Childrens books

[TheOtherHalf]

Talking about the Paddington Bear birthday reminded me of the books we read to our son ( now 32 ). Paddington, Captain Pugwash, Thomas the Tank Engine and his favourite, all the Mr Men series.
When I was young I was into reading Famous Five and Secret Seven.

How about the rest of you ?

[erin-x]

Oh I loved the Goosebumps books! Especially the Give Yourself Goosebumps ones :-)

[Kiki-frog]

Jenna - I was a Malory Towers girl myself. Until I ran out of books and had to follow the fortunes of the O'Sullivan twins at St Clares. Whatever people say about Enid Blyton, she certainly got children reading.

[sophie_1003]

I never had any of those ones! My brother had a Goosebumps boardgame though!

[Eve]

Ahh Mallory Towers too, bringing back so many memories now :) Still trying to remember what the boy detectives were called, around the same time as Nancy Drew and sure they doubled up on some adventures, American too I think.

[sophie_1003]

Weren't there some called the Hardy Boys Jenna? Only know because they were parodied on South Park so may not be right!

[Kiki-frog]

Oooh, Jenna, it wasn't the Hardy boys, was it? I had a couple of Nancy Drew books as a child, and I'm sure there was one that mentioned some boys that were in the same line of sleuthing. There was also a family called the Bobbsy Twins, but I never really got into them much.

[Eve]

The Hardy Boys, that's them, thank you :) Has been bugging me since I saw this :)

[nungate]

101 Dalmatians, I read that over and over - Anything by Enid Blyton, The Wind in the Willows. I enjoyed re-reading them to my daughter when she was little, and we both enjoyed the Little Bear Stories by Martin Waddell, and of course Janet and Allan Ahlberg - I can recite Each Peach Pear Plum from memory! I've kept them all in the hopes that I may have grandchildren to read them to some day, meantime I make do with reading them to my grand nieces.

[DTCwordfan]

nungate - annemarie allan's Breaker, set in North Berwick......

Main character Tom and Beth are not happy when they move there and find themselves facing a rainy, windswept beach, a house that's tumbling down and a school full of strangers.

When they meet Professor MacBlain, with his weird and wonderful inventions, little do they know that he has a secret.........(and it's not a Llama)

[Celticv11]

The fat owl of the remove, what a series. Brilliant

[nungate]

DT, there's a book set in North Berwick? I know it gets a mention in one of Quintin Jardine's books (a very grisly murder) but a children's book set there? Not surprised the main characters didn't like it there, my mother swears that when God created the world he forgot to finish off North Berwick! It is a very pretty little town, though and there a new plans to extend the Sea bird centre so it can take in more of the marine life of the Forth, and there's a great ice cream shop down there too!

[Caran]

Iloved anything by Enid Blyton, Famous Five, Secret Seven, The Adventure series. As she wrote one I bought it. All my birthday and Christmas money went on books. Alos liked the Chalet Girl books. I kept all my books for years but eventually gave them to the local childrens hospital. Years later my daughter arrived and developed a love for reading, especially Enid Blyton so I had to buy them all over again, much harder to find this time though. She has kept all hers and her children now love them too.

[starone]

I cannot remember a time when I could not read. It must be absolutely terrible not to be able to read. If I was moaning I had nothing to do my mother would send me off to the local library to get a couple of books. Some I would read on the way home, don't know why I never fell and would have to go back the next day to get more. I loved fairy tales so borrowed the Red Fairy Tale book, the Blue, the Green, all the colours of the rainbow. I read all the books that have been mentioned and when I got a bit older Sue Barton Student Nurse, etc. The librarian eventually let me go into the adult section when I had exhausted the children's section, although she always monitored what I had picked. I transferred my love of fairy tales to science fiction.

[mike11111]

I can remember joining the children's library in 1955. You were allowed a ticket for one fiction and one non-fiction book. I was only 6 and remember my first book that I took out. I finished it before I reached the end of the street so took it straight back, but they wouldn't let me exchange it until the following day. Later one of my staple diets was the Billy Bunter books of Frank Richards, long since consigned to the dustbin of history as being definitely non-PC. Apart from old copies of the Magnet magazine I suspect that they are no longer in print.

[ummmm]

Folk of the faraway tree's. Loved them.

[shaneystar2]

You must have joined the library the same year as me then Mike :)
I used to haunt it for the Just William books .
I loved Heidi ,What Katy Did ,Little Women ,Black Beauty .My parents used to buy me those childrens classics .I've still got them .
I used to like the Angela Brazil books too.

[mike11111]

I suppose that even at that tender age I was a little male chauvinist. My mother, who I think was rather disappointed with me because she really wanted a daughter, kept pressing me to take out the Katie books, as well as Anne of Green Gables, but I firmly resisted as to be seen with them would be too much of a blow to my young macho pride. I stuck with Just William, Billy Bunter and the Hardy Boys.

[TheOtherHalf]

Lots of great books there folks. Id forgotten most of them, but I have read quite a few. I too used to get 5 out of the library and disappear to find a quiet space in our house. My OH always read bedtime stories to our son and he is a real bookworm now too. Hes hardly ever without a book especially if travelling by train.But he likes the real deep thinking books. Im afraid now I just like light reading
Im sure some of you have these kindle things, but I wouldnt have thought it was the same as holding a good book.
Happy reading............