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!

Are you there God it's me Margaret . Judy Blume. This book captures what every adolescent girl is going through in their teenage years. I still have my paperback copy which I am going to give to my 11 year old Dd soon .

Just remembering. Anyone remember the stories about Amelia Jane the Naughty Doll? Enid again, I think. Amelia and her toy companions used to come alive at night and do bad stuff. Like go out into the snow and have snowball fights. Evil like that!

As a small child I loved Blackberry Farm books. My favourite traditional type storybook was Rumpelstiltskin. As an older child I loved Judy Blume books; vividly remember reading Forever aged 12 on holiday.

Gobbolino the witches cat, st Clare's, Mallory towers, Carrie's war, pippi longstocking, mr twiddle, the wishing chair, secret seven, so many of these titles bring back fabulous childhood memories.

Enid Blyton was my absolute favourite as a child. I started with the Enchanted Wood series before moving onto the Five Find Outers and then when I was a bit older the adventure series and Malory Towers and St. Clares.
We didn't have much money when I was growing up so all books were either from the library or second hand (even annuals from Santa always had someone else's name written in them) but I remember the very first new book I was ever given. My mother gave me the Folk of the Faraway tree as a present on my 11th birthday. I remember trying my best to sound excited and enthusiastic in my thanks because I knew it must've been a sacrifice to actually buy it but I couldn't help but feel a crushing disappointment as I had long left that childish series behind me. Because it had been bought for me new I never felt able to pass it on to someone else so I kept it in my beside drawer all through my teenage years. My mother died when I was 19 and I was so glad that I had kept the book and I still have it nearly 30 years later.
I also really enjoyed the Narnia series but one book that really sticks in my memory is Minnow on the Say by Phillipa Pearce which I re-read so many times.

Yes Amelia jane series, molly molly mandy and my naughty little sister books!

In no particular order
Enid Blyton. Magic Faraway Tree. Toyland stories. Circus books. Five Find-Outers and the Naughtiest Girl books.

Narnia Chronicles. (Favourite was The Silver Chair.)
Lord Of The Flies
The Silver Sword
Anne Of Green Gables +
C.S Lewis -The Cosmic Trilogy (Out of The Silent Planet, Voyage To Venus, That Hideous Strength)
The Bobbsey Twins
The Guardians
The Hobbit
I read all of these (and probably a lot more) many many times.

The Animals of Farthing Wood
The Borrowers
Stig of the Dump
Watership Down
The Corfu Trilogy
Lord Of The Flies

and thank to my parents being clueless about books, I Claudius and Claudius the God. If challenged I would have said 'its for school'.

@jessstan2

'That Hideous Strength' by C S Lewis. It was in a bundle of books my cousin gave me to me when I was about nine and I read it umpteen times. As I got older I understood it better of course but I found it 'unputodownable' from the start. 'The Arabian Nights' and 'Just So Stories' were also favourites.

That Hideous Strength is actually the final book in The Cosmic Trilogy. Well worth looking up.

The Enid Blyton Faraway tree ones

Oh and what about little women and just william, my mum had these.

Can anyone remember a book with a girl called dorinda in it! Cant remember story at all and it isnt much to go on?

This is a lovely thread I was an avid reader as a child.

More votes for The Lone Pine Series, Sue Barton series, Little House series.

Also at primary age all the Heidis, One Hundred and one dalmations, Mallory Towers, St Clares and Naughtiest Girl and in my teens Lord of the Rings, James Herriot, a book called the Hound of Ulster about Cuchulain the legendary Irish warrior which we read in my first year of secondary.

I also loved the Cosmic Series by C S Lewis. So many great books.

@Witchend Yes! I couldn't remember if it was her or what the title was. Thanks. I must see what I've done with those books, I'd like to read them again now.

Also I read a book at about age 9 or 10 that I think was called Red Eagle or The Red Eagle about two young sisters who make friends with a young aviator and horseman. I loved it but I've never been able to find it again as an adult.

I don't suppose anyone else remembers it???

@Phineyj
The mansion in Green Knowe is in Hemingford which is near Huntingdon. You can visit it. Lucy Boston's niece still lives there and gives guided tours of the house and talk about her aunt. If you live within a couple of hours drive it's worth the trip. You have to pre book.

The Lion the witch and the wardrobe. I love this book so much, have read it multiple times. Got even more out of it as an adult.

David Eddings' Belgariad and Mallorean series. Still enjoy them.

Emil and the Detectives
Stig of the Dump
James and the Giant Peach

The first book I can remember loving was Carrie's War

My absolute favourite was Ballet Shoes (I had a signed copy, dedicated to me!). Loved all her other books as well. Adored, in a scared way Ruth Arthur books - Candle in my Room, Requiem for a Princess etc which I discovered in our library.
As an adult, I still adore Antonia Forest and re-read at least every couple of years.

This thread had reminded me of so many I'd forgotten!
I read a lot of Enid Blyton. Does anyone remember Mr Galliano's Circus?
My favourite character of all time was Darrell from Malory Towers. She was everything I wanted to be (but wasn't)
I'd read anything I could lay my hands on really.
Loved the pony stories by the Pullein-Thompson sisters.
Enjoyed the James Herriot books from around 11 or so.
Oh and the Joyce Stranger books.

@Timeforredwine The Cheetah Girls?

So many wonderful books mentioned here, and lovely memories. I devoured books as a child and read many again and again.
One favourite was called ‘Crowns’ - it was about 4 children who go out for a Christmas party in a big old house and get transported into a new land where they are kings and queens of. They have incredibly exciting adventures and each have different quests and then at the end of the book they find themselves back at the Christmas party. Does anyone else remember it?

As well as many others already mentioned, other favourites were:

Monica Edwards - Wish for a pony.
A tree grows in Brooklyn And Koy in the morning (read in my teens)
The tree that sat down
Drina Ballerina series
Jean M Aul - Clan of the cave bear series

I also loved Junk by Melvin Burgess. I read that when I was about 12, probably a bit old in terms of some of the content but I was a mature kid and really enjoyed it.