to ask you for favourite novel as a child?

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For me it was probably The Famous 5 series, I love adventure!

My primary school teacher read us ' I am David' at the end of every class! I can't remember it much apart from the title.
I used to like books illustrated by Quentin Blake that were usually read on Jackanory!

Glad someone else remembers it, if not very well! I think I was about 9/10 when I read it.

Probably been mentioned but I adored Five on Smuggler's Rock...I remember falling asleep in the bath in the bathroom reading it after my parents had turned my bedroom light off.

Another Enchanted Wood person.

But @tonsattingforbjudes, our English teacher had us read I am David in class in our first year at secondary school, and oh my! How that book stays with you! I won't read it again, because of how it affected me. So long ago, but I still remember it better than things I read last month. Amazing book.

Sorry, misremembered...It was Smuggler's Top! Definitely one of the darker FF books.

Loved all the roald Dahl books, Enid b Malory towers , naughtiest girl in school collection, secret seven , babysitter club, sweet valley high , shelia lavelle books- my best fiend

Flambards
Marianne Dreams
Howl's Moving Castle

It was remarkable book. I was with David on every step of his journey and cried every time I read it. I wouldn't want to reread it as an adult as I would never be able to inhabit David's world like I did then!

Chronicles of Narnia
Famous Five
Secret Seven
Mallory Towers

I read so much as a child - loved many of those mentioned already.

A few of my favourites were random old ones I found at my grandma's I think.

The Man with the Scar (a sort of spy adventure) by Colin Milne
The Wishing Water Gate, Hilary's Island (both kids on summer holiday adventures) by Elinor Lyon
Susan pulls the Strings by Jane Shaw

There's another one about a group of school girls who go on a school tour of Europe and have an adventure in each place but the title and author escape me now.

My naughty little sister
Mr Pink Whistle
The book of brownies
Narnia books
The secret garden
The wind in the willows
The worst witch

Heidi
Ballet Shoes
The Silver Sword
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Famous Five

Forgot, "Carbonel"

Little house on the prairie, lion the witch and the wardrobe, Mallory towers and the magic faraway tree

@The80sweregreat I loved the book I Am David. He was a twelve-year-old who had grown in a concentration camp, and suddenly a guard assisted him to escape and to travel across Europe, so he was suddenly sent out into the real world, having known nothing but the camp, so he had to learn all about the world as he travelled.

As for Jackanory, I remember George's Marvellous Medicine, being read by a young Rik Mayall, in 1986. It's on Youtube, really funny!

Ramona The Pest by Beverly Cleary, I still have it.
Enid Blyton, mainly Famous Five, St Clare's and Mallory Towers.

A lot of Enid Blyton when I was younger.

I used to take the Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin on holiday time after time and reread them over and over. It was proper escapism and I’d imagine myself there.

Does anyone else remember the "Mary Plain" books. She was a bear who lived with the Owl Man. All very weird but I loved them

The little white horse by Elizabeth Goudge read it so many times!

Sorry, * Wizard if Earthsea quartet.

My Friend Flicka
The Jinny series
Enchanted Tree

David Copperfield

I love this thread! I read so much when I was a kid, still do! My favourites in primary school were-
The Hobbit
Enid Blytons' Adventure books especially The Valley of Adventure
Fantastic Mr Fox (i always thought of a tasty roast chicken when he managed to catch his food!)
The Worst Witch
Then secondary school I loved-
Sweet valley high books
Point Horror books
Lord of the Rings
A Christmas Carol (which I still read every Christmas)

Anne of Green Gables

So many of these! The Flicka books and Black Beauty. The Magic Faraway Tree.

Charmed Life and A Wrinkle in Time.

Lord of the Rings (I so wanted to be a hobbit!).

@oilbaron l also read that book about Yemen though as an adult. Found it horrifying!