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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
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I recently rediscovered The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper, which I thoroughly enjoyed as a kid.
What book/s struck a chord with you when you were young that you’d recommend?
I’m also interested in ideas for my godkids’ birthday presents!! |
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over a year ago
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I was into different book series the older I got. First it was the Horrid Henry series, then it was the Jiggy McCue books, and then the Alex Rider series in my teens.
I also loved The Silver Sword which I credit with my interest in World War 2 history  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Didn’t really strike a chord but I know I used to read Tuppeny, Feefo and Jinks at least once a week as a child! Also was a bit obsessed with the faraway tree books. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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So many but I credit Spike Milligan's Silly Verse books with giving me a lifelong love of poetry and influencing my own sense of humour. Two gifts I greatly treasure. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A lot of these books I still haven't read as an adult once I felt comfortable reading I began reading more about space / dinosaurs / the human body I struggled to find interest in story books but I might have to give some a shot now |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"And Brother's Grimm fairy tales. Sorry, these just keep popping into my head 
Did you ever watch Grim Tales with Rik Mayall?"
Never heard of it, but after looking it up, I wish I did  |
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I stayed with my grandparents a lot as a child before eventually moving in with them in my early teens. My Gran was into all things supernatural and horror films and of course I’d watch them with her. Poltergeist, exorcist, the entity, the birds, shining, village of the dammed, all the classic horrors. All before the age of 10. I remember I was never afraid either. I remember her buying me a collection of books that I was fascinated by. Worlds worst murders, worst crimes, worst crimes and worst disasters. There was stuff about titanic, the Holocaust, Jack the Ripper and all things like that. Think that has stayed with me to this day because I got a bit obsessed with the Holocaust stuff. I remember stealing a vhs video from school cos they only showed is clips in one history lesson and it was a film called escape from Sobibor (Sobivor?h I watched it all at home and returned it the next day!
I watch all mutder documentaries and serial killers and all kinds of stuff so suppose my early years formed that. |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
The Weathermonger by Peter Dickinson.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.
A Pilgrim's Progress (children's edition) by John Bunyan.
The Famous Five stories.
A Sooty, Sweep and Sue colouring book. |
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"I stayed with my grandparents a lot as a child before eventually moving in with them in my early teens. My Gran was into all things supernatural and horror films and of course I’d watch them with her. Poltergeist, exorcist, the entity, the birds, shining, village of the dammed, all the classic horrors. All before the age of 10. I remember I was never afraid either. I remember her buying me a collection of books that I was fascinated by. Worlds worst murders, worst crimes, worst crimes and worst disasters. There was stuff about titanic, the Holocaust, Jack the Ripper and all things like that. Think that has stayed with me to this day because I got a bit obsessed with the Holocaust stuff. I remember stealing a vhs video from school cos they only showed is clips in one history lesson and it was a film called escape from Sobibor (Sobivor?h I watched it all at home and returned it the next day!
I watch all mutder documentaries and serial killers and all kinds of stuff so suppose my early years formed that. "
You're correct with Sobibor. It was in Poland. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"And Brother's Grimm fairy tales. Sorry, these just keep popping into my head
Did you ever watch Grim Tales with Rik Mayall?
Never heard of it, but after looking it up, I wish I did "
Don't worry! They are on Youtube and it's never too late dude! |
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The Readers Digest atlas of Great Britain. Seriously.
Being dyslexic kind of turned me off reading books because they were too hard. But maps I could tottally read and understand. Maps are logical, ordered and reliable. Something I took a knee intrest in as a kid. I could spend hours in an atlas planning routes and imagining what places are like and where I should stop off along the way. This love of maps was spotted by my parents and my dad who was very intelligent and dyslexic too taught me everything I needed to know (to be fair I would bug him to share his knowledge with me). From the age of 10 I was doing all the route planning and navigation on our frequent road trips around the country. I absolutely adored my road atlas as kid. I was a strange kid, to be fair I'm an odd adult.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"And Brother's Grimm fairy tales. Sorry, these just keep popping into my head
Did you ever watch Grim Tales with Rik Mayall?
Never heard of it, but after looking it up, I wish I did
Don't worry! They are on Youtube and it's never too late dude!"
