What was you favourite book when you were a child?

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Mine was The Faraway Tree series.

Fantastic Mr Fox (I had the audio book as well, loved it)

When i was a bit older Animal farm (must have read it 4/5 times

what katy did, what katy did next...didn't she end up falling out of a swing and end up disabled??

that's the first one, where she learns to be good!

Enid Blyton, everything she wrote but especially Magic Faraway Tree, Mr Galliano's Circus, Malory Towers, Famous 5, Adventure series.
Terribly middle class but so readable and took you on magical journeys.

Hausfrau-- The Swish of the Curtain! Yes! Loved that. Did you watch the television series too?

so who wrote what katy did? I seem to remember it was very much in the Anne of green gables genre.

my BIL has an old Rupert the Bear - totally un-PC, references to 'coon' etc...

All the Anne of Green Gables books - especially the later ones. Anne of the Island & Anne's House of Dreams are two of my all time favourites - I read them at least once a year, together with a couple of my other favourites (which aren't really children's books)

Hausfrau I spent days trying to make the japanese dolls house in Miss Happiness and Miss Flower and tying wishes on trees.

[Nostalgic sigh]

The faraway tree series Enid Blyton. I re read them recently and they are so dated but the idea is still good!

I also liked Milly Molly Mandy and have just bought them second hand for dd.

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Lots of my favourites here:
Charlotte Sometimes
Marianne Dreams and The Chinese Egg (Catherine Storr was married to eminent psychiatrist Anthony Storr, now there's a thing...)
All of the Green Knowe books
All of Philippa Pearce especially a Dog so Small and Minnow on the Say
Carrie's War
Noel Streatfeild, especially the thinly disguised autobiography A Vicarage Child
Alison Uttley especially A Country Child and A Traveller in Time
All of Paul Berna (translated from the French and shamefully out of print in English)
Elfrida Vipont The Lark in the Morn and The Lark on the Wing
Hilda Lewis The Gentle Falcon
Rosemary Sutcliffe - everything
Cynthia Harnett - The Woolsack
C Walter Hodges - The Namesake
but one of my very favourites was The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare - an award-winning novel for older children about the persecution of the the Quakers in 17th century New England (more fun than it sounds and very romantic)
How nice to swap memories with so many other bookworms...I spent ALL my childhood reading!

oh oh! Marianne Dreams - me and my sister totally adored that book.
I also loved the Cobblers Dream and Follyfoot books and later moved onto all the other Monica Dickens - absolutely love her books

should be I not me - all that childhood reading didn't neccesarily improve my grammar....

I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith. sigh
Loved Monica Dickens too Georgina

I loved Mrs Pepperpot and Enid Blyton books. Milly Molly Mandy was fab too.

Pashmina, Susan Collidge worte the What Katy Did books.

Violet Needham anyone - Horn of Merlyns, Woods of Windri?

Didn't anyone else do tomboy books? I was Dido Twite (c Joan Aitken) (except I should be so cool) so I read Leon Garfield (Holborn Jack, fabulous) and H Rider Haggard, and who's that woman who did Graeco-Roman stuff that was ever so faintly malely homoerotic? Someone will know.

Little Women (top fave - still love it!)
What Katy Did
Ballet Shoes
Malory Towers & St Claires

the narnia books
(still reading them!)

Ah yes, it was Mary Renault. Found a mention of her here, how's this for a special-interest site?