What books did you love as a child

numberplease · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:54 pm Post subject:

Gail, was it Aesop`s fables? I forgot about them, also Scheherazade`s 1001 Arabian nights.
Pam, I`d forgotten about the Dennis Wheatley books, loved `em!
As for poetry, I always had a fondness for John Masefield, particularly Cargoes. And the one that begins
I must go down to the sea again,
To the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I need is a tall ship,
And a star to steer her by,

Pam7 · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:00 pm Post subject:

OOO Yes Number!! Sea Fever it was called!
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Scarlett · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:01 pm Post subject:

I love "the lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats!

oooo Im so glad I started this thread its bringing back SOOOO many lovely memories Id forgotten

Thanks everyone.............please keep them coming

Acorncup · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject:

I don;t remember the faraway ones at all

where was I????

who were they by?

Hilda that was nice of your dad to make a tape

guest thanks for finishing off the poem.....do you think our schools had the same poetry books? My hubby likes the Highwayman......

Our primary achool also entered a competition where they recited/acted out the "jackdaw of Rheims"

The jackdaw sat on the cardinal's chair
bishop and abbott and prior were there.
Many a monk and many a friar,
many a knight and many a squire
insooth a goodly company...

and the jackdaw sat on the something or other......stole the ring and caused a right hoo ha.....got itself cursed but brought the ring back in the end

I remember other snatches of it too.....it was by Rev Ingoldsby......
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Scarlett · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:13 pm Post subject:

Ive never heard of the Faraway ones either

But Gail I did love all of the Narnia books............favourite was Prince Caspian.

Pam7 · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:13 pm Post subject:

Spike Milligan books!!!

and...Little Black Sambo books too!

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Scarlett · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject:

"Adolf Hitler and my part in his downfall" Pam

I loved that one.

a quote from Spike

"A pain shot down my left leg and across the road to a bus stop"

and when he was joining the army

"they gave me a picture of Hitler marked "this is your enemy"

hilda · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject:

full of little poems hed written while recovering from shell shock and in the army bant,,,,,,,was there a series of them,,,,,,, the little pot boiler???
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musicman · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:18 pm Post subject:

Then they put me on a train and ....

shorty · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:43 pm Post subject:

The faraway Tree ones were Enid Blyton!!! Oh they were excellent

. I forgot until I saw other people had put them I also loved the Famous Five and the Secret Seven but the best book I ever ever read as a child was called "Jenny" and it was about a child who turned into a cat at night and had adventures with another cat...cannot remember the author

Acorncup · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:54 pm Post subject:

For all Jennings fans...

you might like this, there's a good review if you scroll down the page...though ignore the second one

http://www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/jennings.html

ooh just seen your post, guest...I'l have to look up the faraway tree ones.....of course, you couldn't get Enid Blyton in the library because they weren't reallly approved of, were they?

Mind you I read a biography of her, which was an eye opener

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hilda · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:59 pm Post subject:

gosh ive just googled them and didnt realise they weer so old,,,1939 .........
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Acorncup · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:14 pm Post subject:

Nope don't remember the farawy tree ones at all

But I do remember ones about nature.....Tales from Green Hedges????

hey but...what about.......Noel Streatfeild???

Ballet Shoes, and the Gemma series

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shorty · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:25 pm Post subject:

never heard of them! Were they girly girl books? x

staceylc · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:31 pm Post subject:

The Faraway Tree series was one of my favourites too!!! I saw a box set in TK Maxx a few weeks ago for about £5 but I didn't buy it, I wish I had now.

I also loved The Worst Witch series, a book called The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler (don't know who it was by) & also a book about a ghost that lived in a coal shed in this boys back garden, I can't even remember what the book was called.

Ooh & The Demon Headmaster.

I used to love going to the library. My Mum took us every week or 2 & I used to get 4 books out at a time.
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Scarlett · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:30 am Post subject:

Muisicman, yes I loved all Spikes books too.

Im loving this thread!

Did anyone have "Monty Pythons big red book" (it was blue).

I still have mine, and although the humour is slightly old fashioned in parts its still hilarious!

GoldenChippie · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:17 am Post subject:

numberplease · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:51 am Post subject:

I haven`t got mine anymore, but I can remember them both having green backs with gold writing. I don`t know how long it existed for, but as a child (lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ong ago!) I had the Enid Blyton magazine every week. It was really only very small, not as big as a comic, but a bit thicker. I also read a couple of the Biggles books, loved them, then went off them.

sunbear · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:04 pm Post subject:

All the Narnia stuff. Not seen the The Hobbit mentioned. Lord of the Rings. The Otterbury Incident. Biggles, Jennings and Derbyshire. Enid Blyton stuff. Arthur C Clarke and Issac Azimov when I was a little older.

And I could just lose myself in some of the book cover art work...like the ones to the Narnia tales and the hardback version of LOTR I had.

shorty · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:20 pm Post subject:

guest, I bought that Monty Python Big Red Bok with a gift voucher I won at school, it was the music prize!!!! haven't thought about it in yeras, was this the one with the story in it (among tons ofd others) about the Princess who had a dead dog she used to drag round on a lead in her castle?