We werent rich and only had The Dandy & Beano comics during the year, but every Christmas we were treated to "The Rupert Bear Annual". We loved it, and turned the pages to read the tales of Rupert Bear, and Badger Bill. Seems rather tame now,but we loved the front shiny cover,with Rupert in his red jumper,and yellow checked trousers and scarf.Can anyone remember the names of the other characters,I know there was an elephant and a chinese girl. Do they still print it ? I wish I had kept mine.

Ooooh, I used to love The Famous Five. I remember my Mom reading a chapter to me each night at bedtime; I guess I would have been about four or five at the time.

As an adult I really don't read enough but as a kid I always had my nose in a book. Sad really.

Me too, Enid Blytons books were great!

Didn't she hate children in real life though? :suspect:

Originally posted by Kristian
Ooooh, I used to love The Famous Five. I remember my Mom reading a chapter to me each night at bedtime; I guess I would have been about four or five at the time.

As an adult I really don't read enough but as a kid I always had my nose in a book. Sad really. Im sure they made a film, or t.v. series about The Famous Five" but it didnt seem as exciting as the book.You can use your imagination in a book.

I used to love the Hardy Boys.. Also Secret 7

I liked the Worst Witch books and Demon Headmaster.

I used to read a lot at junior school then hardly read a book until I was at uni.

The Paddington Bear books by Michael Bond

almost forgot the Narnia Books

I was and still am a big fan of Roal Dahl. My favourite book was 'The Witches' :thumbsup:

Princess and the pea, sleeping on all them matresses looked bliss

My favouritest ever book as a child was this one!! (http://images.amazon.com/images/G/covers/0/06/443/178/0064431789.l.gif)

Absolutely loved it, very spooky but great fun.:clap: :thumbsup:

Ooh yes, the Hardy Boys; that was a good series of books. I also liked the ones that were similar (I think they were called the Alfred Hitchcock mysteries).

I used to read a lot of Paul Zindel books when I was young too. He was a bit like Judy Blume.

< Goes to search in attic in nostalgic mood. :)

There was a book which I loved when I was very young but cannot seem to find it anywhere now. I thought it would be great for my young nephews & nieces to read but have had no luck finding it, if anyone knows of it & knows where I can get a copy I'd be grateful.

It's called 'Teeny Tiny & The Witch Woman' the story is about 3 brothers who steal 3 objects from a witches house and she chases them - when they drop an object, it turns into mountains and the witch has to go around it to get them . . .
( I know - I've always been weird ) :loopy: :blush:

Have to agree with all the above, especially the Narnia books.
Judy Blume was good and I remember the fuss about the aftershave/willy chapter in Forever, all my school friends had a copy and found it fascinating.
Ursula Le Guin- Wizard Of Earthsea, Robert Westall - Urn Burial and Cats of Seroster, Charles de Lint with Yarrow etc and Alan Garner with Elidor and so on.
I could go on, books and reading are my passion but quoting all the books I like would choke the server.

Lestat, have you tried eBay? I just had a look, and there are some similar titles listed although not an exact match. You could always try setting up one of their alerts where it will e-mail you if someone lists an item that matches your criteria.

Hope this helps :)

K.

Originally posted by Kristian
Lestat, have you tried eBay? I just had a look, and there are some similar titles listed although not an exact match. K.

Hi Kristian, I tried eBay but as you said they weren't the ones, stories just aren't the same anymore . . . sigh!:(

Thanks anyway mate:thumbsup:

I used to love the 'Choose your own adventure' books, where you could have a different ending every time! you had options at the end of each page. . . Wow! thats brought back some memories!!

Also does anyone remember a naughty baby called Super Fudge?

Originally posted by Lestat
There was a book which I loved when I was very young but cannot seem to find it anywhere now. I thought it would be great for my young nephews & nieces to read but have had no luck finding it, if anyone knows of it & knows where I can get a copy I'd be grateful.

