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.

Sweet Valley Twins/ High
The Trebizon books
Enid Blyton- Naughtiest Girl, The St. Clares and Mallory Towers books.
Cora Ravenwing by Gina Wilson
It's My Life/ Jan Alone/ Coming Home trilogy by Robert Leeson (read these constantly)
My Darling Villain by Lynn Reid Banks

Velveteen Rabbit
Gobbolino the Witch's Cat
The Faraway Tree
Anne of Green Gables
Milly Molly Mandy
The Water Babies
Wind in the Willows
Heidi
My Naughty Little Sister (because I had one!)
Read them all backwards and forwards

I also read The Silver Sword a fair few times

The Drina Ballerina series.

Mallory Towers
Faraway Tree
Wishing Chair
The Neverending Story

And for no real reason, The Transylvanian Football Team

I loved the Faraway Tree, Secret Seven, and the Jill books, but the two that I read over and over again were Black Beauty and Tom's Midnight Garden.

Natty Gann, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, White Fang, The Fox Cub Bold, The Railway Cat, Little Grey Rabbit, Kine.

Any Enid Blyton, especially Malory Towers and St Clare’s
The Magician’s House quartet
Sweet Valley Twins & SVH
Judy Blume books
Point Horror books

Wow, some of these are books I had completely forgotten, and some I've never heard of - I'm making a list! People Might Hear You sounds really intriguing, I think I might go for that one next.

Stig of the Dump, Black Beauty, Jane Eyre, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Watership Down. The Chronicles of Narnia, I got a special edition box-set of all the books as a Christmas present. Then the Hobbit, which led to the Lord of the Rings books. Then I got stuck into Anne Macaffry Dragon books, and I started reading Stephen King at a bit too young, terrified myself but couldn't put them down.

Enid Blyton. The Anne books LM montgomery. Lorna Hill ballet stories.

The Jill books, The Silver Brumby series, the Jinny books, Willard Price adventure books, Wizard of Earthsea, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe series, books by Alan Garner (The Owl Service, Treacle Walker) later Harry Potter and Northern Lights.

Mallory Towers
Secret Seven
Little House on the Prairie series
Ballet Shoes
Adrian Mole

But I never read them more than once

Oooh, Green Dolphin Country, absolutely loved that one.

Oh I thought the Family from One end Street was brilliant!
I got introduced to it at Primary school when it was one of the books read out to us at school - the school day always ended with the teacher reading to us for a short while.
I bought a copy of it and it's sequal when I was an adult and I've still got it.

When Marnie Was There

Laura Ingalls Wilder
Loads of Enid Blyton - Malory Towers, St Clare's, Naughtiest Girl, Famous Five, Secret Seven
Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes, White Boots, the Gemma series
Sweet Dreams and Sweet Valley High when I got a bit older

I've listened to a lot of these as an adult on Audible and find them very soothing when I can't sleep - I still remember many of them almost word for word.

Looking back, although we had lots of books and a local library, we had nothing like the quantity of new books that my DC have/had. Therefore I think we did read books over and over again as there wasn't an Amazon sending through new reading matter every week!

I loved Moondial

Oh I had forgotten the Joyce Stranger books!!! Loved them too and wanted to be a vet. Also read the complete “All Creatures Great and Small” series. Also Shadow the Sheepdog (Enid Blyton) and Bambi/ Bambi’s children books too. I was mad about animals (also used to get that magazine in the 90s!)

I remember one called When Marnie was There, does anyone remember the author?
It was set in Norfolk, a bit of a ghost story and quite spooky.
Also loved Judy blume Anne of green gables, Charlotte Sometimes and Marianne Dreaming (these last two were also spooky)

The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater

Opening in the fictitious village of Midmeddlecum, evidently in contemporary rural England, it features two girls whose father is absent during a war. They pursue magical, bizarre, or dangerous experiences. A "wind on the moon" is said to be the cause, "making them behave badly for a year".[2]

@fourelementary all creatures great and small were lovely books.....thank you for reminding me of them ❤️

Hope you've read the new sequel that's just come out - Think Again? It's a nice read if fairly predictable.

Loved a lot of these too especially Drina, Chalet School, Cynthia Voight.

When Marnie was there was by Joan G Robinson. Have just googled!

The Twits!

It's now a film too although I haven't seen it. Anime, so probably not my thing.