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?

When Ds was tiny we / he loved this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynken,_Blynken,_and_Nod

What Katy Did, and the sequels What Katy Did at School, and What Katy Did Next. I was obsessed with them.

Also, The Naughtiest Girl books, The Box of Delights, and The Dark is Rising series.

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

Yes, YABU.

But if you'd not asked in AIBU, I'd say I loved Eagle of the Ninth (and most of her books), Lucy M. Boston, Alison Uttley's A Traveller in Time, Cynthia Harnett's The Wool Pack and A Load of Unicorn. Alan Garner's The Stone Book Quartet and Joan Aiken's Wolves of Willoughby Chase (and her short stories).

I'm going to so look forward to reading them to DD. In terms of nostalgic reading for her - it's got to be Donald Hall's The Ox-Cart Man. I don't know why but it always makes me want to cry. I read it over and over when she was crazy about it, and I never got through it without getting that little prickle of tears.

I just love children's books, though.

@theDudesmummy

Oh and Ballet Shoes

Ooh that too. I spent hours tracing the illustrations in my book and colouring them in. I adored Posy.

@SarahAndQuack you've just reminded me of The Weirdstone of the Brisingamen. Another book I was obsessed with. That one scene still gives me claustrophobia though!

I'm stepping away now before i remember any more!

Magic Faraway Tree
Mallory Towers
Famous Five
As an older child I loved:-
What Katie Did
Little Women
Anne of Green Gables

Sorry, ignore the second "the".

My younger self loved
Twins at St Clares
Mallory Towers
Famous Five
Secret Seven
Faraway Tree
Sweet Valley High
Babysitters Club

As a really young child
Mog
Dogger
The Cloppy Horse
Little Grey Rabbit
Meg and Mog

Ooh yes I loved The Weirdstone of Brisingaman!

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, and the rest of the series. Must've reread them so many times.

Also Charlie and the Chocolate factory and Boy by Roald Dahl.

And going back further, Peter Rabbit which apparently I could recite in full at the age of 3, possibly I still could....

The Dark Is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper. I still read it now, and named my son after two of the characters.

Dogger by Shirley Hughes.

George's Marvellous Medicine and Boy by Roald Dahl.

Enid Blyton
Chalet school
Noel Streatfield- Thursdays child traumatised me

The Pheonix and the carpet
The wouldbegoods
Five children and It

Malory Towers
Little House on the Prairie books
Anything by Ronald Dahl

Weirdly, the James Herriot vet books!

Can’t remember the title but loved a book by Ursula le Guin.

Doh, Roald Dahl!!

The White Riders-Monica Edwards
Wings over Witchend-Malcolm Saville
The Marlow and the Traitor-Antonia Forest
The Emerald Crown-Violet Needham
Cue for Treason-Geoffrey Trease

Among others

Phantom Horse and Jill's Gymkhana

The jolly Christmas postman
Peace at last

As I got older
The witches
Matilda
The tale of the one way street
The phantom of the auditorium (goosebumps)

The family at one end street

Mallory Towers
St Clare's
The Untidy Little Hedgehog
The Worst Witch
And.....A Treasury of Bedtime Stories. That big book of stories was amazing siblings and I loved being read stories from it.

@SunshineLollipopsAndRainbows

Can’t remember the title but loved a book by Ursula le Guin.

A Wizard of Earthsea?

A Traveller in Time: Alison Uttley
Anything by Malcolm Saville
C S Lewis

Ohhhhh, and Point Horror books!

Dogger
Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret
Mallory Towers
Swallows and Amazons
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit