A book loved in childhood: do you remember?

Such a brilliant thread, thank you @SofiaA

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

The Water Babies. The illustrations in my edition were sumptuous

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.

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.

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Lost a long post yesterday I think.
Thought I'd share some images though.
I think there were three books.
The Tales the Letters Tell

Heidi

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

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

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.

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

Loved Heidi,

Me too

Too much

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

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

Harlen Corbin

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!

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’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.

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 .

To Spare the Conquered by Stephanie Plowman

My favourite was Moonfleet, by J M Faulkner. Our headmaster read it to us in our last year in primary school- on cold winter days, when the classroom heating wasn't very effective, he used to take us into his study and we sat on the floor in front of a roaring fire. We read it again in our first year at secondary school.

As a wartime child, there were few books to be had. I went to a jumble sale and found a copy of Pride and Prejudice which I devoured only to be devastated when I found it was book one of a two volumes edition! My uncle gave me Anne of Green Gables when I had tonsillitis. It almost made it worthwhile being ill. I loved The Strange Tale of Humpy Horse.—I found a secondhand copy of it recently and enjoyed it all over again.

Not A book ,a couple of trilogies
A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.Read these in my teens
A Jacobite Trilogy by DK Broster especially the first in the series the Flight of the Heron,read this in my first year at high school ..
There aren’t a lot of books written in the Doric ,we had /have family friends who live in the Howe of the Mearns so it was a joy to read it with their accent in my head .
There was a terrific TV series of the Quair in the 70s …I think?