What were your favourite books to read over and over again as a child?

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I'm currently rereading some of my childhood favourites on my Kindle and it's lovely ☺️

So far I've read A Traveller in Time, Marianne Dreams, Green Smoke, Charlotte Sometimes, A Stitch in Time and loads of Enid Blyton.

What were your beloved books as a child? I also loved Carbonel, Gobbolino the Witch's Cat, Tom's Midnight Garden, the Noel Streatfeild books and E Nesbitt.

Chalet School, and Antonia Forest

Famous Five-Enid Blyton
Puddle Lane series.

Pippi Longstocking

...and The Snow Spider, The Silver Crown, A Wrinkle in Time, I Am David and The Silver Sword...and a book called Puddles in the Lane that nobody else seems to remember

Many already mentioned. I will add the 'Katy' books by Susan Coolidge. Back in the 80s only the first three were in print - imagine my delight as an adult when 'Girls Gone By' reprinted the last two!

No idea why that post has been hidden! I was just adding books!

As a pony mad child I loved the 'Jill' books when I was growing up and have re read and enjoyed them as an adult.

Ditto Carbonel - I read that with my older son when he was a teen and was very touched when he was emotional about the broom! Although I also remember reading 'The Happy Prince' to him, getting choked up, him saying 'I'll take over, Mum' and also being incapable of reading on. Books are POWERFUL

Francis The Firefly 😂

I loved all the Judy Blume books. I’m rereading ‘Deenie’ at the moment.

Enid Blyton's 'Barney" books. I had a set that belonged to Mummy when she was a child and I was obsessed. I still adore them to this day

Milly Molly Mandy.
Family from one end street.
Charlotte's Web.
The water babies.

Charlotte’s Web
All the Laura Ingalls Wilder books
Enid Blyton’s The (fill in a noun like Castle or Mountain or Circus) Of Adventure books
The Fantastic Mr Fox
The Borrowers
E Nesbit books
Ballet Shoes
The Wizard Of Earthsea
Madeleine L’Engle books
Mrs Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH

I was obsessed with The Never-ending Story as a kid. I should re-read it as an adult, and also show the film to my husband who has never seen it!

The Wizard of Oz and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe The proper novels not the Ladybird or Abridged versions

The faraway Tree

Night birds on Nantucket. I read that book so many times.

The Hundred and One Dalmatians
Lassie Come Home
Phantom Horse

Jacqueline Wilson - the ‘Girls’ series

Tim and the Hidden people
Gobbolino the Witch’s cat
Faraway Tree
Wishing Chair
A Necklace of Raindrops
Children of Cherry Tree Farm
People Might Hear You

I actually still have most of my childhood books and my oldest is just getting to the age where I will start reading him some

Folk of the faraway tree
Mr pink whistle. Enid blyton

All the Narnia series. Little Women , Anne of green Gables, the Katie books, Alan Garner , The Didakoi and various obscure pre war books, one called Lone Star where she accidentally took Laudanum !!

Watership down and animal books by Joyce stranger

Still have my original copy of watership down 😳

I used to love reading Heidi, the little house on the prairie books, I had all three in one big book, and the little women.

I also loved the baby sitters club and Mallory towers but only read them once each. I didn’t read them over and over.

The Flambards books, and any by Penelope Lively- Astercote is my favourite

St Clares, Malory Towers and Trebizon.

As an adult I'm just as bad. Anything by Jane Austen or the Bronte Sisters. Diana by RF Delderfield. Over and over.

I'm on some sort of spectrum!