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

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.

What Katy Did and the rest of the series.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Black Beauty, Little Women and The Magic Faraway Tree

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.

Malory Towers and now it is out on I player Brill

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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”.

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

Heidi. I still have the book in pristine condition. Can't quite bring myself to pass it on to my granddaughter just yet !

The children of Green Knowe, The Weirdstone ofBrisingamon, Charlotte sometimes.

I loved the Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge, which I read many times. The unimaginably distant West Country, the historical setting, Loveday Minette and Robin, the unicorn in the forest. When I was 14 I read it once again and closed it for the last time, acknowledging that the magic was slipping away as I was growing up.

Lorna Hill’s Sadlers Wells books for me. I still have them and have managed to buy the rest of the series in recent years. Ballet Shoes and the Narnia books too

For those of you who like Malory Towers there is an adaptation series on iplayer at the moment....

It's The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe for me. Loved it as a child. Also my dad would bring me a comic home every Friday (along with a bag of milk bottles!) and my favourite was Jackie