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

I loved Fifteen!

isn't fifteen an adults book written by a kid ;-)

I heard the owl call my name (Margaret Craven)

Smith (Leon Garfield)

Swallows & Amazons series (Arthur Ransome)

The Just so stories (Rudyard Kipling)

Flowers for Mrs Harris (Paul Gallico)

I bought the abridged version for my daughter today. Now I am thinking she might be too young. She is 4. ????

For some reason 'Heidi' sticks in my mind.

I still have my copy of Heidi from when I was about 10.

loved malory towers and famous five oh and the secret garden was great

nabs Is it the one with wee sketches of heidi on the mountain and bearded Grandfather carving the chair red/pink cover!!

I bought it on Tuesday 2nd November 1982 and it has a coloured cover with Heidi holding some bluebells and stroking a goat. Grandpa and a boy are sat by a house in the distance.

I went to Hay-on-Wye this summer, and found this lovely shop (it's the pink one called 'Rose's Books').

It had second-hand copies of every single one of my favourite childhood books, including lots I'd forgotten about, all lovingly organised and displayed. It was heaven! I nearly bought the original hardback of Anne of Green Gables that I first borrowed from the library when I was 11 (even though I've got the whole lot in paperback at home) but had to restrain myself because it was thirty quid.

mine was the borrowers,i loved it,think i might see if i can get it as it brings back lovely memories

OOh I loved the famous five, also a series by an author I can't remember, it featured 2 boys who were brothers who went on adventures to capture rare animals (think maybe one of them was called hal).
I also loved the silver sword and judy blume, must have missed the pony/ballet gene. Although
I did love the Sue Barton series. Seem to have gone from kids books straight to horror (my Mums influence) loved Stephen king et al.

Also sorry to add but what were the books were the girl broke her back on a swing, was it Anne of green gables or What Katy did? Or something else entirely?

What Katy Did!! Ooh, I loved that. And What Katy Did Next. And What Katy Did After That.

I may have made that last one up.

A book called 'The Enchanted Forest" illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.

It was my Grandmother's & she would read it to me everytime I went to stay with her.It was a magical ,magical book & plays a strong part in my childhood memories.
I would love to have it now for ds.

Famous Five
Pippi Longstocking
Machine Gunners
Goalkeepers Revenge
Brownie Annual (every year)
Mr Men Series
Virginia Andrews.

I stayed with my aunty for a week one year and all she reads are Mills and Boon. Bloody awful. The 3 books I read had the same story just different names!!!

The Lois Duncan wrote a book called stranger with my face? it's about a girl who discovers that she was adopted and that she was a twin. She keeps seeing herself in places or dreams and discovers that her twin is coming to her through astral projection. It's a good book and I still have it, might re-read it again soon.

I read loads as a child and I still read loads.

I also have an Enid Blyton theme,
read all of the Famous five, never read the secret seven.
Malory Towers
The islands of adventure etc series
another mystery series by Enid Blyton- the Ring O'Bells mystery etc
The naughtiest girl in the school?
Six cousins at mistletoe farm was another favourite
Mr Galliano's circus, I actually bought another copy of this from E-bay as I lost mine in a house move as a child.

Ballet shoes, I'm so excited to see that it's being made into a tv programme.

Children of Green Knowe, watched that on tv as well.
Milly Molly Mandy
Roald Dahl books
the Family of One End Street
I've read Charlotte sometimes by Penelope farmer
Toms Midnight Garden is also brilliant
there were ballet stories about a girl called Drina, still got those too.

When I was older I read Judy Blume and Paula Danzigar still have all of those as well.

The eyes of Karen Connors by Lois duncan is another good book, it's about a girl who's psychic

Amelia Jane
Mrs Pepperpot
My Naughty Little Sister and Bad Harry
Famous Five
Anastasia books
Anything by Paula Danziger or Judy Blume
My Best Fiend
My Twinkle Annuals

Has anyone else ever read The Winter of Enchantment, about a magic mirror? I loved that book, in fact I must get it out again to re-read.
Lois Duncan books all really good
I can't remember if I mentioned it before on this thread but Seaward by Susan Cooper is good too.

I have got away with reading lots of the best to my dtds at bedtime -

The entire Narnia series
The Faraway Tree books
The Demon Headmaster
My Naughty Little Sister
Mrs Mopple's Washing Line (it was the original copy too...can anyone else remember this?)

And many more.
Mallory towers is next.
We tried The Famous Five but i didn't get past book 1 because of the names. I just couldn't say Dick without smirking and the dtds just had hysterics whenever Aunt Fanny was mentioned!

The witch's Roald Dahl......I loved it!

Gobbolino
The Silver Crown
A Wrinkle in Time
Carbonel and Calidor
The Owl Service
The Brain Sharpeners

I have Carbonel lined up

Rosaluxembourg, Madlabowner, Kittylouise

Thank you. For the last ten years, I have been trying to remember something about the Trebizon series. Now I have been on Wikipedia and discovered there are a whole load I never read. Off to ebay.

God I wanted to be that girl.