to ask you for favourite novel as a child?

[grapeswithseeds]

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

My sister loved the Kevin and Sadie books by Joan Lingard and Fifteen by Beverly Cleary.

@Campervan69: I loved the Phantom Tollbooth as well. Was the boy called Milo?

Yes, he was. I recently read it out loud to my DD and luckily she loved it too. Officer Shrift, the Spelling Bee, the number mine, the Doldrums etc.

Anne of green gables.

The Worst Witch series, Mallory Towers and another boarding school one by Enid Blyton but I cant remember what it was called.
The Worst Witch for me was like our generations Harry Potter.

As a child rather than teenager, The Faraway Tree or Charlotte Sometimes.

St Clare's

I remember in primary I'd seen my way entirely through the curriculum (1970's) so my teacher was at a bit of a loss. I read through the very small school library collection of classics like Treasure Island and Jayne Eyre, and then teacher bought me a book herself. It was Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods.
I lost myself in that and I remember my Nan taking me on a fairly long bus journey to the big town book shop to buy the rest of the series. I can still remember the smell of Little House on the Prairie.

Anne of Green Gables. I had such a crush on Gilbert

I adored a book about a little girl who had lunch on a cruise ship and then got to travel on that ship to America- I can't remember what it was called

The Hobbit. Read it when I was 10.

The Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett. Also The Diddakoi, the Enchanted Wood series, the Jill has a pony series, the Flambards series...

As a younger child I loved the famous five... Much to the disappointment of my mum who had loved the secret seven as a child!
My other favourite Enid Blyton is one I can't remember the name of... But 3 siblings and another local child ran away to live on an island, to escape their abusive aunt & uncle (I think), where they built a house and had adventures... Before finally being found by their parents who returned from wherever they'd been and adopted the 4th child as their own.
Early teens I loved the Darren Shan series.

There was also a series called Scrambled Legs or Bad News Ballet with the bunheads which was really good.

@OrigamiOwl

As a younger child I loved the famous five... Much to the disappointment of my mum who had loved the secret seven as a child! My other favourite Enid Blyton is one I can't remember the name of... But 3 siblings and another local child ran away to live on an island, to escape their abusive aunt & uncle (I think), where they built a house and had adventures... Before finally being found by their parents who returned from wherever they'd been and adopted the 4th child as their own. Early teens I loved the Darren Shan series.

I think my sister had this book. Hers was an unabridged version. She got it the same year I got 'The Naughiest Girl the school' books.

Enchanted Wood, obviously and a Necklace of Raindrops.

Yy also to

Bottersnikes and Gumbles
I am David
Wind in the Willows

And any story where children run away and sleep on beds of bracken and cook things in a hay box.

@OrigamiOwl

As a younger child I loved the famous five... Much to the disappointment of my mum who had loved the secret seven as a child! My other favourite Enid Blyton is one I can't remember the name of... But 3 siblings and another local child ran away to live on an island, to escape their abusive aunt & uncle (I think), where they built a house and had adventures... Before finally being found by their parents who returned from wherever they'd been and adopted the 4th child as their own. Early teens I loved the Darren Shan series.

The Secret Island. It is the first of Enid Blyton's secret series.

Time Tangle by Frances Eagar

I actually loved it so much that I kept it from the school library for years! It didn't have a ticket on it so I got away with it. Felt guilty by the end of juniors though so did return it. Bought it in adulthood to read again, love a bit of time travel adventure.

The Family from One End Street & Holiday at The Dew Drop Inn - Large family, poor but happy

The All of a Kind Family - Jewish family growing up in New York around about 1910

Pamela's Way - Young girl starts grammar school, has a really annoying friend (I could relate to this one!)

My daughter Lisbet - Set in Norway

Meet the Austins - Another family one, set in the States

Myeko's Gift - Japanese girl joins an American school and teaches her classmates all about her culture. Written in the late 1960s, I loved the illustrations in this book

The snow spider trilogy still love it. They recently did a tv series on CBBC but it just wasn't a porch on the books.
Little house on the prairie books
The babysitters club
Point horrors

Basically, anything by Enid Blyton. The Magic Faraway Tree etc, then graduated to Famous Five, Secret Seven, then the boarding school books. I remember asking my Mum if I could go to boarding school. I also loved the Narnia series.

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Any Enid Blyton, I’d have fit right in in a 50s boarding school

Jacqueline Wilson’s Suitcase Kid

Gobbolino, The Witch's Cat by Ursula Moray Williams
We had a lovely little black guinea pig, which 1 named Sootica, the name of Gobbolino's all black sister.

I also loved SRA reading cards - they were a kind of comprehension test, a factual piece on one side of an A4 laminated card, then you had to answer questions on the back. I think I loved them so much because I was always ahead and at least one colour above anyone else in the class.
I distinctly remember getting to Aqua - a colour I'd never heard of, and having a card about Martin Luther King. Would have been 1968/69, so they were quite topical.

The Ginny books were a particular favourite - so other worldly at times.. Amazing

Everything by Astrid Lindgren, but my favourite by far was Madita.
A bit later the Alannah series by Tamora Pierce. I was gutted when both dc were indifferent!