Books you read as a child/ teenager that you would love to read again!

[Sixofone]

I've recently started re-reading books I read as a child and teenager, having a fantastic time doing it so thought I'd share, would love to hear your books! As you will see there is a strong Enid Blyton theme....

Famous Five (but not all of them)
Malory Towers
Faraway Tree
Goodnight Mr Tom
Black Beauty (who was this by?)
the Little HOuse on the Prairie series
Nancy Drew

Threadworm, I don't really know much about what kind of things children read at what age, but I wouldn't have thought ds2 would be too old for it at all. In fact, the books get progressively more adult in theme and tone as they go along - unsurprising, I guess, given that they cover all the later narrative such as Arthur's incestuous relationship with his half-sister, and his eventual battle with Mordred. As I say, I first came to them as an adult and didn't consider them childish at all. Enjoy!

Oh great. Will take a look. DS2 has recently become much more voracious in his reading so this might be really good.

(PS in that pedantry thread the other day I inexplicably called you Badger instead of Bumblebee. Apologies. Both stripey, I suppose. Confusing.)

Don't worry, no offence taken . I'm a big fan of badgers as well as bumblebees.

Funny that the next thread I meet you on is one about books .

I loved the Silver Brumby books - just found one on ebay so it's in my pile of things to read. Bet it won't be the same though.

That settles it MrsBumblebee, there is no way I will go anywhere near that film.

Anyone remember The Ghost of Thomas Kempe?

Splishsplosh, yes Easy Freedom was the same characters - direct sequel. SO romantic. I think they're out of print now - prob another one to find on ebay.

I just got my copy of "The Chewy Toffee Man Story" by Alasdair Anderson. My brother used to make me read it to him over and over again when he was little. It's out of print now but Abebooks got me a second-hand copy.

I also loved the Edith Nesbit books, "Five Children and It", "The Phoenix and the Carpet" Can't remember the name of the third one.

Also, did anyone read Homecoming and Dicey's Return? By Francine Pascall I think.

i used to love books by malcolm saville....mysteries set in shropshire but i cant remember any titles

and the borrowers books even though i then spent a long time laying traps for any that might come up into our house....

ooh and Elidor one of those step through a puddle and you are in another world fantasy books

Oh my God, I had forgotten about easy Connections and Easy Freedom! Want to read them again now.

Loved the Lorna Hill ballet books; all the pony stories ever written - I was obsessed. Loved the ones about Tamsin and Rissa - Wish For A Pony and the rest. Also the Lone Pine ones by Malcolm Saville.

Would love to collect the pony books I read but so many seem to be out of print now. There was one about a girl with three ponies and an Irish Wolfhound - I wanted to be her!

I used to read a series of pony stories about a girl called Jill. I think the first one was Jilly's Gymkhana. Haven't thought about them for years and I suspect they were pretty trashy but I loved them.

Good to see a couple of Susan Cooper mentions on here, I loved her books, much underrated imo. The dark is rising is an absolute classic.
When I was much younger, I loved Joan Aitken, had loads of her books, all with Jan Pienoski illustrations, they were great.

swallows and amazons

the gerald durrell ones

tom's midnight garden

those ones all seemed completely magical at the time - I remember staying inside reading swallows and amazons for days on end

Does anyone remember books about a rather down-at-heel family who had loads of pretty low key adventures? The Family At One End St perhaps. I liked them too.

The Wishing chair by Enid Blyton I LLOVED this as a child in primary school our teacher used to read it to us. When I had my 2 DS I went to library to read it to them but found time had changed me and I was disappointed. But at age 8, 9, 10 ab fab

Did anyone read Shadow the Sheepdog?

It might have been by Enid Blyton?? It was probably trash but I read it a million times and always cried at Chapter 7 ('Bad Days on the Farm'), when the dog was blinded by barbed wire.

Yes, NKF, Lily-Rose, Kate, Jo, Peg, a baby called William and twins, both with names beginning with J. Their Mum ran a laundry and their Dad was a dustman!

Almost forgot about Roald Dahl, my fav was 'Danny the champion of the world'.

I picked The Ghost of Thomas Kempe up secondhand a while ago Pondus. I really enjoyed it but DD1 got two chapters in and abandoned it.

KTPee- I also loved the SE Hinton books..
Also Paul Zindel-My Darling My Hamburger, The Pigman and others.
There was a real dearth of books for adolecents in the seventies/early eighties and these along with the classics such as Catcher In The Rye helped me through those hormonal years.
Also remember enjoying some dull tales about a nurse called Sue Barton.

Had forgotten about Sue Barton - I read all of those. She had a sort of Anne/Gilbert relationship with a doctor didn't she? And a friend called Connie who I thought was impossibly glamorous.

Does anyone remember a set of books about a girl called Jill Robinson? It was by the same author who wrote the Trebizon boarding school books (Malory Towers for the 70s). They were great. Who was that author (am off to google)

Were they the school stories about the girl who was very good at tennis and got taken to the commemoration ball by her best friend's brother? Loved those ones

I forgot the Chronicles of Narnia!