Your fav author from childhood

Enid Blyton loves the Twins at St Claire series! What Katy did series, and The Ames family (an American family)

Gosh yes I remember Molly Molly Mandy

Anthony Buckeridge 'Jennings' books! Wonderful. I loved Georgette Heyer when a little older and read them with my Mum. I always dreamed of living in Bath and taking my Mum thete on holiday. Mum passed away 7 years ago and by a sheer fluke I came to live in a small town a few miles from Bath. I think of the lovely stories every time I go into Bath to shop.

Jean Plaidy, Enid Blyton, Mallory Towers, Swallows and Amazon and so many that I cannot think of the names. I have always loved books. Used to run around the corner to the library before I could even read properly then sit on the step at home looking at the pictures.
Happy days

I recognise to have read pretty well all of the books mentioned and didn't realise I must have been a real bookworm. One hasn't been mentioned and that's Mill on the Floss by George Eliot ( pseudonym )
I still have a little weekly paperback booklet from 1948 of Milly Molly Mandy stories----a little discoloured but still readable.

I loved reading and used to lose myself in some of the stories.

W.E.Johns , loved Biggles. also Billy Bunter by Charles Hamilton.

I loved the chalet school books by Elinor M Brent-Dyer and of course all Enid Blyton’s books.

Enid Blyton for me too. I also liked Milly Molly Mandy and the Mrs Pepperpot stories.

Of the authors already mentioned: - Milly Molly Mandy, BB (Down the bright stream), Pamela Brown, Malcolm Saville, Enid Blyton adventure and mysteries - hated school stories and didn't much care for pony books.

Am I the first to mention Cynthia Harnett (esp The Great House), and Joan Selby Lowndes, Royal Chase and Tudor Rose?

HiPpyChick57 yes i remember the books by joyce stranger, they were lovely and so well written and i also remember the sue barton nurse books Lancslass1

oopsminty I had the English version of Der Strawwelpeter - Straw Peter. It was all abit nasty but I loved it. I can still see the cover picture in my minds eye. Oh that hair and those hideous nails.

I also loved the Worzel Gummidge books by Barbara Euphan Todd. I think I must’ve had a thing about straw-like hair!

I wasn’t a huge Enid Blyton fan but I read and enjoyed most of the Secret Seven books.

One author that I loved, and I don’t think anyone has mentioned, was Eleanor Farjeon. Her short stories were very gentle and the books, illustrated by Edward Adizzone, were lovely. I still read them today. Elsie Piddick Skips in her sleep and The Connemara Donkey are two of her short stories that I have read many times. And still make me feel quite weepy.

Louisa May Alcott (Little Women, Good Wives and Jo’s Boys.)
Also Noel Streatfield and Susan Coolidge.
Then I discovered Agatha Christie at the age of 14 and read most of her books. I went to a repertory theatre and saw a dramatisation of one of her best books and I was hooked! Still am!

Arthur Ransome series
CS Lewis
KM Peyton and the Flambards series
Anything to do with a pony!

Sue Donim you reminded me of The
Family From One End Street, I loved that book and read it a few times.

We had a battered paperback copy of it with a pink cover illustration of the street!

Does anyone remember a book called Sue Barton ,student nurse ?
I think there may have been several books about her.
I never wanted to be a nurse but enjoyed that book.

Enid Blyton for me too. All the FF and SS series and Mallory Towers. Not frowned on in my day thank goodness.
My three children also loved them.
I also loved What Katy Did, a Sunday school prize and Little Women and sequels.
There was also a book I read at school called I think The Blue Bird about a girl who was visited each morning by a blue bird who she loved. Can't remember much else about the story and have tried to find it many times since without success.
Do any Grans know it by any chance?

Loved Enid blyton I used to cry with laughter at the adventures of Binkle and Flip.
Then progressed to the classics such as Louisa M Allcott Charles Dickens The Bronte sisters Jane Austin R L Stevenson R M Ballantine Alexander Dumas to name but a few but one of my all time favourites was a lady called Joyce Stranger who wrote a series of fiction books about animals. Although these stories were pure fiction she took you through the lives of the animals wether they were foxes, dogs, or cats from beginning to end and by the time you’d read the stories you would have laughed, cried , raged at the injustice and then sighed with relief at the end when everything would of course be ok. Does anyone else remember this fantastic author???

Isn't interesting how the same books and authors resonate with so many of us. I grew up in Oz in the 1950s and the books I loved (and have kept) are various Enid Blytons, the Louisa May Allcott books and the 'What Katy Did' books. I then discovered Jane Austen, the Brontes and my reading life moved on. One of the few Oz children's books I still have is the wondrously named 'Digit Dick in Black Swan Land'.

PS. For those puzzling about the content it is about the very innocent adventures of a very small chappie in Western Australia.

How lovely that so many of you have elinor m brent dyer on your list, she was definitely my favourite, i still have many of her books. Also read loads of enid blyton, loved the cherry ames nurse series and also the pollyanna books. in fact i used to read anything, if the author was good i then used to read anything that they had written.

Mary Norton for me....I loved TheBorrowers and read all of her books.....I desperately wanted to join the Borrower family. Love the books and the film even now.. ?

Another book I read over and over was Arthur Groom’s Girls’ Book of Heroines. Which inspired many a game my friends and I played.

Has anyone read/heard of Der Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann ?

Quite a shocker!

It’s Eve Garnett

Of course it is. I’m mixing her up with Mary Norton.

Issibon I think those might be the books I loved, too! Upthread I said I thought they were something like Jane & Paul or Peter & Susan Go To Paris/Switzerland and so on. I’ve searched and searched online and found no trace of them.

I recently found my copy of Noel Streatfields Ballet Shoes which I loved as a child. However I dont think my 8 year old granddaughter would find it a good read. I loved Enid Bylton books. Our teacher banned them as he said they weren't good literature so of course we all made a point of reading them.