A book loved in childhood: do you remember?

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.

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.

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

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

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 🥰

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

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.

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.

Pamela Brown was my Godmother.

I loved The Family from One End Street.

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! 😂

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.

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

The Mistletoe and Sword by Anya Seton.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The Faraway Tree.

The Swallows and Amazons series

The 5 Children and It.

What Katy Did.

As a teenager, Jeeves and Wooster et al.

Ballet Shoes.

I was an avid reader from a very early age. I was lucky enough to have lots of books at home and to be a member of our mobile library. Does anyone else remember the Hamish Hamilton Gazelles and Antelopes books? There were a lot of them in the library. I was also born at the peak time for Ladybird books. In common with others, I loved Enid Blyton, Heidi, Peter Pan, the Katy books, the Jill pony books, Just William, Jennings and the Chalet School books. As I grew older, my favourite author was Noel Streatfield. I loved Ballet Shoes but my favourite of her books were The Growing Summer, The Circus is Coming and the Gemma series. Two other books that I read over and over again were Rhyme and Rhythm, a poetry book given to me by my top infants’ teacher and She Shall Have Music by Kitty Barne.

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I had all the Dimsie books, I have ever come across anyone else who had heard of them. They were the only boarding school books I ever read apart from the tales in Girls Chrystal.

The series of the Far Away Tree and all that went with them can still remember Moonface, Mr saucepanman, Silky and Damewashalot I loved them and read them over and over after I read all of them I moved on to all the St Clare’s, and the various school stories
Noel Streatfield, Jennings, Just William, Little women etc etc

I still have a bookcase full of all my old books