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Hope I am not too late. I just loved Enid Blyton's Famous
Five books especially, Five Fall into Adventure. My two little granddaughters now, are reading and loving them.

My favourite was Smith by Leon Garfield. I was enthralled by the life of a young pickpocket in 18th century London. It had a kind of dark and mysterious excitement that enthralled me as a young child

I have always lobed reading so I have many fav books, but I do remember one in particular. It was called "Tom's Midnight Garden". I can even remember the cover now. It was a paperback and the scene was a house I think and the cover was a sort of greeny black like the dead of night. I loved that book and read it many times. Funnily enough tho, if you asked me what it was about these days, I'm not sure I would be able to tell you. The memory fades as you get older doesn't it? I remember I also had a complete set of the "Little House on the Prarie" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder and loved them as well. I don't think I got rid of either until I had to move years later but as I say, I was an avid reader anyway and always have been - BIG COL1

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

My favourite book was the Narnia series by CS Lewis. I loved the concept and the characters and the fact their were loads of books to read

The wind in the willows I loved to read what was happening on the river bank and what toady and ratty were doing about it

The books i use to love was the famous five books I use to love reading them, and day dreaming I was in adventures with them.

My favourite book as a child was The Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton as it Captivated me with magical wonder all the way through.

Jane Eyre was my favourite as I just loved the story.

I used to love the Faraway Tree books from Enid Blyton so much as a child. Full of great adventures and crazy characters!

It was always a close tie between Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree and L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz.

My favourite was Animal farm I thought it was fantasticly fasinating the relationship between the animals and a superb story relating to communist rule

Watership Down.....book will always be better to film for me, read as a child, re-read as an adult.

Any famous five book by Enid Blyton

I loved rapunzel because I was obsessed with having extra long hair and yes that is the only reason I was drawn in!

I really loved the St Clare's books by Enid Blyton. I always hankered after a tuck box and a big trunk with my name on!

I loved Alice's Adentures in Wonderland. I was captivated by her magical adventures and thet creatures & characters she met. I had a wind-up Jabberwocky toy I enjoyed playing with - our cat was very wary of it though"

My favourite book was the Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. I loved the different characters who lived in the tree and the different lands that appeared at the top

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee - I read this and wrote an essay of it at the age of 13. This book opened my eyes to racial inequality and crime. I learnt so much reading this book.

So many to choose from, and most of them mentioned on here! One that has stuck with me, so much so that I bought an old copy when I saw it on ebay a couple of years ago, was The Girls' Book of Heroines by Arthur Groom. So many inspirational tales of derring-do, from Grace Darling to Charlotte Corday. We based many a school playground game round that book.

Arthur Ransome's Swallows & Amazons. Kids having freedom in the countryside and making up great adventures.

Any Famous Five book by Enid blyton!! Pure Escapism

I loved tom's midnight garden as a child - it was magical

I have always loved books and I must have read so many as a child so it is very difficult to choose a favourite. But, if I had to choose then I think my favourite book as a child would have been The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. This book just fires the imagination and it was lovely to think that there were such friendly creatures living in this magical tree and so many different worlds up there to explore. Even as an adult I still love this book.

I always loved Back Home by Michelle Magorian, it made me cry every time I read it!