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Malory Towers by Enid Blyton, well loved family hand me downs that saw me through a summer or two, also Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame, an unbeatable taste of the wonder filled British countryside.

“Little Black Sambo” - a small book - ending I think with the words ‘.....and didn’t little Black Sambo look grand”. This tells you my age (86) - it wouldn’t be allowed today! I was brought up in a different world and lived in India until I was 12!

Winnie the Pooh - all volumes, I still have the original books I read as a child. His outlook on life is even more applicable to todays hectic life, take time out to sit and hum...……....

I read the Whiteoaks series of books by Mazo de la Roche. I lived with that family in Jalna for most of my teenage years. Wonderful.

I’ve always loved reading and Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes stands out in my mind as a book that moved me as a young teen.

I read any by the brontes and yes Black beauty though i wasnt particularly horse mad- also call of the wild too was a favourite.But i loved all things Charles Dickens and still dip into them now& again.ive always encouraged my kids& grandkids to read voraciously even my teenager son loves actual books occasionally.(no mean feat in this 'techy' age)

Mine is black beauty.

I loved all the Enid Blyton Books and read them over and over again

The Secret Garden - a really lovely story

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.

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

It has to be the Famous Five books by Enid Blyton

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.

Watership Down - I was obsessed with rabbits!

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 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.

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!

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

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

The Water babies by Charles Kingsley. Interesting and absorbing.

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

One of my favourite books was Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables was one of my favourite books

Anne of Green Gables was a favourite book