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By *tanley Funseeker OP Man
47 weeks ago

stanley

Can you remember the first proper books you read as a child , so after you finished Jane and John books.

Mine were Swallows and Amazons and the Hobbit

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By *luebell888Woman
47 weeks ago

Glasgowish

Famous five

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By *ir SupremacyMan
47 weeks ago

Bolton

The Choose Your Own Adventure books that I think you had to send away in weetabix coupons in the 1980s x

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
47 weeks ago

Transsexual Transylvania

Black Beauty

The Sands of Mars

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
47 weeks ago

little house on the praire

Famous five

Secret sevens

Mallory towers

St Clares

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
47 weeks ago

Reading

Secret 7 i think

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By (user no longer on site)
47 weeks ago

"Famous five

Secret sevens

Mallory towers

St Clares"

Famous five

A dream of saddlers wells

Dockie

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By (user no longer on site)
47 weeks ago

"The Choose Your Own Adventure books that I think you had to send away in weetabix coupons in the 1980s x"

I loved them too.

And a copy of The Dambusters that my Grandpa gave to me.

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
47 weeks ago

Reading

"Famous five

Secret sevens

Mallory towers

St Clares"

I recently reread Mallory towers. Brought back good memories.

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
47 weeks ago

Transsexual Transylvania

"Black Beauty

The Sands of Mars"

The Call of the Wild.

I don't count Enid Blytons. I read a few, but "proper" adult books were the above.

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By *hy_bbw24Woman
47 weeks ago

Buckinghamshire

The Magic Faraway Tree

Famous Five

George's Marvellous Medicine

Charlottes Webb

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By *hy_bbw24Woman
47 weeks ago

Buckinghamshire

Web*

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By (user no longer on site)
47 weeks ago

Goosebumps

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By (user no longer on site)
47 weeks ago

A necklace of raindrops and other stories by Joan akin. I saved up my 10p a weeksl book club stamps to buy it at school. Found a copy at a street sale when my daughter was young and we still have it. Great illustrations by Jan pienkowski

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By *eavenNhellCouple
47 weeks ago

carrbrook stalybridge

The lion the witch & the wardrobe

The Dambusters

Reach for the sky

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By *eavenNhellCouple
47 weeks ago

carrbrook stalybridge

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By (user no longer on site)
47 weeks ago

The Faraway Tree - Enyd Blyton I think

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By (user no longer on site)
47 weeks ago

Boggles- the benchmark for the development of my moral compass..

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
47 weeks ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

I've still got all of my books from back then. A good book doesn't stop being a good book.

My favourites were by Robert Westall.

The Machine Gunners was fantastic, but his ghost stories were even better.

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By *ddie1966Man
47 weeks ago

Paper Town Central, Essex.

Little Grey Men

Followed by Hustler.....

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By *olden PoleMan
47 weeks ago

Kent

Meg and Mog

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By *uri00620Woman
47 weeks ago

Croydon

"The Choose Your Own Adventure books that I think you had to send away in weetabix coupons in the 1980s x"

Yes, Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson. I still have about 30. Love them

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By *panksspankedMan
47 weeks ago

Edinburgh

All of the Narnia books and anything by Alan Garner or Leon Garfield

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By (user no longer on site)
47 weeks ago

Where the Wild Things Are

The Fantastic Mr Fox

The Horrid Henry series

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By (user no longer on site)
47 weeks ago

"Where the Wild Things Are

The Fantastic Mr Fox

The Horrid Henry series

Also, The Silver Sword by Ian Serrallier. I absolutely adored reading that book.

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By (user no longer on site)
47 weeks ago

Tiger that came to tea

Little Men

Roald Dahl collection

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By *ayHaychMan
47 weeks ago

Leeds (Home) / Sheffield (Work)

"Famous five"

Yessss, and the secret seven, five find outers and dog, and many other Enid Blyton books!

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By (user no longer on site)
47 weeks ago

The magic far away tree … haha

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By *ittlemiss Hal O weenCouple
47 weeks ago

Southampton

I remember reading The Goonies, The chronicles of narnia, famous five, I was an avid reader as child

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By *ittlemiss Hal O weenCouple
47 weeks ago

Southampton

"The magic far away tree … haha "

I loved that!

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By *ndycoinsMan
47 weeks ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,

Devils Guard

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By *zeroMan
47 weeks ago

Glasgow

A lot of Road Dhal and later Goosebumps and the Animorph series.

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By *ealMissShadyWoman
47 weeks ago

St Albans/ Welsh Borders

Famous Five

The Hobbit

Lord of the Rings

Anything by Roald Dahl

Charlotte's Web Fairytales by Brothers Grimm

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By *uri00620Woman
47 weeks ago

Croydon

Oh and Point Horror

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By (user no longer on site)
47 weeks ago

Famous five

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By *each_PittWoman
47 weeks ago

Belfast

The worst witch followed by sweet valley twins

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By *use and wolfCouple
47 weeks ago

angus

"Can you remember the first proper books you read as a child , so after you finished Jane and John books.

