to ask you for favourite novel as a child?

[grapeswithseeds]

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

Little women was my childhood favourite.

I read it many times. It was a kind of comfort book.

Then when I was a teen I picked up Orwells 1984
I've lost count how many times I've read it now but it's very apt in these strange times

Ballet Shoes and When the Siren Wailed were my most read books.

@dayswithaY

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr The Swish of the Curtain by Pamela Browne The Diary of Anne Frank A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden

These were all.my favourites as well!

Plus the Marlowe books by Antonia Forest and the Adventure books by Willard Price

The Milly Molly Mandy series, can't remember the author.

@footie, did you become an actor, or save the Queen from an assassination attempt?

Also loved the secret seven, famous five.

I still love reading. I read roughly two/three books a week (Often not groundbreaking novels, or hard hitting literature ) and I just adore it.

'What Katy Did' and 'Heidi'.
How could I have forgotten Heidi?!

I loved the 'Elizabeth Gail' series. This was my first binge read and how it all started. Just googled it and I feel so nostalgic.

The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater

Plus most Enid Blyton but especially the Adventure series

When younger I liked Marmalade Atkins and the Just William books. Then at twelve, Jurassic Park and then everything Michael Crichton wrote. Then teen hormones kicked in and I found The Vampire Chronicles.

Gobbolino, The Witch's Cat

Different ones at different ages.

• Naughtiest girl in the school
• The worst witch
• Judy Blume
• point Horror / Christopher Pike

Harry Potter, Goosebumps and anything by Jacqueline Wilson

Also The Secret Garden

Ballet shoes by Noel Streatfield, I'm the least balletish person ever but I loved that book and read it so many times.

The little grey men by BB
Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer
the outsiders by SE Hinton
plus the other books by these authors..and so many more other authors I forget!

'The Famous Five' series was one of my favourites too.

anything by E Ness it and of course the chronicles of narnia

Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, Anne of Green Gables, the Sophie books by Dick King Smith

@Lucked Agree with children of the Oregon Trail. I've got it on my shelf and lent it to adults who have loved it too.

E Nesbit

Oh and A Little Princess, also by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Also agree with a PP about Carrie's War.

Plus The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe.

The secret garden and the children of the new forest

BFG & The Witches by Roald Dahl

The Children of Green Knowe by Mary M Boston