So they are! Know what I'm watching tonight. Sleep's overrated anyway  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have all the books I loved as a kid... The House at Pooh Corner, The Wishing Chair and The Magic Faraway Tree books were my favourites... And the books we read at school too... Loved Cider with Rosie |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I was a sucker for the Steve Jackson/Ian Livingstone 'Fighting Fantasy' books, the 'choose you own adventure' type where the end of each page took you to a different part of the book depending on your choice, some you win, some you lose. |
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"There was a horse series i adored .. I can't remember the name of it now  "
The Saddle Club? Used to adore those!
Also anything by Beatrix Potter, Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton. I loved Charlotte's Web, The Sheep Pig, the Mallory Towers series. The Worst Witch. I spent most of my waking hours (including those where I was meant to be asleep) with my head in a book. I used to have a secret torch for bedtime reading |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"There was a horse series i adored .. I can't remember the name of it now
The Saddle Club? Used to adore those!
Also anything by Beatrix Potter, Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton. I loved Charlotte's Web, The Sheep Pig, the Mallory Towers series. The Worst Witch. I spent most of my waking hours (including those where I was meant to be asleep) with my head in a book. I used to have a secret torch for bedtime reading "
I had a torch and used to read for hours under the sheets
I alao loved the secret garden +faraway tree..then as a teen, Dune + lord of the rings /the hobbit |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
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"The Readers Digest atlas of Great Britain. Seriously.
Being dyslexic kind of turned me off reading books because they were too hard. But maps I could tottally read and understand. Maps are logical, ordered and reliable. Something I took a knee intrest in as a kid. I could spend hours in an atlas planning routes and imagining what places are like and where I should stop off along the way. This love of maps was spotted by my parents and my dad who was very intelligent and dyslexic too taught me everything I needed to know (to be fair I would bug him to share his knowledge with me). From the age of 10 I was doing all the route planning and navigation on our frequent road trips around the country. I absolutely adored my road atlas as kid. I was a strange kid, to be fair I'm an odd adult.
Mr Misfit"
We had a huge Readers Digest World Atlas including geography, stars and planets. I loved that book. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"And Brother's Grimm fairy tales. Sorry, these just keep popping into my head
Did you ever watch Grim Tales with Rik Mayall?
Never heard of it, but after looking it up, I wish I did
Don't worry! They are on Youtube and it's never too late dude!
So they are! Know what I'm watching tonight. Sleep's overrated anyway "
Enjoy! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The Moomins have a surreal quality I've always loved. Timeless and universal.
Oh yes, I loved The Moomins too."
Oxfam have a great range of Moomins gifts at the moment if you know any young fans. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"There was a horse series i adored .. I can't remember the name of it now
Black beauty ?
No it was wild ponies.. Omg its gonna drive me insane
Google.....children's book series with horses  "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I love the Enid Blyton books. The wishing chair, the faraway tree.. Great classics "
I still have these and bought them for my granddaughter.... Oohh loved James and the Giant Peach too! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Moomins have a surreal quality I've always loved. Timeless and universal.
Oh yes, I loved The Moomins too.
Oxfam have a great range of Moomins gifts at the moment if you know any young fans."
Went to Finland with work once, flew into Turku, they may as well have called it Moomin Airport, in fact I think there was a Moominland nearby; They're awfly proud of their Moomins the Finn's |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
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"The Moomins have a surreal quality I've always loved. Timeless and universal.
Oh yes, I loved The Moomins too.
Oxfam have a great range of Moomins gifts at the moment if you know any young fans."
All my grandchildren are too old for Moomins now. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Moomins have a surreal quality I've always loved. Timeless and universal.
Oh yes, I loved The Moomins too.
Oxfam have a great range of Moomins gifts at the moment if you know any young fans.
Went to Finland with work once, flew into Turku, they may as well have called it Moomin Airport, in fact I think there was a Moominland nearby; They're awfly proud of their Moomins the Finn's "
Now I want to go to Moominland ! Will take my old Nokia phone with me. |
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"oor wullie
the broons
Still love them to this day "
Yes, I got one every year for Christmas. The alternated them year about.
Also read Enid Blyton but my absolute favourite was a ladybird book, Snow White and Rose Red. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"oor wullie
the broons
Still love them to this day
Yes, I got one every year for Christmas. The alternated them year about.
Also read Enid Blyton but my absolute favourite was a ladybird book, Snow White and Rose Red. "
Yes they do that till this day I still get one every year off my gran as a Xmas present lol
I remember a ladybird book in the school library |
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"oor wullie
the broons
Still love them to this day
Yes, I got one every year for Christmas. The alternated them year about.
