To ask what your favourite children's book is/was

[LaVieEstBelle159]

The book or books that bring back comforting and happy memories.

Mine are Magic Faraway Tree, Mallory Towers and St Clares, all by Enid Blyton.

What are yours?

The Valvetine Rabbit, still makes me cry now. When I was a teen Point Romance.

The Secret Island

Gobbolino The Witch's Cat

The Little Wooden Horse

All of The Naughtiest Girl books

Usbourne Ghost Stories

Youngest memories of reading are cannon ball simp, Ferdinand and Beatrix potter
When a bit older the book that i can remember clearest was brave new world which i was forced to read at about 10! Scarred for life!!

Favourite was a series about mustang horses. No idea of the name though.

Another one for Mallory Towers & St Claires here, plus Famous Five. Books I've loved reading to my own children - Pumpkin Soup, Alfie & Annie Rose series, Tiger who came to tea & Michael Morpurgo novels.

As a teen - raymond chandler

Malory Towers and the Cherry Tree Farm books from Enid Blyton. What Katy Did books, A Little Princess and similar. Loved pretending I was the heroine! Also read and loved Far From The Madding Crowd, Lorna Doone and The Hobbit when very young. Plus Roald Dahl books. My nickname was Matilda as I always had a book in my pocket!
As a mum, agree Paper Dolls makes me tear up every time!

Ooh, and Father Brown stories and I had a collection of ghost stories that I lived, but scared me witless! I think many of my books came from the Puffin Book Club or the book fair via school. We'd get a booklet every so often and I'd choose a book or two.
My daughter now has many of my collection in her shelves!

Loved every single one of Enid blytons but my favs were the famous five.
I now buy DD really old copies, used to have a few good first editions but sold them when I was a nursing student, she likes them but not as much as I did, obv I didn't have phones and YouTube 35!years ago.
Totally understand the racial issues with her with the gollys etc, in this day, but still won't forget the excitement of those stories, would keep me up all night reading one more chapter!

Where the wild things are, still absolutely love it, as do my 2 adult DC.

The Butterfly ball and Grasshopper feast, mainly for the fantastic illustrations that i spent hours studying.

Oh The Phantom Tollbooth - loved that Thank to who mentioned it.

Flossie Teacakes Fur Coat by Hunter Davies
The High House by Honor Arundel
St Claire's, Mallory Towers and The Mystery of... by Enid Blyton

So many of my favourites are already listed (mostly by several different pp) so I won't repeat those, just add a few more that I haven't seen mentioned. Edith unnerstad particularly The spettecake holiday ; Jennie overton - creed country and the nightwatch winter; km Peyton, particularly fly by night and the team; picture books: the story of Horace; no kiss for mother; the bears who stayed indoors;

Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr
Jennings
All the Enid Blytons

Malory Towers, St Clare's, secret seven , famous five, are you there god it's me Margaret, Anne of green gables so many I loved.

Jinny of Finmory loved that series of books as well

@LyndaSnellsSniff

I loved; The Faraway Tree books, Mallory Towers The Borrowers books Worzel Gummidge The Diddakoi by Rummer Godden The Laura Ingalls Wilder books (although I think I lost a bit of interest after the first 2) Milly Molly Mandy (I was obsessed with the map inside the cover) The Bramley Hedge books 101 Dalmatian (especially the chapter where the dogs spend a night in a large country house) The Miss Read series Gerald Durrell books Danny The Champion of the World

I loved the map inside the cover of the milly molly Mandy books as well !

@nonevernotever

So many of my favourites are already listed (mostly by several different pp) so I won't repeat those, just add a few more that I haven't seen mentioned. Edith unnerstad particularly The spettecake holiday ; Jennie overton - creed country and the nightwatch winter; km Peyton, particularly fly by night and the team; picture books: the story of Horace; no kiss for mother; the bears who stayed indoors;

Ah I also loved KM Peyton, forgot about those. Did anyone read Dear Fred or Pennington?

Mallory Towers, Famous Five, Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

The Secret Garden, 'Might I have a little bit of earth?'

Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys.

Oh, one of my teachers read 'Worzel Gummidge' to us. I have never forgotten the pesky spadgers and Emily Goodenough and the ten-acre field. Isn't literature RICH!

@Snoopsnoggysnog yes to both. I really like the Pennington/Ruth/Jonathan/Peter ones and some of the stand alones like A pattern of roses but wasn't so keen on dear Fred.

Lots already mentioned (particularly the Dark is Rising series, Little House In The Big Woods, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, Ballet Shoes, The Little Princess) but also...

The Snow Spider Trilogy by Jenny Nimmo
Where It Stops Nobody Knows by Amy Ehrlich
Little Plum by Rumer Godden

and when I was very little, the Tim and the Hidden People series of school reading books by Sheila K. McCullagh.

@nonevernotever

So many of my favourites are already listed (mostly by several different pp) so I won't repeat those, just add a few more that I haven't seen mentioned. Edith unnerstad particularly The spettecake holiday ; Jennie overton - creed country and the nightwatch winter; km Peyton, particularly fly by night and the team; picture books: the story of Horace; no kiss for mother; the bears who stayed indoors;

Oh, you're bringing back some great memories. Yes, I loved Edith Unnerstad too! And at a later age, K.M. Peyton: those you mention and the Pennington books. Also love the Jenny Overton books, though I didn't read them till I was an adult.

Many, many childhood favourites which I still reread as an adult, but one stand-out is The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper.