Your fav author from childhood

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).

I had forgotton Malcokm Saville.

Violet Needham - outdated even in my 50’s childhood.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.

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.

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

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

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.

Lone Pine five by Malcolm Saville

Laura ingalls Wilder. Little house books.

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

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.

It was Biggles, Just William and Swallows and Amazons for me.

Enid Blyton - loved her Tales of the Wishing Chair and The Faraway Tree (I think it was)- I could borrow them from the tiny library in my village.
Louisa May Alcott was also a favourite, with the Little Women series. Only thing is that though it has been made into tv series and films, the actors they have chosen never fits in with how I have always pictured them !

Enid Blyton...especially The Famous Five!! I then remember reading a book called The Stuttering Parrot, which was a sort of kids being detective book. Can't remember who it was by!

Mallory towers treasure island biggles any Enid blyton Heidi black beauty uncle tons cabin little women what Katy did what Katy did next little women. Plus most of Dickens writings st 9! Oh and a host more wonderful children books. Memories of magical reading times!!!

I was a Nancy Drew mystery reader, absolutely loved all her books when I was at school. The Library was right next door to my secondary school, so often popped in during my lunch break. I am still a big reader now, its how I cope with everything that goes on.

Enid Blyton for me too. I started with The Secret Seven and progressed through The famous Five, Malory Towers and The St Clares series. She inspired a life long love of books and reading. I loved Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Elinor M Brent-Dyer too.

Sara65 the next Famous Five book was always eagerly anticipated but without all the drama and publicity that went with the Harry Potter books in more recent times.

Thanks everyone, they are the ones I was remembering.
Alan Garners the Owl Service has sad memories for me. I worked a few shifts a week in a friends Hotel behind the bar many years ago.
A very nice man used to stay overnight on his way to work on the rigs every couple weeks.
He gave me his daughters copy of the Owl Service to read, saying he would pick it up on the way back.
He went onto the Piper Alpha platform and sadly never came back. His daughter asked me to keep the book as he used to talk about the nice woman behind the bar who was having a baby and he enjoyed having someone to chat to.
Sad.

Sparkling

There was a thread recently which was very sniffy about Enid Blyton, but she must have inspired a love of reading in so many children.

I loved all Enid Blytons books. They must have been fed up of me at the local library, enjoyed Heidi, Little Women, Black Beauty, one book, A Pattern of The Islands, made me want to travel, never marry, but I did at 19. I loved Charles Dickens, how he described everything and his use of the English language, but I kept quiet about it lest my friends poked fun, I so wanted to fit in. That love of reading has never abated.

That is so true Sara65 I remember the mobile library coming to school and the village and loved it. Must have read so many books but favourite was Enid Blyton Magic Faraway Tree, Famous Five, Heidi and Black Beauty.

Another BIG Enid Blyton fan here I think I must have read every book she wrote loved them allThe magic faraway tree with Pinkie moon face saucepan man oh she really opened up my imagination and my love of reading ... then all the various adventure series and then all the boarding schools ones
I did read others including Noel Streatfield Lorna Hill the just William and all the Louisa m Alcott but Enid was by far my favourite She wrote in such a readable way and I really lived in her stories I still have many of her books upstairs in my attic rooms

Enjoy Chewbacca, precious times with our grandchildren , and yes, as you say, timeless.

The Blue Door Theatre books by Rosemary Brown. The Queen Elizabeth story by Rosemary Sutcliff and the Cherry Ames Nurse books by Helen Wells. Also the Heidi books by Johanna Spyri.