Did you have any favourite stories when you were a child....ones that you loved to listen to or read over and over, or ones that made you laugh or transported you far away to a magical, wonderful place, or captivated your child-like imagination.
And if you read any childrens books or stories nowadays, do you have a favourite one that you love, even as an adult.
Have you introduced your children to your childhood stories and if so, did they like them or feel they were too out dated?
I loved to read as a child, ad in fact was reading properly by the age of 3. My most favourite bok as a child were the ones about the Folk of the Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton.
I so wanted to visit that tree and meet all of its characters who lived with in its branches, and visit the different lands that came to the top of the tree.
Absolutely fabulous for a childs imagination, and I read these over and over again.
Nowadays I just LOVE the 'Hairy MacLary from Donaldsons Dairy' series...thay just crack me up and I sometimes read them just for the sheer enjoyment of doing so, even when the kids are not there!!.
The rhyming text and the drawings just make me smile whenever I open the books about the scruffy mongrel Hairy MacLary and his friends Scnitzel Von Krumm, Bottomly Potts and Hercules Morse and the cats Scarface Claw and Slinky Malinky.
If you havent read these to your kids, I highly recommend them....class!!
Five Children & It, and The Amulet - fantastic stories and brilliant evocation of 1900's London. I'm on my zilllionth reading of The Amulet!
Also - the "Mystery" series by Enid Blyton. I'm not sure if they still print these, as there's a character in them called "Fatty". I know our school wouldn't have them in the library.
You had stories when you were kids?
You were the lucky ones...
all we had was the sound of gunfire to shape our imaginations... and on a good day the chance to try to see pictures in the smoke billowing over the slum-clearance.
but actaully... I can't remember any stories at all from young childhood... Narnia crept into consciousness at some point... that Prince Caspian.... dodgy!
lp
My son loved the Katy Morag books - set on a Scottish Island (with full Scottish accents by yours truly - badly).
My fave was a book whose name and author I have forgotten but was about a blue porcelain mouse that was made when a potter got drunk. The mouse came to life and had various adventures. I would love to find it again.
oooh yeah, all the Narnia series forgot about those.
I re-read them years later, after someone had told me what they were an analogy of, and it seemed to spoil it, somehow.
Love this ons Anais, so this is just for you....
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, `You'll all be drowned!'
They called aloud, `Our Sieve ain't big,
But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
In a Sieve we'll go to sea!'
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
Tucked away in my memory box is an old Janet & John book that I picked up at a charity shop. It was one I remember from primary school and has the story of Chicken Licken....I still love to read it even now :giggle:
I was a voracious reader as a kid, still am. Love losing myself in a book.
I read all sorts of books. My favourites were The Secret Garden (still have the copy I was bought for my 6th birthday,) Enid Blyton - too many to mention, The Hobbit (still have the copy I was bought for my 10th birthday - I'm a book hoarder!) I also loved Ballet Shoes and the others in the series by Noel Stretfield. I desperately wanted to be a Chalet School girl when I read the Brent Dyer series, or the Little Princess in her garret, or Jo in Little Women and don't even get me started on Nancy Drew!! I also adored the Redwall series by Brian Jacques.
To be fair, there wasn't much I wouldn't read and now I am lucky enough to have nieces and nephews who recommend me books all the time. I am a HUGE Philip Pullman fan and also like Malorie Blackman. Children's books are great, but yes... there are classics that I could read and re-read forever. Happy, happy memories indeed!
Nola x
Famous Five (The whole series)
Malory Towers
The Diddakoi
Amelia Jane (about the naughty doll)
That Mad Bad Badger
The Yearling
Milly Molly Mandy
Secret Seven
Fox In Sox
I could go on and on.......
I loved Enid Blyton. Had most of her books but they went missing in a house move - maybe my parents 'lost' them, I don't know. I bought the magic Fararway Tree books again though, a few years ago - love them!
what average ages are we talking here?
lp