Your favourite book as a child
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- Proper kid- Harry the Dirty Dog.
- First book I remember reading for my own enjoyment- The Rats of Nimh.
- Young teen- the Hitchikers Guide. I remember being in crying fits of laughter on multiple occasions. I wish I could still find things that funny now!
glazbagun said:
- Young teen- the Hitchikers Guide. I remember being in crying fits of laughter on multiple occasions. I wish I could still find things that funny now!
I laughed-out-loud whilst at Uni reading the first bunch of Discworld novels...but yeah, as you get older you definitely get more boring...
AB said:
Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 3 3/4 
Yeah, that's a damn good book, one I can recall from primary school, THe turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler, also Weirdstone of Bringsingamen and Erik the Viking by Terry Jones, also Watership Down, but fave, hard to say, The Hobbit probably, but I just loved stories about myths.Several books stand out from my childhood.
First as a young child, pre-reading stage:
Thomas the Tank Engine by Rev W Audrey, steam locomotives were a common sight when I was a young child and we sometimes travelled by steam train to reach our holiday destinations – Weymouth or our family in Somerset.
Noddy Meets Father Christmas and Noddy at the Seaside – charming illustrations in both books and I was always fascinated by the panoramic view of Toytown, constructed as if from multi-coloured, geometrical shaped, wooden blocks, on the frontispiece and endpiece.
Rupert the Bear annuals – fantastic out of this world places and characters, the bird kingdom in the clouds, the Chinese conjurer, etc.
As a young reader:
Biggles and the Black Peril and other Biggles adventures by WE Johns, Winning his Spurs and St George for England by GA Henty (available to download for free or to read on line at Project Gutenberg).
I also enjoyed reading my sisters Secret Seven and Famous Five books by Enid Blyton.
As an older reader:
Hornblower series by CS Forester, Jennings and Darbishire series by Anthony Buckeridge, Sherlock Holmes short stories, Kim by Rudyard Kipling.
But the best book memory for me is The Victor Book for Boys that I received at Christmas from 1964-1966, scanned copies available for download from here:
https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2015/04/18/vic...
First as a young child, pre-reading stage:
Thomas the Tank Engine by Rev W Audrey, steam locomotives were a common sight when I was a young child and we sometimes travelled by steam train to reach our holiday destinations – Weymouth or our family in Somerset.
Noddy Meets Father Christmas and Noddy at the Seaside – charming illustrations in both books and I was always fascinated by the panoramic view of Toytown, constructed as if from multi-coloured, geometrical shaped, wooden blocks, on the frontispiece and endpiece.
Rupert the Bear annuals – fantastic out of this world places and characters, the bird kingdom in the clouds, the Chinese conjurer, etc.
As a young reader:
Biggles and the Black Peril and other Biggles adventures by WE Johns, Winning his Spurs and St George for England by GA Henty (available to download for free or to read on line at Project Gutenberg).
I also enjoyed reading my sisters Secret Seven and Famous Five books by Enid Blyton.
As an older reader:
Hornblower series by CS Forester, Jennings and Darbishire series by Anthony Buckeridge, Sherlock Holmes short stories, Kim by Rudyard Kipling.
But the best book memory for me is The Victor Book for Boys that I received at Christmas from 1964-1966, scanned copies available for download from here:
https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2015/04/18/vic...
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
The book that changed me from a child of 11 to a grown up.
However in keeping with the general leaning of the title, A Christmas Carol - and I still keep a copy on my bookshelf now and read it again most December's leading up to the big event.
The book that changed me from a child of 11 to a grown up.
However in keeping with the general leaning of the title, A Christmas Carol - and I still keep a copy on my bookshelf now and read it again most December's leading up to the big event.
The Man Who Lived In Inner Space by Arnold Federbush
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2153729.The_Ma...
The Giant Under The Snow by John Gordon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giant_Under_the_...
Jaws
Had read them all by the age of 10 in 1975, still have them as well. The first one is not too easy to get hold of now and its seems there may have been a movie made about the 2nd. Ill need to look that up.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2153729.The_Ma...
The Giant Under The Snow by John Gordon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giant_Under_the_...
Jaws
Had read them all by the age of 10 in 1975, still have them as well. The first one is not too easy to get hold of now and its seems there may have been a movie made about the 2nd. Ill need to look that up.
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