to want to re-read the whole Malory Towers and St Claires series?

[SlightlyJaded]

Oh the twins. And drippy Gwendoline Mary, and Darrell Rivers... although I can't quite remember who went to which school.

Sorry, forgot to preview link, will try again Friends of the Chalet School

just looked at the Chalet School website. The first book was published in 1925, the last in 1970 - pretty amazing!

Anyone remember the Adventurous Four? there were only two books but they discovered Nazi submarines!

What about 'The Painted Garden' - Noel Streatfield again, all about a family who went to America on Holiday, and the youngest girl got cast as 'Mary' in a Hollywood production of 'the secret Garden' Oh My God I LOVED that book.

No no, they're supposed to look like this

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at least that's how I had them

I meant to say in my previous post that one of the series I really enjoyed as I got that bit older was the Lone Pine series by Malcolm Saville - anyone else have those? Again, I only had a couple of the books but would have liked to have had more.

Slightlyjaded - that's the way mine look!

Oh yes Ballet Shoes and does anyone remember The Swish of the Curtain (also Noel Streatfield)?

Have started DD (5) on 'My Naughty Little Sister' in order to pave the way to Malory Towers - can't wait.

Oh and my first ever 'crush' was on 'Julian' from The Naughtiest Girl in the School. He had green eyes and floppy dark hair, and didn't give a monkeys what the grown ups thought. Bliss

Think I'll have to see if my mum still has all my old St Clares and Malory Towers books. In fact I'm going to 'phone her now! Quite excited about it to be honest!

That's the same as mine as well, Slightly Jaded. I had the boxed set

I adore Streatfield! I always wondered whether there was a sequel to Swish. Might go googling...

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remember The Lone Pine by Malcolm Saville vaguely. No one remember the Trebizon series by (I think) Anne Digby?

Does it annoy anyone else how they renamed half the Streatfield books 'something shoes'? And the last Gemma one too.

I remember Trebizon. They were much more modern.

Google says there's a whole Blue Door series. Amazon is my friend...

YANBU- I introduced dd1 (6) to them last year and she loved them! she was so sad when she finally read the last one, but has been driving me mad with her and her sister's "midnight feasts" ever since- half a mouldy sandwich under the pillow anyone?

Ooh Trebizon was good, it even mentioned a boyfriend - Robbie I think. Can't remember much else except wasn't she (whoever she was) good at tennis?

Swish of the curtain is by Pamela Brown not N Streatfield. Anyone remember the 70s dramatisation with Janet Ellis? Think it was Janet Ellis.

..it was Sarah Greene. She was recruited for Blue Peter soon after she and the rest of the cast had been on the programme. She replaced Tina Heath, who was pregnant, I think.

[has BP annual from that year...]

YABU whoever put that awful new front cover of MT up. That's just HORRID.

Ahem I cannot believe none of you have mentioned Sweet Valley

Trebizon was about Rebecca Mason - set in the 80's I think. First few were good, but the later ones were all a bit tennis obsessed. And it really pussy-footed around the boyfriend - were they together or not???

Never read any chalet school ones - I always thought I'd never be able to read them all!

Oh I had forgotten the Gemma books, I have two or three of those, two. Again, mercifully I have the 60s/70s editions which are marvellously nostalgia-inducing (I do hate updating of kids' books or any popular fiction - it should always be of its time).

loopy! They are bringing out a book soon about Sweet Valley High. It is going to tell what happened to the twins and lila when they grew up etc..

I read Trebizon...anyone read Trixie Belden?

Ooh yes, slightlyjaded - 'green eyes that sparkled with intelligence'. He was hot.

Anyone read Dimsie? She was quite sweet. And they set up an anti-soppist society (ASS) to put down soppiness of all kinds.

Did anyone ever see Andrew Lloyd Webbers production "Daisy Pulls It Off"

I would love to see that again, it was such a good parody of the boarding schools stories.