It's called 'Teeny Tiny & The Witch Woman' the story is about 3 brothers who steal 3 objects from a witches house and she chases them - when they drop an object, it turns into mountains and the witch has to go around it to get them . . .
( I know - I've always been weird ) :loopy: :blush:

there you go (http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?y=0&tn=teeny+tiny+and+the+witch&x=0&sortby=3)

Originally posted by robbie
there you go (http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?y=0&tn=teeny+tiny+and+the+witch&x=0&sortby=3)

Robbie you absolute star!! :clap: :thumbsup:

My favourite book as a child was Brer Rabbit by Enid Blyton, I still have a copy somewhere - probably in the loft!

I loved the Rupert Bear annuals too, we used to get one every Christmas ... ah if only i'd kept them all...

Our Saturday mornings used to start of with the Saturday Morning cinema followed by a trip to the library to stock up on books for the week. But for the life of me I can't remember ANY of the books I read.

Originally posted by Lestat


Also does anyone remember a naughty baby called Super Fudge?
I do I do, wasn't that Judy Blume too?

'Being and Nothingness' by Sartre, and the 'Pensees' of Pascal. I tell a lie, it was 'The Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Graeme.

Originally posted by timo
'Being and Nothingness' by Sartre, and the 'Pensees' of Pascal. I tell a lie, it was 'The Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Graeme.

I loved Wind in the Willows too :thumbsup:

Ohhh remember The Phantom Tollbooth?

I found this
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=10251796407091668005

And The Faraway Tree, The Wishing Chair and some little hardback series about a load of vegetables, can't recall the name...

The Far- away Tree'
What a classic!

Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell. Because I was crazy for horses when I was a child.

There are some wonderful books for children today. My son loved the Monster Mama books.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0698114299/103-1922654-1295818?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance

And Green Wilma. About a little girl who wakes up one morning to find she's turned green.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140563628/103-1922654-1295818?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance

I read more children's books as a grown-up than I ever did as a kid. Probably because I was always trying to get my hands on something "adult" and forbidden. ;)

Originally posted by spyro2000
I was and still am a big fan of Roal Dahl. My favourite book was 'The Witches' :thumbsup:

I quite agree. I personally loved Matilda. Even though it wasn't published until 1988. Children should be allowed to punish their parents. My kids also liked James and the Giant Peach. And all of the Dr. Seuss books. But especially The Lorax, and my daughter's all time favorite, The Sneetches.

http://www.uulongview.com/sermons/bellies_with_stars.html

:) Sierra

I loved the Mary Poppins books, and lots of Enid Blyton - anyone remember Mallory Towers?

The Lion, The witch and the wardrobe.

Originally posted by Macbeth
I loved the Mary Poppins books, and lots of Enid Blyton - anyone remember Mallory Towers?

Yep Mallory towers was cool. I really liked The owl and the pussy cat, though I think I liked the pictures in the book best......I can still recall the whole rhyme now!

I loved reading a books that were passed down from my great gran as they were really old fashioned and they made me laugh, one I recall was called The girl from the limberlost, all about a girl who collected butterflies to pay her way through school.

The hungry caterpillar or the postman....now they're exciting books :D tolouse the miserable moose was another good one. Think I was called tolouse for years by my 1st year junior teacher, ah the joys, can't abuse kids like that anymore can you?!

Matilda by Roald Dahl was my favourite. Still read it from time to time.

As a young child it was where the Wild Things are by Maurice Sendak, a very trippy book- I was obsessed- my all-time favourite.

When I was older I loved most of the Enid Blyton books.
The book I have read the most as a child was either 101 Dalmations or The Hobbit.

"The five little Peppers and how they grew"

A favorite of mine.

Wuthering heights, or any Jane Austen or Thomas Hardy. I loved the long descriptive passages where nothing really happens but you get terrific detail about things so your mental image gets better and better.

My dad gave a book to read when I was about 10 years old, it was called "The Chariots of the Gods" by Erick Von Danichen, I have since read the book 3 times and it has and probably always will be my favourite book, it changed my whole outlook on religion and were it may have come from at a young age.

After reading this thread, I had a debate with a friend about childrens 'learning-to-read' books. I'm sure that when I was at school we had these really thin paperback books with a . . . .

Tall, thin, giant-like, purple monster - he was friendly and from what I remember he had different books for different adventures.

