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

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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 house that sailed away, by Pat Hutchins. Loved that book as a kid.
Velveteen Rabbit, Faraway tree and one about a baby called Sebastian Fry who was an alien in the end, can't remember who it was by.

Ooh and point horror books later on

And the Giant Jam Sandwich!

I used to love: -

The Borrowers
Anne of Green Gables
Paula Danziger books
Sheila Lavelle books
The Trebizon books by Anne Digby

A fairly modern children's book I like is Beswitched. It's a bit like Charlotte Sometimes.

Anything by Mary Nhin, the Ninja Life Hacks books, but of the entire collection, his favorite is "12 days of Christmas", we have to read it every night before going to bed. Even when is not Christmas anymore 🙃.

Mog.
Any Mog book. But Mogs Bad Things still gets quoted by my teens when things go wrong in life..."you spilled the peas!"

Ballet shoes

The chalet school books
Mandy by Julie Andrews
Cherry Ames Nurse books
The blue doors books by Pamela Brown
The secret island by Enid Blyton
Olga da Polga by Michael Bond

The magic faraway tree I love this book as a kid and still do now

Same as yours OP plus My Naughty Little Sister and The Famous Five. I especially liked to read about the midnight feasts and picnics with lashings of everything haha.

Don't k is if it has been mentioned already, but I loved Heidi

*Don't know

Tom's Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pearse.

All the Roald Dahl books and the Worst Witch. There was also a book called The Hairy Toe which the headmaster used to read to us in primary school and put on funny voices, I loved it!

Alan Garner - Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Elidor, What Katy Did series, Famous Five, Ballet Shoes, Little Men & Little Women & Mallory Towers/St Clares.

Did you share my bookshelf? Exactly the same bat St. Clare's.

@MargaretThursday - I am so sorry I missed your generous offer last year - that is so kind of you. Please don't worry though - I have all my favourites.

Has anyone listened to the adaptation of Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising, on Radio 4? I didn't listen to it before Christmas, but have now listened to it all, and it is very good - infinitely better than the film adaptation.

Enid Blyton no doubt.

Liked those Dreadful Children.

There was another American fantasy series very like Point Horror. What was it called ....aargh!

Jill and the perfect pony
All of the Jill books really

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

No worries. I'm very slowly replacing them with GGBP when possible, but I do love the Armada smell as they were the first ones I owned. 🤣

I've been listening to The Dark is Rising too. Mostly really impressed, and most niggles are only because they had to shorten it or it doesn't fit in with my internal voice when I read it.
Infinitely better than the film definitely, but I think that was almost inevitable because the film was infinitely bad.

All the Babysitters Club series

The Trial of Anna Cotman by Vivienne Alcock

The Naughtiest Girl in the School and The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor by Enid Blyton.

When I was about 8 I read a book called Diamond by Caroline Pitcher. My mother gave it away to a charity shop while I was at uni and I was heartbroken! No one else I know has ever heard of it.

I found a copy on Amazon £4.68 , used , but in fairly good condition !
Might be worth a look ?

@millievanille - [[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Diamond-Caroline-Pitcher/dp/0216920833/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2CELYY52SDGMI&keywords=Caroline+Pitcher+Diamond&qid=1673990071&sprefix=caroline+pitcher+diamond%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-2 Diamond is available second hand on Amazon, for under a fiver, if you want to replace your lost copy.