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.

Thanks @blackpear that's the one!

I have read far too many girls school stories several books with a reluctant head girl who comes good. I'm fairly sure that one of Dorita Farlie Bruce's Springdale books has this story line.

oh - maybe one with Diana Stewart and Rae Merchison? Or Sydney Carter? I wouldn't mind but I did a nearly comprehensive DFB re-read (missing the Sally books and at least one Toby book) within the the last two years. you'd think I'd remember.

Right. Have just some done hard core research and think the book I had in mind was The New House Captain. Peggy is given the house captain position, and Diana is not happy. Much angst ensues.

Omg, Room 13, I had forgotten about that book! I loved it and re-read it many times.

Also lots of the books mentioned previously like Enid Blyton, Mallory Towers, Black Beauty etc.
One of my favourites was Ronia the Robbers Daughter by Astrid Lindgren. I bought a new copy several years ago thinking I had lost my original one, only to find the original a few days later. I took the new copy into work and gave it to a colleague for her daughters but asked her to get them to pass it on when they finished so that other people could read it too.

Famous Five
The Faraway Tree

The My Naughty Little Sister series by Dorothy Edwards,
Enid Blyton's Naughtiest Girl at School and Malory Towers books, anything by Donald Bisset and, my all time favourite, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

I recently reread a few Sweet Valley High books, they were not as interesting as I remember them being when I was 12...

Also Point Horror: The Cheerleader, Trick or Treat, The Accident and The Hitchhiker were as brilliant as they were before

Cora Ravenwing! I think I might still have my original copy.

Lion the witch and the wardrobe, Charlie and the chocolate factory and other road Dahl. Judy Blume!

Omg - Marianne Dreams and Charlotte Sometimes! None of my friends know about these so just excited to share with someone else! 😅. I highly recommend ‘When Marnie Was There’ by Joan G Robinson - it has that same solemn otherworldly-ness about it - an absolute classic that I’ve reread many a time. ‘The House that Sailed Away’ by Pat Hutchins is also a great but very different laugh out loud read ☺️

Narnia books.

I'm now reading When Marnie Was There and absolutely loving it 😊

This thread is going to be a gold mine for lovely comforting reading!

Ooh I was such a bookworm when I was little! I loved:
The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe
The Worst Witch books
What Katie did
What Katie did at School
What Katie did next
The Wishing Chair series
The Faraway Tree series
The Naughtiest Girl series
The Amelia Jane series
The Children of Green Knowe
Heggerty Haggerty
The Chimney Witches
The Ms Wiz series
Bunty, Judy and Mandy annuals
Five Children and It
The Phoenix and the carpet
The Story of the Amulet
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
Emil and the Detectives

I also read Forever by Judy Blume fairly recently and that holds up well considering it was written in the early 90s.

It was banned in our school

Two other good timeslip books were The Ghosts by Antonia Barber (filmed as The Amazing Mr. Blunden), and Come Back Lucy by Pamela Sykes.

Me too!

It's actually going to be released as a Netflix movie this summer.

Malory Towers and I love reading them on my kindle now too. Although I do now have some sympathy with Gwen, Darrell could be very pious at times.

Oh and the secret seven too. But again Peter is often a sanctimonious twit at times so Enid Blyton obviously liked to include one in all her books.

I adored both of those! The old film of The Amazing Mr Blunden was great (the modern remake is rubbage).

Love point horror but my goodness reading them back as an adult there was some lax parenting going on. "There's a crazed serial killer on the loose so we'll just leave out daughter alone overnight in our remote house with no phone lines whilst we attended my husband's gala dinner for his unnamed but very important job". Yep nothing wrong there!
Having said that Funhouse, which is the epitome of that is probably my favourite.

It was kept behind the counter in our school library and only 4th year and above were allowed to take it out.

I read it on Kindle recently too and agree that it's stood up very well.

I'd completely forgotten the story line about the pregnant girl and I suspect the subtext might have completely passed me by.

I'd also remembered all about Ralph but forgotten what an arse his "owner" turned out to be!

All the Enid Blyton 'Adventure' series.

Noel Streatfield Ballet Shoes.

In order of my age and my faves to obsess over.

The very hungry caterpillar

Meg on the moon

Peter rabbit

Paddington

The wind in then willows

The secret garden

Harry Potter 1, 2 and 3. Became adult along side the books! What a time to be alive!!

Omg SVH!!!! totes forgot about those!!!