Which was your favourite book when you was a child?

Question

And if you can remember please tell me what you liked about it!

Answer 1

The World of Pooh by A. A. Milne. My Dad used to read it to us, and he did all the different voices ... whenever I read it now I always remember how he did the voices and I feel a little sad, because he died in 1998 and most of his grandchildren never knew him.

Answer 2

The Billy Bunter series of books and anything by Enid Blyton particularly the Far Away Tree and The Seaside Adventure. Warm brown eggs and chocolate cake for tea, eaten in a gypsy caravan with the sea lapping around the wheels. Then a dip in the sea or off to the village to rummage round the little shop full of exciting things like sailing boats and kites. Pretty tame stuff for today's children, but for post war British kids - fantastic.

Answer 3

My favorite book was "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. The book was actually my sister's school reading assignment. She (being 4 years older than myself) laid the book on the shelf in the bedroom we shared. I was in 4th or 5th grade. I understood the brutality of the French Revolution, even at that age, the book was exciting.
Was amazed to read in my own family tree, just 10 years ago, how one family member, a doctor, escaped from France, (didn't want to be a Catholic) Great Britain and then came to the United States. Charles Dickens has always been a favorite author.

Answer 4

As a young child it was mostly Enid Blyton i read, but from the age of 10 (ish) i was into King, Koontz, Lyamon and the horror genre. But my abousule faovrite as a child, I can no longer remeber the name of. It was probably a Blyton, and it revovlved around a child (or maybe two) having a garden all overgrown and messy. They clenaed it up, found a secret tunnel, found the treasure, got their evil uncle arrested and found their long lost parents (or something like that) whatever, it was a typical 70's kids book. Ace. wish i could find a copy.

Answer 5

Has to be a series of books the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. Fantasy, kids adventure with fighting talking animals and a strong central theme of good verses evil. Lord of the Rings for under 10 year olds. Would recommend to any parent. Bit Christian in it's undertones but not so a kid would notice. P.S. Trivia - C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were both proffesors at the same college at the same time were good friends, and were writing these books at the same time.

Answer 6

When I was really tiny, I remember Mum reading 'Milly Molly Mandy Again' to me at night time but soon after that she used to make stories up and she'd tell all three of us about 'Horrace The Hermit Crab'. We begged her to write it down and get it published because it was the best story we'd ever heard but she was just too busy and now, none of us can remember all of it. It involved Horrace being pooed from an elephant and carried across the sea by a seagull but that's about it.

When I got a little bit older and began readng for myself, I loved 'Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott and of course, I loved Goosebumps (Didn't all kids?!) but my absolute favourtie was 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

I began reading 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte at a young age, after I saw the film and fell in love with Heathcliff but I didn't understand the writing then. I do now and it's a fantastic book!

Answer 7

The first book I remember reading was The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton I must have been about six, I loved all the adventures the characters got up to, I continued on to read all her books

Answer 8

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
I liked the fact that you could drift off into oblivion, without reading a word.
No one understood it and what ever answers you gave about its content were always given a good mark, as the teacher was just as clueless.
What a bunch of 11 year old kids were doing trying to read this Old English text is beyond me.
Read it again in my 40s, apart from the Pardoners tale, i still think its cr*p.

Answer 9

My favourite book when I was a child was "Hardy Boys".
Well i liked it because mysteries always fascinated me and also I could identify with Frank and Joe as they were teenagers. Very interesting. Besides There used to be competition with my sister who was a fan of Nancy Drew.

Answer 10

the baby-sitters club by ann m martin. Those characers weres so familiar. it was something about those booke that kept me wanting for more. I read them when i was 12 till about 16. I am 26 now and re reading those that I can find so that I can collect them all again for my future children. IN a way its like re visiting old friends. its lke a comforting cup of tea. reading these books bring you back to your childhood where you are waiting for the final bell to ring to symbolize the beginning of summer and those lazy days ahead. I hope this helps you!