Can someone confirm this please and put my mind at rest!
:confused:

Besides liking "Rupert" I also used to like the "Just William"books. They had it on t.v.later on,and it adapted well.I can also remember books that were "Pop up" books.You can imagine how pleased we were with those,with having no t.v.in those days.Also I can remember "What Katy Did" and "What Katy did Next"

I loved Enid Blyton books and read them over and over again. The famous five, the wishing chair etc and I also remember reading about Mrs Pepperpot. I'm not sure if it was an Enid Blyton Book but no-one I speak to has ever heard of it.

Originally posted by Anj1364
I also remember reading about Mrs Pepperpot.

Me too! :thumbsup:

What about those comic's you could buy with audio cassettes - embarrassingly, I remember listening to Gobbolino the witch's cat! :blush: :blush:

[QUOTE]Originally posted by pattricia
[B]We werent rich and only had The Dandy & Beano comics during the year, but every Christmas we were treated to "The Rupert Bear Annual". We loved it, and turned the pages to read the tales of Rupert Bear, and Badger Bill. Seems rather tame now,but we loved the front shiny cover,with Rupert in his red jumper,and yellow checked trousers and scarf.Can anyone remember the names of the other characters,I know there was an elephant and a chinese girl. Do they still print it ?


I think the elephants name was Edward Trunk and the Chinese girls name was Tiger lily

Originally posted by spyro2000
I was and still am a big fan of Roal Dahl. My favourite book was 'The Witches' :thumbsup:

Oh yeah, Roald Dahl rocks! I remember I won a copy of George's Marvelous Medicine in a raffle at Junior school and I couldn't put it down.. 20 odd years later I went to a Theatre production of it at the Lyceum about 2 years ago and still thought it was a brilliant story.

Thankfully I never took the book literally and didn't try to make a medicine for my Nan... Lol, contrary to popular belief even I'm not that daft.. :lol:

My son is currently rading the Magic Wishing Chair to his daughter as a nightime story.
it was one of my favourites together with
The Faraway Tree.
The Famous Five,
The Chalet School. and Anne of green Gables.
What Katie did.
Just William.

Were the characters in Rupert called Algy and Tiger Lily. I had the annual every year to.

hazel

I have always loved books and thankfully it has worn off on to my own children.

My fave as a child were :

The Folk of the Faraway Tree and The Wishing Chair ........ both by Enid Blyton

Flat Stanley (now one of my sons favourites)

A book called 'Albert' about a teddy bear who wore a flat cap and lived in a basement flat in London! I still have this book somewhere but can't remeber who wrote it.

I also loved all and any Ladybird book. This has carried on into adulthood and I have a HUGE collection of them.

This thread is making me want to read them all again!

I remember reading Flat Stanley to the childen at school, also Mrs Pepper Pot and My Naughty Little Sister books were very popular.

hazel

I remember Just William very clearly.

I could read from a very early age and tended to avoid a lot of traditional children's story books. My mother had some books from when she was a child - beautiful collections of fairy tales and such - which I loved. I would have loved to have been able to get them after my parents died, but it wasn't to be. I have fond memories of sitting with a packet of biscuits and one of these books in particular, reading and munching on a Sunday evening.

I read a lot of factual books, and was always taking ghost stories and science fiction out of the library. I loved 'the Cat in the Hat' as a little boy, but don't really recollect many other 'children's books' except the reading primers like 'Peter and Jane' and 'Janet and John'.

As soon as I could I was on more 'grown up' books - I think the first two fiction books I remember sitting down and reading clearly would be HG Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' and George Orwell's '1984'.

Joe

Flat Stanley............now that was a good read.

Mrs Pepperpot was by a Scandinavian author, I think.

I used to love the Moomintrolls by Tove Jansson, trippy doesn't begin to descirbe it; and of course Pippi Långstrump by Astrid Lindgren - my heroine (Pippi, not Astrid).

A book of Milliganimals by Spike Milligan started my love of mangling language. And I remember having a few Dr.Seuss Books as well, which tickled the same part of me.

Orlando, the marmalade cat I remember liking a lot.

