When I was six years old I loved my book called Flower Fairies of the Garden.
Of course when I was older the book was just a distant memory until one day I found a copy of it for sale in the shop. That now takes pride of place in my bookcase.

The Happy Prince was a book I loved

Like many others, I enjoyed Enid Blyton, particularly Mallory Towers. However, as I moved up through school, I was introduced to many wonderful books by my teachers, and my love for reading took off in different directions. Early childhood favourites were The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett; and of course, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. (and then the complete series of course).

I loved reading, and read anything that came my way. I loved all the Famous Five books of Enid Blyton. I read What Katy Did and What Katy did Next, Anne of Green Gables. I read Jane Eyre when I was nine and from then on I was hooked on the classics. I also enjoyed Campbell's Kingdom (not exactly a girl's book). I passed on my love of reading to my daughter, and then on to my grandaughter.

My most favourite (and memorable) book was The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier. This book was given to me by a beloved English teacher in/around 1972 I would have been about 10 years old. This book haunted my childhood. I loved and it and it scared me to death in equal measures. I read the book again when I was 50 and I felt exactly the same .

Enid Blyton's Famous Five & Secret Seven - memories of a happy childhood

Just loved all Enid Blyton books except The Mystery of the Pantomime cat, which gave me nightmares and scared me so much we had to keep it on the bookshelf downstairs!

I loved The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, it seemed so magical and exciting to me and I would have loved my own!

I loved all the famous five books!

The classics - Alice, Wind in the Willows, Little Women, Ballet Shoes and Swish of the Curtain. I saved up really hard to buy Lorna Hills books -Dream of Sadlers Wells - and named my son after one of the characters in Jane Leaves the Wells.
When I was very little I loved Enid Blytons Mr. Pink Whistle stories and used to look for him everywhere.

The Catweazle stories. We had gone on a family holiday to Cornwall and I was ill. Whilst everyone else went to the beach every day my dad sat in my bed with me reading the stories. He would read a chapter then I would read a chapter. Last year after he died, I spent some of the money he left me on getting a dyslexia test. The results were that I am dyslexic but I had learnt to read through"sheer determination". Determination and my dads love I like to think!

I loved Anne of Green Gables x

I remember reading a series of books with my granny about or called Fattifers and Thinnifers, we both loved them.

My absolute favourite as a child was Heidi by Johanna Spyri. I loved that book but my grandchildren are spoilt for choice compared to the books on offer to children then. I love reading with the grandkids and try to extend their range as much as possible. Who knows,maybe one day my grandaughters will also fall in love with the story of Heidi!

My absolute favourite as a child was Heidi by Johanna Spyri. I loved that book but my grandchildren are spoilt for choice compared to the books on offer to children then. I love reading with the grandkids and try to extend their range as much as possible. Who knows,maybe one day my grandaughters will also fall in love with the story of Heidi!

Yes V Billy Goats Gruff, was read and re read by my 3 Children and Grandchild. We loved it so much.

Three Billy Goats gruff when I was very young, then moved on to Swiss Family Robinson and Robinson Crusoe

i adored enid blytons books they always had a great sense of adventure in them i spent many nights under the covers with a torch reading at night, and i loved the wind in the willows and black beauty, we were lucky and lived two minutes form our local library so my mum always brought me and my sister there at least once a week to exchange books and try new ones. this routine has stayed with me and i bring my grandson leo every week to the library, at the minute he enjoys stories about bugs and spiders etc, reading with children is so very important.

I also remember reading "The Diary of Anne Frank" when I must have been much the same age as she was when she wrote it, and what a big impression it made on me. I was still a child at 13, way back in 1962.

I loved all the winnie the pooh stories, my favourite being the blustery day!

Famous Five by Enid Blyton I loved these stories, full of adventure a wonder I every fell asleep.

Did anyone read about (sorry this seems so wrong ) the black boy who melted into butter running around the tree when they were at school.

What about chicken licken and the world fell on his head.

I always loved the Little Red Hen - such a clever way of teaching a child

I loved reading, I remember reading all the Endi Blyton books, some of the classics like Black Beauty but my favourite was and still is Winnie the Pooh. He may be a bear with little brain, but he is full of wise words.