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?

Millievanille ! That's for you

Oh I really mucked up that link - here -I’ll try again.

Looks a lovely story !

We’re going on a bear hunt. I remember my reception teacher reading it to us and I loved her, Mrs Marr… She was my favourite teacher, just fantastic. I know it off by heart because I’ve read it to my DC hundreds of times over the years.

When I was very small, I loved having The Cops & The Robbers read to me (I could probably still recite it word for word now!) and when I could read myself, my favourite was The Secret Island, about a group of neglected children who run away to an island and live there for months.

@the80sweregreat @SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius Thankyou both! That's the one! Last time I checked Amazon it wasn't there and Google didn't seem to know anything about it. Will be putting my Amazon voucher to good use!😁x

Let us know if you buy it Millie
It has a fascinating cover
I loved the Jennings books
Jennings and Derbyshire were my heroes

I was obsessed with Sweet Valley Twins when I was 9 or 10. I honestly think I read most of them.

When I was aged 7 or 8 Ioved The Witches and Under the Hawthorn Tree.

The Mennyms. I was obsessed with the whole series.

I was never much of a reader; I'm still not. But, I did read all The Dark Is Rising (Susan Cooper) books at school about forty years ago. They must have stayed with me somehow as I have the complete sequence in one paperback.

So many books I liked as a child - the Hobbit & then LOTR , Ursula Le Guin , The Dark is rising , Leon Garfield , famous 5 , Alan Garfield The Weirdstone of Brisingamen & then the last The Owl Service - so many others - Oh - I captured the Castle

But the one I will never forget reading to DS when he was a tiny tot is Wynkyn Blynken and Nod poets.org/poem/wynken-blynken-and-nod

@the80sweregreat I ordered it, can't wait to share it with my DCs xx

I loved The Borrowers.

Millie, I hope it turns up ok
I love the cover of it , I bet it's a lovely positive story

Tom’s midnight garden

Oh I forgot about those books! Yes those. I might buy them now for my DC.

My sons were not big readers, but they did like the Mr men / little miss books

The Jolly Postman, and The Jolly Christmas Postman. I'm so glad my daughter absolutely loves them too so I get to read them all over again 😁 They're so cleverly written and designed.

Gobbolino
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Mary Plain - Gwyned Rae
wish for a Pony - Monica Edwards
A Dog So Small by Philippa Pearce
Black Riders - Violet Needham
Little O - Edith Unnersan
Antonia Forest Marlow books
Anne of Green Gables books
The Swishof the Curtain - Pamela Brown
and of course Enid Blyton - St Clare’s, Malory Towers, the Barney book (each began with an R), the Adventure series and Brer Rabbit

Our first grandchild was born last year, and I am having SO much fun buying books for her - and planning the books I will buy for her as she gets older. My main problem is restraining myself, so I don't completely fill their house with books!

We gave her The Jolly Christmas Postman as part of her Christmas present last year - and we've already given her one of my favourite childhood books - I don't know if I've mentioned it here - The Land of Green Ginger, by Noel Langley.

It's a sequel to the Aladdin story - Aladdin has married his princess, and they have a son called Abu Ali - who is remarkable as a baby, because he can speak straight away. Most of the book is about him going to try to win the hand of Silver Bud, in marriage - but mixed in is a flying back garden, a magician who accidentally turned himself into a button nosed tortoise, whilst creating the flying back garden, but can't now fly it, as button nosed tortoises are not good at magic back gardens, so it flies and lands wherever it wants, villains called Tin Tack Ping Fu and Rub Dub Ben Thud, and a donkey that sits on a pin.

@inappropriateraspberry really?! I don't know anyone else that read the Alan Garner books!

George’s Marvellous Medicine

We loved the Hairy Mclarey books, and slinky malinky.

The Enid Blyton books you mentioned, plus S7 and the Famous 5 as a child.

As a teen, nothing could beat rhe Louise Rennison books for me. They are so damn funny. And such a good insight into teenage girl life. I can't wait to read them with my son (fuck it, we can do LOTRs too as a compromise 🤣)