Reply With QuoteThe hobbit, Danny champion of the world, Mrs Frisby and the rats of NIMH.
mine are: 'busy busy world' by richard scarry, 'a fish out of water' by h palmer , and 'go dog go' by pd eastman
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
The hobbit, Danny champion of the world, Mrs Frisby and the rats of NIMH.
The Borribles 1, 2 and 3.
What an amazing story NIMH was... Would agree with all three ideally but would have to get Watership Down in there somewhereOriginally Posted by tdunn28
Marvelous books... though it was only many years after I read them that I realised how political they were.
bottersnikes and gumbles. plus 1 on the phantom tollbooth. i remember when danny , champion of the world came out. it was a revelation.
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Asterix
The Silver Sword, Stig Of The Dump, Razzle - June 1976
I adored Busy, Busy World, and still have it somewhere.
The silver sword , The secret garden ,Kidnapped.
Razzle didn't come out until 1983 ;)
Cheers,
Plug
Danny Champion of the World, Danny Champion of the World and Danny Champion of the World...in that order.
I bought it for my daughter last year....and read it again...about 30 years after the last time.
Totally forgot watership down, still cannot watch the film without a tear in my eye at the end.
Wow, similar tastes!!!
Danny the Champion of the World, Borribles and LOTR
Narnia, Enid Blyton's Famous Five, The Wooden Horse
Kidnapped, Stig of the Dump, Willard Price's Adventure Series
Penthouse, Escort and Fiesta.
Treasure Island
Danny, Champion of the World
Asterix
Tintin, especially the Moon books.
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
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For me..The Hobbit, Narnia & Mr Men
But I also enjoyed reading to my kids: Each Peach Pear Plum, We're Going on a Bear Hunt & The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
The artwork in that still kinda amazes me.
Stig of the dump..brilliant ,Think that's the only book I ever read..
Old Yeller, Professor Branestawm, Good soldier Svejk
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professor brainstawm was a classic . i also used to really like agaton sax
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
"A man of little significance"
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Coral Island
The Saliva Tree.
The Hobbit, Famous Five, Secret Seven, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, James & the Giant Peach.
None of these were just one book, but definitely my favourites.
From very young - Whatamess
From 6-9 - anything Enid Blyton especially The Famous Five.
From 9+ - The Hardy Boys
I also liked Danny Champion of the World, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Great Glass Elevator, The Silver Sword, The Hobbit, Treasure Island and countless others, but I remember the above list above all.
I had forgotten about The Silver Sword... can't believe that!
Danny The Champion of The World.
Charlie and th Chocolate Factory.
A Christmas Carol.
Fantastic Mr Fox, Meg and Mog, Mr Men.
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As a child: Narnia (especially The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, of course), Swallows & Amazons, The Wind in the Willows, the Just So Stories, Rider Haggard (especially King Solomon's Mines and She) Arthur Conan Doyle (The Lost World), and the Famous Five series.
As a teenager: Science Fiction. Most of it in fact, especially Isaac Azimov, Arthur C Clarke and Robert A Heinlein. If I had to pick favourites: Azimov's The End of Eternity; Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama and Heinlein's Starship Troopers.
I still love science fiction.
Edit: I also loved Stig of the Dump. I had forgotten that, so thanks to whoever posted it!
The Hobbit, The Borrowers and Swallows and Amazons for me. Not sure why the third, I grew up nowhere near water and have only ever been in a dinghy maybe twice in my life.
Dave E
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day
Stig of the Dump (and my son has just discovered it too), Swallows & Amazons, and when I got slightly older, I read Reach for the Sky (Douglas Bader's Bio) a million times.
i loved to read the jacques cousteau books as well
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
My top choices would be:
* ‘Dogger’ by Shirley Hughes
* ‘Just William’ series by Richmal Crompton (the audio casette versions read by Martin Jarvis as much as the books)
* ‘Asterix’ series written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo
Notable mentions:
* ‘Tintin’ series by Herge
* ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’ by C. S. Lewis (although it may be the BBC adaptation that I really remember)
* A history book for children; I can’t remember the name off the top of my head
Hobbit, NIMH and a strange one called The House That Sailed Away.
When I was at school ie a little older, I remember reading To Kill A Mocking Bird and loved it.
"The Satanic Mill" by Preussler (Translation from German)
"The Dark is Rising" by Susan Cooper
"The Wierdstone of Brisingamen" by Alan Garner
i would have thought yours would have been 'where the wild things are '
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
I am amazed that the Weirdstone appeared on this list. I can remember ridiculing it endlesslyt when we read it at school because I was a Lord of the Rings fan. Wasn't bad actually but I wished they had let us read The Hobbit instead.
My books are The Hobbit, Peter and the Wolf (Ladybird book jobbie) and The Hungry Caterpillar.
These were also interspersed with countless volumes of the small Commando comic stories.
What-a-mess. Old hat new hat. Can't give a third right now.
"Bite my shiny metal ass."
- Bender Bending Rodríguez
The Three Investigators,
Kays catalogue - Lingerie, bikini sections,
The Hobbit.
Kay's cat yes. Funnily enough I bought my first decent watch from either Kay's or a Littlewoods catalogue late sixties Oh the watch? A Breitling Navitimer, cost about £49, could have had the bi metal for another £5 but couldn't afford the weekly payment. Still got the watch,only my son borrowed it and won't let go.
Short pants:
William books by Richmal Crompton.
Bunter books by Frank Richards.
Oor Wullie/The Broons by DC Thompson publishing.
Early long pants:
Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner.
The Call of the Wild by Jack London.
The Long Walk by Slawomir Rawicz.
So many to choose from. As a kindergartener: Curious George. 10 year-old range: Hardy Boys Mysteries and in early teen years The Hobbit/LOTR.
I still enjoy reading children's books.
Rick
Another vote for Stig of the Dump, Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner and any of the early Biggles books
Cheers
Ian
My enthusiasm for that only came when I was reading it to my own son! It is a great children's book, though.
I maintain that Alan Garner is a much, much, better writer than Tolkien (although I liked LOTR and The Hobbit, too).
I nearly put those in my list, I still have a bunch of old hardbacks of them and am looking forward to my kids being old enough to read them.
Dave E
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day
Borribles*, Moonfleet, Stig of the Dump, Tintin, Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse, the Hunting of Shadroth*, * Adventure by Willard Price, Asterix*, Kings of Space by WE Johns.
I've asterisked my faves. I searched out a copy of Hunting of Shadroth recently, and it wasn't anything like as scary as I remembered. Kings of Space also turned out to be utterly disappointing.
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