to ask you for favourite novel as a child?

[grapeswithseeds]

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

Heidi, my cousin gave me this and it's the only book I remember reading over and over.

HELP ME FIND THIS BOOK AVID READERS

It would've been in the 70's or 80's and the only thing I can remember was it was about cryogenic suspension, definitely a children's book.

Read it about 50 times but can't for the life of me remember the name or the author

I refuse to pick one out of

Ballet shoes
Anne of Green Gables
The Chalet School in Exile
End of Term (natch)

Rebeccas World.

Peter rabbit series and Animal ark series by Lucy Daniels

Tottie: Story of a Dolls house by Rumer Godden

The folk of the faraway tree was my favourite, followed by Raggedy Ann and Andy. I read these books til they fell apart!

Sweet Valley Twins/High series

So many of the (older) ones already mentioned
Plus
The Borrowers
Swallows and Amazons
and the
Cherry Ames - Student Nurse and the rest of that series

There was a book called 'Red Herring' that I absolutely loved. It was a detective novel. I read it over and over again. Weirdly, I can't quite remember what it was about now.

When I was about 13 I read a non-fiction book which I'm sure was called 'Sold' or 'Lost'. It was about a girl from Birmingham (I was from Birmingham too) who was sold into marriage in Yemen as a teenager, her experiences, and then her escape. At the end of the book, her sister was still in Yemen and she had no idea where. I read it twice. It really stayed with me and, looking back now, I think it started me off on the path to feminism.

Marianne Dreams.
Anne of Green Gables.
Ultramarine/Rainbow and Mr Zed.
The Magic Faraway Tree.
The Wreck of Zanzibar.
The Borrowers.
Here's to you, Rachel Robinson.
Sweet Valley Twins/Sweet Valley High.

The giant under the snow and anything by Alison Uttley.

Your thread prompted me to find the book. The author has an updated version which I am just about to order. So, thank you for starting this thread

Fantastic Mr Fox. I remember getting it free with a box of cereal and reading it over and over again.

My Friend Flicka
Thunderhead, Son of Flicka.
The Boy Next Door.
Black Beauty.
Lion, Witch and Wardrobe.
Valley of Adventure.

I don't think I could pick a favourite. I read huge amounts.

I think for my dc:
Dd1 would be Watership Down. She read and reread it.
DD2 probably Gwendoline Courtney's "A Coronet for Cathy" but she reads loads, so could probably list another 50+
Ds Cue for Treason he was absolutely wrapped in. So that one or The Gay Dolphin Adventure (one of Malcolm Saville's Lone Pine Series). We did have an interesting moment from that (he was in year 2 or 3) when in all innocence he wrote his favourite line, about the sign that hung at the Gay Dolphin Hotel: "You can tell he's gay by the wicked twinkle in his eye".

@TheMumblesofMumbledom

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I loved some of the less well-known Roald Dahl stories, such as The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, and a rather nasty short story in the same book called The Swan.

I also liked a story called "The Serial Garden" by I think Joan Aiken, in which a boy builds a model garden from a cereal packet, which transforms into a real garden.

The Naughtiest Girl series by Enid Blyton.
Must have read the first one of the series over 20 times.

Diary of Anne Frank and from there developed a fascination for the holocaust so read a lot of books about it.

Loved a lot of Jacqueline Wilson. My favourites from members were Dustbin Baby, Vicky Angel, Lola Rose and The Lottie Project.

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No it's not that one. I seem to remember it having red on the cover.

@OilBaron

There was a book called 'Red Herring' that I absolutely loved. It was a detective novel. I read it over and over again. Weirdly, I can't quite remember what it was about now.

When I was about 13 I read a non-fiction book which I'm sure was called 'Sold' or 'Lost'. It was about a girl from Birmingham (I was from Birmingham too) who was sold into marriage in Yemen as a teenager, her experiences, and then her escape. At the end of the book, her sister was still in Yemen and she had no idea where. I read it twice. It really stayed with me and, looking back now, I think it started me off on the path to feminism.

@OilBaron 5 Red Herrings by Dorothy L Sayers? Detective book, artists in Scotland, mysterious death etc etc.... could that be it?

Oh and Ballet Shoes! I always loved the name Posy because of that book, though I'd never name my child that now

When Marnie Was There - Joan G Robinson
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower - Rumer Godden
What Katy Did
Anne of Green Gables

And when I was a bit older, The Pigman by Paul Zindel.

Tom's midnight garden

Secret garden. Still read it or watch a version when I need cheering up