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Books we loved when we were children...
Thought it might be fun to hear each others.
i loved all E Nesbitt and except for the Secret Seven, Enid Blyton
The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (made me sob for about 5 days)
Moonfleet,
Little House on the Prairie,
Biggles,
Anything by John Wyndham,
All 5 of Narnia (or was it 6?) up to The Last Battle anyway the Magician's Nephew a favourite
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle
The Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin
Anything by Alan Garner
When Marnie was There, Joan G Robinson
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Malory Towers (EB)
John Wyndham
A A Milne
Princess Tina annuals
The Secret Garden
Little Women
Followed by: Black Beauty and Little Women (got so upset when Jo chose to marry Professor Bhaer instead of Laurie)
Progressed to anything by John Wyndham and Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
I used to borrow any and all books about animals - especially African stories - from the library.
Bunty Annuals
Heidi
Little Women
Tolkien
Oliver Twist
Jane Eyre
Secret Seven
Adventure series
Billy Bunter
Jennings
Horsey books eg Jill’s Gymkhana and all that series
Malory Towers
Dandy Annual
Beano Annual
When very young I was addicted to Milly Molly Mandy. I still have my 1949 copy (Santa brought it) of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Child's Garden of Verse." Progressed to "The Girl" comic and also read my brother's "Eagle". Later on I got hooked on "Jackie". After that I grew up a bit (sort of).
Wind in the Willows
The Family at One End Street
Archie and Mehitabel - Don Marquis
Agatha Christie
Enid Blyton - like the Secret Seven and Adventure series more than Famous Five
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
H G Wells - the Time Machine and Other stories
Under Milkwood
Great Expectations
all of the series from Little Women onwards
Everything I could lay my hands on - I was ill for long periods and books were everything
So I started with the usual suspects...The Secret Seven
Mallory Towers books
Famous Five
The Water Babies
The Diamond in the Wondow
Tom’s Midnight Garden
The Secret Garden
The Narnia Chronicles
Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit/The Silmarillion
Alice Through the Looking Glass
The Three Investigators series presented by Alfred Hitchcock a BIG favourite
Oliver Twist
A Christmas Carol
Great Expectations
Classic ghost stories - remember loving Edgar Allen Poe
Horror - Peter Straub, Frank Herbert, Clive Barker
Must have read every Stephen King book by my late teens
Seem to remember liking The Water Babies. Some of the morals could well apply today. Later, of course, Arthur Ransome books.
Coral Island
The Molesworth Series
Winnie The Pooh
Now We Are Six
The Wind In The Willows
Alice In Wonderland
Just So Stories