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I have always enjoyed reading, but I particularly remember
'The Black Tulip', author Alexander Dumas. This work of literature has certainly stood the test of time. I read a copy when I was fourteen years of age during the English class at the senior school which I attended. I am now an o.a.p. which goes to prove just how much I enjoyed the book.

Nowadays, I wonder about the Alm Uncle in Johanna Spryri's Heidi stories. They were magical.

I loved the Malory Towers series.

Years later we drove past Roedean, the posh girls boarding school in Sussex. There stood Malory Towers by any other name....! At least, going by EB's decription.

I have tried re reading them fairly recently. Ugh!

I was and still am absolutely mad about James Herriot i have read and own all the books and plan to go and holiday in ‘herriot’ country very soon. The call of the Yorkshire Dales in the 50s is so appealing but must have been a hard way of life living in the high nooks and crannies of the Pennines in the deepest winter. I feel another herriot reading session coming on.....

Pippi Longstocking, I was there with her living through all her fantastic and outrageous adventures .

Hard to pick just one as I loved so many different books as a child. The 7 Little Australians & The family at Misrule by Ethel Turner because they belonged to my Grandfather & then my Dad. (Not dissimilar to Little Women). The Swish of the Curtain by Pamela Brown; I wanted to act . And of course I wanted to be Heidi living up a mountain with Grandfather and Peter! I still have all these books ...

I loved the Malory Towers series by Enid Blyton. Our teacher banned us from reading her books, but I think it was a way of getting us to read what was forbidden fruit! I used to believe that boarding school would have been wonderful. Little did I know the truth would have been different from fiction.

It would be Richmal Crompton’s “William the conquerer” for me, I just loved the anarchy and the way that the boys absolutely ran rings round Violet Elizabeth Bott (was there ever a more hateful, insipid female antagonist?)

The Heidi books.
Her adventures seemed a world away from anything I ever did growing up.

I used to the Heidi books. Her adv

I absolutely loved reading as a child (still do) and it was a real escape for me. Adored all Enid Blyton stories especially Magic Faraway Tree & Wishing Chair. But my all time favourite book is The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe

Snugglepot and Cuddlepie by May Gibbs because it was the only book I was allowed to bring with me from Australia.

The Bobbsey twins when I was younger, it was family life with adventure

The Far Away Tree was my favourite (by Enid Blyton), it just seemed so exciting (but also, sometimes a bit scary), to be able to climb a tree and be in a different land each time.
I liked the rest of the series as well, but it he Far Away Tree was definitely my favourite

My favourite childhood book was The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley. It was given to me by my much loved grandmother and read to me by my father who always explained to me the moral lessons for life outlined throughout the story. These have stayed with me over my 72 years. Good old Mrs Do as you would be done by!!

I loved "The Water Babies" by Charles Kingsley. I was about 6 and I cried. I've just ordered it to read again. It was magical.

I loved the Malory Towers books and literally couldn't put them down whatever I was meant to be doing! I was a day pupil at a boarding school and loved to read about boarding school life, it seemed such fun!

I loved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as a child. I always imagined being able to eat as much sweets and chocolate as you could without being told off!!

The Witch of Redesdale by Winifred Finlay. Probably the start of my fascination for thrillers!

The Secret Garden. I love how Mary and Dickon bring both the garden and Colin back to feeling alive.

Black Beauty was my favourite and I just bought another copy to enjoy

Black Beauty. I won it at primary school and loved it.

Yes “telly “ The secret garden was the first book that got me hooked into reading .... I remember it so well ....
Imagination took you to “ another world “
Those were the days when a Christmas present of a book,was a marvellous present ....

my favourite book as a child was the enchanted wood by enid blyton my dad would sit and read it to me every bedtime and its one of my most happiest moments.

The Faraway Tree series (Enid Blyton), because the stories transported me to another world. And amazingly, they are my grandson's favourites as well, with no input from me! So good old Enid Blyton, politically correct or not - still captivating young minds!