Favouite childhood books...memories!!

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To continue and broaden the theme.....
\Charlie and choc foctory, and Great glass elevator.
Mallory Towers
The first role a dice books, can't remember what they were called, fantasy fiction type jobby.

Oh god, I am going dewy eyed - what gems - What Katy Did, I just loved that. And The Swish of the curtain - fantastic, read it over and over. Kaansmum - god almighty - I loved the Jill books too! Susan Pyke, how horrid was she?? And Martin, that lovely man who taught her to ride. And the gymkhana where she won loads? God, they were the best..... I also loved the 'Ginny at Finmory' series of horsy books, did you read those???

Milly Molly Mandy.

Oh god, I am going dewy eyed - what gems - What Katy Did, I just loved that. And The Swish of the curtain - fantastic, read it over and over. Kaansmum - god almighty - I loved the Jill books too! Susan Pyke, how horrid was she?? And Martin, that lovely man who taught her to ride. And the gymkhana where she won loads? God, they were the best..... I also loved the 'Ginny at Finmory' series of horsy books, did you read those???

Milly Molly Mandy.

Ooh boobie, what did we do?

A little princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Lovely.

Grimble - can't remember who wrote it.
Help, I'm a prisoner in a toothpaste factory - can't remember who wrote that either.

Mallory Towers
Teddy Robinson
Blackberry Farm
The Lorna Hill books
The Lawrence ?Meynell books set in Australia
Peter and Ann/Susan travel books
Just William
The Long Winter, one of the Little House on the Prairie books
Little Women
What Katy Did

Oh, Little House on the Prairie

I so wanted to be a homesteader...

Huge book of nursery rhymes. whan my parents seperated it got thrown and i was gutted. i wanted it to read to my ds, went out to buy another one and nothing compares to it. They don't make 'em like they used to (that makes me sound years older then i am)

Heidi - How badly did I want to move to a pasture in Switzerland and play with Peter in the sunshine!

The Little House books - So good, the tv series was such a let down.

Anne of Green Gables - Just fantastic, read the whole series tons of times.

Comet In Moominland - My absolute favourite and it is in my bookshelf rather than dts. I will read it to them soon as they love stories too.

Mog's Christmas - I recently bought dts a collection of Mog stories from the Book People. Of course Judith Kerr's other books were memorable too - Tiger Who Came To Tea, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.

I also liked Judy Blume and Roald Dahl but not at the same time! I kept all the books I could hide from my mother who enjoyed being generous with my things by giving them away! I only saved one Little House but it was my favourite, the others are either stored in the attic or on dtses bookshelves (except Moomin and Heidi which are on mine!)

"My naughty Little Sister"

and mandy, Bunty, and Judy annuals every Christmas!

I loved What Katy Did, Little Women, The Wizard of Oz, The Secret Garden and Amelia Jane.

Famous Five and Secret Seven

Mallory Towers
St Claires
Black Beauty (we had a big old copy that smelt all oldy booky)
Midnight Pirate
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark
Come to the circus (blyton again)
Faraway Tree ones
The Forgotten Bear
The Patchwork Cat
The Rare Spotted Birthday Party.

Children of the new forest, Castle of Adventure (enid blyton again), Nancy Drew, I Am David

Wolves of Willoughby Chase,
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen,
The Children of Green Knowe

definately the Great Glass Elevator (I am a vicious Knid)

The velveteen rabbit....

dogger

Dahlia, I loved, loved loved A Traveller in Time! Lots of memories here...also the Little House on the Prairie series, all of the Anne books by L M Montgomery, Joan Aiken and Jan Pienkowski's beautiful classic A Necklace of Raindrops (stunning pictures), the Narnia Chronicles of course, the Fell Farm books (teenagers take their small siblings on huge Lake District camping expeditions on their own ), the One End Street books by Eve Garnett, Paul Berna's books about life in post-war France, all of Philippa Pearce and Lucy M Boston...not to mention When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit!

Grimble was great - clement freud. I loved Grimble's home toast delivery ervice. Wanted to call my first son grimble, but was banned...

Not to mention Grimble's method for boiling potatoes....I love that book, one of JK Rowlings favourites too, I read somewhere.

Also Ballet Shoes and Fly By Night (K.M. Peyton)

Enid blyton - especially st clares and mallory towers.

Anything horsey - also read the jill books over and over again and the jinny books

Also Noel Streatfield - particularly Ballet Shoes and White Boots (Didn't realise he wrote one called Ballet Shoes for Anna - might have to go and buy it for DD, called Anna, She's only 12 weeks old but already has a fine collection of books !!

Also Paddington - I even read them now - v. amusing !!