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.

Ramona,
Good night Mr Tom
The Wolves of willoughby Chase.
Moondial.
Sherlock Homes.

I've just remembered another one I absolutely loved. The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong ☺️

Oh I forgot about Ramona. I loved them so much. They were the best books.

Oh and Black Hearts in Battersea and Wolves of Willoughby Chase. Such brilliant stories.

Enid Blyton - soo many but my favourite are the Faraway Tree books
the Lone Pine Adventures
Laura Ingalls Wilder books
Ballet Shoes
Tom’s Midnight Garden

Sure there are more but those are the ones I gave to my kids to read

One of my favourite books ever, that I still re-read, is 'The Little White Horse ' by Elizabeth Goudge. I also love the Narnia books.

I have a book called 'At the back of the North Wind' I'm not even sure who it's by - it is a Victorian story book. And the book 'Children of the New Forest'. These were books that belonged to my grandmother and that I still love.

The Wells ballet books by Lorna Hill
Anne of Green Gables books
The Animals of Farthing Wood books

and a book I used to get out constantly from
the local library as a young teen about a young girl in Gold Rush America - no idea what it was called, sadly.

Chalet School. I've got them all after a mad collecting spree about 20 years ago.

Oh so, so many!

Gobbolino the Witche's Cat
A Necklace of Raindrops
All the Moomin books
The Dark Is Rising Sequence
The Magic Faraway books
The Naughtiest Girl books
Duncton Wood
All the Mallory Towers books
The Pippi Longstocking books
The Secret Garden
Ballet Shoes
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Stig of the Dump
The Castle of Adventure
All the Narnia books
All the Laura Ingalls Wilder books
The Land of Far Beyond
All the Famous Five books
What Katy Did
All The Little Grey Rabbit books
The Children of Cherry Tree Farm
The Children of Willow Tree Farm
All the Mr Meddle books
All the My Naughty Little Sister books
Flambards

Me & books.....a lifelong love affair.

Harriet the Spy
Anne of Green Gables - the whole series but especially Anne of Ingleside
Goodnight Mister Tom
Back Home
The Wells ballet series, especially A Dream of Sadlers Wells and Ella at the Wells
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Bogwoppit

When I was younger I was obsessed with The Giant Jam Sandwich and Brambley Hedge - The Secret Staircase

Also My Family and Other Animals - it was my comfort read. Loved Gerald Durrell's eccentric family!

Jill's Gymkhana springs immediately to mind.

Does anyone remember the Enid Blyton Mr Twiddle Books? I think they were the first 'proper' books I read and I thought they were hilarious. Don't see them now!

My grandma knew Mary Treadgold! I remember Grandma showing me one of her books, but I was a bit too young and had no idea what Nazis were.

Regarding Joan G. Robinson, I loved When Marnie was There and also Charley, about a girl who runs away from home due to a misunderstanding.

So many of my old favourites have been mentioned on this thread. I’ve thought of a few more, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, the Professor Branestawm series by Norman Hunter, the Jennings series by Anthony Buckeridge and the Just William series by Richmal Crompton.