if you were a child in the 80's, what was your favourite book?

[IamAnIAMSgirl]

Hello all
I have been reserving library books to read to DS that I enjoyed as a child.

I was wondering if you would be so kind to re-jog my memory of more book by letting me know your favourite stories if you were a primary school child in this era.

Many thanks!

[Papergirl1968]

I'm just re-reading A Break in the Sun by Bernard Ashley. It was one of my favourite books - and TV dramas - when I was about 12. It's beautifully written and still as relevant now as it was then, perhaps even more so. It's about an unhappy girl who runs away from her harsh stepfather, back to Margate where she used to live.
I ordered it from the library - pleased to find it was still available.

[georgetteheyersbonnet]

All a bit jumbled up re different age groups...

Dark is Rising series
Narnia series
Green Knowe series
Swallows and Amazons
anything Enid Blyton - esp. the Adventure series
Joan Aiken - Wolves of Willoughby Chase and Thursday's Child
Black Beauty
Little House on the Prairie series
Rosemary Sutcliffe, The Armourer's House
anything by Diana Wynne Jones
When Marnie Was There
anything by Noel Streatfeild
anything by any of the Pullein-Thompson sisters
The Jill pony series (Ruby Ferguson)
Lorna Hill's ballet books
The Drina ballet books
Just William
the Alanna series
anything by Paula Danziger
Moondial
anything by E.E Nesbitt
The Hobbit
Treasure Island
Chalet School series
Roald Dahl
Family from One End Street
Milly Molly Mandy
anything by Alan Garner
Tom's Midnight Garden
What Katy Did
Watership Down
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Ramona series
Gobbolino
Carbonel
My Naughty Little Sister
The Worst Witch
Marianne Dreams
The Borrowers
The Tree That Sat Down
Phantom Tollbooth
Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Both the Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon series
Box of Delights
Margaret Mahy, Aliens in the Family
Beatrix Potter, The Fairy Caravan
The Olga da Polga series
Follyfoot

I'm sure there's more, will have a think....

Sorry to hijack, OP, but can anyone help me identify these series?
one set of books I read as a child was a series set in Scandinavia about an orphan girl called Anna;
another was a series about a girl called Rose who lived in a hotel and could travel into other people's heads with the help of a magical horse.
Any help identifying these very much appreciated! I can't track them down!

[Everydayaschoolday]

Ant and Bee
Meg and Mog
Victoria Plum
I am David

[PrimalLass]

And The Changeover by Margaret Mahy.

[PrimalLass]

Fire and Hemlock by DianaWynnee_Jones. Excuse weird link. I still read bits of it almost every day, as it is an enigma

plus all of the Anne of Green Gables books.

[chorltonloveswheelies]

Ooh yes Roomba - Forever!

[Roomba]

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Lord of the Rings
Charlotte's Web
Forever by Judy Blume (was secretly passed around giggling school friends aged 11)
Dune
Roald Dahl
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler
Agatha Christie mysteries
Sherlock Holmes stories

An eclectic mix but I was a strange child

[vintagechick43]

Anything by Enid Blyton
Topsy and Tim
My naughty little sister
Mrs Pepperpot (can't believe no one has mentioned her )
Goodnight Mr Tom
Tom's midnight garden
Searching for Shona
Far to many to mention!!!

[MiffleTheIntrovert]

The Moomin books.

[CelticPromise]

Which Witch? By Eva ibbotson.
What A mess books.
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Goodnight Mr Tom and Back Home by Michelle Magorian.

[Witchend]

Girlie the Beaver Tower books are in print-there's 4 or 5 of them now. I got them for ds a couple of years ago. "Yes Flipip!"

I liked: Joan Aiken
Geoffrey Trease
Chalet School
Malcolm Saville
Monica Edwards
Narnia... all the ones I've read to ds in fact!

[Sunbeam18]

The Wheel on The School, The Peppermint Pig

[DragonmotherKhaleesi]

Anastasia krumpnik series
Sweet valley high
Point horror series

[Bugger1ugs]

The Weirdstone of Brisangamen - one of my favourite books ever. Although I credit it with giving me lifelong claustrophobia due to the descriptions of Susan being caught in the dwarf mines in a hairpin movement, her mouth filling with sand...
shudder

[standingonlego]

And my favourite Christmas book - the box of delights

[standingonlego]

The dark is rising
Weirdstone of brisingamen
Nancy Drew
Sherlock Holmes (complete works )
All the usual Enid Blyton
Family from one end street
The borrowers
The little princess
The Secret garden
John Wyndam (day of triffids, etc)
Sweet valley high

[LizzieMacQueen]

Milly Molly Mandy

I loved that there was a map of the village printed in the front and back of each book. That poor girl rarely left the village.

[houseeveryweekend]

A Necklace of Raindrops and other stories! And the pop up haunted house book that was amazing!! The Mouse and his Child was another firm fave

[RoosterCogburn]

The Antonia Forest Marlow series
KM Peyton's Flambards series, also her books about Jonathan Meredith, Ruth and Pennington
Swallows and Amazon Series
The Bagthorpe Saga
All of the Anne of Green Gables books
Laura Ingalls Wilders Little House books
Can't remember the author but a series of books about Ginty and her arab horse Shantih (may be by Patricia Leith)

[Jacksy15]

I loved the Brambly Hedge books. Amazing pictures!

[wasabipeanut]

Loved the St Clare's & Malory Towers
Narnia series
Alice in Wonderland (DD loves it too, I was so happy)
The Bagthorpe Saga (not seen this mentioned yet - about a dysfunctional family which did ring a few bells...)

[Justtrying]

Most Roald Dahl, especially Fantastic Mr Fox, Famous Five and Mallory Towers as I got a little older. Then anything by Judy Blume, I was lucky whilst I wasn't allowed to watch much tv, I had adult library tickets from a young age so was popular as I was one of the first to take Forever to school. Also enjoyed Charlotte's Web, Anne of Green Gables and all the Little House on the Pairie books.

As a young adult/ teen I discovered Len Deighton and Tom Clancy, long before I saw any films associated with their novels.

[rodneydel]

I loved Pongwiffy and the Borrowers

[OwnedByACat]

Malory Towers
Famous Five
Enchanted wood
Fantastic Mr Fox