What Was Your Favourite Book as a Child

[said]

What was the best book you ever read when you were young?

I read a good few books - but one that remains in my mind is Dick Turpin. I fancied riding across the countryside on a big black stallion and playing hide and seek with the law.

As I grew older, I decided that I wanted to be a medical Doctor - so I read everything to do with human biology that I could find, I really enjoyed reading these - but not one of those books, not one - mentioned that people bleed a lot when injured! I feel sick when I see blood - so there was a quick career change.

What was your favourite read?

[Hamble]

I had a new one every few months.

Heidi -ended in tears when mother found mouldy bread under my bed.

Pippi Longstocking- stuck my plaits up with hair spray had asthma attack.

Famous Five- I befriended some Travellers living in a caravan in Southport.

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[Toodles McGinty]

I had a new one every few months.

Heidi -ended in tears when mother found mouldy bread under my bed.

Pippi Longstocking- stuck my plaits up with hair spray had asthma attack.

Famous Five- I befriended some Travellers living in a caravan in Southport.

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Good job you didn't read 'The Tiger That Came To Tea' .

I loved the Famous Five books. Bothered my parents until I had them all. Wish I still had them.

I remember the very first book I got from the library. It was called 'The Egg' and I can still see the front cover. My Mum was a librarian, and I was so proud of my first library card. I must have been about 3 or 4. Been an avid reader ever since.

Loved 'Stig of the Dump' and the Chronicles of Narnia too.

[whiplash]

My parents did not read to me.
But we read a lot of Winnie the Pooh to the kids when they were little
30 odd years ago.

[thediscovolante]

What was the best book you ever read when you were young?

I read a good few books - but one that remains in my mind is Dick Turpin. I fancied riding across the countryside on a big black stallion and playing hide and seek with the law.

As I grew older, I decided that I wanted to be a medical Doctor - so I read everything to do with human biology that I could find, I really enjoyed reading these - but not one of those books, not one - mentioned that people bleed a lot when injured! I feel sick when I see blood - so there was a quick career change.

What was your favourite read?

as a child at school we had and read the sven hassel books about ww11 it was always about the german miltary conflicts...a great read
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[Hamble]

Good job you didn't read 'The Tiger That Came To Tea' .

I loved the Famous Five books. Bothered my parents until I had them all. Wish I still had them.

I remember the very first book I got from the library. It was called 'The Egg' and I can still see the front cover. My Mum was a librarian, and I was so proud of my first library card. I must have been about 3 or 4. Been an avid reader ever since.

Loved 'Stig of the Dump' and the Chronicles of Narnia too.

I better you wanted to be George?

[jamyramy]

as a child at school we had and read the sven hassel books about ww11 it was always about the german miltary conflicts...a great read
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on the thread jules verne thousand leagues watership down,absolutly all stuff about underwater exploration and space,all things medical and anything about creatively making.

[*concerned*]

Can't really remember any novels read as a young child, but I do recall spending hours and hours reading through Arthur Mee's Childrens Encyclopaedias

[Ceam]

Animal farm or Of mice and men.

[Alikado]

I had a new one every few months.

Heidi -ended in tears when mother found mouldy bread under my bed.

Pippi Longstocking- stuck my plaits up with hair spray had asthma attack.

Famous Five- I befriended some Travellers living in a caravan in Southport.

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So it's your fault the Travellers are constantly coming to plague Southport to look for you, I better go down and point them to Bury!

[Toodles McGinty]

I better you wanted to be George?

I was a bit of a tree climber and knee scuffer as a kid. But no I didn't want to be George or any of them. I just wanted to go to Kirrin Island with them. And be allowed to go off for days on adventures.

I might read them again, see how they've aged. Though the 'Comic Strip' versions have probably ruined them for me.

[Hamble]

So it's your fault the Travellers are constantly coming to plague Southport to look for you, I better go down and point them to Bury!

I have just looked at a map of the area now which looks quite different.

The land was waste and quite hilly bordered by Crowland street the railway line and perhaps Fine Jane's Brook.
In those days I remember there being only one old brick building on the side now with plumbing supplies and car parks.

[Peter the Pig]

What was the best book you ever read when you were young?

I read a good few books - but one that remains in my mind is Dick Turpin. I fancied riding across the countryside on a big black stallion and playing hide and seek with the law.

As I grew older, I decided that I wanted to be a medical Doctor - so I read everything to do with human biology that I could find, I really enjoyed reading these - but not one of those books, not one - mentioned that people bleed a lot when injured! I feel sick when I see blood - so there was a quick career change.

What was your favourite read?

Biggles by Capt. W. E. Johns. I flew that many sorties and never got shot down. Until I got chased off to bed!!

[goingplaces]

Enid Blyton ...Magic Faraway Tree, Mallory Towers, Twins at St Clares.
Louisa M Alcott ...Little Women
Red Shoes ????
Black Beauty .....Anna Sewell???? I think
Mayor of Casterbridge ....Hardy

[Alikado]

Biggles by Capt. W. E. Johns. I flew that many sorties and never got shot down. Until I got chased off to bed!!

+1 I think I must have read them all, WW1, WW2 and adventures all over the world. I've got an omnibus book with about 3 stories in but the grandsons look at me funny when I suggest reading them, they can't believe that I (or anybody else) could read them.