redbutterfly
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What was your favourite book as a child?Have you ever read this book to your class? Mine was "The Magician's Nephew" by CS Lewis, am reading it now to my class, they are loving it.
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fccwidow
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The magic farraway tree
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tui
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Milly Molly Mandy.
The book belonged to my mother. My daughter loved the stories as well. They are so quaint now.
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jaybee baybee
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I read Heidi over and over again!
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tui
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oh yes Heidi. i loved that as well.
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jaybee baybee
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I read it to my Year 2 children not so long ago - they were spellbound!
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wotsitagain
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I read I am David (my fave book as a child) to my first class. I found it so hard not to cry when David first learns to smile and at the end.
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cherryblossom
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Charlie and the choclate factory ... I havent read it to my current class, but I am reading the BFG at the moment . I love Roald Dahl and I love reading to my class.I do all the voices and everything ha ha
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cherryblossom
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some good ideas here for class readers!
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posingpoodle
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I adored Milly Molly MAndy too- I used to get the omnibus out of the school library every week. Also Pippi Longstocking! x
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smallholder
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Black Beauty, Heidi and Treasure Island. Our ages are showing again.
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jaybee baybee
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bevevans22
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The Secret Garden (for a LONG time - still love it). It was then Little Women (both of my daughters have inherited the love of this).
As a teenager it became Wuthering Heights - still my fave and I read it again every year!!!!
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bluerose
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Also loved Heidi and Famous Five books just loved collecting those and also liked Little House on Prairie when teacher used to read it to us.
Not sure any of those would hit the spot with our kids today though and there are such lovely books to choose from
Did like Secret Garden and little princess too but think may have watched those on TV first.
Wuthering Heights is a good choice as an adult Bev
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kesunder
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matilda- i still have the hardback copy i got for my 9th birthday, complete with 'love from mummy and daddy' written inside it & the kids love seeing it if i take it into school! have read it to classes in the past, but we did charlie and the chocolate factory this time as topic was 'chocolate' (i love that too though and still have my 'original' copy which i read to the children from).
also loved 'goodnight mr tom' when i was a bit older than that.
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posingpoodle
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Moondial- helen Creswell
Nicobobinous- terry jones
the snow spider- jenny nimmo
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smileylady
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Silver Sword - Ian Serrallier. Absolutely adored it- to the extent that I swore my first child would be called Bronja! (Daddy didn't think a suitable name for a boy!)
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redredrobin
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I loved the magic faraway tree, milly molly mandy and the laura ingalls wilder books. My children now enjoy all of them too.
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magpie nic
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I liked too many to choose from so will pick a favourite author instead- Enid Blyton, Secret Seven books, Mallory Towers, Wishing Chair, Faraway Tree etc.
Milly Molly Mandy is fab!
As I got older I also liked Nancy Drew books.
Ones I still like now that I liked as a child are the Water Babies, Peter Pan, Stig of the Dump and The Machine Gunners.
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thehawk
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| wotsitagain wrote: | | I read I am David (my fave book as a child) to my first class. I found it so hard not to cry when David first learns to smile and at the end. |
I remember I am David and being deeply moved by it in Fourth Year Juniors.
Hated Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - drowning in chocolate rivers and gluttony -terrible topics for children's books!
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magpie nic
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I remember having a book read to us at primary school about a boy who survived in a nuclear attack or similar and there were only a few other survivors, who had to go looting to get food etc. Cannot remember what it was called but I know I enjoyed it at the time.
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Titch
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I love Enid Blyton aswell! 
You've not been on the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ride then Hawk!!
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thehawk
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No Titch - it traumatised me for many years.
The CHrysalids by john Wyndham I read as a young teenager - that was brilliant.
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titus4t
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Pat and her polo pony - read it load of times but no idea who it was by; and the little white horse by Elisabeth goudge; plus rafts of Enid Blyton!
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bscaca
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I loved The Faraway tree; Famous five books; Little House on the prairie series; Ballet Shoes and Heidi.
We had a book read to us at school about a mad professor who invented machines but can't remember what it was called. it's th eonly one i can vaguely remember!
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wicked witch
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Used to love Malory Towers and the other set of school books by Enid Blyton then bought every single Chalet school book. I used to dream of being whisked away to go there.
