The children’s book you remember best

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens was one of my favs although it made me cry. I also loved all the Little Women books.

The Faraway Tree I loved it and so did my DGD’s I even got the video and enjoyed watching it as much as they did! Happy days?

Same. Charlotte's Web. It was the first 'proper' reading book I chose from the school library. I read it cover to cover and loved it. And, yes, I cried.
Before CW, I was on Janet and John. It was so refreshing to read something that wasn't sh!t. x

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

While we are talking about books, does anyone remember which book had the statues moving around the garden in the night?

I can't remember the title of the book but, when I was about four or five years old, my sister and I had a picture book of zoo animals and we loved to turn the pages really slowly until we came to our favourite.... George the Mandril! We just howled with laughter every time because our Dad's name was George ???

I’m another Alison Uttley Little Grey Rabbit fan. I used to get the books from the library and I loved them. Also Beatrix Potter books. Later, any Enid Blyton books were also good.

I can’t send you a photo because I haven’t the tech. - it was first printed in 1921 - it was called ‘Little Black Sambo’ - it has been reprinted in China but my d-i-l ‘bridled’ when I told her. I am 2 months short of 90 and disappointed that my great grandson won’t be allowed to see it! It’s a great little story and it was my very favourite book - I was living in India as a child before WW1!

I loved Breton Adventure by Jane Shaw (one of the Susan series) and learned about French things like espadrilles and artichokes!
Judy, Patrol Leader was very exciting. By Dorothea Moore.

The Pink Ballet Slippers by Evelyn Dehkes was my favourite ballet book as it showed all the steps as well as telling a story.

I also loved the Bodley Head careers books for girls such as Air hostess Ann and Margaret Becomes a Doctor.

Apart from the first two which I got as presents all the others were from the library - it was quite frustrating waiting for some titles for ages to turn up in the shelves.

Malory Towers and Twins at St. Clare's were my favourite books. Also The Naughtiest Girl books.

The Rose and the Ring. Think it was WM Thackeray. I took it very seriously when I was little but later found it to be hilariously funny.

The malory towers series by enid blyton. I really wanted to go to boarding school. It sounded great !!

As a horse mad little girl who turned into a horse mad adult and now a horse mad oldie my favourite childhood books I read over and over were
The Golden Pony and A Pony For Me.. I also liked Enid Blyton's Mistletoe Farm stories and any Animal story books...

I adored Heidi and just so wanted to be her.

I read What Katy Did and Heidi many times but my favourite when I was a bit older was The Hobbit. One of the best books for children IMHO.

Tom’s Midnight Garden, and The Secret Garden then at aged 11, Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind.
I was brought up in a non reading household so no bedtime stories or children’s books. Luckily enough my school friends parents were always willing to lend me books when I was at Junior School. A friend whose parents were emigrating, gave me a leaving present of Gone with the Wind, adding Black Beauty, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield and a book of poetry her father had as a 14yr old schoolboy. I still have it, falling to bits and held together with an elastic band.

My father used to read Rupert to my brother at bedtime. Brother didn’t go to sleep as he was meant to, but my father did!

I loved the four books about the Melendy family by Elizabeth Enright. Set in New York in the thirties/forties.

I had a LP record with the story of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Listened it over and over again but also read the book many times.

This book, Rhyme and Rhythm, was given to me by my class teacher of the top infants, l think perhaps as a prize. It is inscribed by her with the date, July 1972. I have always loved poetry and, as you can probably tell by the photo, have read and reread this book many times over the years. It is one of my most treasured possessions and l will never part with it.

My mum used to read Rupert annual to me in bed at night.
I also remember the first book I read myself. It was about a house and the different rooms. Also read what Katy did when I was 10

Another Enid Blyton fan here, Noddy books, Famous Five, Secret Seven, I devoured them all.

Rupert Bear annuals, I loved the rhyming narrative.

Milly Molly Mandy

The Secret Garden.

Heidi

Peter Pan

Little Women

Tom Sawyer stories

Black Beauty

The Silver Sword

Hans Christian Andersen stories

A Child's Garden of Verses.
It was a leather bound book of my mother's which I still have, over 100 years old now. The illustrations are lovely.

But the book that probably made the biggest impression on me was
White Fang (Jack London), read for O Levels. I gave my GD a copy last year, she said it was far too sad and how could they possibly give it to children to read. She's 15!

I don't remember being read to as a child, my Mum was always too busy. My GM taught me to read fluently before I started school, but didn't often read to me. At Christmas and birthdays I was always given books. They opened up a whole world of adventures for me.

So I've always been an avid reader and I still buy children's books for myself. My GC have asked why I have so many, and of course they're welcome to read them, or I'll read to them. I notice the younger GC don't have the patience to sit and listen, and they prefer books with lots of pictures or books that 'do' something.

Posted before uploading image. Here is the book.

This book, A Staircase of Stories, is very old and belonged to my father, who was born in 1940. He had inherited it from his older brother and two older sisters and I would imagine it was originally bought for his oldest sister in the early thirties. It is for a wide range of ages and has stories from all over the world including fairy tales and moral stories so beloved of the Victorians. It has some coloured plates and black and white illustrations and l loved it as a child. I am proud to have inherited it.

Faraway Tree for me but my first memory of wonder and awe was a tiny version of the Snow Queen with the most magical illustrations- was before I could readso i was about 3!