Books that you loved as a child.

[snapper_37]

Enid Blyton, particularly St Clares, Malory Towers and Famous 5.

 

[Wigsie]

Anything by Roald Dahl (Georges Marvellous Medicine was my favourite).

Also Wilbur Smith books (When the Lion Feeds etc)

Plus the usual suspects for kids of the 80's and earlier Adrian Mole, Diary of a Teenage Health Freak, anything by Tolkien etc etc

 

[longers]

The Magic FarAway Tree, Swallows and Amazons and the Dr Doolittle books for me.

I keep meaning to re-read the last two as I'm not averse to a kids book every now and then.

 

[AdamBlade]

Roald Dahl books were/are great. Just bought my 6 year old son Revolting Rhymes and he loves it.

Probably my favourite book used to be Flat Stanley.

 

[Renard]

Swallows and Amazons (probably Missie Lee or We didn't mean to go to sea, the books in the series were better than the title/ first one).

 

[red_tom]

Did anyone else read The Goalkeeper's Revenge? Some great stories in there.

 

[Renard]

Biggles for me.

I read some Biggles books a couple of years ago at my son's insistence and found them still a good read

 

[Brains]

I'm Swallows & Amazons and Famous 5 as well

 

[Arch]

all of the "Adventure" books by Willard Price
..

Me too. I have a complete set now! They are actually dreadful - formulaic, and in places verging on racist or at the very least patronising. But stuffed full of facts, and I love facts.

Tintin.

And Wind In the Willows, still my favourite book now.

 

[Wigsie]

Swallows and Amazons (still read them now)
various Enid Blyton books
all of the "Adventure" books by Willard Price
.. and probably hundreds of others ...

I remember one about with a Tiger in the title/on the cover that I loved to bits and it led on to my obsession with the Courtney series of Wilbur Smith books.

 

[goo_mason]

Professor Brainstawm. I had a couple of these on record. Excellent stuff!

I loved those - recently bought an old 1950s edition of one in an antique kids' bookshop.

I read sooo much as a kid that I can barely remember individual books or series. But the ones I can were the "Alfred Hitchcock & The Three Investigators" series, and the "Stainless Steel Rat" books by Harry Harrison.

 

[MickL]

Wind in the Willows and the original Winnie the pooh. Then 2000ad comics

 

[swee'pea99]

The Cay stands out in my memory - delighted to discover on googling that it's still in print.

Can anyone suggest any 'next' books for a not-particularly-confident 13 year old who got into reading thru' Harry Potter but now can't seem to move on?

 

[ChrisKH]

I loved those - recently bought an old 1950s edition of one in an antique kids' bookshop.

I read sooo much as a kid that I can barely remember individual books or series. But the ones I can were the "Alfred Hitchcock & The Three Investigators" series, and the "Stainless Steel Rat" books by Harry Harrison.

Likewise, and without prejudice or judgment. I read anything. Problem is in those days there weren't as many children's books and I quickly switched to those of a more adult theme. A few I recall reading were some T.S. Eliot poetry when I was very young (9/10), The Exorcist (William Peter Blatty), A Clockwork Orange, hundreds of Readers Digest books, A Christmas Carol, the entire Encyclopedia Britannica and a book called "Night of the Mist" by Eugene Heimler. Probably as a result of my uncensored reading I developed an almost unhealthy interest in Witchcraft and the Supernatural. Watching "The Devil Rides Out" when I was eight didn't really help matters either.

 

[Llama]

Danny the champion of the world and the enid blyton five find outers for me