Your fav author from childhood

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 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

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

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.!!

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!

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.

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

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.

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 famous five for me too.

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

girls

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?

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

For me, it was Monica Edwards.

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.

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?

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