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Swallows and Amazons for me, I so wanted to be having such adventures

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. I know the first paragraph still by heart.

We didn’t have the money for me to have riding lessons and I would cycle around the lanes with my horse loving friend visiting all the horses in their fields. I booked my first riding lesson as soon as I got my first pay packet.

HEIDI every time.My best friend and I read these books avidly. We still share close reading preferences and books. Now her DGD has just named her first child Heidi plus my friends name!

Black Beauty and the Silver Brumby series excellent.

The Secret Garden. A lovely tale of friendship and acceptance. A joy to read.

I read just about every book that featured horses. Black Beauty being a favourite. Plus all the Famous Five books.

Used to love the Secret Seven novels by Enid Blyton.

I was a horse nut so Black Beauty

Anne of Green Gables was a favourite book

Anne of Green Gables was one of my favourite books

One of my favourite books was Anne of Green Gables

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I loved it so much I bought a copy for my granddaughter when she was born!

The Water babies by Charles Kingsley. Interesting and absorbing.

The Lion , the witch and the wardrobe simply fired my imagination and even now I love a novel set amidst the winter snow and ice

I had a beautifully illustrated copy of Heidi which I absolutely loved. Still love mountains. Not so keen on goats though.

I liked the Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit books, I loved all the stories and would read them over, they made me smile, my favourite being 'Mrs Tiggywinkle'. I read them to my grandson and tell him tales of my childhood .. timeless!

Watership Down by Richard Adams, I saved all my pocket money up so I could buy a hard back illustrated edition which is beautiful and still have it today. Loved the story and all the characters.

The Children of the New Forest by Captain Marryat, all about children surviving alone in the forest in the 1600s, Cavaliers and Roundheads, wonderful stuff, started off my love of history.

Watership Down - I was obsessed with rabbits!

My favorite was Enid Blyton. My mother was widowed and left with four of us so money was very tight. She worked very hard to keep us fed and clothed. Went without herself. My book was read and reread until it virtually fell to bits. I was in another world when reading it.

It has to be the Famous Five books by Enid Blyton

I read so many books as a child but "Little Women" was my favourite.

As a child, my favorite books were French, the T.Trilby collection, full of wonderful princes and so on in exotic settings, Vietnam, Ruritania... As an adolescent, it was Gerald Durrell's "My Family and Other Animals"

I loved and read over and over The Railway Children by E. Nesbitt as a teenager. I don’t really know why but I think it probably had something to do with the children’s strength in adversity.

The Secret Garden - a really lovely story