Anyone still like re reading their old childhood books ?

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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 ?

Still love The Chalet school books. And I’m going to read the Little House On Prairie books again.
I find Enid Blyton boring and irritating now unfortunately, although I loved them as a kid.

If I ever feel in need of feeling like a young me again I break out the Adrian Moles. God I loved them so much and still do. I can probably recite them by heart but it's so lovely to read them every so often.

Another Antonia Forest fan here. Love all of her books.

Another who used to read Enid Blyton as a child, I think she's aged very badly indeed and have no interest reading her now.

Beekeeper1, oh no, I didn't know that about William Mayne either!

@CountFosco I love the Children of Green Knowe, we went to visit the Manor last summer and it was brilliant. Lucy M. Boston's daughter-in-law does the tour, and you can recognise so many things in the books.

Geppili I love that book ,so mystical .Alan was such good Author and I think he wanted to give youngsters a slightly different experience .Loved the "Owl Service "too.

@SharnaPax I would love to visit the Manor, is it easy to arrange?

The Little Grey Men and Stalky & Co - yes! I love those books. Never met anyone else who has even heard of them.

Oh I like both of those!
When DD was at primary we used to read to her every night and I often sought out some of my childhood favourites to read to her. Now I don't need any excuse to revisit.

The list includes many of those mentioned here (Malory Towers, Just William, Jennings, Ballet Shoes, Narnia books) But also all of the Jill books and one of my absolute favourites "The Children Who Lived in a Barn"

It goes two ways though because some of the newer books which DD "discovered" I have read and still enjoy. Obviously Harry Potter but also many of the Cherub series

I reread Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising sequence fairly regularly and still thoroughly enjoy it. Other than that, I did sneak a read of some of the original Malory Towers books when DD1 was hooked on them and have been known to "suggest" old favourites to various of the DCs (Professor Branestawm, Phantom Tolbooth, Narnia etc.)

@IRememberSoIDo I love Adrian Mole too and have read them sooo many times. They're the books I go to whenever I feel down or unwell. They always cheer me up

@ImportantWater DH organised it but I think he just emailed and we paid on the day. We got there early and the kids got to run around the beautiful garden and look at the river for a while first. Diana is a great tour guide (with her elderly dog accompanying her) and the history of the house and Lucy's life in it is fascinating. It's really moving to see all the things you remember from the books. It was such an amazing way to spend a morning, I really recommend it. Oh, and you can buy a mouse to put in your pyjama pocket!

The Dark Is Rising Sequence are my favourites. So much so that when I was pregnant with my youngest and re-reading them I ended up naming him after 2 characters from the books.

I'm due another read of them, it's been a few years.

It's hard when you enjoy an author and then you find out about their personal life. I've still kept and enjoyed my William Mayne books though, and try to separate it in my mind. There are four books in the choir school series.

I also loved and reread all the boarding school ones I had - Enid Blyton, Trebizon, Antonia Forest as I was older, and also lots of random series that were never so famous, American ones etc.

All the Noel Streatfeild, Arthur Ransome, Madeleine L'Engle, Frances Hogdson Burnett, Jean Little, any ballet books I could get my hands on etc

So many more, used to take them from the library by the bagful to read, but of course I never got my own copies that way.

I found Jill Murphy online quite cheap. I've used the excuse that I'm going to read them with my 6yo (blatantly for me)
I loved The Worst Witch! And there are three I haven't read!

Another Anne of Green Gables fan here. I’ve read it, and all its many sequels, more times than I could possibly say. They are my go-to comfort reads.

The Owl Service totally freaked me as a child but I loved it as well. I was an early reader and the youngest of 4 so there were lots of my siblings books around and I probably read it far too young. DS didn’t like it as I remember but not sure why

I loved The Weiss tone of Brisingamen and the dark is rising series. I loved rereading all the Moomin books to DS when he was small as they were magical for me.

No book was as terrifying for me as Grinny.

Had a few days off work and revisited the book case
Instead of reading something intellectual and learning something
I have read 4 of the princess diaries books back to back

My dh bought me a gorgeous hardback collection of some enid blyton books that were childhood favourite for Christmas
I really want to read them but can’t bare to damage them! Thinking of digging out the originals if I can find them in my mums loft!

Thanks for all your replies everyone! Lovely to know Im not the only one who likes to revisit these old treasures ! Just nice to escape now and then from being an "adult" I guess!

I cannot because my other threw them all away when we moved once while I was at school on the day of the move.Hated her for it.

Yes, loved re reading the trebizon series with dd and recently snagged the entire point horror collection at a car boot sale and am quite looking forward to revisiting my teen years

If you love nostalgia about children's books, read "Bookworm" by Lucy Mangan. She discusses loads of them, and it's wonderful!

Must confess to still loving all Enid Blyton books, particularly Famous Five, Find outers and dog and the Snubby, Barney etc books.

Also still really enjoy the Anne of Green Gables series and am currently collecting old editions of Nancy Drew, love reading them!

I don’t think I’m a very sophisticated reader, primarily books are for comfort..ooh, Agatha Christie too, even though by now I can remember the culprits.

Belfast I was going to mention Bookworm, it's really good isn't it?

A lot of my favourites have been mentioned already. I usually re-read The Children of Green Knowe and The Box of Delights at Christmas, love both of those for taking me back to childhood Christmases watching the children's BBC adaptations! I usually re-read Teddy Robinson meets Father Christmas as well.

Visiting the Green Knowe Manor is on my bucket list Sharna, it was lovely to read your description. One day I'll make it there, I hope!

I also quite often re-read Moonfleet (J Meade Faulkner) and A Cue for Treason (Geoffrey Trease).

Radio 4 did a great dramatisation of Carrie's War a couple of years ago, and it's still on BBC Sounds I think. I've posted about it on here before, but the ending in that is definitely one for the adults to appreciate, it went right over my head when I read it as a child!

I regularly re read my kids classics, mostly as they are quick to read! Can manage a trebizon book in one bath.
I still have my Trebizons, Antonia forest, what Katy did series and little women one. Easy now to get the final books in the series, I didn't know there were more Antonia forest than just the school ones until much older.sane with final 2 what Katy did series.