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16:14
Thu 26 Aug 10
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Vladimir
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Please let us know what are the books you most remember from your childhood…
Mine were:
Fighting Caravans – Zane Grey (western novel for children)
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Eagles Start Flying Early (Orlovi rano lete) – Branko Ćopić (childrens' novel about partisan war in Yugoslavia)
Read them all few times, usually when off sick from school, with high temperature making the literature even more exciting…
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16:32
Thu 26 Aug 10
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koshkha
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A few of the books I most remember from my childhood:
'The Phantom Tollbooth' by Norton Juster – a fantastic fantasy world of weirdness
"When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" by Judith Kerr – a young girl has to flee from the Nazis and is forced to choose he favourite soft toy to go with her.
"Thursday's Child" – Noel Strefield – fab story of an orphan working on the canals.
The book for which I most wish I could remember the title and author was something like "The House of Forty Fathers" which was set in Korea or Vietnam but I have never been able to track it down.
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9:46
Fri 27 Aug 10
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eilidhcatriona
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I remember lots – I was a very prolific reader.
Early years – Roald Dahl. My dad would read them to me, and was upset when I learned to read and he had no excuse to read them any more! I loved Danny Champion of the World, The BFG and Fantastic Mr Fox.
Enid Blyton – I started with The Faraway Tree stories, but soon devoured everything I could, Malory Towers and the Adventure series being favourites.
I loved the Redwall series by Brian Jacques, Redwall and Mattimeo being my favourites. but there were lots about these animals who lived in an Abbey. They were great, good characters and good stories, and of course cute talking animals!
Joan Lingard is another author who stands out in my memory. Her novels about Northern Ireland taught me a lot anout the issues there, starting with The Twelfth Day of July. I also learned about WWII and Latvia from her novel Tug of War.
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17:20
Mon 30 Aug 10
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cheeryscientist
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My favourites were:
'Heidi' by Johanna Spyri
'The Little Prince' by A. de Saint Exupery
'Winnie the Pooh' by A. A. Milne ('No one can be uncheered by a baloon' :-))
The order is random and the latter two I am re-visiting to this day, many decades later :-), and never fail to get a buzz, or warm feeling, or another thought from them.
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I loved 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit' too.
Other Favourites: The Faraway Tree books by Enid Blyton, The St Clare books by Enid Blyton (always liked them better than Malory Towers…think it was the twin thing), The Flossie Teacake books by Hunter Davies, The Secret Garden, What Katy Did, My Naughty Little Sister, anything by Louis Duncan, Judy Blume and Paula Danzieger
Sorry no particular order there!
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22:55
Fri 10 Sep 10
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jeffjen
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I loved Enid Blyton, I progressed from The Magic Faraway Tree to the Famous Five and Mallory Towers. Other books I really enjoyed when very young was Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess and Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl.
As I got a little older I loved Joan Lingard's The Twelfth Day Of July and the follow up books. They made a lasting impression on me as did The Diary of Anne Frank.
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15:39
Tue 21 Sep 10
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elkiedee
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koshka, The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert Dejong is set in China under Japanese occupation, and is still in print, available on Amazon etc. I used to have it but don't now.
Of those mentioned, I also loved When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and The Other Way Round – there is a 3rd volume now but I've still to read it. I also liked Joan Lingard's Kevin and Sadie books (and also her Maggie series). Fantastic Mr Fox was my favourite Dahl.
I also loved Joan Aiken's stories – The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and three featuring Dido Twite. Between my childhood and her death in 2004, Aiken wrote lots more books in this series and I've recently read the whole lot. Still recommended, as are her short stories, many featuring a mixture of magic and the everyday. A number of them scattered through several collections feature Mark and Harriet Armitage.
And Diana Wynne Jones – my favourites were Charmed Life and the Ogre Downstairs, but I also reread Dogsbody recently and thought it was great.
Ooh, Little House series, Anne of Green Gables, and the series, just sooo many.
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21:23
Tue 28 Sep 10
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Mother Hen
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Enid Blyton – Amelia Jane Stories and the Mysteries Series (Rat-a-tat Mystery was one, rest escape me atm!) The Boy Next Door, Mr Galliano's Circus series, and the Secret Seven (never got on with the Fives!)
Teacher used to read to us at end of day on Fridays – Eve Garnett, The Family from One End Street, Meindert de Jong, The House of Sixty Fathers, and Eric Kastner, Emil and the Detectives…
and so many more!
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