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.

Scuffy the Tugboat

Dh bought a copy of it for dd when she was born.

Havalina - that was Willard Price that others have mentioned - I liked those as well.

My brother liked the books where you had to choose the direction of the stories, for instance - if Jo took the left hand turn go to page 64, if he took the right got to 72 - does anyone remember those?

Hobbit
Flat Stanley
James and the Giant Peach

I remember the directional ones they were fab !

"The Forest of Boland Light Railway"
No idea what it is...

My dh would say either Swallows and Amazons or Hornblower.

The Runaways - Victor Canning

wind in the willows and the famous five

he says.

For me it was "Ronia the Robbers Daughter" by Astrid Lindgren. I loved it.

Loved the Willard Price ones too, but they're so un-PC

Asterix books. (Dh is not a reader.)

I mean, he had to struggle to remember asterix

The High Deeds of Finn McCool

Just So Stories

The Once and Future King

Asterix here too

"christ don't know"
"oh go on"

"the hobbit then, when i was 13"
"noooooooo! youngerthan that"

" i dont't know!"

stern custy loook

"i don't know"

so am afraid tsap

he doesn't know - and i tried and tried

lol - dh came out with the Hobbit, and I said 'god man, younger than that'

Dh said "what are books?"

He at one point confessed they didn't have any books in his house

DH says Thomas the Tank Engine - don't think he has read anything since he was about 5 maybe??

Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome

now minster that was mine

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Roy of the Rovers

(I'm not sure DH can actually read, you know)

DP's favourite was this

www.amazon.com/Georgie-Robert-Bright/dp/0374425396

My dh helpfully said that he couldn't read when he was a child and then said it was a green one. Then he suggests that you might be a researcher/ journalist trying to carry out a poll. At this point I told him to shut up and go back to watching the football.

So he relented and said Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. I won't bother asking him anything again!