Favourite Books or stories from childhood.....

[George 1978]

Green eggs and ham.

(Long before Edwina Currie of course).

[Moonraker]

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

[zabadak]

Never heard of him!

Hi,

If you're serious, you may know the films that have been made from some of his stories:

Fantastic Voyage (Stephen Boyd, Donald Pleasance, Raquel Welch)
Bicentennial Man (Robin Williams, Sam Neill)
I, Robot (Will Smith)

[George 1978]

Hi,

If you're serious, you may know the films that have been made from some of his stories:

Fantastic Voyage (Stephen Boyd, Donald Pleasance, Raquel Welch)
Bicentennial Man (Robin Williams, Sam Neill)
I, Robot (Will Smith)

I am still not very familiar of him.

[George 1978]

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

McCullagh also wrote the Puddle Lane stories (as most people know, it was developed into a children's TV series for Yorkshire TV in the mid to late 1980s); and also the One, Two, Three and Away reading book stories that most Infant schools had in the mid 1980s - Billy Blue Hat, Roger Red Hat, etc.

[George 1978]

I was thinking about the Jan Mark paperback of various short stories called Nothing to be Afraid of - the title of the first short story in the book. There were ten of them in the book, and it had very sinister stories made for the 9 to 13 age group - stories such as a young boy who was four years old and was young for his age, taking his Doggy toy wherever he goes; the young boy with his granny telling him tales, and the boy says at the end: "I can see up your nose - it's all whiskery". Something called Nule which was the final story in the book.

The one I remember the most was the third one called The Choice is Yours where the protagonist, a schoolgirl called Brenda was both a member of the school choir and the hockey team - unfortunately, a special hockey match coincided with a music lesson and she obviously couldn't be in two places at once. So she ended up going backwards and forwards telling each teacher that she couldn't make it to the lesson - she had to run between rooms and running was forbidden, and the prefect caught her running. In the end, she decided to leave both the music lesson and the hockey team, and just went to the junior cloakroom and cried. I saw a clip of the dramatization of the short story on the Book Tower.

[beccabear67]

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...

[zabadak]

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: