What was you favourite book when you were a child?

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Mine was The Faraway Tree series.

oooooooooooooh of course the Owl Service

a bit grown up and v spooky though

although I did lvoe ghost stories

V.spooky - makes Harry Potter look a bit weedy

gah! how could I have forgotten Susan Cooper
the Dark is Rising knocks harry flipping potter into a cocked hat

IMHO

I think I would find this just too difficult as I was and am a total bookworm. However the authors that are still on my shelves after my latest clearout are:
Diana Wynne Jones
Joan Aitkin
Margaret Mahy
Anne Fine

All of these read many many times, especially the Diana Wynne Jones, probably my favourite comfort read.

My only problem is waiting for dd and ds to be old enough to enjoy them too (although there are good Anne Fine's and Margaret Mahy's for younger children).

Heidi
The Twins at St Clares - Enid Blyton

Ballet Shoes, the Pennington books by K.M.Peyton, Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones, The Little Prince, the Ruth Manning Sanders folk tale collections, Malory Towers, all of E. Nesbit, the Carbonel books...

I could go on. Can you guess I was a big reader and still collect children's books?

Oh yes Anne of Green Gables!!

does anyone remember a brilliant book called aristide about a little french boy who was playing on his lilo in the sea at Calais and accidentally floated all the way to england? He had a great adventure speaking no english and dressed only in his swimming trunks.
I LOVED that book and haven't seen hide nor hair of it despite internet searching etc. Tell me I haven't made it up?!

Ooh hc, the Bagthorpe saga! Brilliant, I had forgotten them. I still have the books.

Ooh it's all coming back now!

I also adored the Hans Christian Andersen fairytales - especially The Little Match Girl which always made me sob.

The collection I had was so beautifully illustrated - I have been searching for years for the particular copy I had and have never found it. My pesky little brother destroyed mine !

Teddy Robinson and Milly Molly Mandy

oh and Heidi

oh, I loved Milly Molly Mandy! Well remembered!

So many I can't remember them all!

Anne of Green Gables
The children of Green Knowe (not sure of the spelling)
The waterbabies

when I was younger -
Dennis the Dragon
How Foal forgot to be Frightened
The Little Shunting Engine

I've thought of more!

The Diddakoi and The Doll's House, Rumer Godden
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Carrie's War
Stig of the Dump
The Wizard of Earthsea

Charlotte's Web made me cry and cry

Cronichles of Narnia. I must have checked them ou tof the library one a month. Now have my own copies.

Also loved Sweet Valley & Judy Blume.

Gobolino the witches cat!!! We used to have that on a story tape, and loved it

Loved all the horsey books too .... Elizabeth Goudge's "The Little White Horse" and also My Friend Flicka/Thunderhead. Also recall avidly swapping another series of horsey books at primary school (c 1979) although can't remember what they were called.

The Naughtiest Girl series, Famous Five, Five Find outers, St Clares........bit of a Blyton theme I think.

When I was younger it was 'The Tiger who came to tea' and then 'the Box of Delights' which I now have on DVD and the whole family watches on the run up to Christmas as one of our things!!

Naughty Little Sister books
The Tree that Sat Down
Mistress Masham's Repose
The Once and Future King
Tom's Midnight Garden

and all of E Nesbit
Winter Holiday, Arthur Ransome

Oh, love your Nov 5 name!

Wallace what were those tapes and books called? I used to collect them and loved them!! I was always a bit scared of Gobolino when they whispered at him!!