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?

Does anyone remember a story from one of those Enid Blyton collection books called When Ellen Cleaned the Dolls House? I wish I'd kept my childhood books, I let them all go (under duress and due to literally having nowhere to store them) and I've regretted it ever since I must have had close on everything EB ever wrote and often remember random stories from those collection books that no one else (except my DM) ever recalls.

@NowNowDermot I remember that story, was it something about the dolls coming to life?

I also had so many of those story books and loved them. My mum still has a box in her attic but certainly not all the ones I had growing up.
At my house I have a shelf full of famous five and find outers.

@autienotnaughty yes terrifying!
Was that the one about the girl who found out she had a twin and the twin could do astral projectio

I also read I know what you did last summer, summer of fear, locked in time, killing mr Griffin.

Tom's Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pearse. Loved reading it to the kids too. Very magical and moving.

Susan Cooper's the Dark is Rising series, by far.

Also liked Narnia, the Hobbit and William.

[quote Snoopsnoggysnog]@NowNowDermot I remember that story, was it something about the dolls coming to life?

I also had so many of those story books and loved them. My mum still has a box in her attic but certainly not all the ones I had growing up.
At my house I have a shelf full of famous five and find outers.[/quote]
That's right, the dolls actually move out because the house is so dirty but then Ellen cleans it and the other toys invite a fairy from the garden to live in it instead My DM still has a few of my childhood books thankfully, she was a teacher so used them in her classroom til she retired. I bought DD copies of all the main series but they're not the same, I can still smell my old copies if I think about them

The Phantom Tollbooth
The Minpins
Sally's Secret, Out and About (Shirley Hughes)
Granpa, The Magic Bed, Cloudland (John Burningham)

Mallory Towers (pre teen)
Darren Shan saga (teen)
Anything Jacqueline wilson (pre teen/early teen)
Harry Potter (pre teen to teen)
Clan of the cave bear series (teen, probably v raunchy for a teen now I think on it)

As a preteen I loved anything by Enid Blyton but my absolute favourite book was ‘SuperFudge’ by Judy Blume. I read it, and the other two books in the series, again and again.
Also loved ‘The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler’ and other books by Gene Kemp, and the Chalet School books - I have the whole series and reread them every couple of years.

Lost and Found

Heidi
Anne of Green Gables
A Little Princess

My favourite to read to my own kids is a book of poetry called 'I like this poem'

@Snoopsnoggysnog that's right ! I was terrified to look in the mirror in case my evil twin was there.

@5128gap The Woodbegoods! Love that book - I have never 'met' anyone else who has heard of it!

Marianne's Dreams
Prince Among Ponies
Riding with the Lintons
The Chalet School books - particularly The Chalet School in Exile.
All the Laura Ingalls Wilder Books
The Silver Brumby books
Wizard of Earthsea
The Lost Prince by Frances Hodson Burnett
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
Loads of Noel Streatfield.

@LadyMacduff I loved those books were they called Choose your own adventure. ?

loved all Enid Blyton Books the school series adventure series famous five secret seven etc
Noel Streatfield books
Chalet school books
naughty little sister
millie Mollie mandy
judy blume books
Trebizon school books
Sweet valley high
There was another series I liked about three families who lived side by side in Sweden somewhere??
Anne of green gables books
Heidi books
What Katy did next series
Little house on the prairie series
Pippin longstocking
the railway children
goodnight Mr Tom
little woman
Boy I read and read when I was younger !!! still love reading now !!

Erik the Viking

@LadyMacduff

Nancy Drew mysteries

Enid Blyton boarding school books

Goosebumps

I used to like those books where you had to make a decision and then turn to a certain page to find out the outcome. There were some with puzzles to solve before you could read on as well. I used to get them from the library but I can't remember anything else about them.

The Peter Jackson books - Warlock of Firetop Mountain etc? Brilliant, also my favourite

Just remembered one I loved called George Speaks by Dick King Smith.

The Harry Potter series, anything by Jacqueline Wilson, Ballet Shoes, Peter Pan and King Arthur

I loved;
The Faraway Tree books,
Mallory Towers
The Borrowers books
Worzel Gummidge
The Diddakoi by Rummer Godden
The Laura Ingalls Wilder books (although I think I lost a bit of interest after the first 2)
Milly Molly Mandy (I was obsessed with the map inside the cover)
The Bramley Hedge books
101 Dalmatian (especially the chapter where the dogs spend a night in a large country house)
The Miss Read series
Gerald Durrell books
Danny The Champion of the World

Loads! When I was small, 'My Naughty Little Sister', 'The Cat in the Hat', Milly-Molly-Mandy, 'Harry the Dirty Dog', 'Noddy and His Car'. At a somewhat older age, anything by Noel Streatfield especially 'White Boots', Antonia Forest, Gillian Avery, 'The Children of Green Knowe','When Marnie Was There', the Chalet School books, 'The Phantom Tollbooth', 'Little Women' 'What Katy Did', 'Anne of Green Gables'. Still like most of these!

@orangetriangle

loved all Enid Blyton Books the school series adventure series famous five secret seven etc Noel Streatfield books Chalet school books naughty little sister millie Mollie mandy judy blume books Trebizon school books Sweet valley high There was another series I liked about three families who lived side by side in Sweden somewhere?? Anne of green gables books Heidi books What Katy did next series Little house on the prairie series Pippin longstocking the railway children goodnight Mr Tom little woman Boy I read and read when I was younger !!! still love reading now !!

Ditto for almost all these!

I think the ones about the families in Sweden may have been Astrid Lindgren's 'Bullerby' books. I loved those!

Merry Mr Meddle - loved it!

Secret Seven - loved them all. I had around 5 of these books.

ddl1 thank you so much yes that must have been it off to google it now I think I must have read non stop as a child and as a teenager!!

ddl1 yes that's it I remember they lived in three houses in a row loved those books