General Chat

I have the boxed set of Milly Molly Mandy... I loved them but my children chose others.

And then there was "What Katy Did?" ..where Katy becomes an invalid and takes four years to recover and I remember thinking at the time... how wonderful... one could just read forever and not have to go to school.

Enid Blyton's Famous Five and Children of Willow Tree Farm were on my bookshelf and well read as were the Bobbsey Twins and all my Teddy Tail and Playbox annuals etc...Classical mythology stories, Brer Rabbit and numerous others.. I always and I mean always got books for birthdays and Christmas from my relatives. I hated dolls but the ones that were given to me had to sit still while I read to them.

Then I grew up and read Paddington Bear in my twenties...

Which reminds me a promotion for Ann in Gloss ... Greaders group on here.. well worth taking part in .. I have been converted to all sorts of authors and read a lot that I would not normally have chosen... ;-)

Persie

Ann--yes thats the one THE FARAWAY TREE.really loved that as a child.
CAROL----we are the same age.xx :-D

I can't imagine a house without books, when growing up ours was full of them as is mine today. My favourite of all time and one my dad bought me at 7 years old is Wind in the Willows, My favourites at the moment are the series of Clan of the Cave Bear.

Caz

When I was a child I had a book which my mother had had as a child, she was born in 1905. The name of the book was 'Struwelpeter'. I had long forgotten it until the early 70's when my girls were toddlers, and saw a copy of Struwelpeter in a bookshop. of course i had to buy it to read to my girls. I was so upset by re-reading the book, I couldn't imagine why my mother had read it to me, packed it off asap. it featured a drawing of Peter, standing with his arms outstretched, blood dripping from what was left of his fingertips. Apparently to teach children what would happen if one bit their nails!! Mother, what were you thinking!!!!

I loved reading all the Enid Blyton books,including the Famous Five, Secret Seven,the Faraway Tree,Milly Molly Mandy and the Naughtiest Girl,
the Naughtiest Girl Again,(strange how there'd be a different connotation
on that title these days,LOL!!!).I started on all the Noddy and Big Ears stories,as a 5 or 6 year old,and graduated to the harder stories.I loved the Wishing Chair,the Wishing Chair Again,etc,that really appealed to me.

Then I read the Bobbsey Twins,What Katy Did,What Katy Did Next,Jo's Boys etc.Then all the Heidi books.Then Pollyanna,the Secret Garden,the Girl of the Limberlost,and many more.I eventually ran out of girlie books at the school library,so I read all the Biggles adventures and the boys' books.

In the infant grades I can remember a teacher reading a story to the class about a little black boy with a yellow umbrella on the cover,I think it was called Epaminondas.

My Dad used to read bedtime stories, mainly nursery rhymes, to me, which kickstarted my lifetime love of reading. :-D :-D

Margot

I can remember Arthur Mee's Children's Newspaper.

It wasn't half boring as I recall.

Noddy was a favourite...lol.. and Rupert Bear. Don't remember having books read to me, nor learning to read...how sad:(

Loved picture books, nature etc

We have a friend staying at moment and his favourite was White Fang by Jack London!! he was about 10yrs old

Vics was the Five books!

l do remember being read Wind in the Willows at school and have a copy now which l've read twice:)

jude
:-D

I still have my mum's Enid Blyton Sunny Stories mags from 1937 - 1939 lol

To AnninGlos- if I ever get down to Gloucester I shall definitely make a bee line for the shopping mall- thanks for the info- janet

I have never read an Enid Blyton book. Not many books in the house when I was growing up (I have made up for it!) and I used to go to the library. 2 series of books I used to read through were Sue Barton Student Nurse (I think) and Drina books about a ballerina. Drina in London, Drina in Paris etc. etc. Probably by the same person who came up with the Carry On films titles.

Suzanne..... 2 1/2 years off a big birthday but not saying which one ;-)

My parents didn't really do child friendly.

For reasons I will never be able to explain, for my sixth birthday, I was bought a book called 'The Nature Lovers Recognition Guide' by a man called Brian Vesey- Fitzgerald.

I still have it somewhere and I still find it dry and heavy.

I always liked the Wide Range Readers books at school.

Suzanne.... The faraway Tree. It might be The Magic Faraway Tree

Spent hours reading and rereading Orlando the Marmalade Cat. Have a reprint of the original Wind in the Willows and a set of Famous Five books.

my great aunt used to by me the bunty annual every year x

oh i loved milly.molly,mandy(we must be the same age)i also loved Enid Blyton .i think the book was called THE something TREE(cant remember the name of the book) loved the water babies and the secret seven.ive been a book worm all of my life,my attic contains several hundred books,i keep promising my family that i will do a boot sale,but never get round to it.x

Enid Blyton every time for me - Secret 5, Secret 7, Sunny Stories

My son loved Stig of the Dump and as a toddler we had all the Richard Scarry books with those terrific drawings

In the shopping mall in Gloucester we have a tableau with the Taylor of Gloucester that is animated when the clock rreaches the hour. At Christmas this year the decorations were of cotton reels and buttons and thread, difficult to explain but very effective.

I have Milly Molly Mandy! I loved her striped dresses and I always wanted a railway carriage at the end of my garden.

I also loved Heidi and had the book for christmas one year. In later years I bought Heidi grows up and Heidi's children.

When very young I loved Milly Molly Mandy :-D I still have a copy and love to read it...........the illustrations are beautiful,a must for children imo :-)

Was never interested in reading as a child but I had The Tailor of Gloucester' bought for my sixth birthday and I can still enjoy reading it today and marvel at the mice being able to embroider with the cherry coloured twist. -jl