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.

Old Yeller was good iirc from school but so so saaad .

DH says 'Five go to Kirrin Island'
Mine was Bogwoppit by Ursula Moray Williams

Dh's first answer was "Nancy Drew"!!! Something not right there, methinks! Then he said, "No, I mean The Hardy Boys!" Hmmmm! And he says Willard Price books too

DP says 'The Hobbit' but doesn't remember younger than that!

Wind in the Willows for my DH.

pixel 'a little pot boiler' is fantastic - I have a copy here which I still absolutely love. Proper humour IMO

DH says - one of his bus fleetlist books

possibly not what you were looking for!

The HObbit apparently
I said 'how old were you when you read that then?' and he said 6

before that I expect it was Thomas the bleeding Tank Engine

Lots of Famous Five and Secret Seven. There was one where they were on this island and loads of seaplanes landed, and they had to hide from the enemy (who IIRC were nazis) Was a bit weird looking back.
The Hobbit when I was a bit older.
The Little Captain
The Borrowers
Heidi
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Ballet Shoes

I think that exhausts my entire childhood collection. I really don't remember having many books

Sorry, that list is mine not DH's. He refused to respond. Probably had even fewer books than me.

The Butterfly Ball and The Grasshopper's Feast.

Dh said the beano.

Once I said it didn't class as a 'book' he suggested 'across the barricades'. But said he may have been about 10/11.

something called the Lantern Bearers IIRC. He gave me a copy early in our relationship - didn't mention that it was his all time fave ever childhood book or anything, just he'd liked it - and I slagged it off horribly Took a long while to repair that damage

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lol GGG.

Ainsmum he sounds exaclty like my dp, who apparantly has read lots of books on electricity!

RedJools, my DH loved Nancy Drew, and was not fond of The Hardy Boys! And he's a big macho Texan

He also loved The Black Cauldron, Lord of the Rings...He'll think of more and I'll be back

I'd better not. His reply with be The Viz or The Broons.
Johnny Fartpants does not stretch the imagination.
As you may have guessed. I have a non-reading DH.
BUT my favourites were the Famous Five, Secret Seven, Pippi Longstocking and Mrs Pepperpot.

We're back, and he says:

In early childhood, any of The Berenstain Bears books.

In adolescence, his favorites were The Chronicles of Narnia and The Prydian Chronicles (as opposed to only the Black Cauldron)

Stig of the Dump-one of the few fiction books he has read

asterix must get a few votes surely?

He says anything Roald Dahl

Dark is rising

Aimsmum- that was THe Wishing Chair by Enid Blyton. And BananaPudding- phew! Was starting to get a bit worried!

I remember so called adventures featuring hal and his brother, maybe written by wilbur somebody. I loved these books they were about brothers travelling all aver the world collecting rare species.

They were entitled southsea adventure or amazon adventure etc and they were fantastic.

Most unpc these days so must have been written awhile ago, but I was born in 1981 and I muyst have read these in around 89/90 and loved them.

Db's favourites were def Thomas the Tank Engine when he was really little, and later Flat Stanley (about a boy who was as flat as a piece of paper). But he wasn't much of a reader (unlike me).