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.

Forgot
Little House on the Prairie
All the What Katy Did books.

I read loads of the books mentioned in this thread. I also read & re-read the Pollyanna books and Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

Did anyone else read any Malcolm Saville books? I loved the Lone Pine series and some of his other series too.

Lots of those already mentioned but those which I read repeatedly:

Faraway Tree series (Enid Blyton)
Famous Five (Enid Blyton)
The Adventure books (Enid Blyton)
The Five Find-Outers (Enid Blyton)
Malory Towers and St Clare's (Enid Blyton)
Little House on the Prairie series (Laura Ingalls Wilder) Wilde
The Chalet School (Elinor Brent Dyer)
Various pony books by the Pullein-Thompson
The Secret Garden; A Little Princess; Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson-Burnett)
Katy books - Susan Coolidge
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Ballet Shoes and The Painted Garden - Noel Streatfeild

But also:
The Swish of the Curtain - Pamela Brown
The Thirteenth Orphan - Christine Chaundler

Oh yes, Malcolm Saville too....

So many books that people have already listed, but my absolute favourite was The Children of Green Knowe.

Did anyone else read any Malcolm Saville books? I loved the Lone Pine series and some of his other series too.

I loved the Lone Pine series as a child, but on re-reading as an adult, I just can't get into them any more. I can see why I liked them then, but I can't re-read, whereas I can and do re-read many other childhood favourites.

We Couldn't Leave Dinah by Mary Treadgold was a favourite - brother and sister living on an imaginary Channel Island are accidentally left behind when their parents leave as the Nazis are about to invade in 1940.

Wishing Chair and Faraway Tree - I was fortunate that I could read them for myself at an age when I could still just about believe in pixies and brownies and all the rest. Re-reading as an adult, I was impressed by how original EB was.

I read Famous Five and all the rest; the Adventure series was my favourite.

And Chalet School

Plus most of the other authors that have been mentioned here.

I had favourite illustrators too - anything illustrated by Stuart Tresilian or Geoffrey Whittam would grab my attention.

The Jinny at Finmory series by Patricia Leitch. I still have them all and re-read them a few years ago.

The Flossie Teacake books
Hating Alison Ashley
Anastasia Krupnik

My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead and The Green Grass of Wyoming. These books had everything, horses, childhood angst, schooling issues, growing up, parental relationships, etc etc. I would get to the end of the trilogy and then start all over again.

i had a box set of Enid bouton books I can’t remember what they were called but they were well read and dogeared.
Shirley hughes - dogger. Tiger that came to tea. I have loved the faraway tree with my own children.

I loved:
Heidi
Little House on the Prairie
What Katy Did
The Ordinary Princess
Meet the Austins (by the author of A wrinkle in time)
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
The Little White Horse
Pippi Longstocking
Tom's Midnight Garden
Treasures of the Snow
The Chalet School
The Faraway Tree
A Girl of the Limberlost
Daddy Long Legs
Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon, Jane of Lantern Hill, Pat of Silverbush
I am David
The Silver Sword
Charlotte's Web
The Jill pony books
The Jinny pony books
Anything by K. M. Peyton
The Marlowe books
Anything by Noel Streatfield
When Marnie was there
My friend Flicka and all the sequels
The Narnia books
Little Women
The Swish of the Curtain
Goodnight Mr Tom
The Princess and Curdie
Anything by Cynthia Voight
Many very old books that nobody will have heard of.

We couldn't leave Dinah had the most fabulous beginning.

I feel like I need to read the 13th orphan as our tastes are so similar!

We couldn't leave Dinah had the most fabulous beginning.

I feel I need to re-read. I think I've still got a copy somewhere that I picked up in a charity shop or library sale years ago.

Narnia. Ballet Shoes, Swallows & Amazons, Pippi Longstocking, The Borrowers, Little Women

My best fiend

Malory towers (in particular 3rd and 5th!), Matilda, certain saddle club books, the Witches, Under the hawthorn Tree, The Jill series by Ruby Ferguson, and Star Dancer by morgen Llewelyn

edited to add Little Women and The Secret garden!

Malory Towers, st Clare's and Trebizon
Narnia - I tried reading these to DD but...they belong in my childhood!
Homecoming - I've bought it on e-reader but haven't dared re-read it yet
Same for Goodnight Mr.Tom
Alanna
Jane Eyre
Drina -I kept these, I have all except the last which is currently available on Amazon for about $2,300 😮
Ballet Shoes and White Boots
Children of the New Forest
Mantlemass Chronicles
And from a slightly younger age, There's no such thing as a dragon!

All the Swallows & Amazons books (read them over and over again)
Tim and the hidden people
Narnia books
And late childhood, all the Judy Blume books

All of these seems very dated when I tried to read to my own children except the Narnia books which were an absolute joy to read read

Since some of us here are from a certain era, I'm wondering if any of you could put a title and author to these three books:-

The first book is about a family where the mother has died. There are (I think) three sisters in the family. Their Dad re-marries and brings home a new wife without any warning (how's that for an AIBU?). The three sisters are very resistant to their new stepmother, but she's actually really nice, and gradually wins them around. I think they have a theatrical background. I liked the way it challenged the wicked stepmother trope. And I'm a sucker for a happy ending.....

The second book is set in a boarding school, but it's not the Chalet School or Malory Towers or St. Clare's. One of the pupils is appointed a prefect at the start of the academic year, but she's quite anxious and lacking in self-confidence. The younger girls don't respect her and they play up when she's in charge. In despair, she hands in her prefect's badge. Then something untoward happens (I can't quite remember the details) and she comes across the scene and handles it all brilliantly. The headmistress insists she takes up the duties of prefect again and the younger girls now respect her and defer to her authority.

The third book was set in Jamaica. It tells the story of two boys who live with their Dad (their mother has died). They had a very idyllic life and ate a lot of goat curry, which stuck in my mind for some reason.

I wouldn't mind a re-read, but the books were quite old fashioned even when I read them in the '70s and '80s. They're probably not in print anymore.

I read two books in my early teens which made a big impression:-
'Freckled and fourteen' by Viola Rowe and 'Fifteen' by Beverly Cleary. Lovely, sweet books which perfectly captured the awkwardness of the teenage years.

@Taytocrisps The second one sounds very Angela Brazil!

So many of the books already listed. I have kept (and still read) the most dog-eared, battered copies. I still love Chalet School, Antonia Forest (a superb writer), Diana Wynne Jones (anther super writer), Drina ballet books, Marianne Dreams, most Noel Streatfeild, Charlotte Sometimes, Lorna Hill, the Carbonel series, Pamela Brown and the Dark is Rising sequence. I kept Candle in her Room and the Sisters books and have never met anyone else who read them!

The Bagthorpes series by Helen Cresswell is still a good one to read.

A few more that have come to mind....
Children of the New Forest
The Little White Horse
Swallows and Amazons
Moonfleet

Thanks @SwanOfThoseThings. For some reason, I missed out on Angela Brazil completely. I'll check them out. And I see they're all available to read for free.