FabSwingers.com forum: What is the one book you remember from your childhood

By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

Evening everyone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mr Tickle

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Thomas the tank engine

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By *luebell888Woman
over a year ago

Glasgowish

Five go to Billycock Farm. Think it was the cock that stuck in my head. I blame Aunt Fanny.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Most of Roald Dahls

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Janet and John book one

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By *alkthattalkMan
over a year ago

Darlington

To kill a mockingbird, The twits, George’s Marvellous Medicine, Danny the Champion of the World, Swallows and Amazons, Animal farm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Danger! Space Pirates!

I read it at school, liked it so much it was the first book I asked to be bought for me. It was shit.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Silver Sword

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don’t know the name off it

But it was a book that you give you choices

Like go though a door trun to page 6 turn left go to page 15 went though the door feel in a hole please go back to the start

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Famous Five, I loved those

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By * F 2018Couple
over a year ago

shropshire

"Evening everyone

Black beauty

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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago

Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe

The Folk of the Faraway Tree

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fantastic Mr Fox - Boggis, Bunce and Bean!

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By *ustintime69Man
over a year ago

Bristol

The dark is rising

The weird stone of bresingamen

The mouse and his boy

Stig of the dump

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My favorite was The Wind in the Willows. I have vivid memories of those Adrian Mole books too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Fantastic Mr Fox - Boggis, Bunce and Bean!"

One fat, one short, one lean! (My favourite Roald Dahl book)

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By *aughty Couple ABCCouple
over a year ago

West Bromwich

Winnie the pooh! I loved the way my dad said poooooohhhhh!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The BFG

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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago

west midlands

My favourite was The BFG, till I was about 10 and I read my dad's copy of the Rats by James Herbert, from then on it was horror books for me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Where the wild things are i think its called as well as funny bones the twits and fuzbuzz

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Somewhat unusual I’d imagine, but I’ll always remember the copy of ‘The Dam Busters’ that was given to me by my Grandfather when I was 9-10yrs old.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember loads, I read a lot!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stig of the dump

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Window. No words just a changing landscape

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By *omethingfun96Couple
over a year ago

greater london

Funny bones

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By *heekyweebissimWoman
over a year ago

fife,

Danny the champion of the world, can still hear it being read to me. Very happy memories

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By *rsPricklePantsWoman
over a year ago

Room 237 at The Overlook Hotel, Suffolk

Three Billy goats gruff, the picture of the troll used to freak me out funny now that I'm into horror haha

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By *lephantisMan
over a year ago

Oxford

1???

Books I read as a child are some of the strongest memories I have. Eagle of the 9th trilogy and other Rosemary Sutcliff. Earthsea, Dark is Rising,Alan Garner, Viking Saga, Celia Rees, Penelope Lively, LOTR, Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, the Foundation books, The Black Cauldron, Duncton Wood,Watership Down...I can still remember whole sections and phrases.

'The man who does not read lives only one life.'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Horrid Henry and Jiggy McCue books were some of my favourites too. I read the covers of all of them

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By *tooveMan
over a year ago

belfast

Machine gunners and stig of the dump

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By *edsmudgeMan
over a year ago

oxford

I had a private English teacher who came to my home , when I was a boy . My spelling used to be even worse than it is now . She had me read the ‘earth sea trilogy. It was the first time I read a book for pleasure.

I believe it to be what Harry Potter was based on. My opinion, only not written for children . If you’ve not read it , and that kind of fantasy is your bag , you should give it a go

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

I never stopped reading as a child. But I suppose some stand out more than others. There was the book of poems my mum used to read to me. I can still recite When Daddy Fell Into The Pond and have taught it to my own children.

And the first time I read a Discworld book. Mort. I was hooked.

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By *edsmudgeMan
over a year ago

oxford

"Machine gunners and stig of the dump "

Machine gunners!! I didn’t read it but they made a show . The air warden , “where ya going now?” In a Lancashire accent?

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By *inda May SimmonsTV/TS
over a year ago

hexham

I remember reading lord of the rings when I was about thirteen and really loving it, then I went on to try and read The Hobbit and finding it really childish!

I remember reading a specially edited childrens version of Ivanhoe when I was about 8 or 9 and I have since read the Penguin’s Classics version and finding them both brilliant … mind if I had tried to read the Penguins Classics version as a kid, I would have been totally lost and put it down after the first few pages

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Loved the ladybird books when I was little, so all the fairytale stories. As a teen the Point Horror books and one I remember reading at secondary school was called Children Of The Dust. I bought it recently to read again.

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By *lephantisMan
over a year ago

Oxford

"Loved the ladybird books when I was little, so all the fairytale stories. As a teen the Point Horror books and one I remember reading at secondary school was called Children Of The Dust. I bought it recently to read again. "

God, yes, Children of the Dust was terrifying, as was Z for Zachariah.

