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

Winnie the Pooh, Enid Blyton 's Famous Five and Griselda and the Cuckoo Clock.

2 books by Beverly Nichols, but I'm blowed if I can remember the titles. I sat up all night reading them the first time!

Rosanna Joins the Wells by Lorna Hill
Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys
What Katy Did, What Katy Did Next
Bear Country
Beaver Valley
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Little Princesses

Did anyone read a series called The Happy Hollisters? American series, I think .

I remember Gerry goes to School as well Ellieann, loved it.
Noel Streatfeild BalletShoes etc.
An Enid Blyton series - Rockingdown Mystery, Rilloby Fair Mystery another group of children with a dog called Loony.

Anyone remember Stig of the Dump? Teacher read it to us when we were in the last year at junior school. I was so bored. I do remember The Silver Sword being very popular.

lulusmf, could the ones you are thinking of be The Tree That Sat Down and The Stream That Stood Still? I think they were by Beverly Nichols. They were about a girl who lived with her grandmother and I can't remember their names. They collected and sold Sleepo. I'll try to remember more, but don't hold your breath, with the way my mind works now!

I loved the My naughty little sister series, worzel gummage and Mrs Pepper pot. I remember a book called A dog so small which I found disturbing, I would love to read it now to see why. My husband read all the Alan garner books to me when I was pregnant and not well, The Owl service disturbed me! I wonder how books can do that or is it just me!

Bluecat I loved Stig of the Dump! My 6 year old DGS has just finished reading it & he loved it too. Apart from this, I enjoyed just about all the books mentioned as I was forever reading and still am. I liked historical stories & enjoyed 3 by Cynthia Barnett- The Woolpack, The Great House & one set in Caxton's time about printing. I loved a series about a family of children going from London to stay on Fell Farm with relatives over the holidays - I was in awe that they went all that way in the train by themselves! And of course those lucky children in the Arthur Ransome books - Swallows & Amazon's etc - I devoured those eagerly, marvelling at what they got up to with no adults to spoil things!

Tinafl Another vote for Black Beauty. I remember Friday afternoons sitting on the floor listening to Mrs Richardson. I recently bought it for my grandchildren and I had a lump in my throat when I read it. That’s the thing I miss most about the isolation - not being able to read stories. I did start my own private You Tube channel for this but it’s a poor substitute.

f77ms the Owl Service certainly was very weird! It was a tv series as well as a book and it took some following. I've seen it again recently & still found it unsettling.

Angela Brazil, Anne of Green Gables, Just William, Enid Blyton. I'd never heard of Beatrix Potter until I married my late husband. He was into Kipling: Just So stories, Jungle Book etc.

Black Beauty, My Friend Flicka, The Silver Brumby series, I was horsey.

The book that made the most impression on me was one that my mum read to me aged eleven or twelve, we sat together at the kitchen table after she had put 'the little ones' to bed.

It was called 'Snowflake' by Paul Gallico.

Has anyone else read this as a child?

I loved the Bobbsy Twins series , Just William,all of Enid Blyton especially the Famous Five. When my taste in books matured I enjoyed The Silver Sword,the Chalet school series and Black Beauty.

The Phoenix and the Carpet, must read it again ?

For me it was Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series. It always seemed like you were either a Famous Five or a Secret Seven fan but rarely both.
Later on I loved the Chalet School books

Loved Millie Mollie Mandy books which fascinates my granddaughter Mollie who has a best friend called Millie and her favourite doll at our house is her Auntie Jenny's doll called Mandy. As a teenager I loved the Jalna books by Mazo de la Roche about the Whiteoak family set in Canada. Recently on holiday found a couple of the chronicle in the wonderful second hand book shop in Alnwick.

annma I had forgotten about the Bobsy twins! I used to read those. I think that was the first time I came across the idea of snow angels

The Abbey School series by EJ Oxenham and the Farm School series by Josephine Elder - anyone else remember them? And I still have my mother’s copy of The Mammoth Wonder Book, her Christmas present from my Nan in 1935; it’s a compilation of poems, fables, extracts from famous books -it introduced me to masses of things that I would never have seen otherwise and I loved it

Oh, and Carbonel, and the sequels. And Gobbolino, the witch's cat who wanted to be a fireside cat
These aren't so much from my childhood, as from the way we always finished the day when I started teaching.

My mum had all the Anne of Green Gables books ,she gave them to me when I was around 10 to read .I loved them and could lose myself on King Edwar Island with Anne !!! Fast forward my daughter read them all and now my granddaughter is reading .But we all disliked the film that was made as we all had our Anne in our heads !! Also Anastasia and Mowgli !!

Enid Blyton, ?? Mistletoe Farm. And The Golden Pony, no idea of the author, but I read over & over..
And any other horsey, dog stories.

The ship that flew, and The moon in the cloud, both by Hilda Lewis, magical!!

Loved the stories by Hans Christian Andersen

Heidi by Johanna Spyri .
I had long hair and would imagine I was Heidi on my walk home ( through a North East council estate , not anywhere idyllic !)
Also Little Women and What Katy did .
" The Borrowers " were wonderful and , as a teenager I adored Laurie Lee 's " Cider with Rosie " xxx