Garden was one of my fave classics. And anything from Point Horror. I posted on a thread about PH books a few years and a lovely mumsnetter sent me a bundle of them to re-read

Hollow Tree House by Enid Blyton

Gosh some of these are taking me back.

The magic faraway tree series
The naughtiest girl in the school
Anything by Paula danzigger
Charlotte sometimes
The babysitters club
The boyfriend club
Three of a kind
Ballet school
Children of the dust

I’m sure there are loads more

The Enchanted Woods and Magic Faraway Tree. I loved them!

Did one of these books involve a girl and boy who ran away from home and set up inside the hollow trunk of a tree? I remember reading and loving a story along those lines but I cannot remember what it was.

ok ill admit i have quite a lot of the babysitters club on my kindle but i never ever read them honest....

Oh I’ve just seen mummyparanoia’s post... that was the book! I absolutely loved it and wished I could go and live in a tree!

I’ve just reread The Children who lived in a Barn. Loved it so much as a child. It’s fucking awful.

Five Children and It.

Oh and the books about the Bastable Children by E. Nesbitt - can't remember what they were called.

@Stravapalava - The Treasure Seekers, The Woodbegoods and The New Treasure Seekers

Oh and the books about the Bastable Children by E. Nesbitt - can't remember what they were called.

Was that the Enchanted Castle?

The Redwall series by Brian Jacques.

Can't remember the name, but there was a trilogy about a group of kids in Adelaide who had a computer game that they got sucked into, and in the third book they went to Japan where the game was created and the main character (Andrew?) ended up getting together with the creators daughter.... I was obsessed with them!!

I'm reading The Silver Sword to my dd now and I can barely get through a chapter without choking up. (Pointlessness of war, effect on kids). But when I read it as a kid the only bit I found sad was when the dog (presumably) drowns.

Sting of the dump
Secret garden
Any Blyton
Any Thomas Hardy
The Stand
NOT THE RATS

Great thread and making want to re-read lots of things!
Mallory Towers
Chalet School
Apple Tree Bough
Enid Blytons

I also read a book and I’ve forgotten what it was called but there was a boy called Rich in it and he accidentally lands a cool job in a design agency type place and ends up with a flat and shagging some posh girl called Portia. I thought it was the height of cool I bet it’s shit though. Maybe called something like Hard Cash? Cba to google as I’m tired and on my phone

The Little Princess and any of the St Claire's or Mallory Towers books. Or any Famous Five. Also anything by Roald Dahl

@SapphireBattersea I loved the Making Out books! I got the first one as a free gift with Mizz magazine and then I was hooked! I always thought it would be so cool to get a ferry to school every day. They covered some quite difficult themes as I recall, especially the later books. I still have them somewhere but I haven't read them for years.
I also loved Paula Danziger's books - The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, The Divorce Express, and there was one about a girl who moved to the moon as part of a project to set up a colony there.

Am so excited! Have never heard of anyone else having read either The Children Who Lived in a Barn or The Hounds of the Morrigan. Both were absolute favourites of mine but when I mention them to other people they've never heard of them! Think I still have both on a book shelf somewhere - off to dig them out!

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, always makes me cry!

@whiskyremorse
@MissClareRemembers

I've just finished (tonight!) watching The Diddakoi 'Kizzy' on You Tube, all six episodes!

When Marnie was There
Marianne Dreams
Charlotte Sometimes
The Girl in the Opposite Bed

I encourage DD to read my favourites but she is firmly in the Jacquelin. Wilson camp.

I also read lots of pony books, having never been near a horse in my young life. I remember one called 'A clear Round'.

@mightyatlantic I think my mum still has my Paula danziger books...

@IJustWantToWearDungarees I've just bought another copy of the Hounds of the morrigan on amazon as my copy literally fell apart.

Also, the Alan Garner books? Weirdstone of Brisingamen and the Owl Service were my favourites:-)

And Elidor.