Your fav author from childhood

Oh yes, all of the early Pullein-Thompson books and the Jill series, still have them!
Also loved Enid Blyton, eventually went to a boarding school but it was nothing like Mallory Towers really (we did have midnight feasts though).
Just William, Wind in the Willows, National Velvet (Not the film), the BB books, the Romany series, the Borrowers......

Oh and I love the Molesworth books, don`t think of them as books for children!

I used to collect pony books from the past Suzette, did you ever come across the website of Jane Badger, a real walk down memory lane!
janebadgerbooks.co.uk/

Someone mentioned being read to at school, our teacher did that in primary school. I think she was trying to get us interested in literature and Don Quixote was one of her chosen books.
My mother used to buy me a book every Christmas, what we called the classics and bound in red leather with gold writing.

As a child I also loved Enid Blyton and was ticked off by the headmistress when I won a prize (always book tokens) and having chosen a 'good' book with the remainder I chose an Enid Blyton. This was frowned upon and I was told she 'expected better' of me. No matter, I continued to read Enid Blyton and just about anything else I could get my hands on. At times practically lived in the library. At 65 I still read lots of different genre's and am a regular at the library. So the frowned upon EB didn't do me any harm!

anniezzz09, I love the Jane Badger website!

I still have most of my pony books, I have also duplicate copies of most of the P-T sisters` books in hardback, if I hadn`t had them in this form originally. Still read my horsey books occasionally, such nostalgia! Love the original illustrations too. I don`t give a hoot if such books are not p.c. any longer.

I know she's regarded as very unPC nowadays,but I loved Enid Blyton in particular 'The Famous Five' books,the 'Mallory Towers' series and 'The naughtiest girl in the school' series. I was pony-mad as a child so also enjoyed anything by the Pullein-Thompson sisters and the 'Jill' books by Ruby Ferguson.

I was pony-mad too - National Velvet (definitely not the film!), A Pony for Jean by Joanna Cannan (mother of the Pullein-Thompson sisters) and the sequels, Ponies and Caravans, The Good Master by Kate Seredy, We Couldn't Leave Dinah by Mary Treadgold; the Katy books. I liked Enid Blyton's school and farm books, not the others so much. Milly-Molly-Mandy, Wonk the koala bear, Mumfie the little elephant - the nostalgia!

Does anybody remember the BBC Children's Hour production of The Box of Delights, in the 1940s?

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women and Susan Coolidge - Katy books...

Arthur Ransome. I loved all the Swallows and Amazon books. I was also a big fan of the Biggles books by Captain W E Johns. Not a very girly girl but I also enjoyed the Chalet School series by Elinor M Brent Dyer. Oh, I would read almost anything that came my way. Still do!