Also read Enid Blyton but my absolute favourite was a ladybird book, Snow White and Rose Red.
Yes they do that till this day I still get one every year off my gran as a Xmas present lol
I remember a ladybird book in the school library "
Grans are the best!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"oor wullie
the broons
Still love them to this day
Yes, I got one every year for Christmas. The alternated them year about.
Also read Enid Blyton but my absolute favourite was a ladybird book, Snow White and Rose Red.
Yes they do that till this day I still get one every year off my gran as a Xmas present lol
I remember a ladybird book in the school library
Grans are the best! "
They are that lol |
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By *gent CoulsonMan
over a year ago
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Treasure Island was one of the first books I read, followed by the three musketeers and the man in the iron mask, I read most of the Sherlock Holmes stories by the time I was 14, I discovered Agatha Christie and Ian Fleming at about 16 |
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Wormball. It was the charming story of a worm-like creature that was addicted to consuming spherical objects. Each time it ate, it grew bigger.
In the end it grew so big that it was decided to put him on a rocket and send him off to the moon.
The final line, which I’ll never forget, was something like, ‘…..if you ever look up into the night sky and see a crescent moon, you’ll know that Wormball has arrived.’ |
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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was my first book. I still have it somewhere.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach was my second book, which I still have.
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was the third book, which I also still have.
Sadly the person who gave them to me 40 years ago is no longer with me, but her literal gifts continue to live on and inspire to this very day. |
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
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I LOVED the Mallory Towers series by Enid Blyton.
Also enjoyed the series of books about two twin cheerleaders in an American High School but can’t remember the names now. Full of romance and teen angst! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"And Brother's Grimm fairy tales. Sorry, these just keep popping into my head
Did you ever watch Grim Tales with Rik Mayall?"
I.used to.love it and that one that John Hurt did, think it was the storyteller |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I had "Danny, champion of the world" read to me at school by a great teacher. Closed my eyes and it was like watching a film in my head. Stuck with me, one of my fondest childhood memories |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The Happy Prince by Oscar wilde. I cannot read it without crying lol. Same with the Velveteen rabbit. Tales of unconditional love and sacrifice get me every time |
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Like LeoBlooms I loved Spike Milligan - there was something so anarchic about his poetry that it really sparked my imagination.
I loved the What Katy Did series, particularly What Katy Did at School, in spite of its saccharine moralizing.
I loved The Hobbit and the Weirdstone of Brisingamen, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for fantasy.
I also liked stories about people who were a bit different (Flat Stanley, or Mrs Pepperpot), and I really enjoyed the way Roald Dahl had a bit of darkness in his books. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I LOVED the Mallory Towers series by Enid Blyton.
Also enjoyed the series of books about two twin cheerleaders in an American High School but can’t remember the names now. Full of romance and teen angst! "
Sweet valley high! I’d forgotten about that one, loved it |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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The Selfish Giant and The Happy Prince, both by Oscar Wilde. My great grandmother would read them to me as I sat by the fire and I remember losing myself in the rich, evocative language.
Later I loved His Dark Materials, Harry Potter, Goosebumps, The Worst Witch. The Hobbit. All of the Narnia books. The Princess Diaries, Earthsea. Lots of books. |
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I started off with the famous five, then moved onto the wild magic series by Tamora Pierce, then Northern Lights series by Philip Pullman, this lead into Point Horror books and started my love of James Herbert |
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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago
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"I love the Enid Blyton books. The wishing chair, the faraway tree.. Great classics "
I loved all of those as well .And the lion the witch and the wardrobes as well.
I also got a book from my parents for Christmas when I was 9 called tales of magic and enchantment which I still have to this day. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Some I remember well:
Bears in the night
Wind in the willows
The Hobbit
Nania "
How could I forget Narnia. Then I saw the TV series.. Still in love. Some books you never grow out of |
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"Loved the famous five, and the lion,the witch, and the wardrobe.still read all the time now, fantastic way to relax,other than fucking x"
Omg the lion,the witch, and the wardrobe! I loved and breathed those books.. I won't tell you how much time i spent fumbling around in wardrobes desperately trying to find a secret door |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Some I remember well:
Bears in the night
Wind in the willows
The Hobbit
Nania
How could I forget Narnia. Then I saw the TV series.. Still in love. Some books you never grow out of "
Oh yes, absolutely LOVED the whole series |
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"As a child I really loved Roald Dahl books. As a teenager I read lots of the Point Horror or Point Romance books. "
I love the Point Horror collection books but their so hard to find now but there is a version for adults on Amazon |
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Millie Molly Mandy
Born Free
The Secret Garden
Magic Faraway Tree series
...all very old style England these days.
