favourite books from your childhood...

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Wish my parents had kept all or any of my old books.

Dh got a copy of "the Story of Ferdinand" from his parents for ds (only 5months) the other week and spent ages gasping "WOW!" at every illustration. I woke at the weekend with a sudden and quite desperate need for "The Mole and the Rocket". I'm also really looking forward to reading Clement Freud's "Grimble" to ds when he's old enough.

Which books would you really like to find again and share with your own kids?

tilly and tessa anyone?
how about the 'toby' annual and magazines?

What did I like?

Dr Suess (as already mentioned below)
Folk of the Faraway Tree
Secret Garden - still have the lovely book my aunt bought me with beautiful pictures in

got the hungrey catapiller, also have peepo (sounds naughty lol) which my dd's love.

want to get for when they are a wee bit older the 'my naughty little sister' books and some enid blyton short stories.

Oh, do you remember 'the naughtiest little girl in the world' by Enid Blyton. Mallory Towers, Red Roofs, Wishing Chair.......sigh if only life were still that simple. BTW, Who wrote milly molly mandy?

My all time favourite book as a child was Bambi by Felix Salter. Fantastic.

I do remember the book about little black sambo. One of my elderly relatives has knitted my DS a golly. I am not sure how pc that is either!!

When I was about 7/8, I nicked Harrold Robbins 'The Betsy' out of my Dads book shelf and learnt all about sex, not that I really understood what I was going on about. But was top girl at school for sharing this info with the other kids.

Bread and Jam for Frances
not sure of the author

and when I was older...
Little House on the Prarie books, Laura Ingalls Wilder

As a pre-teen or young teen I like all the Judy Blume books too. Remebe a couple of them having some references to sex - and one where the girl actually had sex - felt very risque at the time.

I'm giving 'Are You My Mother' to dd for Chrsitmas!! Love it, also 'One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr Seuss as well. He's not really big in England is he? Always a big seller at home, he's like the god of Children's Lit. I've tried to buy them over here, but it's usually only paperback and not a lot in stock, has to be on special order.

cat in the hat
green eggs and ham
meg and mog stories
charlottes web

i also like the wishing chair and farawary tree books
as for milly molly mandy...
joyce lancaster something or other
i loved her!

Ooo I've a few:

Charlottes Web
Beatrix Potter's Mrs Tiggy Winkle
The Hungry Caterpillar
Ladybird: The Snow Queen
Ladybird: Snow White & Rose Red

Ah the memories....

oooh that reminded me-ladybird ones - the magic porridge pot, the little red hen, chicken licken, the elves and the shoemaker!

My Secret Garden - I adored it and cant remember who wrote it...

Any ideas anyone?

red lorry yellow lorry
hungry caterpillar (m2t you reminded me of that one)
dick and jane books(showing me old age now)

used to love all the ladybird fairytale ones too popsycal, can still visualise the illustrations from rumpelstiltskin, chicken licken and rapunzel

loved milly molly mandy as well, and dr seuss (and they're still good re-reading them now!)

also devoured all of joan aiken's books (Midnight is a Place, Wolves of Willoughby Chase etc), any Roald Dahl, The Land of Green Ginger (can't remember the author - Noel Langley?), The Farthest Away Mountain (Lynne Reid Banks), The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (Penelope Lively). Loved Paul Zindel's books when I was a teenager (The Pigman, My Darling My Hamburger, Confessions of a Teenage Baboon) and of course Adrian Mole

Haven't got any of my original books but I've picked up most of them at charity shops or boot sales over the years to give to my kids - trouble is, they've shown absolutely ZERO interest in any of em!

Dejags, it's The Secret Garden and it's by Frances Hodgson Burnett, who also wrote my favourite, A Little Princess (not nearly as icky a the title suggests).

Ohhhhh great thread!
Charlottes Web
Danny the Champion of the World
Shadow the Sheepdog (read it a trillion times and it's now sitting on Lotties bookshelves)
All the famous five books (still have all those as well)
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Naughtiest Girl in the School and the other books in that collection, I think it was what the naughtiest girl in the school did next and possibly another one?

When I was tiny I loved all the Topsy and tim books.

hana, those Frances books are by Russell Hoban, who also wrote The Mouse and his Child (and many others). We have several of the Frances ones.

Charlottes Web, still makes me cry

Famous Five
Secret Seven
My Best Fiend
Anything by Paula Danziger and Judy Blume during my teenage years
Mallory Towers (I think - it was set in a girls boarding school)
Little Women

Oh yeah - Secret Seven and Little Women!

good night mister tom - long before the tv film came out!
flower fairy poem books

and for those teenage years - sweet valley high and cheerleaders book
i remember crying with a SVH book once
oh my goodness me!!!

"The Cats of Seroster" by Robert Westall. Must have read it hundreds of times. Got it out the library about 10 times as a kid until I managed to persuade mum to buy it for me

THe Family from One End Street - Eve Garnett.

Girl Annual from the library - all very ancient even then but I loved Belle of the Ballet.

Like Welshmum i wrote my name in everything, not always my own books. It was always in very light pencil, almost as if i knew it was wrong!