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.

Half magic
The silver sword
The little ghost

Famous fives and secret sevens.
Black beauty
What Katy did
Little women
Heidi
All Judy Blume books

Goodnight Mr Tom I read about 5 times as a kid, I still love it now.

Th tv show on iPlayer is very good. Some modernity included but overall good.

Sweet valley high did a 10 years later book -confidential. Then sweet life. Maybe on kindle?

And chalet girls grow up is a highly controversial book in chalet circles. I love it!

Enid Blyton-Faraway Tree, Mallory Towers, Wishing Chair, Famous Five, Secret Seven, Mor Galliano's Circus
Anne of Green Gables
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Pippi Longstocking
The Lone Pine Adventures
Nancy Drew
Hardy Boys
Judy Blume
Riders 😂

Just remembered another one: The Great Ghost Rescue. I loved that book.

Jennie by Paul Gallico
all the Katie series ‘what Katie did’ etc
CS Lewis
Nancy Drew
Enid Blyton
Rider Haggard
Books about ballet ( which all seemed to be about trying to get into the RBS)

Oh the Heidi books too

The Swish of the Curtain by Pamela Brown. Absolutely loved it!

Mallory Towers - all, several times.
Famous Five - all, several times.
Nancy Drew - many mysteries, several times.
Geoffrey Trease - author of historical fiction. I read pretty much everything he published at least five times. I've only met one other person who ever read his books.
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden and A Little Princess - countless times.
Agatha Christie books even though I knew who dunnit after the first go round.
A book by Patricia Lynch, Orla of Burren.
A book by Walter Macken, Island of the Great Yellow Ox.
Same ^ author, Flight of the Doves.

Oh yes, how could I forget Agatha Christie!

There was a series of books about mice and cats that I loved Red something? There was another one about a boy and ?? his bear flying to an island that I remember loving aa well. Would have been late 80s time.

I know she's frowned upon here but I still love a bit of Jacqueline Wilson, Double Act and The Lottie Project being top of the list.

I really enjoyed Monica Dickens and Angela Brazil (?) as well. Also a book by Lynne Reid Banks about growing up in a kibbutz called One more river, I think.

There was a book by Beverley Cleary (?) called Almost Fifteen which was very sweet.

I wasn't allowed to read the babysitter's club, Nancy drew, Judy Blumenthal, point horror etc. However I devoured Enid Blyton.

I feel that Susan Cooper is an amazing writer and I should have enjoyed her but didn't because I was always too scared to read on.

I loved a collection of short stories about a family of girls called 'All in the blue unclouded weather' by an Australian called Robin Klein. I still think it's massively underrated and would highly recommend.

The children of green knowe has some stunning passages.

There was also a book in the school library that I've never been able to find again. It features a family arriving at a remote hotel (I think) in a blizzard. There is a picture on the wall of a snow scene and someone notices that it depicts where they are - and rather sinister figures can just be made out trudging towards the same location through the snow. It was a brilliant idea and I didn't have the chance to read the book.

Loved Joyce Stranger as well. Still got my copy of the Jolly Warrenrrs.

I loved the Lone Pine series! Was just going to come on here to say so.
Also Nancy Drew, Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, all of Colin Dann's animal stories. I've just also remembered a couple I read several times and loved - Homecoming and Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voight. And my ultimate favourite, heartbreaking read - Goodnight Mr Tom.

Also, the St Clare's books, Chalet School books, and Anne of Green Gables.

I also had an anthology of articles by humorist Patrick Campbell, which I still read.

The Redwall series? My DCs loved those books.

Malory Towers series.
Judy Blume
Sweet Valley High!

Just remembered - The Diddakoi, by Rumer Godden, and a book by Paul Berna, 'A Hundred Million Francs' set in Paris.

Una and Grubstreet - read this so many times

And the Winnie the Pooh books - still have, read to all the DCs.

Fav books I’ve reread from childhood through adulthood:
Comforting Young Puffins : Tales from the End Cottage by Eileen Bell ( Alan Titchmarsh lodged with her when he was a student )
Teddy Robinson series by Joan G Robinson

The Time Garden by Edward Eager
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingells Wilder
The Egg & I by Betty Macdonald
The Plague & I by Betty M
Anybody Can Do Anything by Betty M