Favourite books you read as a child

Favourite books you read as a child

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p1doc

3,111 posts

183 months

Monday 7th November 2022
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i remember series of fantasy books from my childhood in 80's normlly started with medieval people down on their luck near an old fairie monument and ended up crossing over for adventures very nordic but cannot remember the name anyone any clue?

Fastchas

2,640 posts

120 months

Monday 7th November 2022
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Buffy & The Teacher Eater.
He invented his own machine that ate his teachers, I think. Had a bit of 'Roald Dahl' about it.

jet_noise

5,630 posts

181 months

Tuesday 8th November 2022
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A lot of memories here smile
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

7,959 posts

156 months

Tuesday 8th November 2022
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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.

droopsnoot

11,812 posts

241 months

Tuesday 8th November 2022
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jet_noise said:
Rev. Awdry - Thomas the Tank Engine series.
Yes, I'd forgotten about those, I'll still have them floating around somewhere.

generationx

6,645 posts

104 months

Tuesday 8th November 2022
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droopsnoot said:
jet_noise said:
Rev. Awdry - Thomas the Tank Engine series.
Yes, I'd forgotten about those, I'll still have them floating around somewhere.
Yes they were a classic. I had a complete set of the first 26(?) and could virtually recite them from memory! Found them recently…


Super Sonic

4,518 posts

53 months

Tuesday 8th November 2022
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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.
'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.

ReverendCounter

6,087 posts

175 months

Tuesday 8th November 2022
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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.

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.

Flip Martian

19,507 posts

189 months

Thursday 10th November 2022
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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.

sinbaddio

2,357 posts

175 months

Thursday 10th November 2022
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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.

FourGears

270 posts

54 months

Thursday 10th November 2022
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Meg and Mog
Topsy and Tim

Then once a bit older

Hardy Boys
Secret Seven
Famous Five



toasty

7,441 posts

219 months

Thursday 10th November 2022
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Star Wars was probably the one I read the most until I eventually got a copy of the film.

TwigtheWonderkid

43,248 posts

149 months

Sunday 20th November 2022
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The Moomin books by Tove Jansson

Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

278 months

Sunday 20th November 2022
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Famous Five
Hardy Boys
RL Stevenson - Kidnapped, Treasure Island
RM Ballantyne - The Coral Island
Walter Scott - The Talisman, Ivanhoe
Tolkien

s m

23,164 posts

202 months

Sunday 20th November 2022
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Stig of the Dump

HRL

3,330 posts

218 months

Sunday 20th November 2022
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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. frown

eccles

13,721 posts

221 months

Sunday 20th November 2022
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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.


Edited by eccles on Sunday 20th November 16:34

Digger

14,591 posts

190 months

Sunday 20th November 2022
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Does Razzle count?

rasto

2,188 posts

236 months

Sunday 20th November 2022
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s m said:
Stig of the Dump
This, plus:
Susan Coopers Dark is Rising series
John Christopher Tripods trilogy
Famous Five and Secret Seven when I was younger
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Kes Arevo

3,555 posts

38 months

Sunday 20th November 2022
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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.