Favourite Books or stories from childhood.....

[Heather74]

Always preferred The Secret Seven over the Famous Five for some reason.

The Five Findouters were hilarious I really did use to LOL reading them.

[spuggybridge]

Always preferred The Secret Seven over the Famous Five for some reason.

[spuggybridge]

Loved the Narnia books as a child along with Doctor Who, The Oz books and Tim and the Hidden People books.

[George 1978]

Some of my favorite children's story authors early on included the de Brunhofs(authors of 'Babar' series); Richard Scarry; Norman Birdwell ('Clifford'); H.A. Rey('Curious George');, Gene Zion('Harry' the dog); and 'Dr. Seuss'.

Richard Scarry's name popped into my head just now and thus, I used the search engine to see how many times he has been mentioned on here (one more time as a result of this post). I know that I had his ABC book when I was younger.

[BrianO]

Some of my favorite children's story authors early on included the de Brunhofs(authors of 'Babar' series); Richard Scarry; Norman Birdwell ('Clifford'); H.A. Rey('Curious George');, Gene Zion('Harry' the dog); and 'Dr. Seuss'.
I also liked Paddington Bear, although more from the TV cartoons.
As I moved on, I liked the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books, and some authors I was introduced to in school, including the recently deceased Beverly Cleary('The Mouse and the Motorcycle'), the 'Danny Dunn' books by Jay Williams and Ray Abrashkin(50s-70s series about kids having adventures with an emphasis on science and technology, some with a science-fiction aspect), and, in high school, Goulding's 'Lord of the Flies'.
Otherwise, I was more interested in comic books and strips for my preferred reading!

[Moonraker]

I've just been thinking about those Griffin Pirate Stories, so I thought I'd search the forum. The one which stands out most in my memories is, Roderick The Red.

Not forgetting the other two characters. Gregory the Green and Benjamin the Blue Pirate.

[beccabear67]

I wish I could find the Noddy book I remember, it had photos from the stop-motion tv version. The one I had was about a little teddy bear erasing things with a 'magic rubber'. I've seen other versions of the book with artwork, but this definitely had photo scenes of the '70s animated figures in the images in the book I had.

[RetroTechRules]

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As a child at school I enjoyed reading the Griffin Pirate stories by Sheila McCullagh.

I've just been thinking about those Griffin Pirate Stories, so I thought I'd search the forum. The one which stands out most in my memories is, Roderick The Red.

[George 1978]

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The Guinness Book of Records is another good one - I used to see a lot of early 1980s editions in the school library which had that Japanese man in the "Oldest People" section of the book, who was believed to have reached the age of 120, but Guinness Publishing dismissed it many years later.

[George 1978]

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I am surprised that The Famous Five was allowed in Primary Schools considering Enid Blyton's not so politically correct image.

[amethyst]

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My favourite book as a child was The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, i remember getting it from the school library and being mesmerised by it.

That's one book I remember reading when I was in primary school,along with The famous Five adventures

[George 1978]

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We had to study the Chronicles of Narnia in English at school, and of course one of the books was indeed The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, famously parodied by Hale and Pace as "The Lion, the Witch, and the MFI Wardrobe", when some Edwardian kids go inside a wardrobe and it collapses because it was a flatpack job.

[Danniella]

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My favourite book as a child was The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, i remember getting it from the school library and being mesmerised by it.

[zabadak]

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I used to watch '70s The Tomorrow People tv show and was quite happy to find there were some paperbacks featuring them from the Piccolo/TV Times imprint

I have one of those! :happy:

[beccabear67]

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I used to watch '70s The Tomorrow People tv show and was quite happy to find there were some paperbacks featuring them from the Piccolo/TV Times imprint... and most have original stories, not just tv episodes written out. One story I really liked had aliens that looked like teddy bears, but they were actually some kind of invasion that could take people over. Strikes a bit close to home that one (( suspiciously eyes the bear sitting on the chair behind her)). Nah...