What was you favourite book when you were a child?

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Mine was The Faraway Tree series.

Avalon - thank you! Am going to look on ebay/amazon for it now. I had an inkling there was a Charlotte about it but thought I was getting confused with Charlotte's Web...

Yeah they are great. I am just glad I have Skating Boots as it is out of print, I mean Lala? What a great name!

Have just looked on ebay and apparently there is a Cure song also called Charlotte Sometimes...

Does anyone remember Christmas with the Savages or Fanny and the Dinosaurs?

Marianne Dreams

I was trying to remember that one as well but thought (wrongly) it was called Paper House. Is that the one where she got cross with the boy and scribbled over the picture?

The Owl who was afraid of the dark - when I was old enough to read.... before that, Dogger, and The Forgotten Bear.

ive just put a bid in for fantastic mr fox on ebay loved that book

Oooh, Malory Towers and St Ckares too

read it many times, starshaker and zephyrcat!

boggis bunce and.........can't remember the other one! can you??
you could almost smell all those roast chickens, and the illustrations were also lovely

I also loved Danny the Champion of the World.
Roald Dahl was the bees knees.

yy cupcakes

then when she visits the house in her dream that night there are squiggly iron bars all over his window

Narnia books

Bottersnikes & Gumbles

I loved the 'Silver Brumby' series about Australian wild horses - don't know why as I wasn't a 'horsey' little girl. Also Ballet Shoes, Danny, Champion of the World, and a book called 'Charlotte Sometimes' about a girl who mysteriously swaps places with a child during WW1. And Malory Towers. And The Little House on the Prairie series. Ohh, you've got me thinking now!

Puff, I loved Bottersnipes and Gumbles! Haven't thought about it for years.

yes loved the Brumbies, any horse books, esp Flambards

also the Tripod sci fi books (a bit older then I think)

I loved all those 'Green Dragon', Red dragon book series.

But my dad refused to read them to me and insisted on reading things like Jane Eyre. He read me Great Expectations when I was 8 fgs.

daddy cool I still have my copy of a duck called Ping and read it to my little ones!

I still remember feeling anxious when he was trapped in that barrel

marianne dreams also very scary really. reread it a couple of months ago to see if it would do for dd but I think I'll leave it a few years - nightmare city!

I loved My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead etc - that series. I also loved the Black Stallion series (yes, went through a very horse mad stage) anything by Noel Streatfield and Little Women.

ooh ooh and my utter fave when little:

The Wind in the Willows

cried buckets when mole wanted to go back to his old home

Narnia, Little House on the Prarie, The Faraway Tree was excellent, anything by Roald Dahl and anything by Dick King-Smith (he did The Sheep-Pig aka 'Babe'), Famous Five and Secret Seven too.......Can't wait till dd is old enough to enjoy this lot.

oh yes all the little house on the prairie books. and anne of green gables. and rebecca of sunnybrook farm.

god there are so many!

Charlottes Web - Still makes me cry
Naughtiest Girl Series & all the other boarding school ones, Malory Towers, The Twins at St Claires.
Famous Five
Heidi
Bambi
Swallows and Amazons
Pollyanna
I was a complete bookworm and I can't wait to introduce dd to reading.

ooh loads
A Traveller in Time (Alison Uttley)
The Family from One End Street
Himself books (Irish talking dog..)
Knight after Knight by Sheila Steafel
Helen Cresswell Bagthorpe saga
Witch Week Diane Wynee JOnes

The Anne of Green Gables series
Any horsey books
Anything at all by Roald Dahl
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
Anything by Alan Garner
Stig of the Dump