Favourite Author or Book as a child?

[ChristineCagney11]

Ok I'll start, I was a big fan of The Faraway Tree, lots of other Enid Blyton stuff Famous five, wishing chair but that was my favourite, then on to Jack London.
Have fond memories of The 🐅 Tiger that came to tea also.
Mr men books anyone?

Enid Blyton here too.

Alison Uttley.

When I was an older child my favourite book was Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer.

I loved A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (still re-read it now as an adult)

@NannyR I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett as well-

The Frank L Baum Oz series which I feel like my sister and I were the only ones to read-there are dozens

Noel Streatfield books-alll of them really and Anne of Green Gables.

Still will dig out some to comfort read

Yes, definately Folk of the faraway tree, my username (Moonface) is a character in that book.
I also remenber another good book when l was abit older, "When Marnie Was There", about a young girl who went to stay in Norfolk, and made a friend called Marnie. This story has always stayed with me.

@NannyR
Wow did you just take me down a rabbit hole of that author.
Honestly going to be looking into her more tomorrow

The 'Ramona' series by Beverly Cleary.

Enid Blyton too. I still read them in fact.

Little grey men by BB

Also as per pp Charlotte sometimes

OMG Moonface was my favourite character. Wow .

The Faraway Tree, Water Babies, When Marnie was there (must buy that again!), and one called Ponder and William. I named my childhood bear after him!

National Velvet by Enid Bagnold.
I lived in that book and I can still remember practically every detail many decades later.
I also loved Frances Hodgkin Burnett.
We used to go and stay with relations in Ireland every Easter holidays. My dm would order Enid Blyton books to be sent to our relations’ house in advance and to this day I can remember the excitement of seeing the brown paper parcels waiting for me when we arrived.
That feeling of pleasurable anticipation has never quite been repeated as an adult.

Oh, and the Sadler Wells series. Veronica and Sebastian ❤️❤️❤️

Monica Edwards was my favourite author. I loved the "Jill" pony books too but can't remember who wrote them.

Patricia Leitch- the Jinny and Shantih books. Re-read those till they were falling apart.

The My Naughty Little Sister books by Dorothy Edwards, illustrated by Shirley Hughes.

Loved Enid Blyton- especially the Wishing Chair stories, famous 5, and the school stories which I read over and over.

Loved the Anne ofGreen Gable and the Little House on the Prairie series.

Ramona the Pest and other stories by Beverley Cleary

Also strange stores like Mariane Dreams and classics like the Secret Garden and the Phoenix and the Carpet.

The Chalet School books
Cherry Ames books
Sue Barton books
A really old book called The Harvey's see it through.
The Secret Island series by Enid Blyton
Six bad boys by Enid Blyton

@XenoBitch
@ofwarren
Just ordered some Enid Blyton books from eBay and I don't care if I'm regressing.

Ronald Dahl - gotta love the twits

Roald even damn autocorrect t!

As a pre schooler I insisted on borrowing 'dogger' from the library so many times my mum eventually brought a copy!
As an older child I loved Enid blyton secret seven but couldn't stand famous five! Also loved the Mallory towers series.
Then as a teen I loved the chalet school books- still have the complete set collected over many years, mostly 2nd hand and some were quite expensive to buy.

Oh yes I loved this too

The Birthday Unicorn by Janice Elliott was one I read over and over as was Late for Halloween by Camilla Fegan.