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.

This is a lovely thread.

Did anyone read any of the Bobbsey Twins books? American. I think they lived in Vermont, or maybe that’s just where one of the series was set.

A Candle in her Room
The Hobbit
Heidi
The Narnia Books
The Homeward Bounders - Dianna Wynne Jones and lots of her other books
Tanith Lee
The Keeper of Isis Light Series
The Dark is Rising Series
I had What Katy Did and The Secret Garden on cassette
Lots of Fairy Tales and Greek Myths

Edited to correct a title.

Oh, I completely forgot the Gemma series by Noel Streatfeild. I found them in a charity shop and was immediately obsessed.

Rosemary Sutcliffe books, too.

Treasure Island
The Railway Children
The Secret Garden
The Eagle of the Ninth
The Emerald Crown
The Silver Sword

were some of my favourites, plus others mentioned here. We didn't have many books at home, but the mobile library van came fortnightly, opening the door to magical places!

Anne of Green Gables
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (and other books by Judith Kerr)
Trebizon series
Sweet Valley High
Babysitters Club series

Malory Towers
The Hodgeheg
Charlotte's Web
Esio Trot
Flat Stanley
Pippi Longstocking
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
The Chose Your Own Adventure books
The Worst Witch

Green Eggs and Ham. I do not like them Sam I Am.

I also read a lot of Point Horror and a Tween/ early Teen.

Also Nancy Drew!

We had a library locally but the children's / teen section was fairly limited so re-reading was a necessity!

The Dark is Rising series was also
excellent!

I did! I think the booms originally belonged to my mum and I inherited them like I did all of the Famous Five.

Carbonel and calidor
Famous 5
Danny champion of the world
Charlotte's web
Carrie's war
The kelpies pearls

The Secret Garden, Harry Potter series, A Little Princess, Heidi, then as a preteen began the Discworld series and reread many times. I'm still a rereader, love the cast familiarity of revisiting a well read book and feeling like you're visiting a much loved place.

The Famous Five
Mallory Towers
The Enchanted Wood trilogy
Judy Blume
Tintin

I can't believe that is forgotten The Wonderful Isle of Ulla-Gapoo and the Tom Pig books!. When I was really young and just learning to read, my Dad bought me a new Mary Mouse book each week and I re-read them until they fell apart.

The patchwork cat

Bit of a strange one but I used to love the book of poems called please Mrs butler/… recently found my old copy from when I was a kid.

Chalet School series
Any by Enid Blyton
Noel Streatfeild
Little House on the Prairie series

Yes! In order they are:
What Katy Did
What Katy Did at School
What Katy Did Next
Clover
In the High Valley

(Edited to correct order)

Next is after at school. Katy goes on a grand tour around Europe. And meets a man!

I've re-purchased some of my favourite childhood books and taken great pleasure in reading them. The ones that spring to mind are:

Dame Slap and Her School - Enid Blyton
A Bottled Cherry Angel - Jean Ure
Sugar Mouse - John Branfield
The Funny Guy - Grace Allen Hogarth
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume

We always had Richard Scarry books in the house too which were very entertaining 😀

I like Carbonel so much I named my black cat after him, most people haven't heard of the book so it's lovely to see others have read and enjoyed it as well!

Chalet School. Gemma series. Malory Towers. St Clares. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Antonia Forest most of all.

Most of the books pp have said!
Sweet valley twins
Sweet valley High
Babysitters club
Mallory towers
Secret 7
Famous 5
St Claires
Saddle Club
All Judy Blume
Back home (Michelle magorian) still my fave and I have a paper copy despite only having a kindle now!
Chalet school
Trebizon
All the Pullein-Thomas pony books.

I was such a bookworm!

What Katy Did