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Covent Garden

"Friedrich" (or Damals war es Friedrich) by the author Hans Peter Richter. About two young boys, who befriend each other during Hitler's imminent rise to power. One boy is Jewish and the other German. It's compelling, harrowing and poignant.

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By *ou only live onceMan
over a year ago

London

""Friedrich" (or Damals war es Friedrich) by the author Hans Peter Richter. About two young boys, who befriend each other during Hitler's imminent rise to power. One boy is Jewish and the other German. It's compelling, harrowing and poignant."

Honestly, Nero, not just saying this, but this was about to me mine. Read it at school alongside 'Mischling, 2nd Degree' about a German girl with Jewish ancestry which she has to hide.

I wasn't a big reader as a child but pretty much the only book you would find my nose buried in was the 'Usbourne Book of Flags and Facts' or an atlas!!

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Huckleberry Finn

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Animal Farm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *urbo TedMan
over a year ago

Stansted

Tricolore, the book we always had to have on French class.

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By *ttmcdguyTV/TS
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

The hungry catapiler

Of mice and men

Now that’s quite a big thing for me as I didn’t actually learn to read properly until I was 32 years old

But hey I went unnoticed though 11 years of school and around 20-30 different teachers

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

The dictionary

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall. His other works, especially the ghost stories are fantastic.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Read too many books as a child hard to pick one. I’d have to go with a few, Treasure Island, The Hobbit, The Secret Garden, Tale of Two Cities and the Diary of Anne Frank.

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By *astandtheCurious2Couple
over a year ago

letchworth

Gobbolino the witches cat by Ursula williams

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Covent Garden

Honestly, Nero, not just saying this, but this was about to me mine. Read it at school alongside 'Mischling, 2nd Degree' about a German girl with Jewish ancestry which she has to hide."

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I believe you!

No one in my circle has heard of this and I assumed it was some out-of-print pulp narrative.

We were encouraged to read this at school and, despite learning about Nazi Germany in history lessons, this book finally made sense of the spectre of the Holocaust.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Great fire of London

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Roald Dahls The Twits, read that many times.

All the Mr Men books when I was really young.

A series I got from the library regularly called Roddy the Roadworker.

And weirdly, Purcells Encyclopedia of Science

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

Also The Warlock of Firetop Mountain

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By *ldbutrandyMan
over a year ago

West Midlands

Lord of the flies. As an overweight kid myself, also with glasses , I could associate with the Piggy character.

Spoiler alert , it didn't end well for him

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By *ou only live onceMan
over a year ago

London

Honestly, Nero, not just saying this, but this was about to me mine. Read it at school alongside 'Mischling, 2nd Degree' about a German girl with Jewish ancestry which she has to hide.

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I believe you!

No one in my circle has heard of this and I assumed it was some out-of-print pulp narrative.

We were encouraged to read this at school and, despite learning about Nazi Germany in history lessons, this book finally made sense of the spectre of the Holocaust."

Haha, yes, that was a bit dramatic! We had a whole term on "othering" which, looking back, was really rather progressive...(in a very traditional school!!)

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By *echnosonic_BrummieMan
over a year ago

Willenhall

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The film only captured the bawdiness; it utterly lost most of the plot.

Mind you, I suppose "Ford Escort" or "Ford Mondeo" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

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By *edheadjMan
over a year ago

High Wycombe

Adrian Mole came instantly to mind when I read the title. My mum suggested it and I loved it. I remember then picking up the sequels for pennies at the second hand book shop down the road.

I think I'll have to re read the first off the back of this now

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

The Chronicles of Narnia books are very special, The Last Battle always brings me to tears.

Also

The Flashman Series - fucking hilarious at times, plus you learn a lot

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sounds a bit like the boy in the striped pyjamas. Well the fact it’s 2 boys one Jewish one German during Hitlers regime but that may be where the similarities end?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

God, yes, Children of the Dust was terrifying, as was Z for Zachariah."

Not read that one, I’ll have to buy it now

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

The Janet and John book with the toyshop! One of my kids got me copy I have somewhere x

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

But my favourite was the flower fairies x

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By *alcon43Woman
over a year ago

Paisley

The Three Musketeers and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. I know it’s two books but my Dad read them to me and my brother regularly along with other books. These were my favourites.

