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?

Oh also, as a parent, as mentioned by a pp, Paper Dolls; a lovely wee book.

Malory Towers and anything by Enid Blyton

As I got older Little Women, The Secret Garden and Flambards

So many already listed but:

Moondial
Crab Village
A Wrinkle in Time
The Garth Nix Sabriel series
Trudi Canavan books
The Katy books
Harry Potter

Smoke and fluff and five little kittens

The midnight garden

My mum & dad used to read us lots of Eric Carle books when we were little, absolutely loved them. My favourites were The Mixed Up Chameleon and The Grouchy Ladybird.
I read them to my own dc now and she loves them too.

I used to love the Point Horror books too, I think I was around 12 when I started reading them, I would get them all from a 2nd hand bookstore near my house. The Babysitter Club ones too! I remember reading The Vampire Diaries series too, long before it was made into a tv series.

Blimey, how many times can I write the word ‘too’?!🤣

So many, Narnia, Pippi Longstocking, The Borrowers, Ballet Shoes, Swallows & Amazons, Heidi, Five Chiidren & It high on my list.

The Willard Price books - South Sea Adventure, Safari Adventure etc about two teenage brothers who go round the world collecting exotic animals for their dad's zoo.

Enid Blyton -Hollow Tree House,The Sea of Adventure, The Secret Island

Sue Barton - Student Nurse

Virginia Andrews - Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina (WTF!) must almost count as children's books as so many of us read them as young teens.

Milly Molly Mandy - I still remember her saving up until she had three pennies to buy a duckling - I so wanted a duckling.

Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators - ghost to ghost hook

Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators - ghost to ghost hook ups and the caravan in the scrap yard

Patricia Leitch and Joanna Cannon pony books

I used to love the Lone Pine books by Malcolm Saville, too - I wasn’t allowed any Enid Blyton books (mum thought they were not well written - I used to have to sneak in Mallory Towers books from the library), so never had any Famous Five books - but apparently the Lone Pine books were up to mum’s standards.

I have held on to a lot of my childhood books - I have most of the Lone Pine books - and I have collected most of the Chalet School books as an adult (I only had three as a child, and only found out how many there were when I lived with a friend who had the full set).

I still enjoy reading some of my children is books - the Chalet School, Harry Potter, the Little House on the Prairie series, Noel Streatfield’s books - I think that good children's literature bears reading as an adult.

The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark (searched all over for a copy when my son was small, so he could enjoy it being read to him, still got it).

The Mouse and His Child

All the Enid Blyton series and the boarding school series.

Mr Galliano's Circus
Mallory Towers

So many of my favourites have been listed.
“When Marnie was there”, was mentioned, but another book by the same author, Joan G Robinson “Charlie” hasn’t been mentioned yet.
Thank you to whoever liked “Sue Barton, student nurse”. I had forgotten all about that series.
I also liked Emma and the High House series that was mentioned earlier.
Someone was trying to remember the amusing book about a school, was it
“Down with Skool”?
Linnets and Valerians was a book I enjoyed regularly too.

Virginia Andrews - Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina (WTF!) must almost count as children's books as so many of us read them as young teens

Ha! Yes I read these aged 12/13 - they were so messed up weren’t they!

@Snoopsnoggysnog

Virginia Andrews - Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina (WTF!) must almost count as children's books as so many of us read them as young teens

Ha! Yes I read these aged 12/13 - they were so messed up weren’t they!

Yes I loved them not sure I would have wanted my dd reading them at that age tho! I really believed Chris and Cathy should be together.! There was a lifetime film of it, it was really bad.

My DD is 12 and I can’t imagine her reading those books! She’d find them really creepy.

As a Little, it was Dogger by Shirley Hughes, or any of the Mog The Cat books by Judith Kerr.

In my mid-childhood I really enjoyed Mallory Towers and St Clares.

Then in my tweens it was Sweet Valley Twins/High, and The Babysitters Club.

@StellaAndCrow

The Willard Price books - South Sea Adventure, Safari Adventure etc about two teenage brothers who go round the world collecting exotic animals for their dad's zoo.

Enid Blyton -Hollow Tree House,The Sea of Adventure, The Secret Island

Sue Barton - Student Nurse

Virginia Andrews - Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina (WTF!) must almost count as children's books as so many of us read them as young teens.

Milly Molly Mandy - I still remember her saving up until she had three pennies to buy a duckling - I so wanted a duckling.

I always wanted bread and dripping, Milly Molly Mandy was always given it as a treat!

@MmeHennyPenny

So many of my favourites have been listed. “When Marnie was there”, was mentioned, but another book by the same author, Joan G Robinson “Charlie” hasn’t been mentioned yet. Thank you to whoever liked “Sue Barton, student nurse”. I had forgotten all about that series. I also liked Emma and the High House series that was mentioned earlier. Someone was trying to remember the amusing book about a school, was it “Down with Skool”? Linnets and Valerians was a book I enjoyed regularly too.

I loved The High House and its sequels.

''Down with Skool' is one of a very funny series about Nigel Molesworth, a naughty boy at St Custards prep school. The others are 'How to be Topp', 'Back in the Jug Agane' and 'Whizz for Atoms'.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

Which Lone Pines are you missing? I have a couple of Armada spares.
They've also recently been reprinted by GGBP.

Ballet Shoes. by Noel Streatfeild.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. by CS Lewis.

The tiger who came to tea.. its the only book I remember my mum reading to me and it warms my cockles

@CreepyDibillo was that Richard Scarry's Bedtime Stories? If so, I had that too and loved it.

So many reminders here of other books I also enjoyed - A Traveller In Time, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, all of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books.