Your fav author from childhood

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

Arthur Ransome, then Rosemary Sutcliff.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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.

Funnygran yes I remember the Blue Door series by Pamela Brown.
That is what inspired some of us to start our own group and we put on performances in the church hall.

The Little Grey Men and The Little Grey Men Go Down The Bright Stream
All about the last gnomes in England searching for their long lost brother.
Total Joy

I used to set some books from the library about five dolls who lived in a dolls house, I can’t remember what they were called, but I loved them. When I was very little, I loved Mabel Lucie Attwell stories.

Mine too was Enid Blyton. Being now in my 70s, I am not aware of what other authors were around when a child. Maybe I wouldn’t read any other authors’ work.
Now have I put the apostrophe in the right place

@SueDonim & @issibon - I think the series you were thinking of might be the Ladybird Flight One, Flight Two etc series - I loved them when I was a child
www.amazon.co.uk/Flight-two-Canada-Ladybird-books/dp/B0000CK9YV/ref=pd_sbs_14_t_0/259-6545770-0485010?_e&tag=gransnetforum-21

@Jabberwock Frank Richards wrote the Billy Bunter books and Hilda Richards wrote the Bessie Bunter books. I used to read them all!

For me it was Enid Blyton, especially Mallory Towers and The Famous Five. I had such a miserable childhood and these books were my means of escape. Because of them I'm still an avid reader.

My nana used to buy me the Enid Blyton annual (was it called a yearbook?) every birthday. I hated the moralising stories but, of course, I could never say so.

I loved A. A. Milne when I was little but my favourite book was called Hobby Horse Cottage. I kept borrowing it from the library. Don't know why I didn't have the sense to ask for it as a birthday present. I also loved Tove Jansson's Moomins.

When I was older, it was Henry Treece and Rosemary Sutcliffe.

Just about all of the above. Billy Bunter. Can't remember who wrote it, Frank ?!! Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the looking glass, 1928 versions that had belonged to my mother. Chums own annuals (belonged to my younger uncle!) Lambs tales from Shakespeare, Myths of Greece and Rome, books about an elephant called Mumfie! again family heirlooms!! Peter Pan and Wendy, Oh and Mother Goose nursery rhymes.

Enid Blyton was my favourite when I first started to read. I remember my parents telling me I had to try someone else as I always got Enid Blyton books from the library. I don’t know if she has been mentioned but did anyone read The Blue Door series by Pamela Brown? I borrowed them from an older friend and just loved them. They were about a group of children who started their own theatre group and I thought it was the most wonderful thing to imagine since at that point I wanted to go on the stage!

I loved Gene Stratton Porter- OK, so American, but not a problem!

Noel Streatfield; Ballet Shoes was a dream, PL Travers, Enid Blyton. Interesting that so many of us loved the same books isn’t it? As a younger child AA Milne, which I later also enjoyed with my own children. Later on I read my mother’s school copy of What Katy Did, which I also loved. My sister bought me A Christmas Carol for Xmas when I was 11 years old- possibly my favourite present that year. My most memorable books from my teenage years included Nevil Shute, Alistair McClean and my best of all” To kill a Mocking Bird”, by Harper Lee. I love books ?

I read anything I could get my hands on loved Enid Blyton but only the magic faraway tree books also little women ,Heidi and loads more but my favourite of all time was Gwen Grant the private keep out collection all wrote about her family life as a child tried to find the last in the trilogy and it's over a hundred pound and can only find two copies on ebay

I was given Noel Streatfield's Ballet Shoes and White Boots as a prize in school and my teacher told me she had loved them when my age. My niece reminded me recently that I bought them for her when she was 10 or 11 and in turn she bought them for her niece.
I also loved E Nesbit book's, especially the Phoenix and the Carpet and the Story of the Amulet. I remember feeling transported to a magical world when reading them.
Reading is still a great pleasure for me, but the sense of wonderment from books as a child is a strong memory.