The children’s book you remember best

I enjoyed the Adventure series by Enid Blyton, could not enjoy the Magic Faraway Tree. My granddaughters all enjoyed the Faraway series!

When I was a very little girl, my parents read me the Babar the Elephant stories and I so loved them …and their magical illustrations. ?

The famous five and the secret seven, also black beauty were all my favourites

Witzend

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This book is still available on Amazon and eBay £10 to £30.

Ginger and Pickles was mine and my daughter's favourite Beatrix Potter too Grandma70's. It's so surreal and whacky but hilarious at the same time. Very underrated IMHO.

Georgesgran

The Faraway Tree Series rings a bell for me. Enid Blyton, so I think names and events have been changed.

DGD is being read this just now and loves it. She is 5. The book is her Mummy's who is now 36. He brother is 8 and he loved it too. He is reading Famous Five books just now.
I loved Famous Five and Chalet School - always wanted to go there!

The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley

I had daddy long legs by jean Webster read to me at school still have the copy I bought

the River of Adventure by Enid Blyton

I had a Pookie Book. Wonderful illustrations. Enjoyed many of those listed. Also Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

And the "Mystery" series specially Ring o'bells mystery!!

The naughty tales of Amelia Jane, this would have been in late 60-70’s and The Lion, Witch and the wardrobe

loved reading, still do even if the eyes let me down. started with enid blyton - famous five, secret seven, mallory towers, st clares then went on to the chalet school series(have been known to read them even now), and many more in between, pollyanna, anne of green gables, cherry ames

I enjoyed the Famous Five, the Secret Seven, The Chalet School books and many more. Two more that I still have copies of are 'Children on the Oregon Trail' which someone mentioned before and 'I am David' by Anne Holm.

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

As a very young child I enjoyed Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy World. As I got older I enjoyed Enid Blyton books - Adventure of the Wishing-Chair, Secret Seven, Famous Five, Malory Towers and St Clare’s. The next step for me as a teenager was an introduction to Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express being the first.

Must mention Milly-Molly-Mandy and Mrs Pepperpot stories too. So many…..and I’m still an avid reader ?

Moonfleet and Treasure Island - used to dream of being a smuggler or a pirate.

Faraway Tree book and my favourite of all, Alice in Wonderland.

Sounds like a great book to make a film about Trisha57- we had a load of 'Janet & John' books at school- but yes i had famous five books at home, but i loved comics mostly.something new every time.I was bought Louisa M Allcott books when i was a bit old for famous five books though.

hicaz46 I remember and loved Children of the New Forest and have a copy I bought for my eldest daughter. Also The Silver Sword and Eagle of the Ninth both books we read in our first couple of years at secondary school.

‘The Little Grey Men’ by BB. I found a copy recently online and had to buy it. ? It’s about a group of gnomes who have adventures on a river. Perhaps that’s why I enjoy canal boats now!

Louisa may wrote 'Little women' and 'Jo's Boys' but lots of others as well, not so famous..I loved 'Black Beauty' about the horse, too.I just loved reading, i still do.

Zoejory

Missed the picture

That book is horrendous!

I once found another horrendous children’s book in one of my GM’s bookcases. It was called Uncle Arthur’s Bedtime Stories, and the one that really made a dreadful impression was about a little boy who was worried about something he’d heard the vicar say in church.

‘If thou shalt not save thy life tonight, tomorrow thou shalt be slain.’

So his mother explained that it meant that you must always repent of your sins before going to sleep at night.

So the little boy had a good pray at bedtime, repented of all his sins (!) and went off to sleep quite happily.

‘But lo, when his mother went to wake him in the morning he was quite still and cold upon the bed! He had died in the night. Of what cause even the doctor was not quite sure.’
(The exact words, IIRC.)

But it was Ok, because he’d repented of his sins before going to sleep. ?

Can anyone beat that, for old children’s-book horror?

I loved all of the Enid Blyton Books. Famous Five, Secret Seven and also the Faraway Tree stories of which I still have and can now read to my grandaughter. I hope that she enjoys them as much as I did when I was her age (7). Unfortunately books are so different for children these days - Full of colour and more pictures than words, children get bored with too many words to a page. They don't appreciate a really good story.