childhood favourites

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what was your favourite childhood book?

Someone has just sent me "the complete my naughty little sister collection" which is bringing back lots of memories. I also have happy memories of 'we are going on a bearhunt' and 'the hungry caterpillar'. when i got old enough to read alone i was really into Enid Blyton books.

what about you guys?

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The Story Of The Dancing Frog by Quentin Blake

Dont think its very well known but everytime i stayed over at my nans as a kid she would read it to me as a bedtime story. She let me have her copy of it a while ago, good keep sake to have.

I also read The Famous Five books when i was about 10 i think, loved them

Indrid Cold

Tony Wolf's "Woodland Folk" series.

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"Charlotte's Web" - E.B. White

My copy is practically falling apart, I must have read that so many times. I was also really big on the Nancy Drew series for a while, read almost all of them in 2nd grade haha.

**helen**

these threads! Mine were...

The worst witch

The hungry caterpillar

Alfie gets in first

Bread and Jam for Frances

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Flat Stanley.

I can't have anything above my bed in case it falls in the night and squishes me flat. I don't think I have the strength of character that ol' Stan had. Motherfucker posted himself! I'd just sit crying flat tears from my flat eyes...once I'd stopped spooking people by turning sideways that is.

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So long ago

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Stellaluna, a picture book about a bat. The Jolly Mon, a story about a dolphin written by Jimmy Buffet. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh. The last one was given to me by my aunt so I guess it's kind of an heirloom, I absolutely love it

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Infinite Part Deux wrote: »

Flat Stanley.

I can't have anything above my bed in case it falls in the night and squishes me flat. I don't think I have the strength of character that ol' Stan had. Motherfucker posted himself! I'd just sit crying flat tears from my flat eyes...once I'd stopped spooking people by turning sideways that is.

I love Flat Stanley!!!

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where the wild things are - maurice sendak

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Where the wild things are and Hungry Caterpillar were definitely my favourite picture books, and Orlando the marmalade cat.

The big give away being that I can still remember them now.

After that I was an Enid Blyton & Worst Witch fiend.

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We're Going on a Bear Hunt :yes:

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**Summer-Raindrops** wrote: »

when i got old enough to read alone i was really into Enid Blyton books.

me too, my dad used to read to us before bed and we had the faraway tree and the wishing chair. then i went on to reading the famous five and the secret seven myself.

**helen**

omg hi wrote: »

me too, my dad used to read to us before bed and we had the faraway tree and the wishing chair. then i went on to reading the famous five and the secret seven myself.

That's exactly the same as me I used to love mr pink whistle too - quite surreal though I think.

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and mallory towers and st clares

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My dad used to read me LOTR and the Hobbit, i them!

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When I was a kid I loved the Enid Blyton Faraway Tree books and when I was really small I was obsessed with a book called "The lady with the aligator purse" (the well known poem). I used to make my mum check it out of the library every few weeks haha

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There was a book of short ghost stories i used to read as a kid, based on true stories apparently. Something like An Anthology of Ghost Stories, would love to find a copy again. Only story i can remember was The Screaming Skull.

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RubberSkin wrote: »

There was a book of short ghost stories i used to read as a kid, based on true stories apparently. Something like An Anthology of Ghost Stories, would love to find a copy again. Only story i can remember was The Screaming Skull.

google books is useful for hunting down books, http://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&q=the+screaming+skull&btnG=Search+Books

Skive

Discworld.

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second for charlotte's web by eb white.

also.. where the wild things are by maurice sendak. amazing illustrations

not now bernard - because it freaked me out. a really good example that parental neglect can get you eaten by a monster

5 minutes peace?? .. with the elephants!

the cat in the hat

but martin! by june counsel- about an alien called martin.. my brother is called martin so naturally this was a firm favourite.

the puddle lane series.. with the magicians and the puddle that they looked into..and the cats. amazing. especially http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flying-Saucer-Ladybird-Puddle-Lane/dp/0721409121. i remember they made a tv show of the stories which was also so so cool

all of the beatrix potter books

then in my teenagedom i couldn't stop reading anything by judy blume. tiger eyes was my favourite. and any of the books with fudge in.

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I always liked that little kids book about the mom who always took care of her son and then the mother was so old that he carried her up the stairs and cared for her.