General Chat

My first "favourite" author was Enid Blyton. I used to listen to my Dad reading Noddy stories to my younger brother.
When I was able to read for myself and loved The Famous Five books.
Like RamblingRose I read Little Women etc.
Then I discovered Anne of Green Gables.

This was the first series of books I read where the title person grows up in each book. Anne starts as a young child and eventually becomes a married woman with teenage children.

I also read Agatha Christie by aged eleven.

Tess

"The Chalet School' series by Elinor Brent-Dyer springs to mind :) and 'Little women', 'Good wives', 'Jo's Boys' by LM Alcott I still have.

What were your favourite books as a child? A few of mine, to start off...

Of course I read a lot of Enid Blyton, as we all did back then, and especially liked the St Clare's books.

'Treasure Island' was another favourite; I loved to imagine myelf as Jim Hawkins, fighting Israel Hands onthe deck of the Hispaniola, or hiding in the apple barrel listening to the pirates' talk.

I loved Alan Garner's books, especially 'The Owl Service', which was also my first introduction to The Mabinogion.

Another favourite, though not a children's book, was Neil Munro's 'Para Handy Tales'. I still re-read it regularly, and love its gentle humour.

I also still have a very old copy of Joseph Jacobs's 'More English Fairy Tales' with its wonderful illustrations by John D. Batten. How I wished I could draw like he could!