Your fav author from childhood

C S Lewis I wanted to live in Narnia, second choice would have been to go to Malory Towers School.

W.E. Johns, "Biggles" and "Worrals". Not PC now!

C.S.Lewis.

Was introduced to the Chronicles of Narnia by 2 chaps who lived in the flat below us. My mother told me they were brothers, but with hindsight............

They leant me the books one at a time, in order. I remember that for my 10th birthday I asked my grandparents for the boxed set, even though I had already read them all.

I loved Enid Blyton too, even though it was frowned on by school. When I went to boarding school aged 9 we were allowed to bring 3 books from home. Enid Blyton was not allowed. I also enjoyed the Biggles and Worrals books.

Yes, definitely Enid Blyton - I was brought up in a council house and the lovely, priviliged middle-class lives of her characters appealed so much. Unwittingly, they showed me there was another world out there!

Mary O’Hara, My Friend Flicka, I loved this book and it’s sequels. Also loved any book by Christine Pullen Thompson.

All the William books, quite early on. I still re-read those now and then, never fail to make me laugh.

When I’d just outgrown the likes of Enid Blyton, maybe 11 or 12-ish, I became addicted to the Whiteoaks series, by Mazo de la Roche. (Was that her real name, I wonder?).

And maybe a bit later, Georgette Heyer.

Enid Blyton for me too and Noel Streafeild.

I too loved Enis Blyton.

Another favourite was Joanna Spyri's Heidi. I read the book at least six times. "Oh, the beautiful fiery snow!"

Oh NanKate I had forgotten Noel Streatfield I have bought “Ballet Shoes” for my GD I got totally lost in all the “shoe” books

Does anyone remember Pookie (the rabbit with wings)? I loved those and the illustrations were beautiful.

Enid Blyton for me.

Also, Richmal Crompton - the William books.

Enid Blyton for me too, lucky for me my grandchildren enjoyed them when they were younger, so got to enjoy them all over again

Dickens and Charlotte Bronte.
I read a book at school called Torrie by Annabel Johnson, about a wagon train going west across America. It was a fabulous story. Out of print now.

I meant to say, I read Jane Ayre aged 10 when sick with yellow jaundice.

Got to be Enid Blyton. I read every Famous Five book and then Secret Seven . Can't remember any others although I read every book in the girls section of our library.

AA Milne - Christopher Robin and Will Scott who wrote about the Cherry Family.

Laura Ingalls Wilder especially The Long Winter.

I only really liked EB’s Malory Towers books.

I loved “What Katy Did” by Susan Coolidge, and the sequels. I enjoyed the “Jennings” stories by Anthony Buckeridge, set in a boys’ prep school. I loved the “William” stories too. Later, in the last year at Junior school, I discovered Dickens, especially “David Copperfield” and “Oliver Twist.” An aunt used to give me Dean and Son’s classics for birthdays- I remember “Robin Hood”, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table”, “Treasure Island”, and many more. I was a bookish child, and used to go to the library by myself from quite a young age.

Oh and Eve Garnett’s The Family from One End Street.

Lorna Hill’s ballet books.

There was also a non-fiction series I loved but cannot find any trace of. It was two children, Jane & Paul or Susan & Bill, names like that, Go To Paris/Rome/Amsterdam etc. They seemed so exotic, to me!

Curlywurly

Same for me, I longed to go to Mallory Towers. I nagged and nagged to go to boarding school, not realising that children from council estates had no chance of going to a wonderful school by the sea.

Then I fell in love with Arthur Ransom books, and my love affair with a privileged middle class life style continued.

Enid Blyton - which horrifies me now with her racist, classist undertones.

Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Arthur Ransome - I loved 'Swallows and Amazons'

It was Enid Blyton for me as a child. Faraway Tree, Famous Five, Adventure Series and the Children of Cherry Tree Farm and Willow Farm because I loved farms.

There were some books about a family who had adventures. There was a map inside the front of the book because they pretended these places were part of their game. I would love to know what that was!