Your fav author from childhood

I'm currently reading The Naughtiest Girl series to my granddaughter Opal and we're both enjoying it. Timeless stories.

Anyone remember "The Naughtiest Girl" series by Enid Blyton? One of my favourites, read it over and over again as a child .

NotSpaghetti, I didn`t mention Georgette Heyer bec ause I was thinking of what I read as a younger child. I was introduced to Georgette Heyer by our English teacher when I was 14, I got hooked, and read every one by the time I was 16, also loved the Louisa M Alcott books, which I discovered aged 11.

Enid Blyton for sure, I loved The Faraway Tree and Moonface was my favourite character.

felice

Cargo of Horses
Cargo of Horses
by Monica Edwards
4.20 · 40 Ratings · published 1951 · 5 editions
When Tamzin discovers that horses are being shipped to the continent for the meat market, she enlists the help of Jim Decks and his friends to rescue the horses. She, Rissa, Meryon and Roger then have to solve the problem of what to do with all the horses afterwards

There was also a boy called Dickon I think.

Monica Edwards wrote many books, some called the Punchbowl Farm series too felice.
One was called No Entry - could it be that?

I read a lot of them

felice a book I mentioned earlier called Wish for a Pony had characters called Tamsin and Clarissa (Rissa). It was by Monica Edwards.

It’s funny isn’t it, we had a school library book every week, and books from the town library, so must have read hundreds of books, and yet we all seem to remember Enid Blyton most of all.

A book called No Going back, with characters, Tamsin, Nerissa, Roger and Meryon I think.
Just tired to google it but no joy finding the author.

No-one else for Tove Jannson ?

Am I the only Non Blyton reader?

I also read mostly from the local library but the books I owned I read and reread.

I still have my original Borrowers book.

Black Beauty too was one of my favourites. The first book not the sequel so much.

Always Enid Blyton for me too, loved the Secret Seven, Mallory Towers (wanted desperately to be sent to boarding school!!) Famous Five and loads others I can't remember now.

This has brought back loads of memories of books I read.
A lot of Enid Blyton loved all those boarding school stories of Malory Towers and St Clare's. We used to play Secret Seven in one of the garden sheds and loved all those adventures of the Famous Five and the Adventure series. Fatty (I think) of the Five Find Outers, was always going to tea shops and having sophisticated treats like meringues and madeleines, as far as I remember.We only had jam tarts and fairycakes at home!!

The Magic Faraway Tree I loved too. We had a lovely coloured version of it.

My favourite books of all were Anne of Green Gables, Heidi and the Katy Carr books, sometimes very poignant as when Katy fell off the swing. I reread those several times.

Also the Chalet School series, I borrowed from the library each week till I got to the end of them.

Someone mentioned Lorna Hill books. I loved those set in Northumberland I think and always full of people (was it Guy) riding horses. I wanted a pony myself, I thought we might have room in the old wood shed in the garden!

I remember the Pamela Brown books was it the Stage Door, about children and a theatre company.

Also Noel Streatfield and The Children of Primrose Lane. She wrote other books too but none as good as that.

Collins books were good. I read a lovely one about Anna Pavlova ( I cannot remember the name) which introduced me to Fokine, Nijnksy and Diagalev (?) and Isadora Duncan.

Also the Jennings Books made me laugh and most of all the William Books, which I borrowed from the library. I still read one of those bedtime occasionally, if I want light reading.

And Milly Molly Mandy - I loved those books. Also loved Little Women reread several times but not the sequels so much. I know I have my childhood copy of Little Women in this house somewhere.

A lovely thread.

Notspaghetti I read very little EB. Malory Towers were the only ones I recall. Our library didn’t stock EB as they were not considered suitable (trash fiction??) and we weren’t well-enough off to buy many books.

One of my sons loved the Famous Five & Secret Seven books, most of which we bought secondhand or at jumble sales.

Am I the only one who read almost no Enid Blyton?
I saved up to buy books at my local newsagent which had a tiny bookshop in the back and the owner would “put them by” but I don’t honestly remember any Blyton - unless maybe the 2 or 3 Brumby books were hers? I think they might have been...

I wonder if my school library perhaps didn’t stock them?

I read all the Nancy Drew mysteries as a child and still love a good whodunit. The Faraway Tree series I read to my children, magical.

If I had to pick only one author, I would choose Elizabeth Goudge for The Little White Horse. If you have never read it, then do - it's a wonderful book.

Also loved Pookie, and many others mentioned. Specially Mary Norton for The Borrowers and Frances Hodgson Burnett for A Little Princess.

Loved all the End Blyton books. Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty one of my favourite books , and any stories about boarding school. I always dreamed of being a posh girl and going to boarding school ?

Enid Blyton for me, I was always reading as a child and she paved the way for my love of books.

I had a lovely illustrated book of The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley; it certainly wasn't new when I was given it and I wish I still had it.
I also had a pop up book of a zoo

And More Adventures of A Teddy Bear by, I think, Mrs H C Craddock.

I don't remember reading the Little Women series until I was about 12 or 13, certainly not when I was avidly reading at 6 or 7.

Oh dear, the Cherrys are very hard to come by. There's one book for sale for £65 ? so I'm having second thoughts about buying one.

dragongfly46 Does nobody else remember the Cherry family where the father made up adventures for his children and friends.
Yes! I think those are the books I was trying to remember! (See previous post). I didn't read as many as I would have liked but I did love anything where the children had adventures which is why I loved Enid Blyton. Thanks for posting that, you have solved a long held mystery!

Apart from all the Enid Blyton books which I adored, I was completely obsessed with Peter Pan by J.M.Barrie when I was young and lived in Neverland in my head for a long time.
When a little older it was Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott.
I longed to be part of the March family.

Does nobody else remember the Cherry family where the father made up adventures for his children and friends. I was so enamoured with, them although they are out of print, my DiL has been getting them second hand for me. There were only 16 in total but I found them magical.

I used to read all the time and my best Christmas presents were books. I am told it is because I was an only child.

The Chalet School series ElinorM BrentDyer . I so wanted to be Jo. What Katy Did books, can’t remember the author. Little Women/Good Wives/Jo’s Boys Louisa M Alcott. I also read all the Enid Blyton school books but my favourites of hers were Shadow the Sheepdog and The Boy next Door. Very exciting I thought at the time and I cried when Shadow hurt his eyes