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We also had on Sunday teatime the classic serial on BBC, this made me want to read quite a few of the books.

Can still see a young Melvyn Hayes sitting on stairs in a derelict house in The Silver Sword in the 1950s.:-D

Our son loved Moonfleet, read the book and then watched the serial on TV - which he criticised when they left out bits.

Daughter loved Paddington and Winnie the Pooh, she now reads all about concrete and mathematics - she's a civil engineer. :-S

I ALSO READ THE WHAT KATY DID BOOKS,LORNA DOONE,
IT WAS AT A CERTAIN AGE YOU READ A BOOK OF THAT AGE ERA ,WE HAD NO LIBRARY ,BOOKS WERE BORROWED OR BOUGHT AT JUMBLE SALES,I DID READ LADY CHATTERLY AT A YOUNG TEENAGE AGE,BUT DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT LOL,WE DIDNT HAVE A TELLY TILL LATE,RADIO WAS ONLY ENTERTAINMENT SO TAME COMPARED TO THESE DAYS.

This was one of my favourites, it was a birthday present when I was 10.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1691408.Elizabeth_of_the_Garret_Theatre

DET


I was trying to think of the name of that series involving a ballet dancer ........ I read most of those books, but can't for the life of me remember either the author or the name of any character!


I'd forgotten Neville Shute and John Wyndham.

In my later teens and early 20s, i read almost all of Dennis Wheatley's books. I particularly enjoyed his series involving the Duc de Richleau and Gregory Sallust

Holds hand up to the Chalet school series! There was another boarding school series with a girl called Dempsey (or something like that) as the main character.

Can't for the life of me remember the character or author's name, but a series of books about 4 young people who opened a theatre - one of them was a (ballet) dancer.

Probably read some of the Famous (number) books but by the time I found them, they seemed too immature.

Most of my reading memories were from age 11 upwards when I had easier access to the library in town. My mum may have taken me in before then to choose books during the school holidays on Shopping Day. Although there might have been a library in the village, I can't remember it.

Like some others on here, I'd soon read all I wanted to out of the children's section and graduated to the Adults - Neville Shute, Agatha Christie mysteries, John Wyndham etc.

Strangely, I never read Stig of the Dump when a child even though it was written by a local author and published while I was at primary school. It's dedicated to a friend's brother. Their farm was opposite Clive King's parent's. The dramatisation on TV a few years ago really annoyed me. The book is based in Kent, not somewhere north of the Watford Gap - the accents were all wrong!!!!

I too liked What Katy Did and what Katy did next..also Louisa M Alcott.
Never much into Enid Blyton.
Did anyone get Girls Crystal?
I loved it and the Annual.My mum read it after me,

'course you're weird :-D

Oh dear, am I weird again - I hated Enid Blyton's books :-|

I used to read all of Enid Blyton's books, swallows and amazons, the Chalet school series,


I found this on the web ................

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www.chaletschool.org.uk/

Friends of the Chalet School, or FOCS, is a club for those who love the Chalet School books, and other titles, by Elinor Brent-Dyer. This website is designed to ...

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I think I had read every book that interested me in the children's section of the local library by the time I was about 12 or 13 ............ and persuaded them to give me an adult card!

I was reading Nevil Shute, the Saint, etc before that as my brother had some of the books

I loved the Jalna series, Agatha Christie ....... I read anything and everything I could get my hands on!

I read everything by Enid Blyton, and was given the first Swallows and Amazons book for my 8th birthday. I read the whole series as they were published!

I also liked the Chalet School series, and the country dancing ones were the Abbey School books. I seem to remember that the characters in those books actually grew up, left school and married.

I read Little Women etc., What Katy Did etc, and at the age of about 12 discovered Agatha Christie. I always had my nose in a book, and my mother was always telling me to go outside and play!! :-( :-( :-(

I loved anything by Enid Blyton and the Chalet school books, swallows and Amazons etc. not sure when I stopped reading them though and moved on to Jalna and other books by Mazo de la Roche and then books by Nevil Shute, probably when I was twelve.

well when I was a WW2 evacuate from SE London to Tunbridge Wells in Kent in 1939 foster aunt had a revolving bookcase in her front room

Was a great source of books that every time i looked at them I found one I had missed

She had several Billy Bunter the Owl of the Remove books that were illustrated and i read these over and over.

As I got older I read the Enid Blyton ones the famous five etc and some Louisa M Allcott ones too

Auntie was a big reader as much as she could be in WW2 and she encouraged me too .

For many years after WW2 when I went back home to my family in London I got an annual sent to me for my Christmas pressie from her and uncle

I have her to thank for my interest still in reading <3 <3

I never read Enid Blyton - well not after the first one :-|

My first really enjoyable book, when I was 10, was 'The Red Pony and other Stories' by John Steinbeck.
I then went on to read all of John Wyndam's books and a few H G Wells.
My daughters read my books after the age of 9. I know they wanted to read my Tom Sharpe books - Porterhouse Blue etc, but they had rude covers so were on the top shelf of the bookcase. They still read them - usually when I wasn't looking!!

Last year, when my grand daughter was eleven, the parents were asked to recommend a book for their child to read.
My daughter gave grand daughter 'The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night Time'.
She loved it - says it was the best book she had read!! :-
She knew about autism., and said this gave her more understanding, as well as being a good story.

I think we should be grateful children are still reading!!!

I used to read the Cherry Ames books starting with Student Nurse and progressing to higher ranks. Also loved Famous Five, Secret Seven and many others.

You're right Dizzi - we were a lot of innocents weren't we? I used to like the school books like the Mallory Towers series. The only thing was that I used to get really annoyed because the horrid prefect was always called Vera!!

I also used to read a series of books about country dancing but I can't remember anything about them now except the main character was a girl called Jenny Wren and she always wore brown skirts and red jumpers.

My 12 year old granddaughter would think these very babyish.

THANKS ROSE
COULD NEVER REMEMBER HIS NAME,

Timmy :-)

WAS LOOKING AT SOME BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE 1950'S AND TRIED TO COMPARE WHAT I READ AT ELEVEN
TO WHAT MY GRANDDAUGHTER READS NOW AT ELEVEN.
SHE'S PAST THE SCHOOL TYPE BOOKS AND IS READING HER MUMS AND MY BOOKS AGATHA RAISIN SHE LOVES,NOW I WAS STILL READING ENID BLYTON BOOKS,SO INNOCENT EVEN THE FAMOUS FIVE THEY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A SWEAR WORD WAS OR WHEN TO USE IT,BOTTLES OF POP
AN A BISCUIT ,AS FOR NOW I DREAD TO THINK IF I GAVE HER AN ENID BLYTON BOOK TO READ...............NOW WHAT WAS THE DOGS NAME.