Your fav author from childhood

The Railway Children by E Nesbitt - I remember reading that at my aunt's house. Auntie didn't have children so there weren't any children's books there but she allowed me to borrow her very old inscribed edition which she had won as a school prize. She was born in 1903 so it must have been a very old book even then.
I wonder where it went.

Another "Enid Blyton" fan, here. I think I had the first , (of many),"Noddy" book. Also loved all the "Famous Five" & "Secret Seven" books. Did she also write "Naughty Amelia Jane".? This would be in the 1950's.

Oh, l loved the Ladybird Flight series too. I am very much of the Ladybird generation (clothes as well as books, come to think of it) and their fairytales series was beautiful. I enjoyed so many Ladybird books. I liked Heidi and the Katy books, also Peter Pan and the Chalet School series. I was a voracious reader from a very early age.

Enid Blyton,The Secret Seven ,Famous Five then Malory Towers,Richmal Crompton for Just William and Paul Gallico The Snow Goose and yes Ballet Shoes by Noel Stratfield I kept getting these out time and time again from my library.Such wonderful memories .

I grew up in Sweden and mostly read books by Swedish authors but I do remember reading Milly Molly Mandy and I just loved it. As did my own daughter many years later. Another favourite was ”Den hemlighetsfulla trädgården” which you will know as ”The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

My dad was an avid reader and took me to the library at an early age. Long before I could read. My paternal grandfather had stacks of books on tables and shelves. But he had never bought a book in his life. He said ”why should I spend money buying books when the library is full of them?” I guess there is a kind of logic in that. I do buy books though; I just like having them around.

One of my favourite authors was Joyce Stranger. I loved the animals and their interactions. Some made me laugh, some made me cry, but I loved them all. I'm still an avid reader now and will try anything except slushy romances.

Oh without a doubt Enid Blyton, just loved her books.

My all time favourite author was Laura Ingalls Wilder and I'm now collecting her books for my DGD to read.

Monica Edwards and Malcolm Saville - just wonderful and have recently re-read MS Lone Pine series, still as good

Arthur Ransome, then Rosemary Sutcliff.

No, Pinkquartz, SueDonim and I didn’t read Blyton either.

Yes, callgirl1, Heyer was in early secondary school. You are right.

Enid Blyton. Loved the school books and The Adventure Books.
Then the wonderful William Books by Richmal Crompton.
Little Women andGood Wives - loving them all my life.
Ricky-Ticky-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling.
Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

BettyBoop49 - they are some of the “BB” books I mentioned earlier!
Their tiny world was so well drawn.

The Silver Sword by Ian Seraillier read to us at junior school was exciting I remember.

Definitely Enid Blyton. My daughter and now my granddaughter both love her books.

I read a lot of Enid Blyton, mainly Noddy and the Famous Five books which I loved.
I used to read Bobby Brewster books, Milly Molly Mandy, Jennings and Darbyshire, Billy Bunter, Heidi, Cherry family, and all the William books by Richmal Crompton which were great. But I can't remember the names of all the authors.

I also loved the small, chunky Observers books, comprehensive information and pictures about every one of a certain subject. I studied the ones about Birds, Dogs, Wild Flowers and Horses and Ponies. I still read reference books.

I read some Enid Blyton because my older sister had some. I wouldn't call them favourites, though I was rather fond of Noddy & Big Ears when very young.

Lots already mentioned on here. I still have my Jill books! Everything by Monica Edwards, Rosemary Sutcliffe, Lorna Hill, Jennings, Just William, all the Revd. Awdry (?) books (Thomas the Tank engine etc), Worzel Gummidge, C.S Lewis, The Little White Horse. Just So Stories, Tom's Midnight Garden. Goodness, so many.

I don't think anyone has mentioned Alison Uttley's Little Grey Rabbit stories. They're charming.

I read everything I could lay my hands on, really but those were particular favourites.

I still like a good children's book. Very much enjoyed His Dark Materials and the subsequent books.

Enid Blyton always! Magic Faraway Tree, Famous Five, St Clares and Mallory Towers. Sorry too. Noel Streatfield also. Happy times!

Noddy too! I meant

I know it’s not an author but I loved reading comics, my favourite was Bunty. I loved the Four Marys, their lives were so different to mine and their adventures were from a different world

Oh Bunch was a fab comic MarieEliza, I had that every week for years. The Four Mary's were my favourite. Been a looonnnggg time since I thought if them!

Chicks' Own when I was very young, then School Friend, and I had an annual every year from FC.

Once we had mastered reading, the school sent letters home asking that Enid Blyton’s books weren’t given to us as presents because they were not well written. So from the age of seven we read Charles Kingsley, Jerome K Jerome, Thomas Hughes, Louisa M Alcott, Lewis Carroll, Harriet Beecher-Stowe, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, and EVERYTHING by Dickens! We did Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare to get an idea of the storylines before tackling the actual plays, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales which were heavily censored with black lines over the rude bits!??

Anyone remeber the Diana comic? I can vividly remember that it had a free gift of a sparkly bracelet in the first edition. Or the Buster comic?