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smallholder
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Wicked witch I liked the malory Towers books too and then like Hawk I really enjoyed John Wyndham as a teenager. ( I wonder if the book you were trying to think of was one of his Magpie?)
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magpie nic
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Ooh, I will check it out, it has bothered me for years that I cannot remember it!
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firefox
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I loved Famous Five and the Adventure series, but my favourite books were the ones with the bittersweet endings - ones that could make me cry.
My absolute favourite was Jenny by Paul Gallico (best known for The Snow Goose) - about a boy, neglected by his family, who is hit by a car and wakes up as a cat..he meets Jenny (a real cat) who teaches him catty ways and ends up falling in love with her, risking his life to save hers.
My next would be the final volume of The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann -Fox Cub Bold. Another bittersweet ending.
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peppery
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My all time favourites have to be the Chalet school series. I have read nearly all of them time and time again.A pleasure now shared with my daughters. I really wanted to go to the school and have to speak 3 languagues fluently
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whoa there pickle
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peppery I loved the chalet series as well!
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smallholder
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I never read them - just wanted to say welcome to the forum peppery!
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souk
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My favourites were Fattypuffs and Thinnifers by Andre Maurois and Follow that Bus by Pat Hutchins- haven't read them to my class though.. think I'd have to re-read Fattypuffs + Thinnifers first and think about the political correctness / steriotypes in it
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souk
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Oops, stereotypes 
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greyengine
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Oh the chalet school. I've got nearly all of them up in the loft - used to love them as a child and came across them again years later.
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magpie nic
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I liked the chalet series too!
But really was just posting to say Souk, I love your avatar!!
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Rainbow_Bright
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| wicked witch wrote: | | Used to love Malory Towers and the other set of school books by Enid Blyton then bought every single Chalet school book. I used to dream of being whisked away to go there. |
Me too, still have them all at Mum and Dad's. Got some hardbacks which I'm planning on selling too as there's no way I'll ever buy a full set of hardbacks now and I could do with the money (discovered one which I bought for £20 10 years ago is worth £100 now so not a bad return!
Still, I'm a signed up member of the fan club and have to admit to enjoying the magazines when they come.
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redredrobin
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I loved the chalet school. I bought my sister a first edition a couple of years ago so she decided she's like to start collecting them - until she found out how much the most popular ones sell for!
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Conker
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Charlie and the Choclate Factory was my most-read book, but I loved reading 'The Hardy Boys' and 'Nancy Drew' books.
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jog_on
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I absolutely loved Enid Blyton books as a young child - I didn't get the racism in them at all...so feel a bit saddened by it now! 
I also loved the Iron Man 
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box.of.frogs
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I loved the Jennings and Darbyshire series by Anthony Buckeridge. We lived way out in the sticks and I couldn't wait for the Mobile Library to come every Wednesday so that I could choose another book.
That's brought back another memory - the smell of the mobile library - pipe tobacco mixed with old books with an undercurrent of manure. I loved it!
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jog_on
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We used to have the mobile library at school too...never understood why though, as to walk to the actual library only took 2 minutes! Rather pointless if you ask me!
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jog_on
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Ooooh...must confess that my secret read as a child was Judy Blume's Forever - how I blushed!!!! 
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Over40
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I used to love reading the Jennings books - maybe I've still got some in a box in the loft and I'll read them again. I've got a lot of the books I enjoyed as a child and I hope my two will also read them but they're not as colourful as modern ones.
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brummie
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| jog_on wrote: | | Ooooh...must confess that my secret read as a child was Judy Blume's Forever - how I blushed!!!! |
I LOVE forever - I re-read it on a regular basis - that bittersweet mix of first love - that you can never replace - and then the grief - and then the heartbreak of first love not working out.....love it.
Didn't appreciate it when I first read it of course - the obsession back then was finding out why Mum's friend who worked in the bookshop wouldn't let Mum buy it for me!
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jog_on
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Ha ha!
I got it from the library when I was in Y6!!! Shocked is not the word to describe me reading certain parts of it!!!
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brummie
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we had a copy in our high school library which was........erm....well thumbed shall we say/
We all knew what was in it so it wasn't quite as shocking for us!
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fccwidow
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I read it in Year 7 borrowed it from school library had read all Judy Blume's books so didn't realise it had naughty bits in it !!! - my mum was furious when she found it and complained to the school !
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