Favourite books you read as a child
Discussion
A lot of memories here
Enid Blyton, Narnia, Lone Pine Club, Swallows & Amazons, Biggles.
To which I might add:
Rev. Awdry - Thomas the Tank Engine series.
Hackforth-Jones - Green Sailors series.
Edit I see Biggles has already been checked.
Enid Blyton, Narnia, Lone Pine Club, Swallows & Amazons, Biggles.
To which I might add:
Rev. Awdry - Thomas the Tank Engine series.
Hackforth-Jones - Green Sailors series.
Edit I see Biggles has already been checked.
Edited by jet_noise on Tuesday 8th November 17:53
pidsy said:
Alan Garner - The Weirdstone Of Brasingaman.
Fantastic book - I try and read it once a year even now. It takes me back 30 years to reading it In English lessons at school.
Yes I remember enjoying that and it's sequel 'The Moon of Gomrath'. Apparently he wrote the third in the series in 2012 though I haven't read it.Fantastic book - I try and read it once a year even now. It takes me back 30 years to reading it In English lessons at school.
'However black the night, the Brollochan is blacker'
'The Chrysalids' by John Whyndham is another favourite, and one I have reread several times as an adult.
pidsy said:
Alan Garner - The Weirdstone Of Brasingaman.
Fantastic book - I try and read it once a year even now. It takes me back 30 years to reading it In English lessons at school.
Also left an impression on me.Fantastic book - I try and read it once a year even now. It takes me back 30 years to reading it In English lessons at school.
Going a further back, Richard Scarry's Great Big Air book, and further back still, The Little Porridge Pot.
Later on on childhood/ adolescence - Moonfleet, Tom's Midnight Garden, The Children Of Green Knowe.
And then for some reason, a book I always mean to go back to, which isn't a child/teen book at all, but read some of it at that time - I Michaelangelo, Sculptor.
I had a few of the Thomas the Tank Engine books but they didn't survive through life with me - I bought a modern box set of them, reproduced as they were in their original small book format though.
Just WIlliam
Jennings
Biggles
Billy Bunter
All those from my Dad's collection and stored back then at my Nan's. All long gone I think (those 1950s Just William books go for eye watering prices now).
Enid Blyton - Noddy, then the Secret Seven, then the "Wishing Chair" books. I never liked the Famous Five for some reason.
I found the James Bond books at my Grandad's and read those (I was between 8 and 10). I remember the description in From Russia With Love of Bond's fingers touching Tatiana's nipple "raised with desire" - my first exposure to eroticism, although I had no idea at that age why it was so fascinating!
I used to read loads of encyclopedia and things like that - "fact" books.
Survive The Savage Sea by Dougal Robertson somehow came my way before I hit my teens and that book always lodged in my head. Another lost to time but I found a copy of the same edition with the same dust jacket in recent years.
Just WIlliam
Jennings
Biggles
Billy Bunter
All those from my Dad's collection and stored back then at my Nan's. All long gone I think (those 1950s Just William books go for eye watering prices now).
Enid Blyton - Noddy, then the Secret Seven, then the "Wishing Chair" books. I never liked the Famous Five for some reason.
I found the James Bond books at my Grandad's and read those (I was between 8 and 10). I remember the description in From Russia With Love of Bond's fingers touching Tatiana's nipple "raised with desire" - my first exposure to eroticism, although I had no idea at that age why it was so fascinating!
I used to read loads of encyclopedia and things like that - "fact" books.
Survive The Savage Sea by Dougal Robertson somehow came my way before I hit my teens and that book always lodged in my head. Another lost to time but I found a copy of the same edition with the same dust jacket in recent years.
I loved 'My Book about Me' by Dr Zeuss. So much so I got copies for my kids. It's a sort of interactive thing, like how many stairs are in yur house? How many windows? How many steps to your nearest postbox? And so on.
As an older kid I read over and over 'Around the world in 80 days'. I've used it as an example of logic ever since - using the right mode of transport for the environment you're in i.e. use the right tool for the job.
As an older kid I read over and over 'Around the world in 80 days'. I've used it as an example of logic ever since - using the right mode of transport for the environment you're in i.e. use the right tool for the job.
mikebradford said:
I used to read the Fighting Fantasy books.
You had to roll dice to see what decisions you made, then turn to the corresponding page.
Read most of them and was lucky enough that school had a few in the libary.
I bought a boxed set of the first ten FF books to see if my son liked them. Sadly they don’t hold the attention like they did when we were small. You had to roll dice to see what decisions you made, then turn to the corresponding page.
Read most of them and was lucky enough that school had a few in the libary.
I used to read like mad as a kid, mostly books from a previous generation like
Biggles books..... used to collect them, picking them up at jumble sales for pence
Kings of Space series by WE Johns
Arthur Ransome books
Secret 7 and famous Five
The Narnia books
Thunder and Lightnings
The Machine Gunners
Eagle Annuals
Plus I used to get a weekly comic Started off as Valiant, then Action, Then Battle Action
Jennings
Really enjoyed the Tripod Trilogy as well.
Biggles books..... used to collect them, picking them up at jumble sales for pence
Kings of Space series by WE Johns
Arthur Ransome books
Secret 7 and famous Five
The Narnia books
Thunder and Lightnings
The Machine Gunners
Eagle Annuals
Plus I used to get a weekly comic Started off as Valiant, then Action, Then Battle Action
Jennings
Really enjoyed the Tripod Trilogy as well.
Edited by eccles on Sunday 20th November 16:34
One of the first books I ever read was 'The Last Voyage of the Albert Ross'. I remember really enjoying it!
First proper book I read was 'Winters Hawk', the third of the Firefox books, but I had no idea it was the same character. Massive tome to me at the time!
The Hornblower series was extremely enjoyable. I still read them to this day.
First proper book I read was 'Winters Hawk', the third of the Firefox books, but I had no idea it was the same character. Massive tome to me at the time!
The Hornblower series was extremely enjoyable. I still read them to this day.
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