What were your favourite books or comics when you were a child?

merrellina

I was always reading as a child . loved all the books mentioned already .Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopedia was a set of ten volumes , invaluable . Anyone remember the Mary Mouse and Roundy books ? Which comic was Gobble Gobble Gertie in ?

Yes, the Arthur Mee encyclopedia was a huge favourite. I liked Volume 5 best, can’t remember why. I loved the Poetry section and Things to Make and Do. I never made or did any of the things, but I liked reading about them.

I remember Mary Mouse books, shaped like a cheque book.

Enid Blyton.

Bunty, the Railway Children and Children of the new forest among many others

I also read Bunty comic. Used to like the little gifts that came with these comics.

My favourite books were The Secret Seven and Famous Five by Enid Blyton. I used to buy Judy and Beano comics too.

Being a Tomboy I would get my brothers Biggles books & any others I could. Then was so happy to join the local library & get the books I wanted not the ‘girly’ books I was supposed to read according to my school teachers!

Thankyou for this thread, so many happy memories - all my favourites have been mentioned!

I remember Mary Mouse by Enid Blyton. Mary was a giant mouse who looked after Melia, Pip and baby Roundy. Strange stories.

How could I have forgotten sobbing my way through Black Beauty...over and over.

Round about age 6, wall to wall Enid Blyton.

At age 10, an aunt set me off on Gerald Durrell and I was done with Enid.

I loved the Famous Five book, as well as Heidi, What Katie did. At 8 our teacher read a book that was serialised in a magazine ' Children on the Oregon Trial' it was by a Dutch author, translated into English. It became my favourite book and many years later I bought a copy for my eldest grandchild.

My comics were Bunty and Judy but I also read my brothers Topper. Books were Little Women, Ballet Shoes, Heidi, Black Beauty, also the boarding school books by Enid Blyton. I've loved reading since I learned to read.

Wind in the Willlows, The Just so Stories

Others have mentioned all the books I loved, but here are a couple more:
the theatre books by Pamela Brown about a group of young people who start a theatre in an old chapel, and
The Far-distant Oxus by teenage auhors Pamela Hull and Katherine Whitlock, The books are sort of Arthur Ransome but ponies on Exmoor.
Oh, and I forgot The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie, but I think it was really the illustrations that I loved.
Every fortnight, a mobile library would come to our village an absolute highlight. It was ever my ambition to be the driver of a mobile library.

I was always reading as a child . loved all the books mentioned already .Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopedia was a set of ten volumes , invaluable . Anyone remember the Mary Mouse and Roundy books ? Which comic was Gobble Gobble Gertie in ?

I was reading Dennis Wheatley at 8 years old. My reading age was that of a fully grown adult and I found children's books boring so my mum gave me The Ka Of Giffard Hilary and that was that. I was soon onto James Herbert and Stephen King much to the dismay of my teachers who truly believed that I had stolen the books from my parents. When they asked my mum if I was meant to have them they were shocked when she replied 'yes I gave them to her'. I still love horror now.

Milly Molly Mandy
Little Grey Rabbit
Little Grey Men go down the bright stream
Enid Blyton - Adventure series and Famous Five
The Secret Garden
Joan Selby Lowndes, Royal Chase (still read this every year)
Cynthia Harnett, esp The Great House
Malcolm Saville
Monica Edwards, esp the Romney Marsh series
Biggles
Boys and girls of history

Can't remember transition to adult books. Neville Shute perhaps

I did like the Enid Blyton. Secret Seven, Famous Five and I love The Mallory Towers ones.
Also I had The Bunty every week, but I was also fortunate that my older cousin gave me his old comics, which included The Marvel ones. How I wished I had held onto those!

I wasn’t allowed comics, which didn’t bother me much, though I had a secret yearning for School Friend.

I must add The Family from One End Street, and Hans Andersen. Jill’s Gymkhana during my horsey phase. Lorna Hill ballet books - Sebastian was the only male character I ever felt any sympathy with (apart from Just William, of course).

Little Grey Rabbit, Mary Plain, Ballet Shoes and the rest of Noel Streatfeild, What Katy Did and What Katy Did at School. I didn’t discover Anne of Green Gables until later, but would have loved her when I was about ten. I still love her now.

I didn’t like Enid Blyton or Arthur Ransome - how boring those children were compared with the Noel Streatfeild ones!

Many of these books and authors mentioned in this thread, including Alison Uttley's A Traveller in Time which was a particular favourite. I also remember a book set in the Scilly Isles about a young girl who goes on holiday there one Summer. She somehow travels back in time and meets a young Spanish princess - Infanta. The name of the book escapes me but I loved it then.

I loved Misty and Look-In magazines; I'd buy them each and every week and every copy!

I watched my first horror movies when I was 5 .... OMG that was 55 years ago! - It was The Wolfman with Lon Chaney Jr, 1941, and I have loved horror ever since and psycho things.

I had a huge collection of that genre as a kid, and I still do now! I've seen all kinds of horror/psycho films over the years!

Shaun Hutson and Guy N. Smith are two of my favourite authors!

Anything Enid Blyton, but Aurthur Ransom was my absolute favourite, I so much wanted to be an Amazon, I received the first one as a school prize, and then saved all my pocket money for the rest.

When I was about twelve my dad gave me Far from the Madding Crowd to read, that became my next obsession, followed by an obsession for Jean Plaidy, and Anya Seyton.

As a very small child I loved my Mabel Lucie Atwell annual, every year my grandmother bought me a Rupert annual, but I never liked them at all.

I was, and remain, a bookworm, starting with Milly Molly Mandy ( a map in the front of the book, how wonderful), through Noel Streatfeild and The Family from One End Street - does anyone remember them?
However, controversially, I loathed Enid Blyton as a child, and did not read her books to my children .
Several of my grandchildren are loving her, currently!