Books from your childhood... - Page 2

MarkMono · 23rd July 2009, 10:32am

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Oddly enough, I was going to mention those as well - I still have a couple of them in storage somewhere.

The first one's from the 30's are worth a fortune, the sequels from the 70's not so much.

Exit_W0unds · 23rd July 2009, 10:34am

The twits

Runt · 23rd July 2009, 10:36am

I had shit taste in books when I was wee. Nancy Drew, The Hardy boys, The famous five/secret seven, Sweet Valley high....Matilda was the first book I read more than once though and I still love it.
The Faraway tree is still amazing too and Shrubbery Sculduggery by Rebecca Lisle is still the most terrifying book I ever read.

Pier Angeli · 23rd July 2009, 10:47am

Oh I forgot about the Babysitter's Club series! So trashy yet so good.

triggerhappy · 23rd July 2009, 11:02am

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Oh I forgot about the Babysitter's Club series! So trashy yet so good.

Loved these too.

sjonit · 23rd July 2009, 11:06am

I read Commando comics tbh.

Eh also great love for fact and history books. Actually sat reading atlases pure checking out capital cities and populations hahahah.

Any ww2 book, loved it all.

The Continental · 23rd July 2009, 12:28pm

Doctor Who novelisations out the Oxfam for 10p a shot. A boy had to make do in the absence of any video availability. Still love the old Chris Achilleos 70s covers.

Turns out he's still doing private comissions for folk based on the shite new stuff.

Moldiver · 23rd July 2009, 12:32pm

Flat Stanley was the boy!

Jenpot · 23rd July 2009, 2:00pm

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I was obsessed with Enid Blyton books, the first one I ever read was The Secret Mountain. My favourite in the Secrets Series was The Secret Island - I loved the descriptions of how they lived and what they ate!

Loved The Famous Five and the Secret Seven too, and the one where the kids ran away from their terrible relatives and lived in a tree, but I can't remember what that one's called.

Argh! This was my favourite favourite book ever when i was wee, followed by the one where they all lived in a tree and i can't remember what it was called either! I actually thought i'd made that up in my head. I actually still have my original copy of The Secret Island, though the cover has been removed but i've got that too. I thought about re-reading it lately but was a bit worried that it'd ruin it for me.

I loved anything Roald Dahl did aswell when i was a kid, particular favourites being:

bugpowderdust · 23rd July 2009, 2:11pm

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I loved anything Roald Dahl did aswell when i was a kid, particular favourites being:

Ah, Roald Dahl was awesome. His autobiographies 'Boy' and 'Going Solo' were some of the first books I ever read.

Before I was able to read for myself I have very faint but very fond memories of my oldest brother reading Tolkien's 'Mr Bliss' and my mum reading 'The Hobbit' to me.

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Pantgirl · 23rd July 2009, 2:18pm

Ahhh the kids in the tree, rings a bell actually...didnt the tree hide them from people looking from the outside? hmmm

I also loved Enid Blyton, I loved all the animal stores, Cherry Tree Farm being one of them, plus ones like "The Naughtiest Girl in Scool" and "Mallory Towers" were personal favesnof mine. Natch "The Faraway Tree" and the "Wishing Chair" or whatever it was called the chair with wings on its legs? I read "The Secret Seven" as well, never liked "Famous FIve"

Can anyone mind the whole series of stores about these two brother and their dad and they went around the world catching animals for zoos? I loved them as well. Plus "Animals of Farthing Wood" series all the way along and other books by Colin Dam (animal based natch), "Attila the Hen" was a fave as well PLUS loads by this guy who I cannot remember his name at ALL...wait a sec *thinks* aaaah fuck yes, Dick King-Smith, loved all his shit. Also read loads of books in school like the "Sula" series about a remote scottish island and things.

I did read a FUCKLOAD when I was wee, mainly animal based books. Loved em

sylvianorth · 23rd July 2009, 2:36pm

Anything by Judy Blume. Are you There God, It's Me Margaret was a favourite, along with Here's to You, Rachel Robinson (I think that's what it was called).

Pretty Kitty · 23rd July 2009, 2:47pm

Apparently my mum used to hide my Richard Scarry Busy Town book from me because I used to demand to have it read to me every night.
I liked the Wishing Chair better than the Faraway Tree from what I can remember, Enid Blyton rocks muchly.
Had tonnes of point horror books when I was a bit older, despite the fact they were mostly a load of crap.

Oh and those Animal Ark books by Lucy Daniels where alliteration was rampant in every title.

Withnail · 23rd July 2009, 2:57pm

I was all about The Faraway Tree. Although I re-read it recently and it seemed much harsher than I remember from being a kid, which is odd, because normally going back to stuff like that means you have to struggle with the saccharine sweetness.

I was pretty much all about Enid Blyton until I was about 8, started on Secret Seven, went to Famous Five (a minor detour into the Hardy Boys, but very brief), then just started reading anything I could lay my hands on, really.