A book loved in childhood: do you remember?

A book called Pomeroys Postscript ,can’t remember the author and havetrawled through second hand bookshops whenI see them but never found another copy.

My late dad used to take me every week to exchange the second hand bookshops we had bought the week before.Sometimes I,d have read 5 or 6 books in a week .

I’ve already mentioned The Borrowers, but I’ve just remembered a couple of bools from when I was very young - ‘Little Tommy Purr’ by Racey Helps (lovely illustrations!) and ‘Pookie’, about a little rabbit. My older child favourite was ‘I Capture the Castle’, by Dodie Smith.

All Famous Five,Secret Seven and The Bobbsey Twins. When a little older Nancy Drew and as a late teen Denis Wheatley 😱😱 and historical novels. As an adult CJ Sansom,all the Shardlake series and Winter in Madrid and Blackhouse Trilogy

I read Robin Hood, a red hardback, and a more modern book called Elidor it had a picture of a horse on the cover. But I'm
sorry I can't remember anything else!

Harlen Corbin

Heidi, Anne of Grrengables, Huckleberry Finn and most recently (because of Granddaughter) Harlem Coben Mackey Bolitor

Sorry wrong thread…..but I did like Heidi too.

Too much

Me too

Loved Heidi,

The magic far away Tree by Enid Blyton ….. just LOVED it and have just bought it for my 6 year old grandson ❤️

ecci53

I loved the Mallory Towers books and Idiscovered recently that there's a TV, available on BBC iPlayer. It's really good.

Meant to say, there's a TV series of Mallory Towers.

Enid Blyton Amelia Jane and Naughty Amelia Jane. Then Kane & Able my first “grown up” book

Me too but I loved the Silver Brumby series. Joy was getting a big hardback book from the library. A non horsey one was called Return to Sula. That was always a favourite

Heidi

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Thought I'd share some images though.
I think there were three books.
The Tales the Letters Tell

Oh where do I start? All the louisa M Alcot Little women set. read from a very early age, so a wide range from Swallow and Amazons, Black Beauty, children of the new forest, but also read Jane Eyre when I was about 9, and then there was a book called Girl of the Limberlost, cant remember the author, but the girl is in the everglades and collects butterflies to raise money to go to college. Treasure Island, John Halifax Gentleman, Famous Five. So many lovely books to read and of course the Narnia books and then the Hobbit, and all the on to the Lord of the Rings. Still a mad reader and always have about 3 books on the go at once. Always read when I go to bed, allows all the days worries to disappear. A great joy when I find a new author and can devour all their books too.

I read just about anything and everything! Especially by Monica Edwards. But my favourite probably has to be White Boots by Noel Streatfeild as I was an ice skater. The only day I truly loved at school was when she came to be the guest speaker at Speech Day.

Also loved Anne of Green Gables.

The Water Babies. The illustrations in my edition were sumptuous

Enid Blyton - Mallory Towers, St Clare’s & Famous 5. I have such fond memories of reading these

Such a brilliant thread, thank you @SofiaA

Hell's Edge by John Rowe Townsend, also The Hallersage Sound - by the same author. The Susan books by Jane Shaw - one title was Susan's Trying Term.

Shadow the sheepdog.

Witzend

Mine is one nobody else ever seems to have heard of - Chalky, by Howard Apps. Published 1950s, an adventure story of two very ordinary boys who go in search of a long lost diamond. Partly set in the Essex marshes. Funnily enough it doesn’t really read ‘dated’, is really funny in places - a cracking read that I still re-read now and then.

IMO it would have made a brilliant film.

Funnily enough I found a spare 2nd hand copy for my brother - it still had the original dust jacket, and inside that was a list of ‘girls’ stories from the same publisher. Among which was ‘A Madcap Brownie’, which I’d been given at some point - it absolutely wasn’t a patch on Chalky!

Chalky was on our bookshelves Witzend! I think perhaps my Mum read it to me but I can’t really remember it. I’m going to look on Amazon, thankyou for mentioning it!
My favourites were the Mallory Towers books, Little Women, Heidi and Heidi Grows Up, Winnie the Pooh, and one called Annabelle Joins In, which I’ve looked everywhere for with no success, as I’d love to read it again. And The Brownie from the Caravans which my mother won as a Sunday School prize in 1933!
Thankyou for starting this thread, absolutely lovely! ☺️

At primary school there was prize-giving I think in last 3 years. When awarded a prize, you went to the local book shop to choose from an age appropriate selection (think made by teachers) one year to took a beautiful edition of Hans Christian Andersens Fairy Tales. I loved that book and had it until I left home.