The children’s book you remember best

I loved Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield but I also loved to read my brother’s Just William books.

I love The Borrowers too, but I think I read most of what are childrens books when I was an adult.

Alan Garner, Enid Blyton, Jennings and William on repeat! Also loved The Chalet School series. I thought being tri-lingual must be very cool.

Gerald Durrell's 'Rosie is my Relative' sticks in my mind as part of a long and very hot summer.

The Sword of the Volsungs
It was an old book when I read it. Full of stories of the Norse gods and also Welsh mythology

All mine have been mentioned except one, the earliest I can recall. Does anyone else remember Cecil the Camel, a handsome beast who joined the Navy and was decorated by Queen Victoria?

I can't say I have a definite memory of that, but it is vaguely familiar..

Ooh!
Daddy Long Legs.
I found that book when we were on holiday and loved it.

Miner would probably have to be all Arthur Ransome's books, closely followed by numerous pony books.

I loved all the pony books too.
I really wanted a pony, but I may as well have wished for a rocket to the moon.
I had lots of pony books.

The Famous Five and Mallory Towers.

The Children Of Primrose Lane by Noel Streetfield. All about a German soldier living in a neighbouring empty house near the children in the war. Very scary to me as a child.

The secret Garden.

Just remembered The Family from One End Street and its sequels.

What a lovely thread. I have enjoyed reading these memories. Many are friends from my childhood - Noel Streatfield, Little Women- and some (from younger GN's!) I read to my class - eg The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler. I wonder if others agree that Martin Jarvis was the perfect voice for the audio version of Just William?

As a pre school child I loved Helen Bannerman's descriptive language & the story of the clever boy, with loving parents, who tricked a tiger and as a result had a tasty supper! There have been renamed versions of the story but it has , understandably, still not shaken off the use of racist names for the characters.

Oh, Grandma70s - how I loved the Family from One End Street!

The Wind in the Willows. I was given it when I was about three, and my mother read it to me. A year later I could read it for myself. And I still have it

My DH is reading "The Speckled Panic" to our two youngest GC. It is by Hazel Townson and is a story about a boy who buys "truthpaste" from a strange little shop. Everyone who uses it starts telling the truth instead of polite niceties !

I never went a bundle on Enid Blyton, never read much of her work apart from a few of the '...of Adventure' series belonging to my sister.

But, whisper it very quietly, I did love Noddy when I was very young...

Someone mentioned Children's Hour a page or two ago. I loved it and it introduced me to Rosemary Sutcliffe, John Masefield's The Midnight Folk', which I still think is a rather surreal tale, and my favourite all time weepie, Tom's Midnight Garden. I howled at the end of the CH dramatisation and still have a few tears when I occasionally reread the book.

Lots of my favourites have been mentioned. I read most of them via the local library, but now wish I'd been able to buy them because I'd so enjoy re reading them.

The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. I always wondered what a toffee pop biscuit tasted like!

The Rupert Bear Annual

Just so Stories is the one I remember. i also purchased it for my Grand-daughter many years ago.

Mrs Frisby :-) and Mrs Pepperpot
And anything by Enid Blyton
Oh and the Mallory Towers books
There are so many

All the XXX of Adventure books. Enid Blyton isn't fashionable these days but she sparked the imagination of a generation of children.

Mrs Fluster's Family written and illustrated by a young girl. Bought for me when I was 5 in the late 1940s. Still have it and read it to my children and grandchildren.

The Railway Children was my favourite as a child followed Enid Blyton's adventure series with Kiki the parrot