Champion Dog Prince Tom since it inspired me, as all good children’s books do. I could relate to having to overcome odds to do what you love so i think i must have cried ten times while reading it.
Who still has their original copies of their favourite books? I still have my Little Women and Heidi Grows Up. And 10 volumes of Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopedia!
I’m making a list of books mentioned here – I wasn’t a reader as a child. I’m trying to make up for that now.
All of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books.
All of the Secret Seven books, also The Chronicles of Narnia and Paddington Bear
Black Beauty and Little Women.
Five go to Demon’s Rocks by Enid Blyton
I wanted to be Harriet the Spy!
Roald Dahl the twits and Charlottes Web and Secret Seven
Milly Molly Mandy!
The Wind in the willows
Loved Milly Molly Mandy, had forgotten that!
I’ve put some Milly Molly Mandy stories on my Kindle for my granddaughter. Not quite the same as the lovely old books.
I live in the U.S. And MMM is unheard of here. I found a boxed set at a charity shop for 50p on a recent trip home. Can’t wait to reread!
Nancy Drew
Amelia Bedelia. lol Seriously, one of my favs….too many to just name one! Wind in the Willows and had a copy of the original Pippy Longstocking. 😀
Champion Dog Prince Tom since it inspired me, as all good children’s books do. I could relate to having to overcome odds to do what you love so i think i must have cried ten times while reading it.
famous 5 secret 7
The White Cat by the Comptess de Launay. I just loved the story and this version was beautifully illustrate!
Quest of the sea eagle by Sheila Brathwaite. Managed to get a copy of it a few years back. Made my day. Thank you Amazon 🙂
Enid Blyton Famous Five
The Secret Garden
@Heidi
Who still has their original copies of their favourite books? I still have my Little Women and Heidi Grows Up. And 10 volumes of Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopedia!
Anything by Enid Blyton
Heidi
Read the others two Heidi grows up.and Heidi’s children
What Katy Did
Books were better then than they are now for children
Little women and when much younger winnie the pooh and Beatrix potter books
Loved Little Women too. Make great me want to re read them all.
I remember enjoying Sea Cat and Dragon King. Also enjoyed the Series of Unfortunate Events books.
Rupert annuals 🙂
Charlie bones
The babysitters club
James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr Fox, Danny Champion of the World. Wonderful Roald Dahl.
Far away tree, Enid Blyton , showing my age, I just loved it
Anything by Enid Blyton 🙂
The Giving Tree and probably the Ramona Quimby books
The magic faraway tree 🙂
Peter Pan
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Heidi.
Mary Plain books The Creature at Green Knowe.
The Pheasant Shoots Back, J. F. Faulkes.
Heidi
The Folk of the far away tree.
The jolly postman and the minpins
A Rupert annual that I used to devour when I went to stay with my grandparents. Still trying to track it down today 🙂
Little Women and the Enid Blyton books
The adventures of huckleberry finn by mark twain
Call of the wild and white fang
The Paddington books, they’re were the main books my mom would read to me before bed and they have a special place in my heart now.