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As a young girl I loved Heidi and really enjoyed reading about Heidi, her grandfather and Peter. The description of the mountain meadows is so vivid and I used to dream of visiting them and picking the wild flowers. Life was so simple and I could almost smell the pure Swiss mountain air.

I also liked "The Secret Garden", "Wind in the Willows" "Little Women" "Peter Pan"and "Alice in Wonderland". I have quite a collection of the last two titles mainly because I love the illustrations so much and I keep hoping to find an early edition!

I remember absolutely loving Anne of Green Gables when I was a child

I loved Anne of Green Gables and Heidi when I was a child. My mum has a lovely bound copy of Heidi dated 1940 (something) it is signed to her, love mummy and daddy and it beautifully illustrated. My favourite picture is Peter with the goats.

More recently my 9 year old DGD is reading Treasure Island as part of the national cirriculum. I am enjoying it so much more reading it with her than I did reading it the first time around.

Pirates are so "in" at the moment aren't they? It is great fun doing the pirate voices too. "Aahhhaaaa Jim Lad"

When we were children, my mother read What Katy Did to my sisters and I every Sunday night before we went to bed. She read a chapter a week and made it into a serial. I must confess that I cannot remember what the story was about. I must try and find it and read it myself!
I loved the classics. At age ten I read Jane Eyre and David Copperfield while I'll in bed with yellow jaundice.
I will always be grateful to my mother who gave me my love of reading, and respect for books which I have passed on to my own daughter.

Alice, she isn't afraid of curiosity, something I wish for my children and grandchildren x

The Wind in The Willows, thanks to this I developed a deep love of Nature, plus the little Mole is a delight,, "Bother the Spring Cleaning"

Huckleberry Finn, despite having a very poor childhood as the son of the town drunkard, has a strong sense of morality. He knows slavery is wrong
despite being brought up in the time and place where slavery is the norm.
So he sets out to help Jim the slave to escape from his owner who plans to sell him for great profit to the plantations in the deep south of America.

Huckleberry Finn was my childhood hero and in many ways he still is.

My favourite is Ratty from Wind in the Willows. It's also my favourite book of all time.

Peter Pan - I always loved the crocodile!

Oh for me it has to be Tinkerbell, I even have a Tinkerbell on my car aerial, much to my DH horror

I loved Little Women and had read it again recently. Jo is so solid, sensible and surprisingly self-sufficient for a woman in the 1860s. I admire her character. She shows compassion and resilience while never losing her own identity. She is a surprisingly modern woman for the times.

When I was a child in the early 60's my mother bought a huge box of books in an auction in Ringwood at a market.
These included lots of the classics including the whole series of the Anne of Green Gables books - these books were my among my favourites then and Anne was my heroine for a long time.
However my absolute favourite was the tales of Huckleberry Finn as I was quite a tomboy and enjoyed having adventures and getting into stapes just like him.

I loved Little Women. I so wanted to be Jo, the spirited heroine. I admired Meg for her stoicism; was annoyed by Amy for her vanity, and heartbroken by the death of Beth.

The Secret Garden I always enjoyed as it took me off to a magical place I imagined my garden had a secret garden in it and it is one of my favourite memories of my childhood.

I lover Heidi, how positive she was with her 'life'. How the 'seasons' altered her life and her friendships. Wonderful

I'm so glad yu didn't ask how long ago you read them - mostly over 40 years ago - I remember crying at Black Beauty & like a lot of posters I loved Heidi