Mine were Swallows and Amazons and the Hobbit

Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy Series

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
47 weeks ago

BRIDPORT

Biggles

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By (user no longer on site)
47 weeks ago

Sting of the Dump

Woof!

So many Roald Dahl and Judy Blume

Joe Deaver’s Lone Wolf series (like fighting fantasy) and the Knightmare ones (based on the kids game show)

I read The Hobbit over and over and I had a library of abridged classics like Oliver Twist, Robinson Crusoe and Journey to the centre of the Earth. There were 12 total and I read them over and over too

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By *B69Woman
47 weeks ago

Wiltshire

Magic faraway tree for me too

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By *ulieAndBeefCouple
47 weeks ago

Manchester-ish

Willard Price books

Amazon Adventure etc

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By *ad NannaWoman
47 weeks ago

East London

My uncle was a head teacher and bought us a set of classics for Christmas.

I remember reading Little Women to my little sister.

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By *rishcuriosityWoman
47 weeks ago

Derry

Flat Stanley

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
47 weeks ago

Leeds

The hungry caterpillar.

The mr

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By (user no longer on site)
47 weeks ago

I think it was a children’s horror story.

about a ghost train ride at a fairground.

This might explain a lot.

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By *ee04Man
47 weeks ago

Essex

Lord of the rings

The hobbit

Dragonlance chronicles

Dragonlance Legends

Forgotten Realms

David Eddings

Raymond e fiest

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By (user no longer on site)
47 weeks ago

"I think it was a children’s horror story.

about a ghost train ride at a fairground.

This might explain a lot. "

Probably a goosebumps!! Maybe.

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By *use and wolfCouple
47 weeks ago

angus

"Yes, Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson. I still have about 30. Love them"

They are worth a fortune now xx

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By *heswanMan
47 weeks ago

Mansfield

Beano and Dandy, every Xmas morning

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By *ustBoWoman
47 weeks ago

Somewhere in Co. Down

The famous five

The secret seven

The lion the witch and the wardrobe

The faraway tree

Mallory towers

Nancy drew

The hardy boys

The growing pains of Adrian Mole

The wind in the willows

The adventures of Tom Sayer

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The hobbit.

I loved reading from an early age. The very first book I remember reading was a gift from my mum and it was the three little pigs.

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By *uri00620Woman
47 weeks ago

Croydon

"Yes, Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson. I still have about 30. Love them

They are worth a fortune now xx"

Mine are very well loved! I used the scoring sheets and whatnot. They look loads better than the nearer editions!

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By (user no longer on site)
47 weeks ago

Charlotte's Web

The velveteen rabbit

And The happy Prince are all books I cannot read without crying. All have a similar theme about friendship and self sacrifice and all turn me into a blubbering wreck.

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By *eedsmale36Man
47 weeks ago

Leeds

James and the giant peach

Fantastic Mr Fox

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By *tylebender03Man
47 weeks ago

Manchester

Spot the Dog

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By *iss pleasuringWoman
47 weeks ago

Somewhere near

Sam I am

James and the giant peach

Fantastic mr fox

All the original Mr men .. lol guess the gen abc's think they're offensive

Roald Dahl

So so many

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By *iss pleasuringWoman
47 weeks ago

Somewhere near

"Charlotte's Web

The velveteen rabbit

And The happy Prince are all books I cannot read without crying. All have a similar theme about friendship and self sacrifice and all turn me into a blubbering wreck. "

Oh god yeah .. Charlotte's Web. Another great one

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By *esafinadOHolyNightMan
47 weeks ago

Belfast

"Sam I am

James and the giant peach

Fantastic mr fox

All the original Mr men .. lol guess the gen abc's think they're offensive

Roald Dahl

So so many "

Roald Dahl definitely

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By *iss pleasuringWoman
47 weeks ago

Somewhere near

Still got the hungry catapiller book. Hard back

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By *iss pleasuringWoman
47 weeks ago

Somewhere near

Is famous five not part of the comic marvel

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By *lexa999Woman
47 weeks ago

Milton Keynes

Anything by authors, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and Judy Blume.

Plus Stig of the dump

Pippi Longstocking

Secret diary of Adrian Mole

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By *iss pleasuringWoman
47 weeks ago

Somewhere near

"Anything by authors, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and Judy Blume.

Plus Stig of the dump

Pippi Longstocking

Secret diary of Adrian Mole "

Talk about reminiscing

Another good un. Was stig of the dump followed by Adrian mole..

Now pippa, ypu got me on that one

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