Favourite childhood books and stories

[piccione]

I don’t know where to start or stop…here’s one of the first that springs to mind:



And for once, I actually liked the TV adaptation as well. I started collecting the whole series on DVD a few years ago and still watch them from time to time. They’re just as much fun to watch now as they were then. Will I ever get sick of it? Nope. Far superior to Pippi Longstocking!

[Ned Long]

My childhood pre-dates television, DVDs et al. We used to read REAL books; you know, those things that contain lots of printed words. The books that I recall from my youth were the ones that affected me emotionally, I guess, for I clearly recall the sadness of reading "Black Beauty", and the excitement of reading "Moby Dick". Another awakened memory from those dim and distant days were the comics we had. Again, full of real stories that one had to actually read.

Comics like the "Rover", the "Adventure", the "Hotspur" and the "Wizard". And then came the greatest comic of all time, the "Eagle". Anyone else old enough to remember?

[sesley]

my favourite books as a child were the Jill Books by Ruby Fergerson, she wrote about a girl called Jill who lived with her mum and she had 2 ponies called Black Boy and Rapide. i was mad on horses and loved to loose myself in these books.

[Pink Betty]

i liked the enid blyton 'famous five' and 'adventure' books for a short while and then moved on to willard price wonderful stories full of fun facts that capture the imagination and inform.

Shortly before his death, in 1983, Price commented that:My aim in writing the Adventure series for young people was to lead them to read by making reading exciting and full of adventure. At the same time I want to inspire an interest in wild animals and their behavior. Judging from the letters I have received from boys and girls around the world, I believe I have helped open to them the worlds of books and natural history.


he certainly turned my brother into a brilliant (let a sister be proud!) zoologist and i still remember weird facts about animals from those books.