Originally posted by wayne72
My dad gave a book to read when I was about 10 years old, it was called "The Chariots of the Gods" by Erick Von Danichen, I have since read the book 3 times and it has and probably always will be my favourite book, it changed my whole outlook on religion and were it may have come from at a young age.

I used to wind my scripture teachers up no end with quotes from that book.

Pity it's a load of old cobblers though.....

I used to love the Enid Blyton books about the Five-Find-Outers & Dog, her Wishing Chair books, and Mr Pink Whistle.

Another book I loved as a child was Nikolai Tolstoy's The Founding of Evil Hold School (which inspired the Damned's song Grimly-Fiendish). I recently bought that book on Ebay and it is still a good read! :thumbsup:

Originally posted by FetishFairy
Flat Stanley (now one of my sons favourites)


I am so glad other people remember Flat Stanley! I had a conversation with some friends about it recently, none of them could remember it, was starting to think I had dreamt it!

I loved Mrs Pepperpot too!

One of my favourites was the Velveteen Rabbit, I still think it is lovely and the illustrations are beauiful.

Has anyone mentioned the books about the village with three corners - Roger Red Hat, Jennifer Yellow Hat and Billy Blue Hat?!

Loved Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, Dick King Smith, the Katy books, and "Funnybones" and "Each Peach Pear Plum".

My mum used to take me to the library about twice a week, and would always set a limit on how many books I could get out to make sure I did my homework!

I love this thread - so many memories!

I loved Anne of Green Gables, Little Women and the What Katy did books.
BTW I don't think Enid Blyton wrote Brer Rabbit???
And do you remember the Milly Molly Manda Books?

Hard to pick a favourite as I was a real bookworm. I loved the Chalet School books, anything by Arthur Ransome, the Wind in the Willows, Biggles and the series of Twins books that covered nearly every country in the world.:rolleyes:

Milly Molly Mandy
One of my favoutites, I'd forgotten that one..
Thanks for reminding me nanrobbo.

hazel

I don't believe it!
I was just about to add Milly Molly Mandy!

My favourite Enid Blyton's were the Secret Seven books.

The Wind in the Willows, especially the chapter called
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn...absolute magic.

In the days before 24 hour television and the Internet we used to really enjoy losing ourselves in books, didn't we?

Great post for a Monday morning, Pattricia!

Does anyone remember a book called 'The Fib & other stories' It was a collection of the best short stories ever. In 'The fib' a young lad tells his friends that he knows Bobby Charlton - then he has to prove it . . . and he does it too!!

I remember another story about two kids who get caught stealing oranges and are held in at the docks till the police arrive - they end up eating all the oranges and the peels to get rid of the evidence.

A great book, which I am now going to have to search for!:thumbsup:

Mr Tickle was my fav as a very little child.

I remember the orange eating one Lestat ! Wasn't there also a story about go-karting down a cobbled street too? We read it at school. Racking my brains and can't recall what it was called.


The Gay Dolphin by Malcolm Saville was a fav one too as were all of Enid Blytons especially Mallory Towers, all the Adventure series and the Far Away Tree.

And obviously Roald Dahl's books.

"The Land Where The Wild Things Are" is a brilliant book and I love the illustrations.

The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

I had two favourite books as a child "The Tiger Who Came To Tea" by Judith Kerr, and "On My Way To School" by Celia Berridge. I loved those books they were a delight and I knew them off by heart.

Does anybody remember the Amelia Bedelia books? Or Ant and Bee?

dennis the manace and beryl the peril annuals from the 1970's....

REALLY vicious!

:clap:

When I was a kid the book I looked through the most was 'Wonders of the World'.

It was a book of mostly pictures showing natural as well as man made wonders from almost every country on te planet.

It is amazing what a lasting effect this book had on me over the years.

I have always travelled and in a lot of countries I have sought out some of these wonders.

Sadly some of these have now disappeared.

The one tree I anted to see was the magnificent Wawona tree in California but sadly it came down ina snowstorm round about 1980.

Happy Days!

i still buy books like that popt, you can pick 'em up for a few pence from charity shops!

they are great, written in an unpretentious and enthusiastic style for kids, before the age of digital everything.

arthur mee's encyclopaedia's are good too...if you want to learn the entire history of western civilisation in one page!

:)

The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe