Ask your dp/ dh what was their favourite book as a child?

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we are doing a project with dd on favourite childhood books and dp says he cannot remember a single book.

Perhaps you can help prompt his memory.

DH isn't here but I know he would say Richard Scarry books

I know that DH loved Box of Delights (or whatever it was called) I think he still has a copy somewhere.

he replied "the hobbit"

he can't remember anything from when he was a younger child

i was a bookworm, but i don't think he was

Rupert Bear. He is 39 (dh not Rupert) in case that helps.

My brother was absolutely obsessed with the Billy Goats Gruff. I hid it when I was 5 and he was 3.

Not home yet, but I know it would be Dr Suess, especially Green Eggs and Ham. As an older child (10 years ish) it was Ian Fleming books.

Tutter the only book that dp could remember reading was the lord of the rings, I thought he ws fibbing but maybe he wasn't.

DH not home yet but he'd say The Blackberry Farm series - he's bought lots of them for dd (they are extremely dated !)

DH can think of loads that he did not like but is struggling to remember one he liked.

Fwiw, he did not like Hänsel and Gretel

Dh says "A little pot boiler" by Spike Milligan. I've never heard of it but he says it was a collection of short stories and poems.

Danny champion of the world says mine!

He says he can't really remember but a book about a robot called Otto Matic?
Ah just found it for him, it was a short story called The Great Automatic Grammatizator by Roald Dahl

Winnie The Pooh earlier on in life and The Hobbit when he got a bit older.

Ok, that's wrong, apparently the book had a robot called Otto Matic in it, but it's not the one we thought.

robinson crusoe,
i think

Dr Seuss, Roald Dahl, Hardy Boys.

I liked Swallows and Amazons, Famous FIve as well as Little House on the Prairie, Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden, Kidnapped, Treasure Island (yes, 19th century writing featured quite heavily)

are you very old bluebutterfly

I loved Ann of green gables.

I've heard dh waffle on nostalgically about Moonfleet I think.

I think mine were The Call of the Wild, What Katy Did, Secret Garden, Heidi, lots of Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie.

All these men who read, is my dp just an uncultured heathen then or the norm? Maybe I go for a certain thick type , when I askd dd dad he named a book and when we asked why he said it was the only one he had read

Crictor by Tomi Ungerer.

Cool book about a French snake.

He still has it and dd loves it.

I am David.

Anything by Willard Price (I loved those too).

That looks a cool book Botbot.

I adored the just so stories as well.