What was you favourite book when you were a child?

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Mine was The Faraway Tree series.

Triceratops,

loved the wolves of willoughby chase, can you remember who wrote it, also liked loads people have already mentioned on here, does anyone remember The Phantom Tollbooth?

Also loved the Emily Climbs series by LM Montgomery (who also wrote Anne of Green Gables)

I loved everything - was a complete bookworm as a child - nothing changes! I was really lucky as my aunt used to get given books from a much older girl on her husband's side and pass then on to me - some really old classics there.

I LOVED the Chalet School series - and have just bouth "The Chalet Girls Grow Up" which I am dying to start!

What a lovely thread! I was an avid reader when small (still am) and have managed to instill the same love of books to my DS..my favourite was Any Enid Blyton (esp. Magic faraway tree)& Roald Dahl, Ballet Shoes & Black Beauty. The Secret Garden was beautiful..sigh! Does anybody remember a book about a wizard school?(pre Harry Potter)

Loads that have been mentioned

used to love anything to do with magic or fantasy and adventure

not sure if these are listed but

Half Magic Edward Eager where the children fiond a coin which grants wishes but only half wishes so they are half invisible etc

Treasures of the Snow Patricia St John

Fell Farm books

The Cherry family series by Will Scott where they had a wonderful Dad who created "happenings" I adored those books

Wizard of Earthsea, Dark is Rising, the Guardians etc

E. Nesbit
Minnow on the Say etc

Richard Hughes High Wind in Jamaica
Swallows and Amazons
Enid Blyton especially The Naughtiest Girl in the School, and the ..of Adventure series
Fairy Stories of any description..The Ugly Duckling, Rumpelstiltskin. Sleeping Beauty,

The Snow Queen loved it

Emil and the Detectives
Carrie's War

Marianne Dreams

Narnia series
Alan Garner especially The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, Elidor

Jill Pony books

And there were a series of travel books with two children visiting New York, Paris etc

Lots that have been mentioned here - loved The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and had forgotten all about it, so thanks for that! but my favourite of all has to be Watership Down.

Also Jane Eyre - read it for the first time when I was eight and it's still my favourite novel.

Pippi Longstocking and Mrs Pepperpot too.

I had forgotten Emile and The Detectives...will be saving it up for ds.

Enid Blyton's "Famous Five" and "The Malory Tower ones" ah the memories, was also quite partial to Rupert the Bear and Mandy annuals.

Ooh yes Mhamai I was also a big fan of Mandy.

Hi Dinoisback, sorry got distracted trawling the other posts! It's mad but for all the tecnologhy today, ie interactive electro books etc. There was something magical about those old annuals or is that just me gettin old?

Do you remember Valda, with her crystal? That's the sort of technology I can cope with...

Whereabouts in Ireland are you, btw? I'm from Donegal originally.

I'm a true blue Dub! Was going to ask how you knew about the Irish connection but I guess the Mhamai gave it away! Duh! but yay! that someone recognised the significance of my name seriously I get called Maharmi Marmi etc, when I think my name being Irish for Mammy is quite clever! [smug emoticon] Where you livin now Dino?

In London, Mhamai. I did Irish at school but don't remember much at all, just a few nouns here and there. If we wanted to go to the loo we had to ask in Irish, so I can still remember how to say that!

Same here! Though although Feic means to see I say the F*eck one way too often How long are you in London?

19 years.

Wow! hqave you lost your accent? I think I'm too much of a homebird to ever leave this place for too long, sure I got homesick in Galway once. Having said that I would really like to travel when my ds4 has grown up.

Sorry meant have.

The little Princess, lots of Enid Blyton and the Narnia series (especially The Lion, The With and the Wardrobe - didn't like some of the others as much when I was very little. Love them all now!!)

does anyone remember "my naughty little sister"

How could Molesworth be missed off this! - so deeply formative. Poo gosh.

My Friend Mr. Leakey reads quite differently to me now, w/ context of Haldane & genetics & communism. Tried to read it to ds & dd (6 & 5) & had to abandon.

Phantom Tolbooth & Land of Green Ginger as uniquely marvellous as ever, though.

Some requests:

• which is the Enid Blyton where children run away & make a home in a hollow tree?

• book from ?40s ?earlier about lonely boy in big old house who builds a city with gloomy bits of drawing-room decor (chessmen, candlesticks, bookends) which he then enters? And another similar about boy who finds himself tiny & inhabiting topiary?

triceratops !! i collect those books and my dd aged eight reads them to me

There are loads! I was rereading some Milly Molly Mandy at my parents' last week though and was transported back. They were written when the folks were young, so they had a resonance even though they still seemed terribly old-fashioned to me when I first read them. The story where MMM gets a new bedroom as a surprise is lovely. Reminds me of all the sweet things my Mum used to do when I was little, wells up.

I've been teaching DS to say 'hello clouds, hello sky', though I think overall he's more Molesworth than Fotherington-Thomas,

Misstimms - was the witch school book called "The Little Broomstick"? Fab book. Haven;t thought about it in years.

Jura-you have reminded me of one of my top five books-The Owl Service! You know,up to a few years ago I had kept alot of my fave books but I don't think I have them anywhere now-what a shame!