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 ?

Oh hang on, I am not thinking of Weirdstone, what am I thinking of?

Elidor!

I loved Anne of Green Gables. I’ve recently purchased Orange Wendy- Maureen Stewart hope its good was quite expensive.

I love Antonia Forest’s books (as is probably obvious from my user name). Many of the books I read are children’s/young adults books.

Have enjoyed many of the books mentioned here 😊

Nice to hear about all your favorites ! I loved the FF so much ,especially "Five go to Smugglers top" "Five have plenty of fun" "and Five go down to the sea" .Although I appreciate they probably are a bit non PC today .I think so many books now are a tough old read TBH .Cant read Misery Memoirs at all .So distressing !

I love the Famous Five, and the Jennings books equally. I reread the whole series approximately every other year.

And Just William, every now and then. I used to love Billy Bunter but not a fan anymore.

I've remembered a trilogy that I didn't mention in my first post: The Changes by Peter Dickinson. It was set in the present day (probably the 70s), adults decided technology was evil and it turned out to be to do with Merlin. I think those are due a reread.

I read them after watching it serialised on BBC (when children's programmes were on at teatime, before CBeebies and CBBC). I was introduced to a few authors that way. Anyone else remember Kizzy (the tv title for Rumer Godden's The Diddakoi)?

A Stranger Came Ashore and The Secret Island are my favourite childhood books. I re-read them a few times a year

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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!

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!

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!

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.

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

@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.

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

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!

... and the Pippi Longstocking books - loved them