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By *he Vital SparkMan
over a year ago

Preston

For me it was, the tiger who came to tea by Judith Kerr

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By *ris GrayMan
over a year ago

Dorchester

To kill a mockingbird

Swallow and amazons

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By *rs W AnchorWoman
over a year ago

North Norfolk

Malory towers series by Enid Blyton

Then as a teen... Flowers in the attic by Martina Cole. Must of read that book 20 times!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A Childs Garden Of Verse.... wonderful book.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Hobbit

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By *ames-77Man
over a year ago

milton keynes

The book of enoch

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Evening everyone

Milly Molly Mandy Stories

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

Kestrel for a Knave (Kes)

Only because I found it an incredibly depressing read really.

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By *eybert77Man
over a year ago

Ramsey

Charlotte’s Web

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

I hated reading as a kid, about the only reading I did was when you had to stand up in class and take your turn at reading the next paragraph.

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By *llaandGCouple
over a year ago

London

A huge number, including loads mentioned above.

But with the recent death of Raymond Briggs I would have to say "When the wind blows". An absolutely devastating tale of love, aging and how we don't understand much of the world around us.

It also taught me the Graphic Novels are not just for kids and can tackle really complicated issues.

Worth tracking down even now if you've never read it... but have some tissues nearby....

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

The enchanted wood/faraway tree series

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By *astandtheCurious2Couple
over a year ago

letchworth

"Malory towers series by Enid Blyton

Then as a teen... Flowers in the attic by Martina Cole. Must of read that book 20 times! "

Oh I loved all that series, wasn’t it by Vaginia Andrews though?

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By *he_Secret_GardenWoman
over a year ago

Naughty Lane

Ronja laupitaja meita

Not sure they have it in english

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By *he_Secret_GardenWoman
over a year ago

Naughty Lane

"Ronja laupitaja meita

Not sure they have it in english

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Oh they do!!!just looked up...

Ronja the robbers daughter

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The twins at St clares by Enid Blyton

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As a child my Mum used to read ‘Peter Rabbit’ to me at bed time.

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By *relanddirectMan
over a year ago

cheshire

Hard times x dickens x

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Largely the encyclopaedias my dad was fobbed off with by a door to door salesman. Cracking illustrations .

Plus The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

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By *astandtheCurious2Couple
over a year ago

letchworth

Forever by Judy Blume, think every teenage girl read that one!

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

The diary of Adrian Mole

But my favourite is the wind in the willows, still read it every summer

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By *ig_eric_tionMan
over a year ago

IPSWICH

The famous five.

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By *elisandre300Woman
over a year ago

dontbefuckingnosey

"I never stopped reading as a child. But I suppose some stand out more than others. There was the book of poems my mum used to read to me. I can still recite When Daddy Fell Into The Pond and have taught it to my own children.

And the first time I read a Discworld book. Mort. I was hooked. "

My first Discworld book was Reaperman… and the same, I was hooked!

But my favourite as a child was the velveteen rabbit.

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By *idlandiaMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy

The discworld series

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By *otsossieMan
over a year ago

local, but not too local

The Magic Faraway Tree / The wishing chair

Charlie and the great glass elevator

Mr Daydream

Mr Tickle

The Golden Wonder book of jokes

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By *imi_RougeWoman
over a year ago

Portsmouth

Beatrix Potter, I still have my collection.

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

"Beatrix Potter, I still have my collection."

Is that the one where the guy plays snooker whilst balancing a pint of beer on his head ?

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By *elshcouple18Couple
over a year ago

Cardiff

"Kestrel for a Knave (Kes)

Only because I found it an incredibly depressing read really."
one of my faves as a kid too. Film didn't do the book justice, as they don't often do anyway.

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By *aturegentdurhamMan
over a year ago

Stanley

Usbornes books of ghost monsters and ufos

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By *wingin CatMan
over a year ago

London

My uncles' copy of Fiesta Readers' Wives, Vol. 2

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Beatrix Potter, I still have my collection."
your a wizard beatrix

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chronicles of Narnia.

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By *bonyGoddessNyxWoman
over a year ago

Nottingham

Goodnight Mr Tom

1st and only time a book has moved me to tears

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Famous Five

The Faraway tree

Swallows and Amazon's

That's just the ones I can think of right now

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

The Wishing Chair. I enjoyed the teacher reading it to the class.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It was a book called Homecoming by Cynthia Voight.

