FabSwingers.com forum: What is your favourite childhood story?

By *hagTonight OP Man
4 days ago

From the land of haribos.

I like many storys, but the one that is my favorite one is called bamse, världens starkaste björn, in english the title is bamse, the worlds strongest bear, have you heard about it?

It is really fun, it is about a brown bear who becomes the worlds strongest bear by eating a type of honey that is called "dunderhonoung" the translation to english is "thunder honey".

It would be interesting to see what your favourite childhood story is and what is it about?

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By *hagTonight OP Man
4 days ago

From the land of haribos.

Here is another interesting thing about bamse, it was first created by rune andreasson in 1966

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By *ittleLiaisonsWoman
4 days ago

Birmingham

The Tiger who came to tea and the Roald Dahl collection 😊

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By *ilverFoxOralLoverMan
4 days ago

Where ever I lay my hat

Showing my age..The Famous Five

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By *recticWoman
4 days ago

taunton

The Twits

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By *alo10Man
4 days ago

oxford

The Fawlty Towers.

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By *veragecouple2000Couple
4 days ago

South Wales

My mum used to read me The Grimms Fairy tales and I still remember most of them xx 😄

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
4 days ago

little house on the praire

Gosh I have a lot. A lot where Enid Blyton. Then there was Mrs pepper pot.

Then as I got old famous five Then st clares and mallery towers books

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By *ric-shawnMan
4 days ago

By the beach...

"The Twits "

Lol!...love this, used to say to my mother-in-law "you got the shrinks!" And that father in law was putting blocks of wood on her chair legs.

still do to this day!...🤣🤣🤣

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By *ichaelsmyMan
4 days ago

doiglas

watership down

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By *icecouple561Couple
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4 days ago

East Sussex

The Mallory Towers series by Enid Blyton

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By *hagTonight OP Man
4 days ago

From the land of haribos.

"Gosh I have a lot. A lot where Enid Blyton. Then there was Mrs pepper pot.

Then as I got old famous five Then st clares and mallery towers books"
Hi diamondsmiles, that is good you have a lot, those are good ones too

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By *aramel.desiresMan
4 days ago

Laleham

As an adult my favourite children's story has to be Chicken licken! It always makes me chuckle.

As a child I found rumplestiltskin scary.

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By *eardedguy83Man
4 days ago

Worcestershire

The boy next door - Enid Blyton - bought it in Woolies, Holywell, in 1969.

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By *issilia AmoriWoman
4 days ago

St Albans/ North Welsh Borders

Any of the Mog books by Judith Kerr 🥰

I still have the Mog collection 🥰

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By *NF AKA RodneyMan
4 days ago

Sheffield

There was a book I read as a kid at school called The Fib by George Layton.

Recently I invested in a replacement to the one I'd bought in the school book club in 1982 and was instantly transported back.

That,and a book of poems by Allan Ahlberg, called Please Mrs Butler.

If you've got kids of primary school age, I can heartily recommend them.

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By *hagTonight OP Man
3 days ago

From the land of haribos.

"The Mallory Towers series by Enid Blyton"
Hi nicecouple, the mallory towers is a good one too

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By *heoPalsnakeMan
3 days ago

Thirsk

I was a big Roald Dahl fan, my favourite was always fantastic Mr fox. 🦊 They were all fun though. 😁

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By *aughty40sRugbyCouple
3 days ago

Rugby

Definitely a bit of Roald Dahl, but George's Marvelous Medicine was always my favourite.

Matt

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By *a LunaWoman
3 days ago

o o OO o o

Enid Blyton - Mallory Towers

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By *arvey67Man
3 days ago

Grimsby

White Fang.Given it to read by my English teacher and when I finished it and had to hand it back she asked what I wanted to read next,I asked if I could keep it to read again.Read it again just recently, 50 years later.

