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!

Famous Five/St Clares Series by Enid Blyton
also loved Anne of Green Gables

When Hitler stole pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr. It is only as an adult I realised it was not fiction. I picked it up in my school library at aged ten on a Friday. I stayed away all night to finish it.

Loved Little grey rabbit and read those over and over when small and got them read to me. Have fond memories of Cue for Treason, which we read at school. Adored both the Princess and Curdie and The back of the North Wind by George MacDonald. Like pp still reading Georgette Heyers novels when I need to relax.

I read a lot as a child and teen. Loved Enid Blyton - the magic faraway tree, the adventure series, St Clare’s were adored. Mrs Pepperpot by Alf Prøysen was my first book that I ever owned and I cherished it.
I cried every time at The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde. I bought it for my children but couldn’t bring myself to read it!
The Narnia books I read many times.
Anything mythology I absorbed -even reading Homer’s Odyssey which I doubt I could concentrate on now!
My darling, my hamburger by Paul Zindel is another that comes to mind.
Great idea for a thread!

Wind in the Willows
Swallows and Amazons
Famous 5

Ooh yes, nina Bawden, Judy blume and the Trebizon series.
Read Hitler stole pink rabbit for the first time this year before giving it to my 10 year old. She loves it and has reread it many times. The other two are also good, just for slightly older kids I think.
I'd have loved Harry Potter.

Many of the above (I was a reader). Pollyanna because it taught me the glad game.

Jennings
Milly molly Mandy by Joyce b something Lancaster
Biggles
Malcolm saville
Famous five
Chalet school
Mandy by Julie Andrews
Flambards series
Swallows and amazons
Swish of the curtain
Noel streatfield
Rumergodden

Without a doubt the Faraway Tree stories- Enid Blyton. I still love them now!

So many of the books already mentioned are bringing a smile to my face - Mrs Pepperpot, Charlotte Sometimes, The Narnia books. I also loved A Little Princess, The Gemma Books, The Faraway Tree books. When I was 14 I went to stay with my penfriend on an exchange visit. The only English book on their bookshelf was Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. I asked if I could read it and fell in love with it. As soon as I could, I bought my own copy and it is one of the most read books on my bookshelf.

The Forestwife and Spellhorn.

The lion, the witch and the wardrobe.

MovedByFanciesThatAreCurled
I loved the Jinny books too. You can find a list of them here:

www.goodreads.com/series/55681

The first one is called 'For Love of a Horse'. They were written by Patricia Leitch.

@MovedByFanciesThatAreCurled oh I had forgotten all about the Jonny books but I loved them too!

Everyday: Gosh, I’d forgotten all about gobbolino...that takes me back

And another weird kid that read”I am David” multiple times- first book to make me 😢

Up to age 8: My Naughty Little Sister by Dorothy Edwards
8-12: A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
12+: Masha by Mara Kay

@Hairydilemma There was Dinah, Jack and Philip if I remember correctly. And Jack had a parrot Kiki, who was crucial to many plot points too. :)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I still reach for it in times of stress like the death of a loved one. It's like a cosy jumper.

My first favourite book was Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl. Percy the Park Keeper, the Ivy Biscuit series and The Lighthouse Keeper - he had a big ginger cat called Hamish.

Danny Champion of the World, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. I also loved Jacqueline Wilson books like Tracy Beaker. Oh and Dick King Smith - Saddlebottom!

I loved the Famous Five, St Clare's, Mallory Towers, Adventures of the Wishing Chair, Magic Faraway Tree, Five Find Outers and Dog, The Naughtiest Girl, The Secret series (Jack, Mike, Peggy and Nora) and other Enid Blyton ones - the group which consisted of four kids (Jack, Norah, Mike and Peggy and later Paul the Prince) and The Adventure series (Jack, Lucy-Ann, Philip and Dinah with Kiki the parrot and step-dad Bill Cunningham who was some sort of Spy).

I didn't like The Secret Seven much, and I didn't like Beatrix Potter books at all.

The yearling. (There was a film starring Gregory peck I think). I was reading it during a French lesson at school and it was confiscated. I never got it back. I am still really upset about it.

Ballet shoes
Jessamy
Mallory Towers & St Clare's series

[quote SecretNutellaFix]@Hairydilemma There was Dinah, Jack and Philip if I remember correctly. And Jack had a parrot Kiki, who was crucial to many plot points too. :)[/quote]
You forgot Lucy-Ann who was Jack's sister and the youngest.

Locked in Time by Lois Duncan - an amazing supernatural mystery

Matilda. Or anything by Roald Dahl really.

I liked the secret books by Enid Blyton. Secret of Spiggy holes was the first one I think. And the three jays pony books by Pat Smythe. I don't expect anyone will remember those.

@Serenrose - 'Jessamy' - Thank you so much, you've solved a mystery going back over 50 years! I remember borrowing this as a child several times from my local library. It was quite newly published. Over the years I've tried to think of the author and title. Embarrassingly, even though I work in a library all I could remember was that it involved time travelling and around the time I read it there was a pop song called 'Jesamine'. I knew from its shelf position in my childhood library that the author's surname was towards the end of the alphabet.
I musn't have thought about it for at least twenty years otherwise I could have tried to track it with internet help.
The title leapt out when I read your post, I've done a search and found it's by Barbara Sleigh plus an image of the original cover which I recognise!😀