The children’s book you remember best

I loved Alan Garner's books too -especially Wierdstone. That would probably be my "one book".

I loved the crossover between real life and the "other" world. I still do.

Faraway Tree for me too. I think that that's the one with the drink that can taste like anything you wanted it to? I probably hoped that I could live on something that tasted like liquid maltesers 24/7 !!!

Mine was the Count of Monte Cristo. I read it over several times absolutely loved it.

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I’ve just been nearly crying with laughter browsing through Just William, while DGS5 was choosing his books in the local library. So funny, so very un-PC. I’m surprised they haven’t fallen foul to the censor - I did get some of the books from a charity shop once and they, and I, were looked at askance by all our DGSs’ parents. Even though they themselves loved them as bedtime stories back in the day. I’ve kept them, I’ll try again. They’re so much better written than the Wimpy Kid books the boys all enjoy.

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Famous Five
Secret Seven
Little women
Treasure Island
Robinson Crusoe

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me. I loved a book I read as a teenager in the early 70s, so probably written in the 1950s. It was about a young woman who (I think) inherited a antiques/curiosity shop full of stuff from the far east. She added to her stock by polishing stones from a nearby beach (I think it was called Broomieknowes?), but then the man who owned the beach wanted to knock down her shop and the other small shops in the town to build a department store. She suggested an alternative of joining the shops together. I really enjoyed it, but I can't remember the name or the author and chatgpt is absolute pants at this sort of thing! Can anyone help?

Heidi was my favourite book of all time as a child. Just loved the story.

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Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me. I loved a book I read as a teenager in the early 70s, so probably written in the 1950s. It was about a young woman who (I think) inherited a antiques/curiosity shop full of stuff from the far east. She added to her stock by polishing stones from a nearby beach (I think it was called Broomieknowes?), but then the man who owned the beach wanted to knock down her shop and the other small shops in the town to build a department store. She suggested an alternative of joining the shops together. I really enjoyed it, but I can't remember the name or the author and chatgpt is absolute pants at this sort of thing! Can anyone help?

Famous Five books were just the best! Enid Blyton wasn’t considered literature at my school so I was always in trouble for reading them but she fostered my love of books.

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A bookaholic from an early age :
I was attracted by the illustrations and
I liked The Water Babies , Milly Molly Mandy , Noddy progressing to the Famous Five then Ballet Shoes , Swallows and Amazons , Wizard Of Oz , Pollyanna , Heidi anything horsey ...those Jill books - can't recall the author .
My mother used to borrow historical romances from the library and I was addicted to them by age ten and it was the end of reading books written for children .

LittleCupCake

Heidi was my favourite book of all time as a child. Just loved the story.

Oh me too!! Absolutely loved Heidi.

The Princess Tina annuals

The Secret garden ( I loved Dickon!)
Black Beauty
All Enid Blyton books.

The Wind In The Willows, I still have my original copy bought for me by my uncle when I was 8 - 79 now.

I re-read it every now and again, such a wonderful tale.

Famous Five
Secret Seven
When we were young
Winnie the Pooh

I was born in the sixties and was a child of the seventies. I think that those of us who were born in the middle of the twentieth century - ie just about everyone here - were very fortunate as there was so much good children’s literature that was being written at that time. I think, for me, that Tom’s Midnight Garden is the most memorable children’s book of the twentieth century. It is beautifully written and the ending brings a lump to the throat every time.

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I was "book mad" as a child (still am, truth be told) so it's impossible to pick out just one. Alice In Wonderland (with Gwynedd Hudson's illustrations) was my introduction to fantasy fiction. Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn captured my tomboy imagination, and I practically read the ink off the pages of Johanna Spyri's Heidi. For poetry, A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. And for the sheer joy of looking at pictures, I ate up some ancient (19th century) picture books illustrated by Randolph Caldicott (so much to look at!). I was pretty much the only serious reader in my family (found the Caldicotts mouldering in the cupboard under the stairs of our rat-infested Victorian house in London in the 1950s - I'd love to know the story of how they got there).

Little Grey Rabbit, Beatrix Potter (all of them), Wind in the Willows, The Jungle Book, Little Women, Little House on the Prairie (all of them), Alan Garner, William Mayne, The Borrowers (all of them)
Some of these were filmed and ruined, like Laura Ingalls Wilder, turned into a soap opera.