Your fav author from childhood

Enid Blyton, I think I read every book.

Hopefully my granddaughter will enjoy them as much.

Although I happily read any book placed in front of me as a child, one of my favourites was ‘Pyewacket’ by Rosemary Weir.

Another book I loved was ‘The Incredible Journey’ by Sheila Burnford.

There might be a theme developing here but another I enjoyed was ‘Lassie Come Home’ by Eric Knight.

The first autobiographical book I remember reading was ‘Come Into My World’ by Buster Lloyd-Jones.

I could keep listing books and authors but my first love was, and still is, anything related to animals.

Tove Janson and the Borrowers author,

Also Noel Streatfield.

Really disliked Enid Blyton.

Oh do go on Granny70 it’s wonderful. We didn’t own many books as children. We were taken to the library and told to choose quietly now.

I recall at junior school being read to by the teacher. Riki Tikki Tavi. ? Is that Rudyard Kipling. I must check. I thought it was a bit boring anyway to be honest.

Do junior children still get read a ‘classic’ by their teachers, a chapter at a time?

Sorry.
Grandma70

Also DoraMarr poster above has reminded me of Joyce Lankester Bristley. I could not get enough of MillyMolly Mandy

I wasn't a little middle class girl, Grandma70s but always had plenty of books and was obsessed with ponies. I thought all lucky middle class girls had their own ponies and could take them to boarding school with them!

So ...from Wiki ....
“ Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in the 1894 anthology The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young Indian mongoose. It has often been anthologised, and has been published several times as a short book.”

I don’t recall anything short about it.
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Heidi (joanna Spryi?) Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys - LM Alcott - Enid Blyton - Secret Seven and Famous Five - Thomas the Tank Engine (etc) Mallory Towers (oh how I envied those lucky lucky girls) - onwards and upwards to older subjects ie Jean Plaidy, Catherine Cookson, and (memory failing here so may be wrong) Margaret Campbell Barnes - historical novels with a whiff of sexual excitement - for me as a 14/15 year old. May be time to re-read some of them

Two of my favourite authors growing up that I don't think anyone has mentioned yet are Lucy Maude Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables series and Pamela Brown who wrote The Swish of the Curtain and it's sequels.

Enid Blyton opened the door to reading for pleasure. From their I loved Noel Streatfield and Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Auntieflo I loved Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancelyn Green also tales of King Arthur but I can't remember the author.

I loved Granny's Wonderful Chair by Frances Browne and all The Borrower's books by Mary Norton. I so longed to have Borrowers for company!

The Chalet School books and the Abbey Girls ,my lovely dad would take me to the second hand book shops every Saturday and we'd swap the 4 I got the previous week for 4 "new" books.I read all the time ,my mother used to force me out to play and I'd hide a book up my jumper and sit outside the fence to read it .My christmas list when I was 10 had all the classics ,Black Beauty ,Jane Ayre,Pride and Prejudice all in all I got 20 brand new books and I was thrilled.By the time I was in 2nd year I'd read things my parents were dubious about me reading I even managed War and Peace and Doctor Zhivago .I love my books but gave my whole collection ,all except half a dozen to the local school when their library burned down .There was in the region of two and a hald thousand .Now if I could just pluck up the courage to give away my CD.s but I've not managed to do it yet.

Susan Coolidge, who wrote What Katy Did and Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote The Secret Garden.

Alan Garner, without a doubt.
Followed by "BB".

My mother used to force me out to play as well paddyanne - perhaps like mums today prising their children off their tablets!

I've ever heard of Alan Garner, perhaps after my time.

Who is BB NotSpaghetti?

Never, not ever

I loved the My Little Sister books by Dorothy Edwards and Milly Molly Mandy stories.
Enid Blyton, Noel Streatfield and the ballet books by Lorna Hill.
Later I liked the Margaret Powell, Molly Weir and Betty MacDonald autobiographies.
Always an avid reader.

Enid Blyton of course. I started off with Noddy and Big Ears, then progressed to The Famous Five and The Secret Seven, then when it came out I had the Enid Blyton magazine each week.

Callistemon, "BB" was the pseudonym that the naturalist Denis Watkins-Pitchford wrote under. He did all his own illustrations. He was certainly writing in the 40s if not before as he had won prizes by the time I discovered him in the school library.

Alan Garner wrote The Wierdstone of Brisingamen (which was published in 1960) and lots of others. His work is mostly based on local myths and legends. All my children without exception found his books compelling. He was from Manchester and, if I remember correctly, taught near Alderley Edge.

As well as these two I loved Ursula la Guin (who wrote the Earthsea books). I loved her books for their combined excitement and moral challenges!

Another must-read of my childhood were the Susan Cooper novels - especially "The Dark is Rising" series. I think these were published after the others but were in my school library.

A mention for Joan Aiken wouldn't go amiss and finally, what young girl would not have romped her way through Georgette Heyer I wonder?

Oooh. Yes, and some of the Narnia books, Dodie Smith, Philippa Pearce...

And Frances Hodgeson Burnett "The Secret Garden".
Fabulous - though did read it much later and was less impressed.

I received Heidi as a Sunday school prize, and loved it, and Swallows and Amazons as a school prize, which got me hooked on Arthur Ransom. When I was about twelve my dad gave me Far from the Madding Crowd, and I was off in another direction again.