Win Puffin classics!

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

Peter Pan - I always loved the crocodile!

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

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.

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"

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

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.

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"

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

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 too grew up without a mum, from 18 mths ; and after step mum with 4 kids all older than me, I became a tom-boy , due to step brother having to watch out for me,!
Therefore reading was not one of my hobbies , though on reading gransnet comments realised I have read many of these books, Heide being the first one , and recognising the hardship she had and overcame, being similar to my own life,, as it was war time and we lived in the path of German bombers !
The secret garden was my book, it captured my dreams to change my life , within strong family needs,
Black beauty , wonderful story that pulled at my heart strings, for I loved animals and they showed me unquestionable respect.
Wind in the willows - never got to beyond page where rain and fear are over powering. Also the same fear in little princess , did not read all of story.
Anne of green gables was my imaginary self ! Such fun and daring, ! Also to kill a mocking bird was great, again a very independent sort of girl with strong character.
Tom sawer , was another , but Uncle Rhemus and his stories plus the so colourful picture painted in words of the life in southern states back then!
My all time favourite Song of the South, with its music and happy songs !! Yes I have shared these joys with my grandchildren, who are now having families of their own, and sharing all these wonderful books , songs rhymes from Noddy to those big colourful films, all singing, all dancing , wonderful impressions they left with us all !! Goodness knows how many times I have re-enjoyed them .
From proud great grandma to newly arrived on St Georges day, GeorgeJames, who made a point of arriving on this very English day - to state he is of english father born in USA

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is my favourite, probably because it was my first experience of escapism into another world.

wind in the willows is so good -the chapter with the little otter and Pan introduced me to a different style of story as a child. the mole is my favourite character; self-deprecating, never putting himself forward but steady and dependable. his flash of rebellion leaving the whitewashing and going off on an adventure is glorious

Mary in Secret Garden : gave me a love of wild , personal places . Who wants a perfect garden , regimented and soulless ?

Also loved Heidi, Little Women and the sequels (Good Wives, Jo's Boys, was there another one?) Lovely to read 'Wind in the Willows' with my grandchildren. Also their sequels (by William Horwood, I think). It still has that charm, Toad is just the same, I love him!

As anyone read 'Counselling for Toads'?

Peter Pan, the first book I read, Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass together with Little Women have stayed firm favourites. My hero, however, has to be Black Beauty, survivor of so much ill treatment. It was comparatively recently that I realised why Anna Sewell wrote her only novel. Appalled at the treatment of working horses in Victorian London, she determined to do something to improve their lot. All the cruelty in the book she had seen with her own eyes and the book brought it to the notice of her readership.
The results were that laws regulated the treatment of working horses and water troughs, a few of which still exist, wereprovided for them to drink from in the streets of London and other cities. A wonderful woman and a wonderful, fictional, horse!