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By *h3rry Bomb80Man
3 days ago

from mars

Enid Blyton - The magic faraway tree 🌲 😆

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By *elloWoman
3 days ago

alpha centauri

My favourite was always 'the elves and the shoemaker' I'd get my mum to read it to me every night.

Getting someone else to do your work and you get the money and credit for it, fantastic moral for a kids book lol

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By *ayHaychMan
3 days ago

Leeds (Home) / Sheffield (Work)

"Showing my age..The Famous Five "

All the Famous Five books! Secret Seven, Five Five Find Outers, basically all Enid Blyton books! Especially the audio books narrated by Jan Francis

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By *antricSeeker60Man
3 days ago

Durham

Jungle book.

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By *zeroMan
3 days ago

Glasgow

Loved reading the Goosebumps books. The one that sticks out to me was The Ghost Next Door

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By *uri00620Woman
3 days ago

Croydon

Heidi

The Worst Witch

Gobolino The Witch's Cat

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By *uri00620Woman
3 days ago

Croydon

"Heidi

The Worst Witch

Gobolino The Witch's Cat "

Oh and Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series - i forgot about those bc they're not just from my childhood as i still read them

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By *hagTonight OP Man
3 days ago

From the land of haribos.

"My favourite was always 'the elves and the shoemaker' I'd get my mum to read it to me every night.

Getting someone else to do your work and you get the money and credit for it, fantastic moral for a kids book lol "
Hi _ello, the elves and the shoemaker is a good one too

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By *idssissyTV/TS
3 days ago

Nr cricket ground birm

The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis

But also loved the famous five, secret seven, the hardy boys and Nancy drew

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By *olo180Man
3 days ago

Greater London

"Heidi

The Worst Witch

Gobolino The Witch's Cat "

I read these too..,.also The Wizard of Oz, I must have read countless times….must have a thing for witches lol

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By *uperSalopian7Man
3 days ago

Shrewsbury

Obviously all Roald Dahl books, Also Horrible Histories.

A niche one I really enjoyed was Hurricane Hamish: The Calypso Cricketer

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By *hagTonight OP Man
3 days ago

From the land of haribos.

"There was a book I read as a kid at school called The Fib by George Layton.

Recently I invested in a replacement to the one I'd bought in the school book club in 1982 and was instantly transported back.

That,and a book of poems by Allan Ahlberg, called Please Mrs Butler.

If you've got kids of primary school age, I can heartily recommend them. "
That is good and that you invested in a replacement too

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By *oubleswing2019Man
2 days ago

Colchester

"Jonathan Livingston Seagull" is a novella written by Richard Bach. It's not really a childhood story, but I did read it when I was about 9.

The book changed my life and made me the person I am today.

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By *emenLover111Man
2 days ago

Sheffield (East Midlands)

I loved the Come Outside television stories about an eccentric woman who lives in a bungalow with a dog (Burmese?) called Pippin and she used to fly around in a spotty aeroplane and visit factories and nature reserves.

I also loved a cartoon called The Lampies about some weird alien/something else creatures that lived in the top of a streetlamp.

Oh, and I loved Bernard's Watch, where a boy could stop time by pressing a clock and then press it again to re-start it.

The 1990s seemed so innocent...but then again I look through it from a child's perspective, as I was back then.

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By *ornycouple70Couple
2 days ago

Hanpshire

Chicken Licken, loved it as a kid, made my Mum read it every night. Knew how she felt years later as my kids used to love it and had to read it most nights. If I missed a page they’d know and tell me 🤣

Mrs x

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By *hagTonight OP Man
2 days ago

From the land of haribos.

"Chicken Licken, loved it as a kid, made my Mum read it every night. Knew how she felt years later as my kids used to love it and had to read it most nights. If I missed a page they’d know and tell me 🤣

Mrs x"
Hi hornycouple, the chicken licken is a good one too

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By *rthur30Man
2 days ago

Warrington

Janet and John

Grimm's fairy tales

Stig of the Dump

Sherlock Holmes

Treasure Island

Ivanhoe

Charles Dickens

etc etc

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