Charlottechicken Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Folk of the Faraway Tree and the Milly Molly Mandy books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 I loved 'Masquerade' & 'Watership Down' too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Charlottes Web was a huge favourite of mine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 'I'm Tootles the taxi I'll give you a ride, just put up your hand and jump inside Sounds like an RnB song! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Folk of the Faraway Tree and the Milly Molly Mandy books Milly Molly Mandy I had forgotten about them. I loved them - I also loved Enid Blyton's Famous Five. I don't actually remember having the type of access to books that our children are now lucky enough to have or being encouraged to read as much as they are. I think I would have liked to read more. I also remember my mum letting me read Jilly Cooper books when I was quite young I wouldn't let my daughter read them at a similar age Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireG Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Charlottes Web was a huge favourite of mine Ooh i loved Charlottes Web Also loved all the Famous Five, Secret Seven and Mallory Towers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alih Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Sam Pig Little Grey Rabbit ( I still adore these as the pictures are so beautiful) The Family at One End Street Faraway Tree ( ) Ballet Shoes The Little White Horse Narnia stories, all of them many more, happy memories, most of which I have shared with (ie imposed upon) my own kids! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Licken Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Little grey rabbit here as well, Lots of Enid Blyton, Narnia, Arthur Ransome, Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising books were the Philip Pullmans of their time (if that makes sense). Many of them I can happily sit down and read as an adult!! I guess my book choice was influenced by my parents as many of these are vintage!! (especially Hare joins the home guard!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 let us not forget Roald Dahl either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickpea Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 I just loved this and still do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Little Women Charlottes Web Watership Down Danny, Champion of the World Charlie & the Chocolate Factory Oh, and I loved Grimms fairytales - mum bought me a giant book (well it seemed giant when I was little ) packed full of fairytales and I would read them over and over again. I wish I was a kid again...... *sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 A Childs Garden of Verses - Robert Louis Stevenson. I had this from a very young age, the one illustrated by Hilda Boswell - I vividly remember the pictures, they were so fantastical and magical! Even before I could read the pictures fascinated me. I managed to track down and buy a copy from ebay last year. It's very precious - the new versions have such poor illustrations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Just remembered the "Lotta" stories by Astrid Lindgren also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Palmer Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 The Silver Brumby series,Ponies Plot, The Black Stallion Black Beauty Misty of Chincoteague Anything by the Pullein-Thompson sisters (can you see a theme here? ) I loved Misty of Chincoteague and Stormy, Misty's Foal. I've never come across anyone else who's read them! Milly Molly Mandy was the first 'proper' book I ever read. I was obsessed by the Paddington Bear books and still have them all. I was hoping my children might take an interest in them, but they never did. And I read a lot of Enid Blyton. In more recent years reading to my two boys, I really enjoyed the Mog books, Katie Morag and the Tiger Who Came to Tea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looney Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 I loved the Enid Blyton books and Roald Dahl too. I also loved the Church Mice books and the poor ginger cat they used to torment. Another one I remember is Bogwoppit, mainly because of the drawing of Bogwoppit itself with its big eyes. Hence why I call my little boy Bogwoppit! By the way, if you come across a copy of the book they are worth a fair amount of money for an old paperback! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackiepoppies Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 It has to be The Railway Children for me. Jx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dovesville Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 Ladybird books - Piggly plays Truant, Lost at the Fair, Downy Duckling, Ned the Lonely Donkey, the Discontented Pony. Then onto Enid Blyton - The Magic Faraway was just great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 I have just remembered I also loved a book called 'Flat Stanley' anyone remember it?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 when i was really ickle I loved this one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Goodenss, I can remember reading & loving the Silver Brumby books,Black Beauty ........anything horsey actually. . same here, was horse mad too. I especially remember a book about a woman training a young pony, it had a yellow cover and loads of black and white photos, wish i could remember what it was called! It may have been something like 'a pony called .....' off to try and find it on google! ***eta*** wow, managed to trace it on google, it was called 'A summer with Tommy' by Caroline Silver and i read and re-read it, the photos (I seem to remember) were brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 I'd forgotten Milly Molly Mandy, and I had a lot of Enid Blyton books - short stories too. Lots of Noddy books. And how could I forget Richard Scarry? I have a book that is illustrated by him - short stories and poems by a different person - one for every day of the year. My brother had Busy Busy World (Hans the Dutch plumber is the best story there), and my children have had lots of Richard Scarry books too. Children of the New Forest Wind in the Willows Then someone introduced me to Jules Verne books at school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henriette Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Ferdinand the Bull The Velveteen Rabbit The Secret Seven The Famous Five (plus all the Enid Blyton stories) Peter Rabbit - and all the Beatrix Potter stories and thank you Koojie for reminding me of Orlando the Marmalade Cat! I wonder if it is still possible to buy a copy of that one. Would love to have it so I can read it to my grand children Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkysmum Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Enid Blyton, Winnie the Pooh, Paddington Bear & his marmalade Sandwiches, but how I loved Hiawatha, read it day after day. Here's a few lines for you young things " By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water.............................." So beautiful. Ax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 You've all taken me back so many years I loved reading and I know its not correct but I loved the Enid Blyton books - all of them. All the Swallows and Amazons, Lion, witch and wardrobe, Phoenix and the carpet, in fact all the Nesbit books and ................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Henriette - Amazon still do them: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=orlando+marmalade+cat&tag=googhydr-21&index=stripbooks&hvadid=4700858949&ref=pd_sl_2e3rq63b32_b Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
