Your fav author from childhood

I loved books about twins that visited every country does anyone know who the author was? Also Taylor Caldwell..

Enid blyton famous five for me too.

Are you all too young to have read The Abbey Girls?
Oh yes-Milly Molly Mandy and her little friend Susan.

Enid Blyton may have been seen as not p.c. but we didn’t know about that then and has it damaged us?
I think not.
I just think she got many youngsters interested in reading.

Enid Blyton, of course. Noel Streatfeild, Lorna Hill when I was a bit older, AnthonyBuckeridge - I loved the Jennings books - absolutely hilarious. When I was really little I loved the Mary Plain books by Gwynedd Rae. Of the classics I adored Little Women and anything by LMMontgomery (Anne of Green Gables). I still have all of them and re-read them from time to time.

Lovely Story by Grey Owl called “The Beavers”
Everyone thought he was a genuine First Nation person but he was actually an Englishman.

famous five i think. had so many books.we had library ticket and i had read all the kids ones on the shelf .so i started on the adults ones .oh no says the librarian THESE ones are for you . but i have read them all..........hmmm she says .ok these are the boys section you can read those. sections for girls and boys ? in the end i went away with david copperfield from the literature section.then read most of charles dickens that summer.

Bluebelle - I think the phantom text corrector who always thinks it knows better than us, has been at work. I bet you typed Silkie and it came out as Pinkie!

can i point out laura ingalls wilder is and was not racist ,she was writing as things happened in her childhood.......i know i seen her museum at mansfield missouri . she most likely never hear the word(racist) in those pioneeer days......(w.o.g) was western oriental gentleman). even people in usa call each other the n word. i heard it several times in nyc.!!

Yes, I did earlier, Maggiemaybe. It’s Eve Garnett.

I loved Anthony Buckeridge's Jennings books and also Enid Blyton's Twin's at St Clare's. Loved The Borrowers and an obscure book called The Family at 1 End Street

My dad gave me a book called "The tree that sat down" by Beverley Nicholls. Hope I got that right. He also gave me a wonderful book called "Jack's insects." Oh, and a lovely leather bound gold tooled book of Greek mythology.
If I went to the library I always chose Enid Blyton.

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.

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.

It’s Eve Garnett

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

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

Quite a shocker!

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.

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.. ?

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.

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.

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???

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?

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.

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!

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

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!