What is your favourite children's book when you were a child,,?

[BabyBearRus]

What is the best children's book of all time? Any reason why?

@lots33

The Family at Redroofs - Enid Blyton The Long Winter - Laura Ingalls Wilder Charlotte Sometimes - Penelope Farmer Back Home - Michelle Magorian Find a Stranger Say Goodbye - Lois Lowry The railway Children- E Nesbitt

Loved reading as a child and still reread all of the above.

I was coming on to say Back Home as well. Goodnight mr Tom by the same author seems to be more well known but Back Home is absolutely wonderful. I re read it every year.

Also LOVED Judy Blume and Enid Blyton so much.

A book called Pondus the Penguin, which no-one has ever heard of.
Likewise the Little Pete stories by Leila Berg which were read to us in school.
The Mary Plain books.

Wonder if any other MNers have heard of these?

Gosh I forgot about Jean Ure.

KM Peyton - forgot about those too! I loved Pennington and did she also write Dear Fred?

Adored Ramona Quimby, and Anastasia Krupnik.

Mr men

Loved famous 5. Also animal ark books. And a series called pony stories about a girl in the highlands. Happy days

Enid Blyton, especially The Five Find Outers and Dog, The Faraway Tree, Malory Towers, lots of Enid Blyton. Ones that stand out for me - A Little Princess. I loved the Secret Garden, but A Little Princess really stands out. Also adored Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators.

@dementedma

A book called Pondus the Penguin, which no-one has ever heard of. Likewise the Little Pete stories by Leila Berg which were read to us in school. The Mary Plain books.

Wonder if any other MNers have heard of these?

I had an ancient copy of Mary Plain and the Twins. It used to belong to my dad. I enjoyed it, but Mary certainly thought a lot of herself, didn’t she?

I imagined the Owl Man as being half-owl, half-human until I saw an illustration of him. I was a strange child.

Any Enid Blyton, but especially Malory Towers. I had all the MT series and once I’d finished I’d go back to the beginning and read the whole series again and again.

When I got to about 9 or 10 I started reading the Sweet Valley Twins books too.

As well as many already mentioned here, I loved Anne-Marie and the Pale Pink Frock, Susannah of the Mounties, The Silver Sword, and especially The Emerald Crown by Violet Needham.
Later, I loved The Eagle of the Ninth and that whole series of stories linked by the farm estate on the South Downs and the emerald ring.
But my number one all time favourite is Biggles!

Famous Five
Worst Witch
Malory Towers

@Etherealhedgehog
I loved Linnets and Valerians too! Wearing their combinations all winter and the man who lived on the Tor. Though to be fair, even when I was ten I thought it might be a bit dodgy that a grown man waited for the heroine to grow up to marry her.

Christmas on Exeter Street. Can’t really explain why, so absorbing. All the family children have loved it and are now reading it to theirs at Christmas.
Another called Harvey Angell. Most beautifully written book.

Both by Diana Hensley.

@Itsnotdeep

I loved Joan Aiken too. And Diana Wynne Jones - the Chrestomanci books. .

My favourite book was Playing Beattie Bow by Ruth Park. I just loved it.

When I was a bit younger I loved all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books.

I loved Playing Beattie Bow! I haven’t heard it mentioned in years.

Mine are the Chalet School and the Anne books, I think.

@mrsawhite

Loved famous 5. Also animal ark books. And a series called pony stories about a girl in the highlands. Happy days

Was that the Jinny books? A chestnut Arab called Shantih?

That's the exact copy I have . Bloody loved it . I will always treasure it as part of my childhood/teenage years . Judy Blume absolutley nailed adolescents. Fabulous .

Yes exactly those books! Loved them! As was it Sue with her little pony?

The magic faraway tree and the wishing chair. Then the famous five. St clares. All Enid Blyton! My mum used to buy me a book and I'd read it all in one day! Loved reading, I still do.

Winnie the Pooh, and the 'Redwall' - the latter was absolutely fantastic, I adored it and it's probably what made me fall in love with proper reading as a hobby.

Thumbelina and The Magic Porridge Pot were two of my favourites when I was really little.

My children loved The Faraway Tree. Other favourites are The Grotlin, George’s Marvellous Medicine and Billie and The Minpins. Some of the Roahld Dahl stories are available in colour edition which lots of illustrations in colour. They are really lovely books. My son also loved Fing by David Walliams.

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield
st Clare's books by Enid Blyton

Read them many times

Another Enid Blyton here, the adventure series was my favourite even though it was blatantly just the famous 5 with a parrot instead of a dog

I read pretty much non stop as a child, I can’t wait to share lots of wonderful books with DD, she’s only a baby still and we enjoy lots of lovely picture books but this thread has given me lots of inspiration for her bookshelves as she grows up.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House series. I have them still, and are my comfort reads.

Enid Blyton - Children of Cherry Tree Farm and Children of Willow Farm. Much of my knowledge of animals comes from the former.

Faraway Tree,
Marnie
The summer of the swans