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 Jennings books !
I loved them.

And Noel Streatfield.

As a child:
The Magic Faraway Tree
The Famous Five books
The Secret Seven books

As an adult:
Mog books
The velveteen Rabbit
The Large Family books

The Worst Witch books and Ramona Quimby.

Dogger
The Blue Balloon
Billy's Beetle
The Elephant and the Bad Baby
A Necklace of Raindrops
The Jolly Postman

Ah the memories!!

Loved everything Enid Blyton but also a soft spot for Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Little House on the Prairie series.

Great memories

The Anne if Green Gables and Katy Carr books

Charlotte Sometimes (and other time slip books - A Traveller in Time, Playing Beattie Bow, the Green Knowe books)

The Eagle of the Ninth

The Dark is Rising

A book about talking cats who look after an orphaned human boy which nobody has ever heard of but which I think was called Two Thumb Thomas

The Ahlberg Happy Families books

The Diana Wynne Jones book based on Tam Lin that I've temporarily forgotten the name of

See you Thursday by Jean Ure (and most of her other books)

The Antonia Forrest books

A book Remembrance of the Sun about the Iranian revolution

Those Usborne history books

I Like This Poem

The Faraway Tree

My favourites were the hobbit, the animals of farthing wood, Roald Dhal, the redwall books, charlottes Web, Deptford mice trilogy, goosebumps books, the wheel of time books and Harry Potter books though they didn't come out until I started secondary school.

Malory Towers
St Clare’s
Ballet Shoes
Famous Five

Then when I was a bit older:
Sue Barton nurse series
Little Women

I liked The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Three Brothers of Ur. And a peculiar, creepy book about a girl, in the language of the times, an invalid, living in a house on a remote area, and as she drew the house, the house became alive. That's my hazy recollection. Does that ring any bells with anyone?

Brown Mouse by Frank Jennens - I think it was my step mother’s book (b.1926). I don’t remember that much from my childhood but I remember enjoying this book a lot.

And almost forgot Judy Blume!!

Another poster mentioned Goodnight Mr Tom - I had fond memories of this book too and bought it on audiobook for my DSs (at the time 9&11) on a long car journey. Forgot how horrific the themes were and spent the entire time trying to turn it off

DC were fine and really enjoyed it.

I loved The Silver Brumby by Elyne Mitchell when I was about 10. Then Alana: The first adventure by Tamara Pierce and Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings when I was 12. Also all Enid Blyton and Tolkien.

Oh yes, The family at one end street. And Stig of the Dump

So lovely to see all these books - when I was young - yes the Weirdstone of Brisingamen and the Dark is rising series. The Owl Service was properly hairs on the back of the neck for me.

Have got this right "What Katy did " and "what Katy did next " as I recall she went to Naples when there was an illness there.

The Sophie's Seven collection. The first one I ever read (heard) was Sophie's seven so that's what they're called to me but I think the first one is from when she was four?

Wonderful stories and now I know all about snails and rub the end of my nose when I think 🤣

Malory Towers
The Secret Island
Ballet Shoes
The Jill books (ponies)
The Children Who Lived in a Barn

Heidi

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Little House series
Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates

Madeline
Ping (the duck)

yes to all saying Magic Faraway Tree! And anything Enid Blyton - Mallory, famous five etc etc.

When I was very small I loved the Gwyneth Rae books. I remember my parents taking me to Foyles and I can still remember the excitement of reading the first line myself. Visiting Granny I loved her to read "Junk the Puppy" which had been dad's when he was a child.

I loved Paddington, A A Milne, Narnia, Mallory Towers and the Chalet School throughout primary school.

Was going to say The Adventure Books series by Enid Blyton, but I think overall I much preferred Jane Shaw's Susan books. These are probably more suitable for older children, 9+.