A book loved in childhood: do you remember?

As a very young child (under 4) I absolutely loved the Mary Mouse books, which I think were by Enid Blyton.
I also loved Rupert Bear.

I loved the Mallory Towers books. I used to beg my parents to let me go to boarding school. Thank goodness they ignored me.

My favourite book was Black Beauty by Anna Sewell.

Such a lovely thread - I had forgotten many of these wonderful books! One of my earliest reading memories is Charlotte's Web by EB White. I also loved all the Narnia books and the E Nesbitt Five Children and It series.
Does anyone else remember a long series of books about twins in different countries? I must have read nearly all of them. I just googled them and they were written by Lucy Fitch Perkins in the 1910s, although I read them in the 1960s.

Little Women, Swallows & Amazons, The Twins of St Claire’s

Moonwatcher1904

I read the first and second Mallory Towers by Enid Blyton and loved them. I never got round to the rest of the series until a few years ago when my daughter bought me the full set for my birthday. I finally got to read them from the beginning to the end.

I read all of them and the St, Clare’s ones. I begged to go to boarding school lol

I loved Richmal Crompton’s William books,The Chalet school series, Iain Serallier’s Silver Sword, Susan Coolidge Katy series.Iread all the Famous Five books despite Enid Blyton being out of favour nowadays.Iread lots of non fiction too, in fact as a child I never had my nose out of a book!

I read a lot of Enid Blyton including the Naughtiest Girl in the School series. I didn't understand most of what they were about as they were set in a boarding school, I didn't know what Lacrosse was and I couldn't pronounce Imogen or Hermione! They were nothing like my working class life but I would basically read anything.

My favourite was Alice in Wonderland which is obviously very well known. I read it over and over.

Enid Blyton, Dorita Fairlie Bruce and ‘A Child’sGarden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson.
I loved reading as a child, still do!

GrannyGravy13 Highly recommend White Boots by NS as well if you loved Ballet Shoes

I read all the usual ones but I loved Children f the New Forest by Captain Marriott and was set in the time of the civil war in England.

missdeke

I read all the usual ones but I loved Children f the New Forest by Captain Marriott and was set in the time of the civil war in England.

I never read the book but loved the tv series. I had a crush on ( I think) Humphrey.

I still have a set of books about a girl called

The Famous Five.
Malory Towers., and lots of others by Enid Blyton.
The Jill books
The White Riders by Monica Edwards.
No mistaking Corker also by Monica Edwards.
The Mr Twink books ( about a black cat and his friends, I think that's where my love of cats comes from).
Any books about animals.
Like lots of other posters, I loved visiting our local library.

Canadian here: so definitely Anne of Green Gables, the whole series and then the Rita series. Also loved Rickety Rackety House and The Borrowers...will need to try and find them for my 6 year old granddaughter who is now reading...

Oops! Sent by mistake suddenly realised I couldn't remember the girls name from the set of books by Malcolm Saville. I kept the books for many years until I gave them to my granddaughter who took them home to America with her. The first one I read was Two Fair Plaits.

Anything by Enid Blyton, I devoured each and every book she ever wrote!

tanith

Heidi was a book I read over and over when I was young also loved The Famous Five books.

What an amazing novel .. I loved the film as well.

When I was little, I loved Winnie the Pooh and must admit that I still do. (Can't stand the Disney version, though.) A. A. Milne was very perceptive regarding character and I know a lot of people who resemble the denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood. Personally, I am a Kanga married to a Rabbit.....

I also loved some books which aren't so well known, such as "Wishing Water Gate" which I read whenever I was ill (which was often) and "Hobby Horse Cottage" which I borrowed frequently from the library. I think that the latter was written by Miss Read, who also wrote for adults.

Wasn't keen on Enid Blyton and particularly disliked Mallory Towers, as the idea of boarding school filled me with horror. I did like the Narnia books, and anything by Rosemary Sutcliffe or Henry Treece. I may have spelled his name wrong but he wrote some very good historical novels for kids.

In the days when salesmen used to sell door to door my parents subscribed and bought the set of 'The Book of Knowledge'. I was enthralled by them and came across the story of the Secret Garden which I read numerous times and never tired of it. The film made many years later never did for me what the book did, ie using my own imagination. I think I may have imagined it was me, so long ago now.

My absolute favourites were Cherry Ames, by Helen Wells, started with Student nurse and each one was about a different branch of nursing. My goodness she certainly worked in many!! I collected them all and believe there were over 20.
And I didn’t end up in nursing!

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.

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! ☺️

Shadow the sheepdog.

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.