Anyone still like re reading their old childhood books ?

[dottiedodah]

Just been reading thread about controversial books .I still like to re read some of my favourite childhood Authors ,Enid Blyton FF and MT, also Harry Potter .Does anyone remember Alan Garner as well ?

[myplateisfullenoughthanks]

The Silver Sword is my favourite book of all time and read it over and over to this day. Another I have returned to is When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

[wildthingsinthenight]

I love to! Particularly the Ramona books and The Bullerby Children

[katycantrip]

I'm glad to see the Carbonel books get a mention - I loved them and still have a battered copy of the first one. But not many people seem to be familiar with them which is such a shame. I suppose they are a bit of their time

[BooseysMom]

Folks of the faraway tree..at 43 lol

Ah, i loved the Faraway Tree as a child. I recently tried to read the first one to DS who is 6 but sadly he wasn't interested.

I have just finished reading the Silver Brumby series by Australian author Elyne Mitchell. I first discovered these in the library in the 1970s. They're not there any more so i got them on Ebay and the writing was even more brilliant as when i first read them. I can see why i fell in love with them and wanted to be a silver brumby myself!!

[ImportantWater]

I love the Carbonel books too - the milk stream that tasted of fish really stayed with me! I think I liked stories about worlds that secretly co-existed with ours. The Dark is Rising is about the only book I've read to my DSs that they asked for again, that and The Hobbit. The only books they really read are Wimpy Kid, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and Tom Gates but they do like being read to, so that's how I'm getting the stories I love into them - they seem to have a much greater tolerance for stories when I read them so we have done Anne of Green Gables, Ballet Shoes, A Little Princess as well as more traditional "boy" books like Treasure Island and Tom Sawyer.

[villanova]

I want to read my kids the Susan Coopers & Alan Garners, we've just finished a trilogy by Barbara Sleigh about Carbonel, the king of cats, and 2 children who can speak to animals. They really enjoyed them, so I have hope. My eldest wanted Ballet Shoes, but the copy I got had a really small font (classic 70s edition, I remember most of my books looking like that), so I think it put her off reading it to herself. I've also noted a few more suggestions from this list, thanks all!

[Hellokittymania]

I love to read them, especially when I can find them in different languages. I found Enid blyton Malory towers books in Vietnamese… I also found Jacqueline Wilson in Vietnamese…

[Awkward1]

Agree with Elliejj about Lorna Hill ballet books. Our library network doesnt seem to have them

[WhenPushComesToShove]

... and the Pippi Longstocking books - loved them

[WhenPushComesToShove]

I just loved all the CS Lewis books. My favourites were Voyage Of The Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair. I'm going to reread them again now you've reminded me!

[ImportantWater]

Also with Aurora, I loved trying to work out their weird meal times. Lunch often seemed to be porridge and coffee.

[ImportantWater]

@elkiedee - I love the Aurora books and have never come across anyone else who read them. They seemed so exotic yet cosy - kind of early hygge! I only had Hello Aurora and Aurora and the Little Blue Car, I didn't know there were others. The pictures of the mum looked very much like my mum, and we had a similar set up with mum going out to work. My favourite bit was their winter holiday, but I also loved the jam making, and the little house in the woods. And the names of all her friends - Brit-Karen, Knut. I wonder if this is why I like Scandi drama so much now.

[midsomermurderess]

I am rereading the Three Brothers of Ur at the moment. I loved it as a child and am enjoying it now.

[EmmaGrundyForPM]

I haven't got any original books from.my childhood as my mother gave them.all away. However I have bought and reread many of them as an adult.

As a child I loved the Willard Price books - Elephant Adventure, Lion Adventure etc I bought a complete set when the DC were younger to read to them and they were completely uninterested.

I also loved the Antoni Forest books when younger. I didn't own any but discovered them in the local library and was forever borrowing them. Over the past few years I've bought the complete set sometimes paying silly prices for them but I love rereading them.

[elkiedee]

I still have quite a lot of my children's books and have acquired some new ones. My much younger little sister nabbed a few of my books after I left home - especially Noel Streatfeild and Mara Kay (who wrote a couple of ballet stories among others) and others seem to have just disappeared so I've replaced some - I suspect others I must have read from the library.

I have passed on my love of Diana Wynne Jones and a few other books to my 12 year old son, but I'm doubtful that he'd like some of the others, and there are some that seem too young for him now.

