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 ?

Sharna That sounds amazing! I would love a pocket mouse!

@Classof66 That's awful. My Grandma did the same thing to my mum. My mum's 80 and still bitter about it.

Every so often I'll buy a second hand Point Horror book. I loved them as a teen and re-reading them makes me all nostalgic

I might have not read the thread properly but has nobody mentioned Redwall? I re-read them all as an adult and still love them!
Also the Magician’s House quartet by William Corlett.
Now I have started to wonder what happened to all my Colin Dann books? I dearly hope they never got given away 😔

Some of my favourites have been read and re-read so many times they are falling apart and need replacing.
However if I replace a favourite book it needs to be with an identical copy (same cover etc). This is sometimes very problematic as my copies were charity shop buys in the 80s and were originally printed in the 60s/70s.
I've read and destroyed 3 copies of Ballet Shoes (1 of which was the 'wrong' one) and have finally had to settle on a hardback version with different cover artwork as I just cannot find 'my' version anywhere. Actually I spent so long looking for the 'right' version that I can't exactly remember what it looks like

The only books this isnt true of is the Harry Potter series. I plan to have 3 (different) complete sets by the end of next year.

I like the Narnia books, Susan Coolidge and Louisa May Alcott.

I've still got some of my Redwall books but the kids aren't interested! I picked up the Animals of Farthing Wood the other day but same thing. I help out with a children's book swap so find lots of childhood favourites there.

Currently re reading The Silver Brumby books! Green dragon for "older boys and girls" ! Don't care if I get judged - they're great!!

I feel sad that there are quite a few books I borrowed from the library as a child and loved but have no idea what they were called!

I feel sad that there are quite a few books I borrowed from the library as a child and loved but have no idea what they were called!

maybe worth starting a separate thread - with anything you can remember, it is amazing how others may know the name!

I have found a few old favourites unreadable for one reason or another!
DD ruined Milly Molly Mandy for me by being slightly too old and not at all charmed by it!
Still enjoyed Winnie the Pooh and Wind in the Willows. DH contributed Teddy Robinson to our family collection which I love.

I've been to Lucy Bostons house too, and it was totally magical. Diana was so lovely and it was such a personal tour of a loved and lived in house.

I always read the Box of Delights at Christmas, and the Dark is Rising as well.

I still have loads of my childhood books that were for Xmas or birthday presents from my dps complete with handwritten message inside I have been trying to find one certain book though for years to complete the set of Gwen Grant books it's her trilogy about her family life as a child ,I became good friends with her brother and his family through the job I worked in and her brother said the books were exactly what happened ,

A little while ago I read the "Swish of the Curtain" series, and it was as though I had stepped back into my childhood. I could hear my Mother using lots of the little phrases, "A lick and a promise" etc. and could remember many of the details such as Home & Colonial shops and Lyon's Corner House. Altogether lovely memories!

I loved Ballet Shoes, The Swish of the Curtain, the Susan books, Anne of Green Gables, The Family from One End Street and also the Jennings and Just William series.

Ballet Shoes is the only one I've reread and I still loved it.

Having watched "Anne with an E" on Netflix, which I thought was excellent, I may go back and read that again, and possibly Little Women before I go to see the film.

Sue Barton Neighbourhood Nurse, and similar, I probably won't be revisiting

Oh, and like a PP, my dad gave my Just William books away to the boy who lived opposite when I was away on holiday. He assumed I didn't want them any more. Not true

I have just ordered My Best Fiend because of this thread

My favourite childhood book is called the white cat.

Google ‘fairy tales by Madame la contessa d’aulnoy/the white cat.

It’s on wiki source and you can read it all I think. Written in 1682, I have the published version from 1972 translated into English with illustrations by Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone.

Doubt it would probably be suitable for children these day’s for various reasons, including the ending, spoiler alert.... it involves a murder.

But then there is a happy ending. I need some sellotape to give this book a longer life or it will be having an unhappy ending!

Thanks @akkakk !

I sadly can't remember many of them in much detail. Except a book with a hamster called Honey Bun Gingery!!

I've found my people . I've been reading the trebizon books and the sadlers wells series by Lorna hill. Love ballet shoes, circus shoes, white boots etc too.

I still read all my Sue Barton books, along with many others mentioned above. I think they are really compelling even now, such an idealised and romantic portrait of the time.

Has anyone mentioned the Jill pony books? I absolutely adore these despite never going near a pony.

Love this thread!

The Owl Service - I first read this when I was a child and so much went over my head, the tension caused by the differing social classes of the characters in particular. I found it a great re-read.

Sue Barton! I love the Sue Barton books,in fact I feel a re-read coming on...
And Jill - I was trying to talk intelligently to someone at work about riding recently ,and felt obliged to confess that everything I know ( or possibly don't know!) about riding and horses comes from the 'Jill' books .Same for Arthur Ransome and sailing actually...
And Alan Garner - When I reread after a long long time last year I was amazed by how much of Weirdstone of the Brisingamen I knew by heart!
And the Owl Service " she is wanting to be flowers,and you are making her owls.."
I did know about William Mayne,it makes me sad but he is one of the few people where knowledge like that hasn't affected my love for his books.
I love My Naughty Little Sister too,and Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden.

Oh yes, InfiniteCurve, My Naughty Little Sister was fab. Mrs Cocoa Jones, the window-cleaner man, Bad Harry, the beautiful doll ... I still buy the books as presents now especially when one of my friends' children becomes a big sister. They've really stood the test of time.

I want to read The Owl Service to my DC, I did like it as a child. Am am slightly put off though firstly because they found Weirdstone of Brisingamen relatively boring (as did I, actually, both at the time and on re-reading, although there were some stand-out images like all the electrical appliances turning themselves on) and secondly because my Welsh accent is truly awful as proved when I attempted to do Bran in The Grey King. My American accents are just as bad, I have just made my way through The Painted Garden making all the Americans sound like Southern belles or cowboys.