What books did you used to read as a child?

Question

I used to love Sweet Valley Twins (NOT Sweet Valley Kids, Sweet Valley High or Sweet Valley University though funnily enought)
The Babysitters Club, Anne Fine books such as Bill's New Frock and Secret Seven (hated Famous Five though)!

Be interested in hearing your childhood fave's and also anyone who remembers things about my selections.

Answer 1

all those books you just mentioned were my favourite books too, especially the babysitters club, i wanted to be in it and i used to read the beano and dandy books too

Answer 2

Oh yes, I felt so mature to be reading about kids in middle school when I was in third and fourth grade! I used to own every single Babysitters Club book from #1 "Kristy's Great Idea" up until the series got into the 60s or 70s. (Including at least six or seven of the "Super Specials") Every month when the new book came out, I bought it and read it in 24 hours. My home library also contained a handful of the Sweet Valley Twin books.

I can't remember what else I read at that age, but I know when I first started reading, I was completely into the Ramona Quimby and Little House on the Prairie series. And in high school, I read every Ann Rinaldi book I could get my hands on. Somewhere in there I managed to read all of the Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon series too.

Answer 3

The 2 main ones that I was into were the Babysitters Club and the Anne of Green Gables series. I also read some of the Sweet Valley books as well as all of the Little House books.

Answer 4

I remember the Babysitter's club books. I think I probably read every single one. I even have some of the movies which are so hilarious to watch now. I always wanted to be like Dawn. I also really liked anything by Judy Blume. I didn't really read Sweet Valley, but I remember watching the show on TV.

Roald Dahl was my favorite - The B.F.G., Matilda, the Witches, etc. Those books are still awesome today.

I used to love Goosebumps by R.L. Stein. I remember the library days at school where all of the students would fight over them. I also liked Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series (I think there was 3 or so). We used to think we were so cool reading those stupid "scary" stories, many of which I still remember.

Answer 5

I was into Christopher Pike and RL Stine, The Babysitter's Club, Judy Blume books like Superfudge and Frecklejuice, and Beverly Clearly.

Never got into Sweet Valley High though.

Answer 6

I used to read Sweet valley Twins also and Sweet valley High, used to get the books out of the library, but they only had so many of them. I used to read another selection but can't remember who wrote them, they were teenage romance types - like a girl going on holiday and having a holiday romance, or visiting an aunt and falling for the boy who cleaned the windows or something, all American based stories.

I read a book called Ptang Yang Kipper Bang at school for GCSE and everybody thinks I'm making it up, would be interesting to see if anybody else read it. About a boy at school who has to play the lead in a play and his mates skit him about it because he has to kiss a girl, and they play cricket in there spare time and there thing they say all the time is Ptang Yang Kipper Bang which I think is a bit like Get in there or something similar?!?!?!?

Answer 7

Famous Five, Nancy Drew, Mallory Towers. The Sue Barton Nurse series. Little Women, The Katie Series (What Katie Did, What Katie did next etc). All of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books.

Answer 8

I read a ton of babysitters club. Once in a while I would pick up Nacey Drew or the Hardy Boys. I also loved a 5 book series called The Dark in Rising by Susan Cooper.

Answer 9

I used to love The Wishing Chair, Faraway Tree, Nancy Drew Series, St. Clair, Malory Towers, Chronicles of Narnia, Naughtiest girl in the School, Secret Seven, Famous Five,.......... Enid Blyton's books, Roald Dahl, Mr. Twiddle.......
Comic books - Tintin, Asterisk.......

Answer 10

I learnt to read with the VIllage with 3 Corners (yellow hats, red hats and blue hats!).

I remember reading the following: -

Winnie the Pooh
The Wind in the Willows

Roald Dahl
Mallory Towers, St Clairs and Chalet School (I also liked St Trinians films too and yes I went off to Boarding School!)

Animals of Farthing Wood
The Wool Pack
Miss Read (not childrens but innocent and sweet)
Point Horror

I soon progressed though!

Poirot
Morse
Cadfael

To be honest I would read anything and everything I could and still do!

Answer 11

Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Alfred Hitchcock & The Three Investigators series
Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys series
Black Stallion series by Walter Farley
A Wrinkle in Time series - Madeline L'Engle

Anything else I could get my hands on - I was an avid reader