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?

Gosh, loads

Enid Blyton
Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer
A Little Princess by FHB
What Katy did
The Railway Children
Little House series -:Laura Ingallsm Wilder
The Bobbsey Twins
Judy Blume
Ramona series
Goodnight Mister Tom and Back Home
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
The Children Who lived in a barn

Older

Adrian Mole
Lois Duncan
Sweet Valley 🙈
Children of the Dust and other Post Apocalypse books

Famous Five
Secret Seven
The Adventure Series
Five Find Outers
Malory Towers
St. Clares
Mistletoe Farm
The Secret Series

Swallow and Amazons

You can tell I was an Enid Blyton fan 😁
I liked and still like adventure stories.

Any ideas for a grown up version?

Oh God, sooooo many but the stand out ones are:-

The Jinny at Finmory series by the amazing Patricia Leitch and The Water Horse which was brilliant

The Jill series by Ruby Ferguson (@seashaken if you’re on fb check out Jane Badger books)

The Changeover - Margaret Mahy

Stranger With My Face - Lois Duncan (still terrifying)

The Dark is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper (NEVER watch the horrific film version
🤬)

Also pretty much any pony book especially the P-T sisters and Monica Edwards’ Punchbowl and Romney Marsh series.

I’m sure there’s more…….

Me too. I adored these. My daughter is 7 so I think I'll get them for her next birthday.

Judy Blume

I also loved the Famous 5 and the Adventure series. I remember The Island Bus by Elizabeth Beresford, I still have my copy. I enjoyed Point Horrors and Adrian Mole as a teen. By the time I was about 13-14 I moved on to Stephen King.

I really enjoyed “The babysitters club” by Ann Martin. I would stay up all night reading them.

I can’t really remember any other books I read, awful memory!

Ohh yes I had forgotten the farm ones- children of cherry tree farm too. And there was one about birds I loved as well

@paddingtonstares
No not really lol I've just ordered a load of Enid Blyton books from ebay. I'm going backwards and I don't care.

@ChristineCagney11 😂 this may be the way I go too! dc would say 'too late' 🤣

I remember getting a book simply called 'Halitosis' out of the library over and over. It was a kids book about someone (or an animal) with bad breath (obviously).
Mog books, which I now love reading to my two boys.

Then famous five and secret seven, all dutifully searched for at charity shops. I still love them - I listen to the audiobooks when I'm going to sleep for a bit of comfort.

St Clare's and Malory Towers - I was given my Mums childhood copies which I read over and over.

Of course Harry Potter - still obsessed.

Jacqueline Wilson, the Girls series especially.

Also Louise Rennisons Georgia Nicholson Books.

The Jennings books!
I loved them.

The Secret Garden and Black Beauty were my favourites.

Sweet Valley Twins/ High
All the Enid Blyton boarding school books, must have read the Naughtiest Girl series several times as an adult.

One of my favourite books was Cora Ravenwing by Gina Wilson. Nobody has ever heard of it though.

Just William by Richmal Crompton. So funny!

Oh my - this thread is lovely! I have read (I think) every book mentioned above! Loved reading, still do…

surprised only one mention of Michelle Magorian and Goodnight Mr Tom and Back Home…

The series that hasn’t been mentioned that I also loved I can’t remember the name of but it was about a student nurse (St Marks is suddenly ringing a bell…) Does anyone remember?

I had forgotten all about Jinny and her ‘chestnut Arab mare’ - I was desperate to steal a horse like she did!

Best Famous Five book was ‘5 go to smugglers top’ IMHO - I loved them but I did get annoyed at Anne being such a drip and constantly washing the dishes in a stream while the rest of them did cool stuff - George was my hero though and I so so wanted a dog like Timmy!

Also to the poster who asked about adventure books for adults - have you read any Wilbur Smith? Particularly the Courtney’s of Africa series?? They have it all!

Monsoon particularly is swashbuckling at its very best!

Point romance.
point horror.
Sweet Valley Twins/High
Judy Blume.
Paula Danziger.
Charlotte’s Web.
The Secret Garden.

All of Enid Blyton's stuff but especially Malory Towers. Loved the Anne of Green Gables books and also the Trebizon series by Anne Digby.

So anyones kids still like the Mallory towers etc books? Or are they too old fashioned now?
Hoping to introduce my daughter to them when she is older (she is 3m now so a bit young 😂) and the chalet school ones but they are even more old fashioned

Black beauty and Heidi were my two favourite books as a child. I also loved The Famous Five and Secret Seven series.

Was it Sue Barton, student nurse, @Chelsea26 ?

I could never choose a favourite - I read SO MUCH. Most of the authors and books mentioned here, tbh.

Random other books/authors I liked:

Gene Kemp, especially The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler

The Trixie Belden books, especially the early ones

The Mandy books, by Lorna Hill

The Sue Barton books, especially the New York one

Trebizon and the Jill Robinson books by Anne Digby

The Kevin and Sadie books, and also the Maggie books by Joan Lingard

Flambards and the Pennington books by KM Peyton

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

The All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

The Tillerman books by Cynthia Voigt

And many, many more.

Flossie Teacakes Fur Coat

All Enid Blyton books (favourite was The Dreadful Children, not well known but fantastic)
My Naughty Little Sister
Treasures of the Snow, Star of Light and The Mystery of Pheasant Cottage by Patricia St John