I was about 10/11 at the time and it had a huge impact on me being the first young adult book I'd read and really gave me a love for reading

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By *aughtycouple1008Couple
over a year ago

west london

Charlie and the chocolate factory roald dahl

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By *oubletroubleCouple
over a year ago

South West

Adrian Mole diary's

My family and other animals

To kill a mockingbird

Kes

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By *ulldog_71Man
over a year ago

Sedgefield

Might be a strange one but remember reading one flew over the cuckoo's nest when I was about 11 amazing book

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By *ucsherMan
over a year ago

Stevenage/Uxbridge

The power of one

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By *razytimesinloveCouple
over a year ago

SW Scotland

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stig of the dump

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By *panking masterMan
over a year ago

Washington

"Evening everyone

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enid blyton ,,, 5 go to smugglers top first book i ever got and got me hooked into reading kept saving up my pocket money and eventually bought the full series,,,

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By *ily WhiteWoman
over a year ago

Too many to mention, I constantly had my nose in a book when I was a kid. I did pinch my dad's copy of IT to read when I was about 10..thus began my love affair with Stephen King and horror in general.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fiesta

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By *dventurous biMan
over a year ago

tesside

As a child I was a voracious reader. Still am for that matter.

I went through the Faraway Tree and The Wishing Chair and on to Famous Five, Swallows and Amazons despite them portraying a life that I didn’t have any experience of.

Moved on to William, Bunter and Jennings and Darbyshire books.

The first proper non-fiction I read was Reach For The Sky, a biography of Douglas Bader. Must have read that book four times from cover to cover in my teens.

Does anyone else remember Passion Flower Hotel? I read that (well, some of the pages) a lot!

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

The bible…………….. flying across the classroom from Brother Ignatius. Followed by the words ‘Rex, get out the door’ in his thick Northern Irish accent

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dr Who and the Cave Monster was the first book I read by all by myself and I can still remember how chuffed I felt at stepping up from reading comics.

Animal Farm and To Kill a Mockingbird were the two books I can remember from my school days that really resonated with me.

The love of books has never left me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fly Fishing

-J.R.Hartley

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

Soooo many I probs lay couldn’t list them all, I lived close to our local library and was in there al the time, some of my faves were:

Little Old Mrs Pepperpot

Flat Stanley

Mog the Forgetful Cat

Dr Who - numerous episodes

Charlottes Web

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Great Glass Elevator

Bram Stokers Dracula - was smitten from the start

To Kill a Mockingbird - still love it now

My Family and Other Animals

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Choose your own adventure series

Roald Dahl

The Old Man of Lochnagar, written by the then Prince of Wales, King Charles III

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Helen Keller

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By *lubchuckerMan
over a year ago

Oxfordshire

The call of the wild

The silver sword

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By *issmorganWoman
over a year ago

Calderdale innit

The magic faraway tree and the little vampire

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By *elisandre300Woman
over a year ago

dontbefuckingnosey

"Too many to mention, I constantly had my nose in a book when I was a kid. I did pinch my dad's copy of IT to read when I was about 10..thus began my love affair with Stephen King and horror in general. "

My first Steven king book was Cujo… I was 11 and I too pinched it off my dad! Gave me bloody nightmares, but didn’t stop me reading all of his other books!

Love him, Dean Koontz and James Herbert.

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan
over a year ago

Torquay

From childhood? Wind in the willows I remember my mum trying to teach me to read with that, catch 22 when I started work and remember trying to suppress giggles on the train going to London

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By *inky Biscuit DunkerMan
over a year ago

Gloucestershire

Sting of the dump.

It’s the first book I can remember being enthralled by

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A weird book called Waldorf and the Sleeping Granny and the Famous Five books. And the Hobbit!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Biggles books.

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over a year ago

Where the Wild Things are when I was very little, I had a Wild Thing teddy too.

The Deptford Mice when I was a bit older.

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over a year ago

"Soooo many I probs lay couldn’t list them all, I lived close to our local library and was in there al the time, some of my faves were:

Little Old Mrs Pepperpot

Flat Stanley

Mog the Forgetful Cat

Dr Who - numerous episodes

Charlottes Web

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Great Glass Elevator

Bram Stokers Dracula - was smitten from the start

To Kill a Mockingbird - still love it now

My Family and Other Animals

I loved My Family And Other Animals

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"Soooo many I probs lay couldn’t list them all, I lived close to our local library and was in there al the time, some of my faves were:

Little Old Mrs Pepperpot

Flat Stanley

Mog the Forgetful Cat

Dr Who - numerous episodes

Charlottes Web

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Great Glass Elevator

Bram Stokers Dracula - was smitten from the start

To Kill a Mockingbird - still love it now

My Family and Other Animals

I loved My Family And Other Animals

Oh and Menagerie Manor

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By *uicy 2020Woman
over a year ago

London

So many wonderful ones mentioned already, Mallory Towers and all Judy Blume especially.

Not yet mentioned is Ballet Slippers x

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By *ike hock 400Man
over a year ago

Scarboro

Stig of the Dump

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over a year ago

The tiger who came to tea! X

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By *entBarryUKMan
over a year ago

Ashford

13 O'clock.

The witch seemed a bit creepy to me, lol

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By *ogan WillowCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

Over Sea, Under Stone

Susan Cooper

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