Books that you read/had read to you as child that you really loved?

The famous five books! Five go off to camp with the spook trains ! Still read them sometimes to escape

Heidi, Heidi Grows Up, Heidi’s Children, Children if the New Forest, The Water Babies, Jayne Eyre etc. My nose was never out Of a book. Think I must be the same now, I have a bookmark which says “if my book is open kindly keep your mouth shut”.

Lots of favourites quoted here but nobody has mentioned The Log of the Ark, a hilarious retelling of the story of Noah. My mother could never read certain bits without collapsing in laughter, though there is a very sad bit which reduced DD to tears when I read it to them.

Just glanced at my bookshelf and I still have The Little Wooden Horse and The Little White Horse so I must have loved them too

Bobby Brewster and the magic typewriter and millymollymandy and bimbo and twinkle annuals

All 3 Heidi books. I never read the Lion, the Witch ... but now have a copy and am reading it, and enjoying it.

All Noel Streatfeild but particularly Ballet Shoes
Pamela Brown The Swish of the Curtain and sequels
Lorna Hill Veronica at the Wells and sequels
The life of Anna Pavlova
I was hopeless at dancing and acting but I had a rich fantasy life!

Malory Towers and now it is out on I player Brill

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0872dbq/malory-towers

I recently bought an amazing anniversary copy of Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. It has all the original pictures in. I am finding it so funny...I am laughing out loud. I would read this to my grandchildren. When young I loved The Twin's at St Clairs and The Borrowers.

Black Beauty, Little Women and The Magic Faraway Tree

HumptyDumpty weren’t they The Secret Seven books?
I loved them just as much as Famous Five books.

I won a prize at school for being the best all rounder! It was The Borrowers. Oh how I loved that book. I still have it, carefully backed in Christmas paper.

Milky Molly Mandy with her ‘little friend Susan’. Teddy Robinson with his ditty ‘highty tighty a bear in a nightie’.

Enid Blyton,The Faraway tree, the secret seven and famous five. I also seem to remember when i was really young, books called Milly Molly Mandy and Pippy Longstockings. And of course Janet and John books. I loved the pictures in them.

I can remember my favourite book was called The Junior omnibus I think! It was about 2” thick , a blue hardback and we’ll thumbed. It was a collection of stories and poems. My favourite was a poem called By Far The Naughtiest Children I Know. (Jasper, Geranium, James and Joe) etc.

I must have read Noel Streatfeild's White Boots about 20 times as a child. I skated every week so I kind-of identified. When little I read as much Enid Blyton as I could and then everything by Monica Edwards. We went to stay near Rye a few years ago and I was so thrilled to be able to visit the place she'd based her stories on.

travelsafar I have a copy of the first Janet and John book. Orange cover. I must have found it in the charity shop or something. Whenever I see it I think of my first days at school, so very far back.

What Katy Did and the rest of the series.

I loved Heidi, Black Beauty, What Katy Did, What Katy Did Next, Jill has Two Ponies & others in series. Books by Pat Smythe. Last of the Mohicans, Moby Dick, Kon Tiki Expedition, books by Rosemary Sutcliffe, Wind in the Willows, biographies about Baden Powell, Marie curie, explorers, etc. Sherlock Holmes stories. I would ask for Girls Crystal etc annuals for Christmas, loved the comics and was lucky to have an older brother who lent me his comics and books. We went to the travelling library every week. Weirdly I never did take to Enid Blyton.

The Water Babies was my number one favourite.
However all of the others as I was quite a bookworm, I’d almost forgotten about Malcolm Saville though.

Black Beauty, Little Women, Enid Blyton but the best of all was read to me at Sunday School - The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. The story of a missionary, Gladys Aylward. I used to run up to the church to hear the next instalment!

Little Women. All Enid Blyton. Jennings and Darbyshire books. Just William. Epaminondous (still have - very politically incorrect). The Katy books. Heidi. We didn't have many books, so I used to read the same ones over and over again. Children today are so lucky!

Treasure Island.
Tom Sawyer.
Of mine and men.
Little Women.
Br`er Rabbit.
I read Br`er Rabbit to my dc when they were young and they read it to their dc.

My naughty little sister ,Molly Molly Mandy and as a child I loved reading the Brooms and Oor Wullie in the Sunday Post my mother's favourite

The Borrowers
Doctor Dolittle