Your favourite character as a child?

Does anyone remember Pookie the adorable fluffy white rabbit books by Ivy Wallace? The first was written in 1945. I still have and treasure a copy of Pookie believes in Santa Claus given to me in 1956 when I was 6.

Lorna the ballet dancer in a series in the Bunty comic.

As a toddler I was obsessed with Yogi Bear. So much so that on holiday in Margate I would scream if I wasn't taken to visit a statue of him which was outside a shop, I was 2, I knew exactly where that shop was (at the top of a flight of stairs). First indication of Autism?
Later on it was Dr Dolittle

I longed to be a pupil at Mallory Towers, oh, the adventures they had.

The wicked Queen in Disney’s Snowhite. Although she was scary, she was so beautiful and striking.

Gosh what a lot if lovely memories of forgotten books and characters. The Lorna Hill ballet books and Monica Edwards stories were such favourites with me . I adored Jennings and his pal Darbyshire from the delightful books by Anthony Buckley if I remember correctly.

Yes indeed. My favourite character was anyone who went to boarding school. I did get to teach in one briefly at the end of my career and it confirmed my opinions. The students had a lovely time especially at weekends.

I just asked DH he said Davy Crocket, he can't sing but has just sung that song. I remember I had the book too and we used to pretend the front gate was the Alamo and jump out at children further up the street.

Noddy was my first love. We had a few Noddy books which I adored. When I could read I read all my brothers Just William books. I then devoured Enid Bytons Malory Towers series and those girls were my heroines.

Daryl from Mallory Towers or the twins from St Clairs. How I wished I could go to boarding school.

Oh yes! I wanted to be Samantha too. Always trying to wriggle my nose like her lol

We moved from Manchester to rural Knutsford when I was 10. I was convinced I would meet Rupert and his friends there. A very naive 10 year old!

There was a fairly short-lived cartoon series, Johnny Quest. I think I was in love with JQ.

Topsy from the Topsy and Tim books. She had a mummy that walked her to school and arranged parties and took her to lots of places. A nice middle class upbringing! I quite liked the idea of being a twin too.

Mary mungo & midge 😊

I loved reading Heidi and the imagery it brought to my mind. The warm milk fresh from the goats, the fresh bread. Life seemed idyllic.

Beryl the Peril annual for Christmas

Alice in Wonderland and anyone from the Faraway Tree.

ninamoore

Mine were Milly Molly Mandy. The Four Mary’s as I got older

yes, Milly Molly Mandy was mine too.

Milly Molly Mandy for me, and later it would be Darrell Rivers from Malory Towers.

I know this may sound odd but I loved the ‘Jane’ cartoon strip in my grandma’s News of the World. Couldn’t read it but liked the frills on her knickers,.

Drina Adams from the Drina Adams ballet storied, it later turned out her real name was Andrina Adamo, and her mother had bern a famous ballerina. I remember her curtseying to her mothers pointe shoes which were kept in a glass case at the ballet school, I would have loved to have been a dancer, turned out to be a nurse for 40 years, def. Less glamorous but I hope more helpful😀

My sisters loved Topo Gigio.

Another vote for Heidi.

In the 1940s when I was a young girl I could not wait to get to Dovecot library in Liverpool to get a Just William book by Richmal Crompton. I loved William and his exploits and Violet Elizabeth Bot saying " I'll scweam and I will scweam until I am sick!" which William ignored. There were Jane books too by Evadne Price (what an exotic name) those were the days!