Fishcake   10 #85 Posted May 11, 2011 Little, Black bloody Sambo  Is that a real book? Also is that true? Were your parents , er........... unusual? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
taxman   12 #86 Posted May 11, 2011 Just remembered another really good one that I wish I still had. It was a pop up version of A Christmass Carol by Dickens. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Fishcake   10 #87 Posted May 11, 2011 I also remember reading my dads specialist magazines which he kept in his wardrobe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Cavegirl   10 #88 Posted May 11, 2011 I'm surprised no one's mentioned 'The Chronicles of Prydain'. A series of fantasy books based loosely upon Welsh mythology by Loyd Alexander. The 5 books were:  * The Book of Three * The Black Cauldron * The Castle of Llyr * Taran Wanderer * The High King  I'm surprised they've not been turned into a TV series, but perhaps it's because Disney butchered the idea in their 1985 movie. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
mrs grissom   10 #89 Posted May 11, 2011 The Family From One End Street by Eve Garnett, the story of a dustman, his laundress wife and their large brood . This was the first book that engaged my attention at school, read to us by a student teacher. The Twits, we read this at work a couple of years ago and we fell about laughing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Mister M Â Â 1,605 #90 Posted May 11, 2011 Going really far far back - does anyone remember Emil and the Detectives? I loved it! Â That was one of the first books I read on my own! I was in primary school. I remember feeling very proud of myself when I finished it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
taxman   12 #91 Posted May 11, 2011 I also remember reading my dads specialist magazines which he kept in his wardrobe.  Oh yes  All those Ford Cortina manuals and Norton handbooks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
simonj   10 #92 Posted May 11, 2011 From when I was very small I remember Can't You Sleep Little Bear? which was my all time favourite for a very long time!  What a superb book with brilliant illustration. I read this book to my kids so many times and it never got boring for any of us. Now wondering where it got to, a trip to the loft is most definitely in order Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Bloomdido   10 #93 Posted May 11, 2011 Oh yes  All those Ford Cortina manuals and Norton handbooks.  I recall finding some of those, reading the readers letters then asking my mother what an 'orgasm' was. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
meyouus   10 #94 Posted May 11, 2011 I recall a Jackanory reading of a book called "When Marnie was there" about a lonely child and a ghost or imaginary friend visiting her. I can still recall it 40 years later. A book read by my teacher at school when I was 10 was about a cat called 'Carbonel' and his magic kingdom. It was set in post-war England and some of the references were obscure but our teacher explained them, like"sides-to-middling" where people cutworn sheets down the middle and sewed the ends together.  What books lit up your childhood?  the tiger who came to tea. i loved that book. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
boyfriday   21 #95 Posted May 11, 2011 Is that a real book? Also is that true? Were your parents , er........... unusual?  I was the progeny of an unknown, itinerant man of ethnic origin, Mummy told me he disappeared after being chased round a tree by a large dog and turned into butter, but I dont believe her. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
boyfriday   21 #96 Posted May 11, 2011 the tiger who came to tea.  Hope you didn't give him Frosties Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...