Books I've thoroughly enjoyed reading to my kids, who've loved them too:
Katherine Rundell - Roof Toppers, The Wolf Wilder
Simon Nicholson, Young Houdini
All Eva Ibbotson books, particularly Journey to the River Sea, the Abominables
Michael Buckley, The Sisters Grimm series
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By (user no longer on site)
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One of my favourite Christmas presents was a hard back book that contained the start to a load of stories, the aim of encouraging you to find and read the full book
Gave me my love of the chronicles of narnia and the little house on the prairie series |
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By (user no longer on site)
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There was Moonfleet, all the Enid Blyton Famous Five and Secret Seven then Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Also read the classic books like Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe before I reached my teens |
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Too many to mention but I still have most of them. Disney story book like Herbie Rides Again or The Strongest Man; Hans Christian Andersen; Enid Blyton - secret seven, famous five, St Claire’s, the wishing tree set; the secret garden; Chronicles of Narnia; collections of classic fairytales or European tales like Heidi, The Three Shoemakers. We lived abroad so a lot of books came from the penguin book club via school, we’d pick two from the catalogue and they’d arrive about a month later, that was always a good day at school.
Around 8/9 I got into history, thanks to my dad’s books which I’d sneak a look at when he wasn’t around, along with sci fi and fantasy. So the Hobbit, lord of the rings which progressed into James Herbert & Stephen King on my 12th Birthday. Plus adventure books where at the bottom of the page you decide which page to go to next. Dickens came into my life around this age to and I got lost in Victorian world, Great Expectations, Tale of Two Cities. Along with Dracula, Frankenstein and alike thanks to my grandmother. The lighter side of my reading was Asterix, Tin Tin & Snoopy, I never got on with traditional girl / female fiction
It’s been great rereading some of these lately as my mum delivered three boxes of my books just before lockdown from the 70s, invoking some lovely memories of past times…. but damn the print was small back then even in children’s books. |
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Books by Roald Dahl, Dick King-Smith, the Animals of Farthing Wood series, the Redwall series. Getting older Judy Bloom and the classics like The Borrowers.
Fell in love with Terry Pratchett books when I read Truckers, Diggers and Wings. Think it's called the Bro_eliad trilogy. Led me to the Discworld for which I am forever grateful.
I read any book I got my hands on to be fair. Some crazier than others. Robin Jarvis books still give me the willies.
There's some great new writers too. The Percy Jackson books and Artemis Fowl books are pretty good |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The worst witch books! Anything fantasy like the hobbit. We used to go to a cute little bookshop that had books that weren't that popular. I remember reading one called Waldorf and the sleeping granny which I re-read over and over and a book called Obernewtyn by Isobel Carmody. |
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Oh, so many. Always loved a good mystery - Famous Five, Nancy Drew, then onto Agatha Christie. Roald Dahl - particularly Boy and Danny, champion of the world. School stories - Worst Witch, St Claire's, the Chalet School and Trebizon series. Ramona Quimby, Judy Blume, Sweet Valley High. Many a happy hour spent choosing with the book tokens I got for Christmas!
Mrs TMN x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I must have been a dull child.
The observer book of birds.
The observer book of butterflies and moths.
The Guinness book of records.  "
Not at all ! I loved factual books like those and also encyclopedias. |
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"I must have been a dull child.
The observer book of birds.
The observer book of butterflies and moths.
The Guinness book of records. "
Reference books were always great. I’ve still got my two volumes of encyclopaedias from the mid 70s. One year I got given the red bound 24 piece set, I was in heaven.
Loved an i-spy book too, always had one on the go and ticking things off |
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"Oh, so many. Always loved a good mystery - Famous Five, Nancy Drew, then onto Agatha Christie. Roald Dahl - particularly Boy and Danny, champion of the world. School stories - Worst Witch, St Claire's, the Chalet School and Trebizon series. Ramona Quimby, Judy Blume, Sweet Valley High. Many a happy hour spent choosing with the book tokens I got for Christmas!
Mrs TMN x"
What was the naughty Judy Blume one? I got in SO much trouble for getting that out of the library. |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Oh, so many. Always loved a good mystery - Famous Five, Nancy Drew, then onto Agatha Christie. Roald Dahl - particularly Boy and Danny, champion of the world. School stories - Worst Witch, St Claire's, the Chalet School and Trebizon series. Ramona Quimby, Judy Blume, Sweet Valley High. Many a happy hour spent choosing with the book tokens I got for Christmas!
Mrs TMN x
What was the naughty Judy Blume one? I got in SO much trouble for getting that out of the library. "
Do you mean Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret…with Ralph? |
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In addition to others already mentioned, I liked the Lone Pine series by Malcolm Saville. Similar kind of adventure/mystery stories to the Famous Five and Secret Seven, but all set in real places, mostly around The Long Mynd in Shropshire. One day I will actually visit the area. |
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"Oh, so many. Always loved a good mystery - Famous Five, Nancy Drew, then onto Agatha Christie. Roald Dahl - particularly Boy and Danny, champion of the world. School stories - Worst Witch, St Claire's, the Chalet School and Trebizon series. Ramona Quimby, Judy Blume, Sweet Valley High. Many a happy hour spent choosing with the book tokens I got for Christmas!
Mrs TMN x
What was the naughty Judy Blume one? I got in SO much trouble for getting that out of the library.
Do you mean Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret…with Ralph? "
Yes! So risqué |
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All of the roald dahl books, fantastic mr fox was my favourite. Goosebumps, sweet valley high, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, mercedes ice, kasper in the glitter. I’ve not got stuck into a good book in too long. |
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"I was a sucker for the Steve Jackson/Ian Livingstone 'Fighting Fantasy' books, the 'choose you own adventure' type where the end of each page took you to a different part of the book depending on your choice, some you win, some you lose."
I loved these! I managed to find some for my kids too and they love the fe aspect of the book! |
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"My favourite book as a kid remains my favourite book to this day, Danny The Champion Of The World, by Ronald Dahl.
This is one of my favourites. I also love "Boy" and "Going Solo". "
Oh, yes! My top three too. Did anyone read "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar?" Loved those short stories x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Some great and forgotten reads some to revisit!!
The rats of Nimh
Lord of the flies
Little women
Gulliver travels
Black beauty
Bride of the wilderness
Boy in the bubble |
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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago
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I think I was 7 or 8. I'd read all of Roald Dahl by then. One day the teacher made everyone pick a book from a bunch which she had chosen. One of the last ones left was quite a substantial book to my young mind. I opened it and the text was smaller than I was used to. The cover was of some children and stood next to a lion. It looked boring as hell! No wonder nobody had picked this book. The other remaining books would probably have only taken me two days to finish but as I was a voracious reader I stuck to my boring looking lion book.
A few days later I told my teacher what I had read. It is an amazing book I told her. I can't believe nobody else in class has read this story.
I think it might have been the first time I felt I had a profound experience from reading once I had reached the last page. That book was The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe. |
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“Did anyone read "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar?" Loved those short stories”
I tried to do the same experiment but stopped when I thought I’d burnt my eyes out! |
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Let me add a few more:
Arthur C Clarke
H G Wells
Georgette Heyer (when I was 13)
When I was reading Heidi, I made my sister sit in the garden and eat bread and cheese with me |
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"The Readers Digest atlas of Great Britain. Seriously.
Being dyslexic kind of turned me off reading books because they were too hard. But maps I could tottally read and understand. Maps are logical, ordered and reliable. Something I took a knee intrest in as a kid. I could spend hours in an atlas planning routes and imagining what places are like and where I should stop off along the way. This love of maps was spotted by my parents and my dad who was very intelligent and dyslexic too taught me everything I needed to know (to be fair I would bug him to share his knowledge with me). From the age of 10 I was doing all the route planning and navigation on our frequent road trips around the country. I absolutely adored my road atlas as kid. I was a strange kid, to be fair I'm an odd adult.
Mr Misfit
We had a huge Readers Digest World Atlas including geography, stars and planets. I loved that book."
Providing it has lots of pictures in it I'm sure it would have been right up my street. I still many buy books with pictures. Especially photographic history. I analyse and pick apart photos to death. They tell you so much. |
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Many years ago an aunt bought me A Childs Garden Of Verse. I loved it and read it over and over again. One verse i learnt and can still say it all now.
I still have the book, plus a modern version |
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