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?

Pippi longstocking

@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?

Yes, the same. My mum would buy me a book every time we went near a bookshop. I loved Enid Blyton, especially the school ones. I used to dream of going to boarding school - it never happened though. We rarely watched telly. Me and mum would sit reading books for hours (she would get through at least 3 library books a week).

Go Dog Go
Goodnight Moon

A Wrinkle in Time

Half Magic and anything else by Edward Eager

[quote NarNooNarNoo]@Raindancer411 - I loved a series called making out by Katherine Applegate about a group of high school kids who lived on a island and got a ferry to school every day.. Zoey and her brother Benjamin whose parents owned a restaurant.. haven’t thought about that series for years!!

Lots of familiar reads on here, was also a massive fan of sweet valley, Judy Blume and most Enid Blyton. I believed for years the faraway tree was real [/quote]
Yes that was it and you remembered more of it than I did!! 😂 wish my memory was that good. As long as the mice haven’t got them, they should be in my mums loft

Ballet Shoes

Oh so many!
George's marvellous medicine
Matilda
Bfg
Charlie and the chocolate factory
Charlottes web
Paula Danziger books
Worst witch
Ramona and beezus
Babysitters club (got me through a summer with a badly broken arm, devoured the lot)
An Oxford children's poetry book which I still have
I'm sure there are more!

Every Tuesday when my mum got the Family Allowance as it was then from the post office, she would buy me a book and my brother a matchbox car. Those were the days when you could get all sorts in a post office. We also went to the tiny village library which I adored. Funnily enough now I'm a librarian and live in the old village bookshop!
Nat6999 I'm glad someone else remembers Mandy.

Charlie and the chocolate factory is my favourite, but I also used to love the famous five and magical faraway tree books.

[quote NarNooNarNoo]@Raindancer411 - I loved a series called making out by Katherine Applegate about a group of high school kids who lived on a island and got a ferry to school every day.. Zoey and her brother Benjamin whose parents owned a restaurant.. haven’t thought about that series for years!!

Lots of familiar reads on here, was also a massive fan of sweet valley, Judy Blume and most Enid Blyton. I believed for years the faraway tree was real [/quote]
An I had those -I think book one was given away with mizz or sone teen mag? I also enjoyed freshman dorm and roommates about us students. I had all the sweet valley high (abs sweet valley university)

All Enid Boltons too. Only ones I re-read as an adult were the mystery series (5 finder outer and dog) I did enjoy the recent Mallory towers on tv

And I still have all my fighting fantasy books. Sone signed by the authors! I did try the other choose your own series but I liked dice rolling. But the romance ones were okay.

And the Caitlin trilogy (x3) where she put sone girl in a wheelchair and ride horses and dated jed? That was amusing.

The Pogles
Noggin the Nog
and a flying rabbit. Pooky?

@Ihavehadenoughalready

Half Magic and anything else by Edward Eager

Same here!

@CounsellorTroi

Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr Jennings All the Enid Blytons

Oh YES -loved Jennings!

The Snow spider series by Jenny Nimmo

Mrs Frisby and the rats of NIMH

As a child….
The owl that was afraid of the dark
George’s marvellous medicine
When the siren wailed
The worst witch

As a Tween/young Teen….
The Twits
The Babysitters Club series.
Point Horror

[quote NarNooNarNoo]@Raindancer411 - I loved a series called making out by Katherine Applegate about a group of high school kids who lived on a island and got a ferry to school every day.. Zoey and her brother Benjamin whose parents owned a restaurant.. haven’t thought about that series for years!!

Lots of familiar reads on here, was also a massive fan of sweet valley, Judy Blume and most Enid Blyton. I believed for years the faraway tree was real [/quote]
I loved that series! Zoey and Benjamin, Claire and Nina, and Jake and Lucas. Benjamin was blind. There was another similar one about a girl called Summer who spent the summer in Florida with relatives.

@freshcarnation

The Pogles Noggin the Nog and a flying rabbit. Pooky?

I remember Pooky. So many other books I had forgotten

@Raindancer411 haha yes that’s where mine are as well!

@burnoutbabe yess! I definitely got the first one free with a teen type magazine!

@BigYellowTaxiT ah it’s all coming back! I remember Aisha (sp?) and the series touching on issues around racism which was probably one of the first times I read about it.. I definitely had a fleeting interest in meteorology and gazing at clouds like Claire

Paddington Abroad - and it still is. I also really liked Ballet Shoes, The Enchanted Wood and The Hobbit.

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Ogre Downstairs, The Famous Five and the Taran the Wanderer books.

Children of the New Forest, Swiss Family Robinson, Jennings, Traveller in Time, E Nesbit books and CS Lewis books. I loved reading(still do) luckily parents did as well and library was in walking distance.

Black Beauty has to be my favourite; it was only years later I understood how much this book had taught me about how to 'be' with horses - and all animals, really.

I did like The Magic Faraway Tree, too; and 'The Mystery of....' books by EB (everyone liked the Famous Five, so, I didn't!)

When I was a bit older I loved Asterix too, @newlabelwriter - they were always so much fun! And my uncle gave me Lord of the Rings; I've read that a gazillion times. Much better than the films!

Narnia series

The Phantom Tolbooth
Charlotte's Web
The Barbapapas
The Moomins

As a young pre teen pretty much every Enid Blyton book already mentioned. As older pre teen Nancy Drew and the Hardy boys and then about age 12 / early teen Sweet Valley High and Judy Blume. Think al I did as a kid was read!