A book loved in childhood: do you remember?

Cressy

So many of the books already mentioned. I also remember the Silver Skates by Hans Brinkner and the Brer Rabbit books 🫣 which are of course now banned.

They aren’t banned in the UK, available on Project Gutenberg although should probably not be read to younger children now due to racism/ slavery undertones.

I blame my collection of Chalet School books for my daughter's time spent as a chalet maid in French ski resorts.

I used to love a series of books about a girl named Susan. I’ve looked these up and think they were written by Jane Shaw. I used to get 10 shillings pocket money and, as soon as I got this, I would go to our local shop and buy another one in the series. I can’t remember how old I was. Does anyone else remember these books?

I loved children’s books, used to pretend they were for my younger sibling,who Ididnt have, only an older miserable brother.🥳

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I honestly can't remember a book from my childhood. I can remember my eldest sins favourite book 'Patrick and the Duckling'. Son is almost 40 now, my late husband used to read it to him every night. I still have the book

Jean Estoril 's Drina Adams books, about a young talented ballerina, I loved them all .

Welsh is my first language, "Llyfr Mawr Y Plant" was my favourite and has also been a favourite of my three sons.

The Mistletoe and Sword by Anya Seton.

Later, anything by Thomas Hardy or Evelyn Waugh, with a bit of D.H. Lawrence thrown in.

Loved 'The Eagle of the Ninth' by Rosemary Sutcliffe. Read others by her as well - can't remember the titles now!

I loved The Secret Garden. I borrowed it many times from the library, and remember the first television adaptation of it. I now have a more recent film of it on dvd.

I loved The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater. It's about two sisters who are already quite naughty but are made much worse when one night there is a wind on the moon. It's an extremely politically incorrect book but hilarious and, of course, good overcomes evil in the end. I think I might read it again tonight! 😂

Pamela Brown was my Godmother.

I loved The Family from One End Street.

My favourite book as a child was Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield. My godmother bought the book for me and had it signed by the author whom she knew. I read it over and over and still have it.

I loved Children of the New Forest by Captain Marryat. Have still got it and holding it now in my hand. A truly well loved book.

Ruby Ferguson's Jill books. I could almost recite them as I read them so many times.

I loved Heidi as a child. Read it many times. I still have the copy my Gran bought me for my 6th birthday. I think I have passed my love of reading onto my great granddaughter. Aged 9 she has just written a book 🥰

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

Moonfleet about smuggling, the Secret Garden, Lark Rise to Candleford. The Incredible Journey. All have been made into dramas on TV.

Lots that I remember here...
but has anyone read or heard of 'The Secret of Pooduck Island?" My dad, I think, brought it back for me from some where, and my sister has found me a replacement from America... set in Maine, it's a mixture of a lonely boy growing up into an artist, and myths, fantasy and poems...by Alfred Noyes.

Also 'The Wind on the Moon' by Eric Linklater - fantasy and two girls rescuing their father!
Beautiful b/w drawings illustrate both.

Many of those above but also The Borrowers, The Eagle of The Ninth (about a lost Roman legion in Yorkshire) by Rosemary Sutcliff and Anne of Green Gables. Horsey ones, especially Flicka and Thunderbird, Son of Flicka - both about wild horses (brumbies) in Australia; and Jill and the Perfect Pony (there was a series). And Elephant Bill (more recent adult novel called Elephant Moon by John Sweeny reminded me of this one). I read voraciously as a child.

ViceVersa exactly the same. I was horse mad, we couldn't afford riding lessons, and my parents bought me this for Christmas one year. It was a hard back book but I read it so often the sine fell off , then the front and back cover and, eventually, the pages started falling out. I was heartbroken. I did read other books as was an avid reader such as Oliver Twist, Little Women etc. I can still picture the front cover of BB when I close my eyes. I was gutted when it finally fell apart.

Enid Blyton certainly gave me a love of reading, I adored the Magic Faraway Tree especially, and the Famous Five. As a boarding school girl I soon realised that all books on that subject were absolute rubbish! I remember a set book at school called Moonfleet about smugglers and although a lot was written with phonectally Cornish accents I loved it although the rest of the class didn’t. I also very much enjoyed all Conan Doyle books, particularly Sherlock Holmes. I love reading and can’t imagine ever not having a book on the go.

loved the famous five, the secret seven, and worzel gummidge but I couldnt read any of them now. I always wanted to read fantasy, but my mind just won't have it.

Heidi, Little Women. Wind in the Willows. Ann(e) of Green Gables
I read. Wind in the Willows at the end of the day, a chapter at a time to a primary school class. The other class behind the dividing screen also sat silently so they could also listen.