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

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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

Teddy Robinson - I must have been about 5 or 6 lates 80's and loved them. Would love for ds1 to get into them. I don't even know if they are still published

I'm sure I had books called puddle lane, not sure if I made that up?

@Racheyg was there a Mrs Pitter Patter?

@Racheyg I remember puddle lane 😊

Going very young Milly-Molly-Mandy

The ‘of Adventure’ series by Enid Blyton. Tried and failed to get my kids hooked on 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.
No that was Hollow tree House also by Enid Blyton. Bit of a rehash of The Secret island but still a nice feel good story.

I "collect" children's books. Some of them are collectables, but mostly I reread them. DD1 wasn't really interested. Dd2 loved the girlie ones-Chalet School/Gwendoline Courtney/Violet Needham etc.
Ds loves the more adventurous ones, although he has read some of the above.

My Favourite authors include:
Malcolm Saville (Lone Pine series etc)
Monica Edwards (Romney marsh/Punchbowl)
Geoffrey Trease (Cue for Treason was ds' favourite until he found the Lone Pine Series)
Noel Streatfield
Arthur Ransome
Elizabeth Goudge (Esp Linnets and Valerians)

I could go on....

All of the Adrian Mole series.

101 Dalmations by Dodie Smith

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Narnia series

The Summer Birds by Penelope Farmer

Judith M Berrisford's pony books

Infact I don't know why I don't. I've got all the Narnia books upstairs, I could start tonight.

Great thread op!

A book called Orla of Burren, set in Ireland.

Several more, can't remember exactly titles, sadly.

The Rockingdown Mystery by Enid Blyton.

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper.

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee and The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper are the ones that stick in my memory.

Shout out to DelurkingAJ for the mention of Geoffrey Trease!

I have only ever run across one other person who loved his books. I read them all several times each. I was at my local library at opening time on Saturdays to make sure nobody else would get to the shelf of Trease books before me.

Xpost stargirl!

I read a book with an orange cover that had a picture of families in horse drawn carriages travelling across a landscape, I think it was about pilgrims in America but I've no idea what it was called. Loved it.

Loads of the Chalet School ones, even though they made me cross then and would do so now.
A Little Princess.
Scavenger Hunt.
A series I only have dim memories of, which I think involved a schoolboy called Jennings.
The House on the Hill.
The Book of the Banshee.
I wish I could remember every book I'd ever read tbh and find them all again. That would be lovely.

I read a book when I was little set in a Scottish girls’ boarding school. I think one of the main characters was a bit obsessed with Mary Queen of Scots...I can’t remember the plot at all but I do know that I loved it! It was a an old book and smelt of mildew and general old-ness!

Wish I could remember what it was called.

Hanging out with Cici was amazing. And Rebecca’s World.

All the 'of Adventure' series - Enid Blyton
The Tales of Olga da Polga - Michael Bond
Lizzie Dripping - Helen Cresswell
Daddy Long Legs - Jean Webster
The Summer of My German Soldier - Bette Green
Carrie's War - Nina Bawden
All the Judy Blumes
Ice Castles - Leonore Fleischer
The Outsiders, That Was Then This is Now, Rumblefish - SE Hinton
My Darling My Hamburger - Paul Zindel

Its lovely to see other people mention Marianne Dreams. It was the first book that made me unsure whether I liked it yet wanted to keep reading. Then I wanted to read it again. It confused my small young brain!

I loved Judy Blume books, my mum worked in a library and I remember having to spend a day at work with her. I found a JB book and sat on a hard chair getting numb bum completely absorbed by the story. Amazing.

I also loved the Sweet Dreams books, such as "Te amo means I love you" but I suspect they are utter shite.

The House at Worlds End series. God so many memories coming back

Does anyone remember the Maggie books? Might have been written by someone like Joan Linguard. They were about a girl from Glasgow and her posh boyfriend. They were made into a TV series I think. Also I reread Anne of Green Gables and the last book, Rilla of Ingleside was even more poignant than when I first read them. The character Whiskers on the Moon stands out as the lone voice against the war because of the slaughter, yet he was lampooned and ostracised. How our views on the war changed.

Loved the Enid Blyton adventure series
Famous five
Narnia series
Another for the Weirdstone of Brisingamen and Elidor
Judy Blume too
When I was a bit older loved the books by S.E Hinton- the outsiders was a favourite growing up.

The sweet valley high books
And Judy Blume

Best thread ever. I loved my books and now all I do is look at my phone.
Loved so many of those already mentioned, but all time favourite is I Capture the Castle.