I also read quite a lot of Scandinavian children's books in translation, and one of my favourites was Anne Cath-Vestly who wrote several books about a little girl called Aurora and her baby brother Socrates and their father who stays at home to look after him and studies for a postgraduate degree while mum goes out to work as a lawyer. The obituaries for her all mention that her best known work was completely different, but two of the Aurora books were published in Puffin books (and I found the other two in library discard sales). My mum and stepdad read them to my brother and sister when they were little and when I took my copies with me to my house in London, my mum bought her own copies of 3 of the 4 books online!

[Tana433]

I bought the complete Malory Towers bookset from "The Works" and completelty devoured it in a couple of evenings! Also have been re-reading old Agatha Christie books as these were the first books i was introduced to as a teenager and they have fuelled my love of reading ever since. Im nearly 48 btw!

[FurrySlipperBoots]

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER

I'm just now listening to an audiobook by Louise Rennison (the 'Angus, thongs and perfect snogging' author) and I'm confused by the fact she's plagiarised from Just William. I've turned it off so I don't know how long it goes on for, but I don't get it? The Just William books are so popular she must have known people would notice, and I don't see how she thought it would benefit anything at all!

[LondonLass61]

I am loving this thread. I loved Just William, the Famous Five and Jennings and Derbyshire (reminds me of my late brother- he adored them).
My mum got rid of our books - however, although I'd have liked to keep them, I do understand that we didn't have much room. My fave was a Mary Poppins illustrated by Mary Shepard. My ex husband bought me the set illustrated by her for my 40th.

[GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER]

The ancient William books that belonged to my father never fail to make me laugh. Pure comfort food.

I never read the Narnia series as a child, but having bought a set for Gdcs (still too young for them) I read The Magician’s Nephew and thoroughly enjoyed it.

One brilliant book nobody else ever seems to have heard of, I think bought by my father in a 2nd hand shop somewhere, is Chalky, by Howard L. Apps.

It’s an outstanding detective/adventure story about two ordinary boys of 11 or so trying to find a very valuable diamond for an elderly neighbour with very little money, whose sister had long ago hidden it somewhere safe - and was killed in a train crash before she could tell her sister where. The hunt is long, with many turnings.

Set in the 50s, but amazingly doesn’t really seem dated. Very funny in places, too - it’d make a brilliant film.
I re-read it about once a year and never tire of it.
Since our copy was getting a bit dog-eared I was pleased to find another on abebooks - still have the original, though.

[FurrySlipperBoots]

All the time! Reading 'It's not the end of the world' by Judy Blume in the bath at the mo I always read m old books in the bath, as the steam would ruin new ones. I tend to prefer children's books to adults as I'm not overly interested in romance and I can't stand violence or upsetting books.

[subsy1]

So many books here that I read and reread.
Love Narnia books, and most of Alan Garner (never got on with "The Owl Service"). Earlier published books, "Midnight Folk" and "Box of Delights" are still great, "Puck of Pook Hill" and "Stalky". "The Secret Garden" was a firm favourite and later on, the Susan Cooper books.
I love many newer books that we've bought for DC - books by AF Harrold, Michael Rosen, Henley Santa, Fiona Barker and expecting to love a new one out today about suffragettes and jiu jitsu by Iszi Lawrence.

[Chelsea567]

Anyone remember "the amazing mr blunden" ? Remember reading this in primary school and re read about 25 years later to my daughter. Brilliant!

[ImportantWater]

Oh yes @InTheCludgie! I absolutely loved them. When I was seven I saw a piece about them on some Saturday morning TV show - "YOU are the hero with these new books!" -and as a bookworm the idea of actually being in a book was so amazing. I actually asked for The Forest of Doom instead of an Easter Egg that year and played / read it again and again - it may have been one of the only ones I ever finished.
The other ones I really liked were The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, the Citadel of Chaos, Starship Traveller and Khare: Cityport of Traps (or something). I also had another series called Grail Quest or something which was set in King Arthur's time - these were funnier but not as good because they often didn't actually work, you couldn't finish the plot or tasks were impossible to complete without something that you couldn't actually have picked up by then, or whatever.

[InTheCludgie]

Did anyone else read/play the fighting fantasy game books? The storyline would give you options, you make your choice and go to the relevant page. I loved these! I came across one a couple of years ago in the library and got it out on DS's library card

[Hidingtonothing]

Yep, I've re-read most of my childhood books as an adult, some with DD, some alone DD was just telling me about the book she's currently reading and I'm planning on reading that too, also very excited that the next Morrigan Crow book is almost due for release, it's been a long wait! I do read grown up books too, honest