Your fav author from childhood

TrendyNannie6 Me too! I loved Enid Blyton when I was a girl and these days I collect her books. Have loads of them on my shelves and still enjoy picking them up looking at the illustrations (especially the ones by Eileen Soper) and reading bits of the stories. My favourites are The Famous Five and the Adventure Series.

Enid ....if course. Especially her strong-ish girls!

Laura ingalls Wilder. Little house books.

Lone Pine five by Malcolm Saville

I enjoyed various Enid Bolton books especially when very young those un-PC Noddy and Big Ears stories. But my absolute favourites were Captain W E Johns's Biggles stories.

Read most of Enid Blyton's book but my favourite book was Heidi by Johanna Spyri.

I loved the 'What Katy Did' books and also Anne of Green Gables.

Sweet cakes,I too loved Malcolm Saville and I also loved WEJohns but like millions of children Enid Blyton has to be my favourite.
She should have been made a Dame.
So many children enjoyed reading because of her.
What harm has she done us?
I accepted that there were “posh” childern who went to boarding school whose parents had cars and owned their own homes..
It didn’t bother me at all.

Violet Needham - outdated even in my 50’s childhood. Still have them all & still read them when I am stressed. “The Black Riders” is the best known, a kind of Ruritania for children.

I had forgotton Malcokm Saville.

Noel Streatfield, Enid Blyton -all except the Secret Seven which I never really liked, Gene Stratton Porter’s A Girl of the Limberlost and the Chalet School books, (which I still have).

Mark Twain. Read Tom Sawyer until the print was worn out!

Oh Anne of Green Gables.
I loved that book-didn’t most girls?

Enjoyed Anne of Avonlea too
Got a bit bored with the ones that followed .
My son visited Prince Edward Island in Canada and there is a tourist industry connected with A of GG.

What about Heidi by Joanna Spiri?

Oh I loved so many of these. I am going to re-read a few straight away.

And I thought I was the only remaining fan of Noel Streatfeild, but there are so many other people on this post who loved her books.

Anybody else remember Gillian Avery's "The Warden's Niece"? It was published in USA as "Maria Escapes". Really good fun and, amazingly, politically correct too, about a Victorian girl who wanted to be an academic.

For me, it was Monica Edwards.

I loved Malcolm Saville and Noel Streatfield as well

I also adored Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

Last year I was able to buy a similar copy to the one I used to borrow from the libraray

Made my day!

Oh and Carries War was another favourite.

Nina Bawden

Monica Edwards plus L.M Montgomery, Ruby Ferguson (the Jill pony books), and I must have almost worn out my copy of White Boots by Noel Streatfeild - I was a skater as a child and just wanted to BE in the book. For some reason, goodness knows why, I also read all the Scarlet Pimpernel books at about 10. As a very small child I loved Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree books but didn't much bother with many others of hers. I didn't buy them for my own daughters - they are too old-fashioned and the snobbery and attitudes in them is too much these days.

Definitely Enid Blyton for me! I loved the Famous Five and the Magic Faraway Tree best!

Enid Blyton books (though now I can see the unpleasant stuff in her writing that I couldn't see as a child.) Narnia . . and The Phantom Tollbooth. Dr Dolittle. Black Beauty. All the animal stories by Joseph Chipperfield. Pretty much any books about horses and dogs and other animals. As a slightly older child, anything creepy - anthologies of ghost stories etc.

I loved Milly-Molly-Mandy books by Joyce Lankester Brisley
About life in a little village

Loved lots of the authors mentioned. I value now the freedom I had to read what I wanted - apart from school choices.
Read my way through Enid Blyton. Particularly remember Shadow the Sheepdog. Liked anything with a history theme and remember Geoffrey Trease and Henry Treece and particularly Rosemary Sutcliff when I was a bit older.
Does anyone remember the two books by Muriel Denison - Susannah of the Mounties and Susannah of the Yukon? Read those over and over.

All Rosemary Sutcliffe books for me, they have given me a life long love of history.

I used to read anything, even the back of a cereal packet, and devoured anything the local library had to offer. I often got discontinued books from there too as my sister was a librarian. Most of the books mentioned are old friends. I also remember working my way through a long series called The Young....(Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth I etc) which had different authors. And has anyone mentioned Eve Norton (The Family At One End Street)?

The William books were my favourite though. I’m still traumatised by the fact that my mother gave them all away (“well, you’ve read them”) in one of our house moves. Particularly as they were first editions bought for my dad (William, of course) as they were published!

Violet M Methley 's Dragon Island.

The Swish of the Curtain.

E E Cowper adventures for girls often set in Canada.

Does anybody know a mystery adventure story about boarding school gils in search of a quaich in the Loch Lomond area?

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