What did you read?

HannahIOW

Jennie by Paul Gallico was one of my favourites. Must read it again one day.

narabanekeater

theres a range of bookes called Rainbow Fairies (see ebay) my DD whos just turned 7 adores them

phunkles

MrsMarty - Id want that present! What a lovely thoughtful gift

Spendless

phunkles wrote: »

MrsMarty - Id want that present! What a lovely thoughtful gift

I know. I'm nicking it for my own 8yo daughter. :rotfl:

jackieb

All the Little House On The Prairie books. I got them all from the library when I was young. I loved them so much that I bought the whole set as an adult. I know they're meant for children but they brought back good childhood memories for me.

PinkLipgloss

I was, and still am, an avid reader.

Around that age I loved:

- Everything by Roald Dahl
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- The Hobbit
- Alice in Wonderland
- The Wizard of Oz collection (think it's called Stories from Over the Rainbow?)
- Wind in the Willows
- Anne of Green Gables
- The Secret Garden
- The Secret Seven
- The Borrowers
- Heidi
- Little Women


That's all I can remember for the moment!

jackieb

Gillyx wrote: »

I'd also recommend Jacqueline Wilson, she was a big part of my childhood and I loved her books

My daughter reads a lot. We go to the library every couple of weeks. Jacqueline Wilson is one she just doesn't like. She says that they're all about dysfunctional families.

ciderwithrosie_2

My mum would never read to us/or let us read any Enid Blyton - she reckoned they were rubbish, but I know a lot of other people my age who enjoyed them.

Books I read as a kid were...

The Narnia series
Winnie the Pooh
Lots of fairytales (I had a big collection of them)
The Ghost of Thomas Kemp
The Laura Ingalls Wilder series
Mary Plain (a much better bear than Paddington)
Alan Garner (Elidor, Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Moon of Gomrath)
Nancy Drew books
and a lot of Penguin paperbacks I can't remember (we had a book club at school)
My aunty gave me Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and I loved it but I never read any more Roald Dahl until I had my own kids.

Lord of the Flies is a bit harrowing mind, I cried my eyes out when I read it and I was at secondary school then.

msb5262

I'd second lots of these ssuggestions -When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Little Women, What Katy Did, Milly Molly Mandy, Naughty Little Sister etc etc.
The Railway Children is brilliant but then all E. Nesbit's books are great (Five Children and It etc etc).
Likewise any Noel Streatfeild, Joan Aiken, Penelope Lively...
For horse-related reading, I really enjoyed the "Jill" books by Ruby Ferguson (A Pony for Jill is the first one I think).
Other random thoughts: Mrs Pepperpot, Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf, Seven Little Australians (tear-jerker if I recall correctly), Anne of Green Gables, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Just So Stories, The Happy Prince and other stories, Heidi, Pollyanna, The Secret Garden, The Jungle Book, Kidnapped, and all Laura Ingalls Wilder's books...the first is called Little House in the Big Woods and is brilliant. You might also like to look at the Puffin Books like the book of princesses etc etc and I had a brilliant book called the Puffin Book of Heroines, and a Penguin book of Great Escapes which was a great read.
Hope that will do for a start!
Enjoy it all, it's a lovely time for you and your child.
MsB

PinkLipgloss

jackieb wrote: »

My daughter reads a lot. We go to the library every couple of weeks. Jacqueline Wilson is one she just doesn't like. She says that they're all about dysfunctional families.

I second this. I've always thought of her stuff as junior chick lit (which I despise!)